NewsBusters Podcast: Scott Jennings and the L.A. Times 'Bias Meter'

December 6th, 2024 10:46 PM

CNN analyst Scott Jennings filled in for Salem Radio talk show host Mike Gallagher this week, and one of the most interesting interviews was with Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times. He divulged to Jennings he’s privately developing a "bias meter," a new AI-powered technology to enhance the balance of the news stories at his paper.

NewsBusters Podcast: We'll Use Pete Hegseth's Mom to Wreck His Career

December 4th, 2024 10:46 PM

Would you like to imagine The New York Times publishing an email your mother sent you telling you you’re a terrible spouse? That's what happened to Pete Hegseth, and his mother. They will use notes that were supposed to be private for their own political gain. 

NewsBusters Podcast: Don't Say Joe Biden Lied About Pardoning His Kid!

December 2nd, 2024 10:40 PM

After months of Biden and his press aides denying the president would pardon his son Hunter, when he went back on his word, the media didn’t want to say he “lied.” It was an “about face” or “a reversal from promises he made during the campaign.” They played up the “very close” family ties and proclaimed it a “poignant” moment. Managing editor Curtis Houck talks about what he found on CNN.

NewsBusters Podcast: Partisan PolitiFact Poobah Admits They're Partial

November 25th, 2024 10:00 PM

PolitiFact co-founder Bill Adair is still doing liberal-media interviews for his book on why Republicans lie more. He admitted to a public-radio host that the "Truth-O-Meter" is an imprecise, subjective measurement. Everything about the "independent fact-checkers" is loaded with partisan opinion.

NewsBusters Podcast: How Much Can We Ignore the Murder of Laken Riley?

November 22nd, 2024 10:29 PM

This week, illegal alien Jose Ibarra was convicted of the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley. PBS and NPR have aired next to nothing on Riley over the last 6 months. Curtis Houck and Bill D'Agostino explain their studies of broadcast and cable news coverage of the Laken Riley trial. 

NewsBusters Podcast: David Harsanyi on Media & 'The Rise of Blue-Anon'

November 20th, 2024 10:20 PM

Washington Examiner columnist David Harsanyi's new book The Rise of Blue-Anon underlines that the conspiracy theories on the Democrat side are not on the fringes. They come from the very center of the party establishment and the one-party media. Like MSNBC's Michael Beschloss suggesting your kids will be killed if Republicans win.

NewsBusters Podcast: Democrats Automatically Seen as Qualified & Smart

November 18th, 2024 10:34 PM

The media are freaking out over Trump’s Cabinet picks, because the freakout machine must be kept humming. But you can see the wheels turning there. If you’re a liberal Democrat, they assume you’re automatically qualified and super-intelligent. Because you're a liberal Democrat.

NB Podcast: Hegseth Nomination Brings Out the Worst in the Lib Media

November 13th, 2024 7:53 PM

Pete Hegseth is a 20-year Army veteran with two combat tours, two Bronze Stars, and two Army Commendation Medals, but his nomination to be the secretary of defense has brought out the worst in the liberal media. NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck and I break down the media’s disgusting diminution of Hegseth’s career, and call out the liberal ladies of The View for their…

NewsBusters Podcast: 'The View' Comes Unglued Over Kamala's Defeat

November 8th, 2024 9:00 PM

The ladies of "The View" were besides themselves over Donald Trump winning the White House again. Sunny Hostin lashed out at "uneducated" white women, Latino sellouts, and then America as a whole. An actual debate broke out over the need for self-reflection. Sunny Hostin and Joy Behar refused that entirely. Associate Nick Fondacaro explains. 

NewsBusters Podcast: Donald Trump Wins, Extremely Biased Media Loses

November 6th, 2024 9:10 PM

The media "professionals" are seriously distraught. They deeply believe that they were destined to be the saviors of democracy. They have to be amazed and perplexed that their hours and hours and years and years of negative media bias toward Donald Trump did not sink in with the voters.

NewsBusters Podcast: Chuck Todd Faceplants, Liz Cheney Dictator Rants

November 4th, 2024 9:57 PM

The networks grumbled into the final weekend of the fall campaign, imagining their nightmare scenario -- a second Trump term. Chuck Todd was unintentionally hilarious about how this would ruin democracy, turn it into "kleptocracy," and worst of all, the Democrats might emulate the Republicans and start lying and exaggerating about their opponents. (Yes, he said that.) Jorge Bonilla joins the…

NewsBusters Podcast: Late-Night Comics Shy Away from Mocking Kamala

November 1st, 2024 10:48 PM

Our latest NewsBusters study of all the jokes on late-night "comedy" shows this fall found that 98 percent of the jokes about presidential candidates were about Donald Trump, and only 2 percent about Kamala Harris. Our late-night watcher Alex Christy explains just how this remarkable tilt by the "comedians" erupts night after night. Kamala is mostly off-limits to joke about.

NewsBusters Podcast: Brent Bozell on the Worst Campaign Bias Ever

October 30th, 2024 10:20 PM

If the tone of media coverage decided the election, it would be a landslide for Kamala Harris. The media have never more energetically taken a side for a candidate. MRC founder and president Brent Bozell and I discussed the latest MRC studies proving the worst campaign bias we've ever documented, not only on TV news, but even on TV "comedy" shows. It's a "Brent Bozell Show" crossover episode…

NewsBusters Podcast: Trump's Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny & Racism

October 28th, 2024 10:46 PM

The New York Times "news" team described Donald Trump's Madison Square Garden rally as a "Closing Carnival of Grievances, Misogyny and Racism." But what do you really think? There were a whole set of mudslinging headlines to cover the Sunday MAGA speeches in New York City.