Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
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The Republican National Committee made a bold decision that the media elites treated like an anti-democratic outrage. The RNC pulled out of the allegedly bipartisan… Read More
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Abortions are violent acts ending in death. The badly named “mainstream media” loves them. The Washington Post, which claims to hate things “dying in darkness,”… Read More
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The shamelessness of liberal politicians and journalists is displayed by their unique outrage at the treatment of Supreme Court Justice-to-be Ketanji Brown Jackson, as if… Read More
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Just when you thought the Hunter Biden scandals had died in darkness, The Washington Post published more than 6,300 words on March 30 admitting that… Read More
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Now that the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings are complete, we have collected another fascinating exhibit of the leftist tilt of “independent fact-checkers.” Just try to… Read More
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The libertine left seems extremely aggressive in every corporate workplace today, and it demands that everyone conform with its Orwellian lingo of “inclusivity.” No dissent… Read More
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The liberal media has treated the Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson as a glorious and historic occasion. Nobody needs to care about where… Read More
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Michael Isikoff, once the top investigative reporter for Newsweek, tweeted something unintentionally humorous about a New York Times story. “In the category of — didn’t… Read More
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The long-running CBS News program “60 Minutes” has a manically split personality: Vicious attack dogs when Republicans are in power, but supportive infomercial producers under… Read More
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Tom Bevan at RealClearPolitics shared on Twitter a local horror story from the Chicago area. His fifth grader came home from school with a vocabulary… Read More
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In the annals of manufactured scandals by TV networks, one of the lamest examples was Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ telling high school students at an… Read More
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In May 2017, then-CNN boss Jeff Zucker gave an interview to “The New Yorker Radio Hour” and made waves by proclaiming, “Fox is state-run TV… Read More
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Something caught my ear in the car, listening to a radio simulcast of the Feb. 21 “PBS NewsHour.” Anchor Judy Woodruff dryly reported that “Canadian… Read More
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Beware of writing critical things about Eileen Gu, a teenage skiing triple-medalist at the Beijing Olympics. You’ll be accused of racism. Gu was born and… Read More
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There’s a second wave of media reaction to John Durham’s latest filing on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. The first wave was silence, hoping… Read More
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No one can ever claim that the notion of Trump-Russia collusion and the Mueller investigation were downplayed or ignored by the press. It was the… Read More
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Anyone under 30 today has no idea what it was like to live in America during the Cold War. That includes the reflexive tendency of… Read More
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One of the memorable scenes in the 1993 movie “Dave” involved the president and first lady walking their dog in front of the cameras and… Read More
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In our new era of woke corporations, one obvious manifestation of their fear-based behavior arrives in TV advertising. They struggle to hit all the “right”… Read More
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CNN anchor Brianna Keilar is hosting a temporary program pompously titled “Democracy in Peril.” On Jan. 18, Keilar huffed: “We can’t discuss the tsunami of… Read More
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As we reach the one-year anniversary on Thursday of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Gallup brought some bad polling news for the Democrats. Over 2021, Gallup… Read More
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One of the most frustrating things about “fact-checkers” is how they leap on conservative rhetoric against Democrats as “false” or “missing context,” but give Democrats… Read More
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Fox News announced on Jan. 10 that Jesse Watters would become the permanent host of the network’s weeknight 7 p.m. hour in two weeks. No… Read More
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On the cusp of an absolute glut of liberal-media anniversary coverage of the Jan. 6 riot, CNN media reporter Brian Stelter was cranky. “We live… Read More
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One of the most disturbing concepts in politics is the media elite providing the “first draft of history.” You can test-drive this with a look… Read More
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There’s something remarkably phony on the front page of every Washington Post, proclaiming the motto, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” A new investigative report from Reuters… Read More
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As the bad news surges and throbs again about the coronavirus, you can easily sense the lack of political vitriol for this president. President Joe… Read More
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Despite the triumph of President Joe Biden’s inauguration, liberal celebrities didn’t get much happier in 2021. It began with Donald Trump refusing to concede that… Read More
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As Christmas approaches, the network “news” divisions have showered the Bidens with gifts. NBC late-night host Jimmy Fallon gave President Joe Biden a free platform… Read More
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Brian Williams, dismissed as “NBC Nightly News” anchor in 2015 for serial embellishment and lying, has decided to walk away from his MSNBC show “The… Read More
