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 bitter Sunday afternoon announcement that President Joe Biden would end his reelection bid spurred hours of live network television coverage. With all that time… Read More
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On July 15, the opening day of the Republican convention, federal judge Aileen Cannon dismissed special counsel Jack Smith’s indictments of former President Donald Trump… Read More
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NBC anchorman Lester Holt interviewed President Joe Biden on the first day of the Republican convention. In the past, that would be seen as impolite,… Read More
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Does anybody remember the gentle days of political humor when Johnny Carson was the King of Late Night? Today’s late-night environment is largely a nasty… Read More
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As the Democrats struggle among themselves over President Joe Biden’s declining mental state and his declining poll numbers, it did not have to end up… Read More
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Forever earnest Brian Stelter tweeted out his late-night appearance on CNN with Abby Phillip. “MSNBC’s [Rachel] Maddow is right to be thinking aloud about the… Read More
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The nation’s most self-impressed journalists, the ones who strangely self-identify as “mainstream,” could not bring themselves to treat the Hunter Biden trial as comparable in… Read More
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Does Time magazine really matter anymore? It still has a circulation of more than 1 million, but that is one-third of what it was in… Read More
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When the elected Democrat district attorney of Manhattan and his 12 (likely Democrat) Manhattan jurors convicted Donald Trump on artificially inflated felony counts of business… Read More
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The Democrats want to run for office on the issue of “democracy” because they think the Republicans are somehow opposed to it. They never sound… Read More
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President Joe Biden made a well-publicized commencement address on May 19 at Morehouse College in Atlanta, a historically black college. The networks touted the speech… Read More
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NFL Kansas City Chiefs placekicker Harrison Butker on May 11 gave the commencement address at Benedictine College, a Catholic school in Kansas. Within 48 hours,… Read More
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On Wednesday, President Joe Biden took the very unusual step of submitting to an interviewer who was an actual journalist (not like Howard Stern or… Read More
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You can tell when the PolitiFact website is going to negotiate around the facts. On May 7, its top headline on the homepage asked: “Are… Read More
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Eight years ago, the leftist media took great offense to being dismissed by Donald Trump as “fake news,” but they never seemed to grasp this… Read More
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The leftist “free expression” group PEN America collided with a brick wall of radicals who don’t like anyone who expresses a sympathetic view of Israel… Read More
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National Public Radio senior editor Uri Berliner has been suspended for his unauthorized critique of the insular liberal bias of his network. NPR star and… Read More
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In the earlier decades of the Public Broadcasting Service, conservatives could feel that they had some fraction of a platform on William F. Buckley Jr.’s… Read More
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They call themselves the “PBS NewsHour,” but if you watch them routinely, you might call them the “PBS Opposition Research Hour.” They often sound like… Read More
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The word broke on March 26 that NBC News was reversing its decision to hire former Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel as a political commentator…. Read More
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For the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency, the partisan Democrats of our “legacy media” treated the “Pelosi-Picked Panel” on Jan. 6 as a… Read More
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Everything CNN does now underlines how then-CEO Chris Licht’s doomed attempts to calm it down are almost completely forgotten. On Monday, Oliver Darcy’s “Reliable Sources”… Read More
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“Both sides furious” was one reporter’s summary when special counsel Robert Hur testified in a House hearing to explain his decision not to prosecute President… Read More
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The Heritage Foundation has been issuing its doorstop-length “Mandate for Leadership” books since Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980. But this is the first one… Read More
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The pro-Biden media perpetually pat themselves on the back. They are a gift to the people, the essence of democracy, as in, “We inform the… Read More
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In case you just can’t get enough of Joy Reid with an hour each weeknight on MSNBC, you can catch her sharing her wild and… Read More
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Politico is a member in good standing of the “establishment media.” Its journalists rotate in and out, to and from other pro-Biden outlets. But when… Read More
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One of the grandest fictions of our leftist media is that somehow, championing “social change” is what makes you a “bona fide news organization.” Anyone… Read More
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Never call PolitiFact an “independent fact-checker.” It is every bit as liberal and biased as its fans in the liberal media. Recently, it announced it… Read More
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The year has hardly begun, and the pro-Biden media are already in a full-blown panic. They’re upset many polls show Donald Trump ahead of President… Read More
