Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Rick Santorum’s gig as a CNN contributor came to an abrupt halt on May 22. Leftists on Twitter finally found a pretext for their crusade… Read More
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Pardon the whiplash! It feels like the media suddenly decided the theory saying the deadly coronavirus leaked from a lab in Wuhan is now considered… Read More
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The bad news for liberals arrived on the front page of the May 18 Washington Post under the mild-mannered headline “Hopes dim for Democrats’ bills… Read More
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In recent days, CNN has put a major emphasis on “new” videos of the dreadful Jan. 6 Capitol riot, expressing outrage in heavy rotation over… Read More
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Everyone knew instinctively that the Biden White House would get enormous cooperation and positive media coverage from the “news” media, given that it follows the… Read More
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National Public Radio is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week in a classic way: asking its fans for money. A fundraising email gushes, “From covering… Read More
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Stephen Collinson is well-known among conservatives as the most hackneyed of the hacks at CNN. The Twitter account called CNN Politics promoted Collinson’s latest online… Read More
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When Democrats get caught in a political pickle, they can count on the borrowed authority of “journalists” and “fact-checkers” to bail them out. Take failed… Read More
