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On Sunday, The New York Times reported less than 100 protesters at a "Justice for J6" rally on Saturday that was hyped for days in advance by CNN and MSNBC. This had to be deeply embarrassing for people who describe themselves as the "reality-based press."

In the latest edition of the NewsBusters Podcast, the hot story is Team Biden trying to shut down the Fox News camera on the border in Texas. Fox reporter Bill Melugin had to report  that the Federal Aviation Administration ruled their drone had to be grounded. Conservative Twitter responded by imagining how the Stelters of the world might have responded if Trump grounded their drone cameras…

Bob Woodward is offering a third anonymously-sourced trashing of Team Trump, and the networks are lapping it up and cheering the people who allegedly undermined this allegedly dangerous and deranged president. Don't believe everything you read.

Team Biden underlined the president would be "deliberately staying in the background" of 9/11 ceremonies, but he still managed to say some wacky stuff on camera. Like implying all the 9/11 victims would despair at people putting "F Biden" on a protest sign. The media bury Biden gaffes, on 9/11 and every other day.

Instead of discussing his failed Afghanistan policy on the weekend of 9/11, President Biden tried to change the subject and please the Democrat base by getting out the "hammer" of vaccine mandates for government, and even for businesses of more than 100 employees. Much of this might be overturned, but the media celebrated it anyway. 

Sometimes terribly fake news emerges from the left. Over the long holiday weekend, too many "mainstream" media voices fell for another hoax from Rolling Stone magazine, that somehow "horse dewormer overdoses" were "overwhelming Oklahoma hospitals." Even the photo in the Rolling Stone tweet was fake. How discerning are supposedly smart lefties like Rachel Maddow or Joy Reid…

ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and MSNBC all avoided mentioning a Reuters story on a July phone call between President Biden and then-Afghanistan president Ashraf Ghani where Biden implored Ghani to project the perception of victory over the Taliban, whether it was "true or not."

With a torrent of news to discuss about the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, weekday evening/Sunday morning analyst Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro and I had plenty to talk about on Wednesday’s episode of the NewsBusters podcast. We first dove into litany of liberal journalists that have provided admirable and stinging coverage holding the Biden administration to account on…

As the American war effort in Afghanistan ended, the news environment for President Biden is bad right now, but it could be a lot worse. Imagine how the press would react if all this happened after President Trump had won a second term. Every crying war widow and dissenting colonel would be magnified intensely.

Since the news from Afghanistan has been so negative, critics on the Left have tried to suggest the media are far too negative with President Biden. One article in New York magazine even tried to argue "Why the Media Is Worse for Biden Than Trump."

On the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we discuss the media's temperamental use of polling results. They have a tendency to highlight polls that underline the narratives and candidates they like, but tend to bury poll results they don't like and don't match their talking points. On Sunday, Meet the Press host Chuck Todd found some negatives for Biden in the latest NBC News poll, but those…

On the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we begin with the question: when the news heavily suggests that everything is fine in America, what's missing from the news? Republicans, first and foremost, or anyone who would strongly question Biden's hold on reality. The press was pretty rough with Biden as Afghanistan quickly collapsed to the vicious Taliban, but people like Brian Stelter complained the…

On the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we notice that the late-night "comedians" aren't willing to roast President Biden for the debacle in Afghanistan. In fact, NBC's Seth Meyers praised Biden as the "salty grandpa" who can tell us what we didn't want to hear, that all we needed to get out. Stephen Colbert on CBS changed the subject to anti-vaxxer crazies in California, smearing them over…

White House press secretary Jen Psaki has her detractors -- and she obviously has a devoted pack of fanboys and fangirls. The leftist website MeidasTouch sells "Psaki Bomb" T-shirts, sweatshirts and mugs.