Curtis Houck

NEW NewsBusters Podcast: Joyless Joy Unleashes Her Reid Rage
MSNBC host Joy Reid put on a remarkably unhinged show on Tuesday night, on everything from the Steve Scalise shooting to the January 6 riot. Plus: Why would CNN put on another Kamau Bell show celebrating BLM and Antifa if they wanted to pose as anti-rioting?

NEW NewsBusters Podcast: Biden Gets to Define Bipartisanship Down
On the latest NewsBusters Podcast, we discuss how cooperative reporters are helping President Biden redefine the concept of bipartisanship. Washington Post reporter Ashley Parker explained "the president and his aides have proffered a definition of bipartisanship untethered from Washington." Biden can jam through massive spending bills with only Democrat votes and it's still "…

NEW NewsBusters Podcast: Jimmy Kimmel's Cuddle with Hunter Biden
Hunter Biden's softball interview with Jimmy Kimmel is the subject of the latest NewsBusters Podcast. Brian Stelter tweeted on Monday that "This week Hunter has been on CBS, NPR and the BBC, and on Thursday he'll be on Kimmel, but he's avoiding more overtly political and partisan spaces." He meant Fox, but he thinks every outlet and program he listed isn't partisan or political.

NEW NewsBusters Podcast: The Impeachment of Conservative Media
CNN is already overflowing with anticipation of the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. But CNN also sounds like it's seeking impeach Fox News and other conservative media outlets, openly lobbying cable providers to drop Fox or place them on some "sci-fi" tier that's not next to "news" channels.

NEW NewsBusters Podcast: The Methodical Media Mangling of Melania
On the latest installment of the NewsBusters Podcast, executive editor Tim Graham

NB Podcast: Stephanopoulos vs. Trump Town Hall, with Curtis Houck
In this week's scintillating installment of the NewsBusters podcast, executive editor Tim Graham discusses the phoniness of the "town hall" format, when networks carefully screen so-called "uncommitted voters" and then carefully pre-screen their questions, which makes it feel like a scripted event, not a free-wheeling talk with the people. Managing editor Curtis Houck joins the podcast to…

Donald Trump Tweets MRC Data on Burying of Dem Scandal
The President of the United States on Thursday tweeted an article containing Media Research Center data on how the press isn’t interested in a scandal engulfing a top Democrat. NewsBusters’s Curtis Houck wrote on Tuesday that ABC, CBS and NBC skipped the arrest of Imran Awan.

MRCTV's Hughes Slams Network Blackout of Alleged Rape By Illegal
On Thursday morning’s Fox & Friends, Brittany Hughes of our sister site MRCTV lambasted ABC, CBS, and NBC for their callous refusal to cover the alleged heinous rape of a female student in a Washington D.C. suburban high school by two men and one of which is here in the country illegally. Hughes also decimated the media for their failure to report on the incident at Rockville High School,…

MRC Crashes MSNBC's Democratic Presidential Candidates' Forum
One of the Media Research Center's famous "Don't Believe the Liberal Media" signs made a live appearance on MSNBC on Friday — minutes after Rachel Maddow completed a forum with the three remaining Democratic presidential candidates. Chris Matthews got Maddow's take on the how the forum went and the candidates' answers/reactions. The sign appeared right between the two liberal TV personalities…
O'Reilly Cites MRC in Blasting Nets for Meager PP Scandal Coverage
On Thursday’s edition of The O’Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel, host Bill O’Reilly cited statistics complied by the Media Research Center to lambast the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC for their minuscule coverage of the Planned Parenthood video scandal which O’Reilly and guest Bernie Goldberg found to be yet another sign that “[l]iberal philosophy dominates” the news media.…