NewsBusters Podcast: Liberals Want to Be Mad That Fox News Settled

April 19th, 2023 10:48 PM

When Fox News settled its lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for a whopping $787 million, liberals still wanted to be mad that Fox didn't go to trial and didn't give a public apology. But they also wanted to claim the lawsuit was a crushing blow. Dan Schneider brings his legal experience to the conflicted aftermath.

NewsBusters Podcast: Liberals Claim Fox News Has a Base, and We Don't!

April 17th, 2023 10:39 PM

The liberal media elite's lack of introspection is obvious when reporters like NPR's David Folkenflik try to claim that Fox News is uniquely building a business on serving an ideological base, as if that's not the model for NPR or The New York Times. In reality, under Trump, liberal media organs explicitly branded themselves as saving America and democracy from Trump as an essential…

NewsBusters Podcast: Magically Delirious Coverage of Biden in Ireland

April 14th, 2023 10:01 PM

President Biden's trip to his ancestral homeland of Ireland spurred a festive round of positive coverage from the networks. They ignored his gaffes and celebrated his Irish heritage. This is nothing like the way they viciously covered "Mitt the Twit" Romney in London in 2012.

NewsBusters Podcast: NPR Leaves Twitter In a Hilarious Huff

April 12th, 2023 10:52 PM

Twitter went from tagging National Public Radio as "state-affiliated broadcasting" to "government-funded media," but NPR decided to leave Twitter in a huff because Twitter was damaging its so-called image of "editorial independence." But they sound like National Public Relations for Democrats...

NewsBusters Podcast: Al Roker Gets Easter Egg-Rolled by the Bidens

April 10th, 2023 9:19 PM

President Biden routinely avoids interviews with real journalists and press conferences. But at the Easter Egg Roll, Joe and Jill were lightly massaged on the Today show by NBC morning weather man Al Roker. It felt like Valentine's Day. Plus: the major difference between covering young black leftist Democrats in Tennessee and the seasoned black conservative on the Supreme Court.

NewsBusters Podcast: Can’t Say Leftist Agitators Storm State Capitols

April 7th, 2023 10:23 PM

When leftist agitators storm state capitals, you can’t use those words. Leftist media won’t use labels for their own kind, and they won’t use “storm” for a left-wing disturbance inside a state capitol building. Two black legislators in Tennessee became instant media heroes when the Republican House majority expelled them for creating a disturbance on the House floor and  violating House rules…

NewsBusters Podcast: The Media Obsess Over the Trump Indictment

April 5th, 2023 10:32 PM

The media's Trump obsession overflowed on Arraignment Day in New York City. They loved analyzing Trump's grumpiness, but they didn't love the actual indictment. Nick Fondacaro joins the show to discuss all the video tweets we put out to analyze the events.

NewsBusters Podcast: 'Fact Checkers' Sound More Like Fact Shamers'

April 3rd, 2023 10:11 PM

The liberal media's "fact checkers" are furiously spinning how you shouldn't say Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is "Soros-backed," even though that is a fact. Washington Post fact-finagling scold Glenn Kessler claims "the intense focus on Soros is misplaced."

NewsBusters Podcast: PBS 'Snooze Hour' Tilts Bigly to the Left

March 29th, 2023 10:23 PM

The PBS NewsHour has an undeserved reputation as "straight news," or boring news. But a new MRC study of four months of the show's guests found a dramatic tilt to the Left -- 126 liberals/Democrats to 34 conservatives/Republicans. Clay Waters joins the show to explain his findings, and how PBS can sound a lot like MSNBC.

NewsBusters Podcast: CNN Invents Racism of 'Digital Blackface'

March 27th, 2023 10:35 PM

CNN.com posted a bizarre article by John Blake that accused whites who post GIFs or memes of blacks like Tyra Banks or Michael Jordan are engaging in racist behavior. "You may be wearing digital blackface." Or CNN may be inventing new methods of finding "inadvertent" racism.

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MSNBC Claims GOP Education Bills Are A Return To White Nationalism

March 25th, 2023 11:52 AM

On Friday’s edition of MSNBC’s The 11th, guest host Mehdi Hasan and pseudo-Republican David Jolly showed a strong aversion to facts as the former spread some fake news about GOP education bills and the former claimed that those bills signify a return to white nationalism.

NewsBusters Podcast: Uncovering the Media Mess with Steve Krakauer

March 24th, 2023 8:11 PM

Steve Krakauer has worked at CNN, NBC, Fox News, and The Blaze, but now he's in demand as a media critic. He has a new book out titled Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy with Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People. On today's podcast, we explore how the press came unglued in the tumult of Trump. 

NewsBusters Podcast: There Was No Neocon Press Parade

March 22nd, 2023 11:05 PM

On the 20th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, NewsBusters is determined to rebut the silly leftist allegation that the "mainstream media" were Bush-Cheney lackeys who never threw tough questions before and during war in Iraq. Bill Moyers of PBS even claimed the media resembled a cult engaged in a "collective Jonestown-like suicide."

NewsBusters Podcast: Let the Trump In Jail Speculation Commence!

March 20th, 2023 10:12 PM

Over the weekend, Donald Trump proclaimed on Truth Social he would be indicted by a Manhattan grand jury, leading to many hours of speculation about how the walls were closing in again. The network Sunday shows did almost 47 minutes on the topic, and zero seconds on the latest Biden family cash-grabs from China. Who exactly is the president now?