Jonathan Karl

ABC’s Jonathan Karl gave an interview to Mediaite and demonstrated the notion of cognitive dissonance. He finds it unfortunate that people think the press acts as the Resistance to Trump, and yet, he wants to reverse his negative take on CNN White House shrieker Jim Acosta in his reporter’s memoir, insisting on reflection that Acosta’s bombastic approach has been “vindicated.”

On Thursday night, the broadcast network newscasts showed no interest in the refusal of Democrats to accept the results of November’s presidential election (whatever they may be) and instead decided to meltdown over President Trump’s response to a question from carnival barker Brian Karem expressing doubt about the upcoming election and a flood of mail-in ballots. 

ABC News had barely even reported the news of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s passing Friday night before hosts and correspondents began crassly strategizing over how Democrats could target vulnerable Republican senators in order to block any nominee named by President Trump to fill the vacancy. 

When the Trump campaign moved a rally indoors in Las Vegas this weekend, reporters mostly refused to attend, leaving the job to the White House press pool. In a report from George Condon in National Journal, ABC White House reporter Jon Karl took his corona-panic to an extreme metaphor: “This is not like embedding with the Marines in Fallujah,” he said. “It is like you are taking your…

On Thursday afternoon, President Trump continued to distinguish himself from Joe Biden on access with another White House press conference that featured snarky, Jim Acosta-like questions from ABC’s Jonathan Karl (even though he’s written about his disdain for Acosta’s style) and far-left Washington Post reporter and MSNBC contributor Phil Rucker as they both accused him of having lied…

With Jeffrey Goldberg’s Atlantic story in tatters, they needed a new so-called bombshell and they got it Wednesday in an excerpt on coronavirus from Bob Woodward’s new book Rage. And with that, White House reporters had a new talking point. On Wednesday afternoon, they tried (and failed) to browbeat Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany over claims that Trump “lied to the American…

In the latest edition of the NewsBusters podcast, Executive Editor Tim Graham tackles the dramatic double standard in comparing President Trump's big convention speech on the south lawn of the White House, compared to a large leftist anti-police protest in Washington the very next afternoon.

Over the past two weeks television journalists have played the role of brazen partisans in their coverage of the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. More specifically, the same journalists who offered glowing reviews of the Joe Biden and the Democrats invariably trashed President Trump and the Republicans seven days later.

In reacting to President Trump’s 2020 RNC speech on Thursday night, ABC made sure their coverage reflected the total opposite of how they basked in and marveled at Joe Biden’s speech. Instead, they decried it as a “no hope” speech “filled with” “darkness,” entitlement, “harsh attacks,” lacked energy, and dared to suggest Biden would reenact lockdowns if elected.

On Thursday night after Vice President Mike Pence’s 2020 RNC speech, ABC journalists and liberal panelists were less-than-pleased he didn’t forcefully speak out against Sunday’s shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, condemn armed individuals defending businesses from rioters, and accept responsibility for the size and scope of the coronavirus pandemic.

It was day one of the Republican National Convention with the main events yet to kick-off, and the liberal broadcast networks were itching to tear into their opposition. ABC, CBS, and NBC had their knives out during their Monday evening newscasts and were taking stabs and swings at everything for the Trump supports outside to their “controversial” speaker list.

The following is a top 10 ranking of the most ridiculous plaudits by lefty journos during their coverage of the DNC.

As CBS and NBC were pulling out all their respective stops on Thursday to boost their preferred presidential candidate Joe Biden following his DNC speech, ABC engaged in the same, partisan campaign heralding the “sincere” Biden’s “finest hour” that “met this moment” in the form of a “compelling” and “stark speech” of “hope.”

Given that ABC’s World News Tonight bookended the newscast with over 11 minutes (11:04) on former Vice President Joe Biden’s selection of Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA) to be his 2020 Democratic running mate, it was obvious they were in love with their ticket. Beyond that, senior congressional correspondent Mary Bruce and Chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl were disgusted with…