Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
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Everyone who normally or occasionally votes Republican knows that any candidate the GOP chooses as the 2024 nominee for president is going to be treated… Read More
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The White House press corps is a microcosm of the national media. It is overwhelmingly liberal, stuffed with Joe Biden voters. So, it was downright… Read More
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One way reporters are constantly telling us what they believe is inscribed in the words they use to describe matters of life and death, like… Read More
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No one today who is a consumer of journalism can claim our national media are strictly, soullessly objective and nonpartisan. But the Left is still… Read More
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The easiest layup in proving the “mainstream media” is hyperpartisan is to study how they cover congressional hearings. After two years of obsessive media promotion… Read More
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If you need a table-pounding laugh, check out the radical-Left activists who have accused The New York Times of horrible right-wing bias. GLAAD, which is… Read More
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The so-called fact-checkers are energetic defenders of President Joe Biden—almost like they’re his siblings or his nephews. No cockeyed critique of Biden is silly enough… Read More
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The high-dollar advertisements on Fox’s broadcast of Super Bowl 57 were pretty light and humorous, except for the dead serious, black-and-white messages pushing the message… Read More
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In the Trump years, CNN oppressively promoted the conspiracy theory of Donald Trump’s “collusion” with the Russian government to get elected in 2016. So, it… Read More
EducationCommentary
Anyone watching leftist cable news channels knows that it’s considered fair commentary to categorize Republicans, individually or collectively, as “white nationalists” or “white supremacists.” Anyone… Read More
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In mid-January, a hullabaloo broke out about an application form Hunter Biden signed in 2018 to seek a rental in California. It listed the address… Read More
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My maxim on the media’s use of ideological labeling is: “The epic political battles of our time are between the ultraconservatives and the nonpartisans.” Journalists… Read More
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The “progressives” really cannot tolerate dissent, and especially when it comes to their LGBTQ ideology. Expressing solidarity with “gay pride” is not optional. Athletes who… Read More
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In the midst of reveling in the “debacle” of Republicans failing to promote House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy to speaker, some leftish media outlets broadcast… Read More
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Chalk this up as “60 Minutes” hosting the worst peddler of false knowledge since Dan Rather left the set. CBS kicked off 2023 by touting… Read More
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Imagine being a speechwriter for a so-called devout Catholic president and being asked to write a Christmas speech. It sounded like the first instruction was:… Read More
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After the final hearing of the Nancy Pelosi-picked House Jan. 6 panel, Time magazine sent out an email to its audience, under the headline “Trump… Read More
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The collapse of the cryptocurrency company FTX could be as massive a scandal for Democrats as the Democrats insisted the Enron debacle was for former… Read More
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People in the “news business” are very upset that interest in their work is fading, and business isn’t booming. But in sharply divided times, the… Read More
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At 3:39 p.m. on Dec. 2, Elon Musk announced he’d release internal documents exposing how Twitter went about heavily suppressing The New York Post and… Read More
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Anyone who thinks the First Amendment is best represented by the “news” media isn’t paying attention to the way they wage war on freedom of… Read More
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Ben Shapiro was blunt on Twitter. He had discovered “the most sycophantic book review ever written.” The book was the second tome from multimillionaire author… Read More
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The media excoriate “election deniers,” but when it comes to the Bidens, they sound like scandal deniers. Suddenly, the cheerleaders and champions of live prime-time… Read More
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As host of “Fox News Sunday,” Chris Wallace used to take pride in the notion of being a tough but fair interviewer. That’s not what… Read More
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We have witnessed two years of journalism centered around the notion that the Republican Party was a collective of violent election-denying rioters and Jim Crow… Read More
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One of the dominant themes in current liberal messaging is that democracy is “endangered” by waves of “misinformation” and “conspiracy theories.” But aren’t liberals occasionally… Read More
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Liberals like to think that conservatives are very closed-minded and can’t handle listening to an opposing opinion. But whenever “mainstream” journalists start discussing talk radio… Read More
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The New York Times is signaling that it’s not wild about Joe Biden running for president again. Suddenly, it announced his statements are routinely unfactual…. Read More
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By now, everyone who follows politics should recognize that the liberal media will deliberately ignore embarrassing gaffes by President Joe Biden, especially if they suggest… Read More
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Shamelessly liberal NPR Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg hit The New York Times bestseller list with her new book “Dinners with Ruth,” celebrating five decades… Read More
