The Latest News about media bias

One of the most memorable memes of the Trump candidacy and his subsequent administration is his use of the phrase FAKE NEWS. From the outset of the Trump years, the lying press told us of the absolute, provable certainty of Trump’s collusion with Russia. This lie from Democrats and their pals in the leftist news business continued for over three ...

Billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, the majority owner of The Atlantic, has donated over $1.2 million to former Vice President Joe Biden and other Democratic candidates and groups since 2019, Federal Election Commission records show. Powell Jobs owns a 70% stake in The Atlantic, and she reportedly communicates often with its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg. Goldberg published an anonymously-sourced story Thursday ...

The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief said Friday he kept sources anonymous in a story about President Donald Trump because the sources didn’t wish to face “angry tweets and all the rest.” Jeffrey Goldberg explained why he allowed sources to remain anonymous in his Sept. 3 story, “Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers,’” during a Friday interview on CNN’s ...

When I think of countries where the media serves as a mouthpiece of the “State”, North Korea, China, Iran and Russia come to mind.   Under Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, everyone has the right to seek and receive accurate news and then express opinions.  According to Wikipedia, countries like these flout the standard by banning or ...

CNN and MSNBC devoted little coverage Friday and Saturday to the first development in U.S. Attorney John Durham’s investigation of the origins of the Trump-Russia probe. Kevin Clinesmith, a former FBI lawyer, is expected to plead guilty to altering an email regarding former Trump aide Carter Page’s past association with the CIA.  CNN and MSNBC employ at least three former ...

A recent flash in the pan on Twitter was this tweet from CNN. In an effort to be more inclusive and accurate, CNN purposely avoided using the traditional term for ‘individuals with a cervix’- women.  The expected brouhaha exploded over the Twitterverse and anyone with the slightest familiarity with a user’s profile could predict with quantum accuracy their point of ...

The vast majority of Americans consider news bias to be “a major problem,” but more than half believe the issue is with the news other people consume, according to a survey from Gallup and the Knight Foundation released Tuesday. Nearly half of the adults surveyed believe there’s “a great deal” of “political bias in the news,” while 37% believe there’s ...

This story pretty much writes itself. Who doesn’t know that Politifact is a left-wing slanted, Democrat agenda-driven mess? Well, if you just got back to civilization after a decade on a deserted island, this should pretty much sum up how useless Politifact is – they are now fact-checking internet memes. You know… satirical photos and videos meant to bring attention ...

The New York Times will release a five-part podcast series July 30 titled “Nice White Parents,” which will investigate the impact white parents have on America’s “failing” public schools. “We know that American public schools do not guarantee each child an equal education — two decades of school reform initiatives have not changed that. But when we look at how ...

The New York Times published an op-ed from a Chinese scientist blasting the United States’ handling of the coronavirus pandemic.  Unacknowledged in the op-ed is the Chinese Communist Party’s firm control of the university that employs the scientist, Yi Rao. Rao has also taken credit for proposing the controversial Thousand Talents Program, which Beijing has used to recruit researchers at ...

The Associated Press, a U.S. wire service and news outlet, announced Monday that it will capitalize “black” when referring to the racial group in its stories, but not “white.” The AP said a statement about the change that white people have a less distinct culture than do black people, and that whites don’t have the experience of discrimination based on ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee released a newly declassified FBI document Friday showing that a New York Times report about contacts between Trump associates and Russian intelligence was riddled with errors.  Peter Strzok, who served as FBI deputy chief of counterintelligence, spotted 14 errors in the Times story, published on Feb. 14, 2017.  Strzok also critiqued Christopher Steele, saying that the ...

Forbes unpublished an article Monday in which an environmental activist apologized for scaring people about climate change. Michael Shellenberger’s article was originally published by Forbes Sunday, but was taken down one day later. Shellenberger, who is the founder and president of Environmental Progress, decried “climate alarmism” in the article, which he posted on his website after Forbes took it down. ...

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board cautioned against condemning America’s response to the coronavirus, calling comparisons between the U.S. and Europe “partisan opportunism.” The publication’s editorial board said Sunday that liberals blaming the Trump administration for the upsurge in infection cases have been partisan attacks, though it noted that the administration is also often too optimistic. The WSJ specifically cited ...

CNN accused President Donald Trump of exploiting innocent children Thursday night after he retweeted a manipulated video of a mock report with the news outlet’s logo. The video depicts a phony CNN headline that reads, “TERRIFIED TODDLER RUNS FROM RACIST BABY,” as a white toddler is seen chasing after a black child. The video then cuts to a clip of ...