Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
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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
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No one should trust our “mainstream media” in defining where the “center” of politics is from their perch on the left-wing fringes. No one should… Read More
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Is President Joe Biden treating the press better than former President Donald Trump did? It’s a low bar to argue he doesn’t describe the media… Read More
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In a previous epoch, Tim Alberta was a reporter for National Review, one of too many NR cubs who later joined the liberal-media zoo. Alberta… Read More
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There’s a reason that President Joe Biden’s advisers keep his access to the press as minimal as they can. They don’t trust him to answer… Read More
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After 9/11, leftist journalists passionately exposed the New York City Police Department doing surveillance of mosques to try to prevent violent Muslim extremism. By contrast,… Read More
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On Nov. 7, the House of Representatives (212 Republicans and 22 Democrats) voted to censure radical Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., because she has “levied unbelievable… Read More
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They still call their national newspaper USA Today, but on some days, the front page looks more like “LGBTQIA Today.” The bold top headline for… Read More
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The good news for Republicans is they finally elected a new speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson. The bad news for Republicans is the… Read More
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Conservatives and Republicans should be at the top of the list of people who enjoyed the writers strike over the summer. From May through September,… Read More
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Often, as Americans, we want to live in an old Coke commercial where everyone sings in perfect harmony on a hill while they’re holding their… Read More
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Anyone watching the TV coverage of President Joe Biden can sense the chumminess between the president and the pro-Biden press. But you don’t always see… Read More
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The nightly “news” cannot be expected to offer you an “explainer” on anything happening in Washington. Their ratings gurus would tell them that trying to… Read More
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Attorney General Merrick Garland offered a “fiery defense” in a “grueling hearing” of a House Judiciary Committee “stocked with far-right stalwarts,” as The New York… Read More
