Labeling

New York Times congressional correspondent Annie Karni thought she had a good “gotcha” in response to Republican criticism of the Senate’s new relaxed dress code, imposed by Majority Leader Sen. Charles Schumer (NY), in response to a fellow Democrat’s insistence in showing up on the Senate floor dressed like a slob in defiance of Senate rules. In Wednesday’s “For Some Senators, New…

The New York Times’ coverage of an environmental protest in Manhattan, “Fingers Pointed at President, Protesters Demand End to Fossil Fuels,” felt familiar. The story template, of normal people “young and old” filling the streets, was identical to the paper’s mainstreaming of previous left-wing protests, a template from former leftist protest movements like Occupy Wall Street, the…

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's opening of a Biden impeachment inquiry was treated with maximum cynicism on the front page of The New York Times.  The labeling began right in the headline and lead sentence of Wednesday’s front-page story. This was all about "appeasing far-right lawmakers" who might remove McCarthy from his job. That's now how the paper covered the first Trump…

Tuesday's PBS NewsHour ran two segments on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy opening an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, extending the ongoing investigations by congressional Republicans into the president’s possible involvement in his son’s business dealings. The supposedly objective tax-supported outlet showered McCarthy with “far-right” labels. A favored phrase of the…

Even though the various legal cases against Donald Trump are taking place in the obviously partisan environment of a presidential election, an examination of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage finds the networks rarely identified even elected Democratic prosecutors as “Democrats.”

New York Times congressional correspondent Karoun Demirjian really laid on the hostile labels against Republicans in her Friday condemnation of conservatives who are using a federal budget bill to fight for tougher border security: “Hard Right’s Border Demands Intensify Spending Standoff.” This story and several she penned in July don’t even try to hide their seething anti-Republican…

The New York Times’ resident fact-checker Linda Qiu took on rising Republican star Vivek Ramaswamy after his breakout performance in last week’s GOP presidential debate, and her interesting choice of terminology unwittingly demonstrated the paper’s liberal mindset. In response to Ramaswamy’s claim (one not even made at the debate, but to the Atlantic magazine) that there were…

National Public Radio is stirring up liberal hysteria again, courtesy of Odette Yousef, who works the outlets “extremism” beat (as in solely “right-wing” extremism). The latest extremist idea she’s latched onto: A song, the raw, countrified tune “Rich Men North of Richmond,” a populist plea from singer/songwriter Oliver Anthony criticizing taxes and welfare, made history by debuting…

Protesting emeritus Prof. Marvin Dunn joined Thursday’s Jose Diaz-Balart Reports on MSNBC to discuss his opposition to Florida’s new history standards on slavery. During his rantings, Dunn argued that one of the experts who wrote the standards is an anti-Semite who once thanked God for slavery. There was just one problem: that woman opposes the standards and is an elected Democrat.…

Terry Gross, host of the National Public Radio talk show Fresh Air, conducted two separate interviews on succeeding days with Annie Karni, a former White House correspondent for the New York Times who is now congressional correspondent for the paper, a discussion dominated by fears of the “far-right” Congress. The loaded ideological labeling that emanated from both…

The cast of CNN’s Inside Politics reacted to President Biden’s interview with The Weather Channel on Wednesday by claiming that “he’s kind of centrist” on environmental matters while also fact-checking him from the left.

The Southern Poverty Law Center just released a report claiming there are 1,225 hate and anti-government groups in America. These groups cause “fear and pain (in) Black, brown, and LGBTQ communities.”  The SPLC lists such groups on its “hate map.”  I once believed the center. Well-meaning people still do. Apple once gave them $1 million. But what donors don’t know is that today, the SPLC…

PBS’s post-Dobbs abortion coverage has been all one-way: No celebration of saving babies or showing respect for the culture of life. Instead, the focus has been 100% on lost opportunities to abort, with the hardest cases nationwide reliably rounded up and presented as commonplace, leaning on the alleged horrors occurring in red states that have instituted abortion bans. Sarah Varney,…

Bianna Golodryga hosted Wednesday’s edition of Amanpour & Co. (airing on CNN International and tax-funded PBS) and commiserated with William Cohen, former “Republican” Defense Secretary to Democratic president Bill Clinton, about the awful state of the Republican Party in the wake of Donald Trump’s third indictment: "So given what you have just laid out, on top of news,…