Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
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Rachel Maddow is one of America’s most popular proponents of socialism. Government is never big enough for Maddow. Sen. Bernie Sanders has a friend in… Read More
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CNN’s dramatic and insurmountable conflict of interest of using Chris Cuomo as a “news anchor” just keeps getting more ridiculous. Thousands of pages of evidence… Read More
SocietyCommentary
MSNBC host Joy Reid is the only minority host on her network from noon to midnight, so it’s only natural she would be most expected… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
At The Washington Post, when Democrats are kicked unceremoniously out of office, it can only mean one thing: Democracy died in darkness. Take state Sen…. Read More
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The terrible election results for Democrats are going to lead to some terrible conclusions. One may be the assumption that these bad results reflect a… Read More
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No one can be surprised that when Democrats lose elections (and almost lose elections that “weren’t supposed to be close”), the liberals blame an infernal… Read More
EnergyCommentary
A British leftist group calling itself the Center for Countering Digital Hate has issued a report on what it calls the “Toxic Ten,” which are… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The left claims their most urgent battle is to save democracy, but when it comes to any questioning of the LGBT lobby, they are the… Read More
EducationCommentary
If we sat in a boardroom and tried to decide the kind of story that the liberal media is the most hostile to covering—hostile to… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
When is a fake setting not a fake setting? When President Joe Biden sits in front of it. The “independent fact-checkers,” a phrase that in… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
They say when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. When it comes to Vice President Kamala Harris, she can count on energetic admirers in… Read More
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Twitter makes it easy to realize that the purpose of “fact-checkers” is most commonly rushing to defend President Joe Biden from misinterpretation … and mockery…. Read More
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The “progressives” among us who fervently argue for abortion do not argue calmly or rationally when they are losing. As state legislators in Austin debated… Read More
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After the Labor Day weekend, Joe Scarborough sat on the set of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and told the Democrats that to succeed in the midterms,… Read More
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America’s leading “fact-checkers” describe themselves as “independent.” But watching their energetic defenses of President Joe Biden’s politically damaging behavior reveals they are taking a side…. Read More
SocietyCommentary
Reporters like to imagine themselves as the nation’s most powerful defenders of democracy, and on occasion, project themselves as enforcers of political civility. If all… Read More
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The heartbreaking scenes of suffering in Kabul are the kind of “hard news” that many Americans find compelling. But on most days, many Americans don’t… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The very supportive media environment around President Joe Biden has turned suddenly sour over this administration’s shoddy handling of Afghanistan. This debacle shouldn’t be buried… Read More
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Color me shocked that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo knuckled under to demands he resign after a devastating report detailing his sexual harassment of 11… Read More
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Some thoughts on the media after New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a report that found New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed multiple… Read More
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Liberals boasted that the election of Joe Biden meant a return to sober, restrained presidential rhetoric and an end to unhinged mean tweets. Biden wouldn’t… Read More
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We’re six months into the Biden administration, and the liberal media is still obsessing over new books full of titillating tales from anonymous sources about… Read More
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Here’s an easy test to see whether fact-checking websites can make any claim to being “independent” and nonpartisan in tone: Biden staffers claimed Republicans “defunded… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Independence Day is supposed to be a day of national unity. President Joe Biden proclaimed: “The Fourth of July is a sacred day in our… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
So much of what people call “news” isn’t hard facts. There’s a less favorable word for it: publicity. When Democrats rule, news meets a dam,… Read More
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One of the most curious things about America is how many of our most celebrated billionaires sound like socialists. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett love… Read More
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The arrogance of the liberal media can be measured by their dismissal of all conservative criticism as “bad faith” attacks on the press. Assuming that… Read More
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Few movie stars have been more exalted than Tom Hanks. You’d never expect a guy with his nice-guy branding to get a strong slap in… Read More
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At its recent United Facts of America Festival, PolitiFact interviewed Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va. Its executive director, Aaron Sharockman, began with some light humor, telling… Read More
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Right now we’re getting a feeling that echoes the feeling from last fall, a sense that every new piece of investigative journalism on Hunter Biden’s… Read More
