Labeling

PBS entered the last weekend before Election Day maintaining the deceitful form in which it has covered the race for the last two years. On Friday evening’s edition, Laura Barron-Lopez lived up to her position as the most partisan reporter at the PBS News Hour, clipping Donald Trump’s criticism of Liz Cheney, ignoring the clear anti-war context to claim he was advocating a firing…

On Friday evening’s Washington Week with The Atlantic on tax-funded PBS, show host and Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg set a “foreboding” scene, just a few days before Election Day. He threw in all the anti-Trump buzzwords,…

It’s an intriguing parallel: Father and daughter Republican political figures Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney, insulted as warmongers and chicken hawks by different political parties, twenty years apart. But the coverage in the New York Times couldn’t have been more different. When Donald Trump attacked Republican turned Kamala Harris supporter Liz Cheney as a “radical warhawk,” he was…

The Democratic Party, which accuses Republicans of trying to subvert confidence in the electoral process, is oddly reluctant to actually ensure that only citizens are allowed to vote. The press, including taxpayer-supported PBS and NPR, are helping the Democrats make that case, with skeptical coverage of the Supreme Court ruling that Virginia can “purge” noncitizens from the state’s voter…

Despite its alleged concern for the decline of civility in politics, the New York Times is actually all in on political slander and name-calling lately -- when it’s in the service of defeating Donald Trump. For the second time in under two weeks, the paper reveled in the party’s new tactic of throwing the dirty word “fascist” at Trump to see if it would stick (not that they didn’t do…

In the latest turn in the circle of symbiosis, Amanpour & Co., which airs on PBS, invited PBS’s Washington Week host and Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg to discuss his anonymously sourced hit piece, which dropped two weeks before the presidential election, alleging Donald Trump envied…

The headline writers for the 6,000-word expose in the New York Times Magazine by Ava Kofman (in partnership with the liberal nonprofit newsroom ProPublica) certainly know how to scare the paper's liberal readership: “How Two Billionaire Preachers Remade Texas Politics -- They control Republican politics in the state. Now they’re poised to take their theocratic agenda…

On the heels of ABC, CBS, and NBC singing the praises Thursday night of longtime Northern Virginia resident Liz Cheney (who pretends to reside in Wyoming), the same networks also devoted time on their Friday morning news shows to cheering “staunch conservative” Cheney campaigning with Vice President Kamala Harris, calling it “an astonishing sight” and “a major moment” in the election and…

Before the official confirmation of the death of terrorist Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed by Israeli Defense Forces, Associated Press reporter Bassem Mroue filed "Charismatic and shrewd: A look at longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.” That headline holds more than a hint of the ridiculous Washington Post headline marking the assassination of another terrorist leader…

In its Sunday night media-focused newsletter, Semafor had a puff piece celebrating the faux Republican (read: progressive) site The Bulwark as “one of the breakout media successes” in 2024 with its personalities “bona fide stars” that liberal strategist and Publisher Sarah Longwell declared to represent “a new center”....even though their site has a singular, crazy-ex-girlfriend-level focus on…

Before the debate, ABC's evening newscast never described Kamala Harris with an ideological label since Biden was forced out. One way that liberal journalists put a protective bubble around their candidate is to pretend she’s somehow above ideology. It's just an attack coming from Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, and therefore it’s just negative advertising, not news.

Monday’s White House press briefing led off with national security spokesman and frequent Karine Jean-Pierre crutch John Kirby defending the Biden-Harris administration’s deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan in light of a House Foreign Affairs Committee report, arguing they’ve done plenty of soul-searching, but feel proud of what happened and want to move on. Thankfully, a few reporters had some…

One piece of PBS’s coverage of the last night of the Democratic National Convention unwittingly confirmed media labeling bias on PBS and other “mainstream “outlets. First, Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart hailed the Democrat’s vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz for using the supposedly less frightening and more convincing term “gun safety legislation” instead of “gun…

The PBS News Hour promoted more liberal election fear-mongering, this time from the ostensibly objective but actually leftist American Bar Association. Anchor Amna Nawaz was eager to push its fear against the threat of authoritarianism in America under a second Trump term as a bipartisan concern by pairing former Obama DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson with retired "conservative" judge…