Media Bias Debate

Most Journalists Don’t Believe In ‘Equal Coverage’; 43% Admit Bias
A new Pew Research survey of nearly 12,000 journalists found most don’t think all sides deserve “equal coverage” and a significant minority of 43 percent recognize the bias of journalists impacts their coverage. More believe their news organization does than does not have enough diversity of political ideology (34 to 29 percent), but “by a considerable margin, more journalists say their…
NYT’s Douthat: Soft Coverage of Riots, Kavanaugh Radicalizes the Left
New York Times columnist Ross Douthat took a polite shot at the mainstream liberal press, including his own paper, in Sunday’s “Why the Memory of Jan. 6 Can’t Prevent a Trump Resurgence.” One major reason: The mainstream liberal press. Douthat argued that the liberal establishment (including its press handmaidens) unwittingly reinforce the idea that Trump isn’t a “uniquely malign…

Is Ignoring the Other Side a Winning Strategy for the Left?
This week, my company, The Daily Wire, premiered a blockbuster new documentary starring Matt Walsh. Titled “What Is A Woman?”, the documentary investigates radical gender theory and its peculiar hold on the elites in our society -- and how the insane proposition that men can become women and vice versa has become so well-accepted that even normal Americans now live in fear of questioning it.…

Will NewsGuard Keep WashPost’s 100/100 Score After Lorenz Scandal?
The Washington Post was caught stealth-editing a dishonest attack-the-right story by its in-house cry-bully Taylor Lorenz, yet the publication still enjoys a perfect score by leftist news ratings firm NewsGuard.

Column: The Conservative Media Doesn't 'Dwarf' Liberal Media
Former Obama spin artist Dan Pfeiffer wrote this in one of his regular articles for the glossy left-wing rag Vanity Fair: “the conservative media dwarfs the progressive media in size and scope.” This makes no sense whatsoever.

Damage Control: CNN Guest Blames 'Right-Wing Media' For Biden's Woes
With President Biden’s approval rating plummeting amidst soaring gas prices, inflation, and supply chain shortages, the liberal media machine has sprung into action to play damage control. Yet, on Tuesday morning, former White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer appeared on CNN’s New Day to blame Biden’s woes on the “right-wing media machine” and deny the existence of the…
NYT’s Lara Logan Hit Reveals What Mainstream Journalists Must Believe
The New York Times ran a hit piece on former CBS journalist Lara Logan: “Former Star At CBS News Follows Path To Far Right.” After introducing Logan as someone who had “reached the heights of American journalism….as the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News,” he lamented “today Ms. Logan cuts a far different figure in American media. Instead of on national news broadcasts,…

Bozell NUKES Anti-American Media Who Blame Conservatives for Attacks
Armed with reams of research, Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell was firing on all cylinders Sunday night while speaking with conservative talk radio legend Mark Levin on the latter’s Fox News Channel show Life, Liberty, & Levin. Over two segments, Bozell slammed the liberal media’s repugnant penchant for blaming conservatives for mass shootings, torching…
Justice Thomas Rips Liberal Media, Calls Out Their Poor Job and Lies
On Friday, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke at an event in Dallas held by the Old Parkland Conference, a group that looks to tackle issues in the black community. During his time on stage (which included a Q&A), Thomas spoke about the liberal media and how they do their jobs poorly along with the “white liberal elites” who try to keep him down and isolated from the rest of…

Former CBS Journo Claims U.S. to Lock Up Women for Miscarriages
Former “journalist” Kate Smith did such a good job pushing the pro-choice narrative while on her abortion beat at CBS News that last month Planned Parenthood hired her to be their director of “news content” (aka propagandist). And on Mother’s Day Sunday, she appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources to erroneously claim that the United States was going to become exactly like El Salvador and…

Journalism? Nah! PolitiFact Runs Stupid Fact-Check on Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk correctly slammed NBC News for trying to bury the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Phony fact-checker PolitiFact tapped into all levels of Pravda to pretend that wasn’t true.

Morning Joe Mocks Trump's 'J.D. Mandel' Goof, Ignores Biden Gaffes
Morning Joe leads its show by mocking Donald Trump fumbling over the name of J.D. Vance, the candidate he has endorsed in the Ohio Republican Senate primary. But the show rarely if ever reports Biden's frequent gaffes.

Gag: New NYT Editor Tapped, Poses in CREEPY Photo Spread for NY Mag
Joseph Kahn is the new executive editor of the New York Times, replacing current editor Dean Baquet, who is retiring. Kahn was the paper’s Beijing bureau chief in the 2000s. Coverage of Baquet’s tenure avoided the paper’s left-wing woke meltdowns of recent years and even suggested the paper was annoying liberals. By contrast, New York Magazine compared the paper's recent left…

LATimes Laugh: MSNBC’s Morning Joe ‘Manages to Stay in Neutral Zone'
Los Angeles Times television writer Stephen Battaglio profiled the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe -- Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Willie Geist. The headline is certainly West Coast-snooty: “MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ tries to keep cable news smart while expanding to four hours.” The story’s premise – that Morning Joe plays it down the middle -- was just wacky. A…