Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
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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
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When President Joe Biden’s aide Ian Sams wanted to leak his strongly worded memo to “Editorial Leadership at U.S. News Media Organizations,” he chose CNN… Read More
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Chuck Todd pulled out a farewell speech of sorts on his last day as “Meet the Press” host on NBC, proclaiming, for example, “I’ve had… Read More
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When they engage with the national media, Republicans expect that the exchanges will be skeptical, if not openly hostile. The press works for the Other… Read More
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No one among the media elites today is alarmed at a revolving door between the “objective media” and partisan politics. Politics seems more like a… Read More
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Here we go again. The Democrats have unfurled a fourth indictment of former President Donald Trump, this time in Fulton County, Georgia. The No. 1… Read More
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The media deification of Barack Obama has really never ended. His election to the presidency in 2008 was treated as a milestone, like man landing… Read More
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Anyone watching television in the last few months has been inundated with marketing for the “Barbie” movie. It wasn’t just in the movie commercials. It… Read More
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One of the most annoying ploys of liberal journalists is to advise Republicans that the truly wise path in politics is to surrender to liberals… Read More
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The line between radical activism and “mainstream” journalism has been obliterated, especially when it comes to the LGBTQ+ lobbyists. The war on traditional Christianity is… Read More
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Everyone paying attention to the latest revelations about Hunter Biden and his energetically supportive father knows that journalists and Republican officials have opened a vein,… Read More
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White House briefings in the Biden years are often sleepy meetings compared with the Jim Acosta shriek-fests we remember under then-President Donald Trump. President Joe… Read More
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Conservatives on Twitter are mocking CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale again, especially since his Twitter bio explains his work as “fact-checking the president.” Fox News reported… Read More
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June is designated as “Pride Month,” which is allegedly about inclusion and diversity, but the Pride Police don’t actually believe in that. There is no… Read More
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The networks that have obsessed 24/7 for years about how to “close the walls in” on Donald Trump and ruin him profess some fatigue with… Read More
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As CNN looks for a new leader, then-CNN host Brian Stelter proposed this as the most important question: “What should an anchor do when a… Read More
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Democrats and Republicans reached an agreement to lift the debt ceiling, and nothing is going to change in the disturbing pattern of America’s national debt… Read More
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Some might claim that Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal is part of his “right-wing media machine,” but not when it comes to the news pages…. Read More
