Bias by Omission
NY Times: What Virus? Only ‘Personal Liberation’ for Protestors
The New York Times has changed its entire outlook on the dangers of the deadly coronavirus pandemic since protests against police racism started nearly two weeks ago. No more lectures about social distancing or masks. Instead the paper’s news pages are actually celebrating the breaking of the lockdown rules as “personal liberation.” (Those who were forbidden to work only to have their…
ABC’s Raddatz Downplays Murdered Cops, Gets Rebuked By DHS Secretary
ABC chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz apparently felt like being extremely morbid Sunday morning. Between insinuating something terrible by saying President Trump wanted “combat troops” in D.C. and then downplaying recent attacks and murders against police officers, she was doing a bang-up job. Luckily, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf was…
ABC Claims Trump Wanted ‘Combat Troops’ in D.C., Ignored Police Ambush
President Trump’s calls for law and order, and for governors to crack down on the riots and looting in their cities, had spurred on more liberal media suggestions that he was heading a despotic regime; CNN’s Jim Acosta even thought himself brave enough to ask Trump if America was still a democracy. Further pushing that insinuation on Sunday, ABC chief global affairs correspondent Martha…
Nets Ignore Lauded Anti-Hydroxychloroquine Study Getting Shot Down
Just as with their cable counterparts, the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC refused to give airtime to the revelation that a lauded scientific study, purporting to show anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine was ineffective and deadly…
ABC, CBS Turn Their Backs on U.S. Sailor Trump Freed from Iran
U.S. Navy veteran Michael White stepped out of a Swiss government plane in Zurich, Switzerland, and back into American freedom, Thursday, after spending two years in an Iranian prison on charges of allegedly insulting the supreme leader. In an interview with Fox News, White thanked President Trump for his release and for making America great again. But neither his release nor his thanks were…
CBS Decries NYPD Enforcing Curfew, Ignores Officers Shot and Stabbed
On Thursday, CBS This Morning denounced the NYPD for “using batons and chasing people down” in Brooklyn while dispersing protesters and enforcing New York City’s 8:00 p.m. curfew Wednesday night. However, the report never mentioned that two police officers were shot and one was stabbed while defending stores from looters nearby.
Nets Skip Rosenstein Drop Support for FBI’s Lie-Filled FISA Warrant
In a Wednesday hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified that he wouldn’t have approved the FBI’s FISA warrant to spy on a Trump campaign staffer, if he had known the bureau was lying to him and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. It was testimony that went unreported on ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News…
Nets Tout Biden’s ‘Stark Contrast’ With Trump, ‘Promise’ to End Racism
Completely ignoring his recent racist comment declaring “you ain’t black” if you’re African American and vote for President Trump, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) praised former Vice President Joe Biden for providing a “stark” and “sharp” contrast to the President on the matter of George Floyd’s death.
Stelter Blames Trump for Press Being Targeted By Police, Rioters
In the past few days, we’ve seen disturbing videos and reports of journalists getting brutalized from both sides of recent clashes: rioters beating them, damaging and stealing equipment, and police arresting and shooting reporters with rubber bullets or pepper spray balls while they just try to report. But according to CNN’s media analyst and Reliable Sources host, Brian Stelter,…
Friends of Antifa: NBC Scoffs at Claims 'Left-Wing' Mobs Causing Riots
NewsBusters and this author have repeatedly pointed out how MSNBC and NBC have been a reliable safe harbor for the left-wing domestic terrorist group known as Antifa. And they back at it again, with Sunday Today anchor Willie Geist and White House correspondent Kelly O’Donnell scoffed at claims from the White House and the Department of Justice that Antifa was partially to blame for…
Lemon FLIPS OUT: ‘God’s Honest Truth’ Trump to Blame for Racism
During a guest appearance on CNN’s The Situation Room Thursday evening, CNN Tonight host Don Lemon flipped out and doubled down on comments he made the previous night, blaming President Trump for the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. Insisting it was the “God’s honest truth,” Lemon decried how the U.S. attorney on the case had said the White House and the…
CBS Claims Trump’s Twitter Feud Just a Distraction from Virus Deaths
CNN’s Lemon Blames Trump for Death of George Floyd in Minneapolis
It started out as reasonable venting during Wednesday’s handoff between Cuomo PrimeTime and CNN Tonight about how the police treat African Americans and how white people should be more receptive. But it all went too far when the latter’s host, Don Lemon blamed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on President Trump. On top of that, he and Chris Cuomo asserted that people on the right would…