Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and executive editor of the blog NewsBusters.org.
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When someone wants to complain about how our most respected news outlets once attempted to look “objective” but now dwell on performative activism, see Time… Read More
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It’s June, so we’re receiving relentless messaging about the importance of “pride” for the LGBTQ community. One prominent vehicle was the cover of the “Pride… Read More
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President Joe Biden hasn’t granted an interview to a news outlet since Feb. 10. Some might energetically assert these four months of avoidance ended on… Read More
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As much as conservatives appreciate the counterbalance of the conservative media, it can be shocking to witness the audacity of liberals pretending that Fox News… Read More
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As we march into June, the midterm prospects for the Democrats look very bleak. President Joe Biden’s approval ratings are often under 40%, below Donald… Read More
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Fox’s cartoon “The Simpsons” just concluded Season 33 on May 22 with a rip-roaring attack on capitalism and how the middle class has been shredded…. Read More
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President Joe Biden’s minders have kept their man away from granting interviews—with reporters who overwhelmingly voted for him. Republicans went on Twitter to mock Biden… Read More
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In the wake of the horrible Buffalo, New York, supermarket shooting, liberal journalists lunged at the opportunity to blame the mass murder on conservative and… Read More
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Celebrities are naturally popular on Twitter, but it’s annoying that liberals—who insist they believe in facts and science and experts and nuance—demand exactly none of… Read More
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President Joe Biden can say the craziest things, and we know that the liberal “fact-checkers” are very likely to look the other way. Some of… Read More
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The New York Times has been alarmed by the existence of the Fox News Channel since it debuted in 1996. It developed a special fear… Read More
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Back in the old days, newspapers assigned reporters to beats such as Congress, the Supreme Court, the Pentagon, and the Department of Health and Human… Read More
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The New York Times sounded a little giddy on the front page of its “Business” section April 21 with the headline “Obama Joins Fight to… Read More
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The Republican National Committee made a bold decision that the media elites treated like an anti-democratic outrage. The RNC pulled out of the allegedly bipartisan… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Abortions are violent acts ending in death. The badly named “mainstream media” loves them. The Washington Post, which claims to hate things “dying in darkness,”… Read More
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The shamelessness of liberal politicians and journalists is displayed by their unique outrage at the treatment of Supreme Court Justice-to-be Ketanji Brown Jackson, as if… Read More
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Just when you thought the Hunter Biden scandals had died in darkness, The Washington Post published more than 6,300 words on March 30 admitting that… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Now that the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings are complete, we have collected another fascinating exhibit of the leftist tilt of “independent fact-checkers.” Just try to… Read More
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The libertine left seems extremely aggressive in every corporate workplace today, and it demands that everyone conform with its Orwellian lingo of “inclusivity.” No dissent… Read More
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The liberal media has treated the Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson as a glorious and historic occasion. Nobody needs to care about where… Read More
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Michael Isikoff, once the top investigative reporter for Newsweek, tweeted something unintentionally humorous about a New York Times story. “In the category of — didn’t… Read More
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The long-running CBS News program “60 Minutes” has a manically split personality: Vicious attack dogs when Republicans are in power, but supportive infomercial producers under… Read More
EducationCommentary
Tom Bevan at RealClearPolitics shared on Twitter a local horror story from the Chicago area. His fifth grader came home from school with a vocabulary… Read More
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In the annals of manufactured scandals by TV networks, one of the lamest examples was Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ telling high school students at an… Read More
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In May 2017, then-CNN boss Jeff Zucker gave an interview to “The New Yorker Radio Hour” and made waves by proclaiming, “Fox is state-run TV… Read More
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Something caught my ear in the car, listening to a radio simulcast of the Feb. 21 “PBS NewsHour.” Anchor Judy Woodruff dryly reported that “Canadian… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Beware of writing critical things about Eileen Gu, a teenage skiing triple-medalist at the Beijing Olympics. You’ll be accused of racism. Gu was born and… Read More
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There’s a second wave of media reaction to John Durham’s latest filing on the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation. The first wave was silence, hoping… Read More
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No one can ever claim that the notion of Trump-Russia collusion and the Mueller investigation were downplayed or ignored by the press. It was the… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Anyone under 30 today has no idea what it was like to live in America during the Cold War. That includes the reflexive tendency of… Read More
