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Fox News Owns Every Top 10 Spot in Cable News Ratings
Fox News once again dominated the cable news scene last week, according to Nielsen Media Research. The cable news network wrapped up a strong July with another week as No. 1 in all demographics. Among viewers aged 25 to 54, a key demographic for advertisers, Fox News led all cable channels in total day ratings… -
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Is NewsGuard Censoring Children’s Education? New AI Tool Raises Concerns
NewsGuard claims its fact-checking is “apolitical,” but PragerU accuses the organization of forcing a leftist narrative onto children. NewsGuard is an organization that claims to find reliable information for enterprises and consumers and now features an artificial intelligence tool that just became free to students. According to its website, the chatbot delivers “reliable responses to prompts” using… -
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‘Absolute Criminal’: Aaron Rodgers Unloads on Fauci After Senate Hearing
Aaron Rodgers, NFL quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers, sat in a comfy, rotating chair next to Pat McAfee, head down as he listened to McAfee’s next question on ESPN’s “The Pat McAfee Show”: “Can you tell us about the mindset of coming into your last season? How do you view this year versus maybe the… -
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It’s Not Shocking That PBS and NPR Are ‘Alive and Kicking’
CNN’s Brian Stelter sent out his “Reliable Sources” email on July 28 with the chirpy headline “Surprise: PBS and NPR are still alive and kicking.” Why on Earth would that be a surprise? Depriving these liberal networks of taxpayer money wasn’t a death sentence. In last year’s debate over defunding, PBS and NPR executives routinely… -
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ABC Complains of ‘Retaliation’ by Trump Administration
WASHINGTON, July 30 (REUTERS)—Walt Disney-owned ABC said on Thursday that the Federal Communications Commission’s threat to revoke the network’s broadcast licenses is part of an unprecedented campaign of intimidation over broadcast content the Trump administration dislikes. ABC said that the Trump administration agency’s nearly unprecedented decision to order an early license review of the eight… -
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Homan Spars With CNN’s Bash Over ‘Deadly Mistakes’ By ICE
THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—White House Border Czar Tom Homan insisted Sunday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will keep conducting vehicle stops. The stops were briefly paused after agents were involved in two fatal shootings. President Donald Trump reversed the directive roughly a day after it was issued, Axios reported. While a broader review… -
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Trump Returns to White House Correspondents’ Dinner After Foiled Assassination Attempt
President Donald Trump will address the White House Correspondents’ Association at a rescheduled dinner on Friday, nearly three months after a shooting at the Washington Hilton hotel interrupted the event. The black-tie gathering of journalists, politicians, and administration officials was called off on April 25 after a man tried to force his way through a… -
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Nick Shirley to the Daily Signal: Newsom Is ‘Paying for Good Press With Your Tax Dollars’
“Governor Newsom is essentially paying for good press with your tax dollars.” That’s what independent journalist Nick Shirley told the Daily Signal when asked about Gov. Gavin Newsom’s new grant program for California newsrooms. Newsom announced a new initiative that will award grants of up to $250,000 to eligible California news organizations producing what the… -
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‘Fox & Friends’ Narrows Gap With Bigger Broadcast TV Rival
Fox News Channel’s popular morning show, “Fox & Friends,” is closing in on “CBS Mornings” despite having a fraction of the broadcast network’s distribution. The latest Nielsen Media Research audience numbers show just how much Fox News has closed the gap with CBS over the past year. “CBS Mornings” viewership declined 13%, while “Fox &… -
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Democrats’ Communism Might Drive Bill Maher to Vote for Vance
A long-time Democrat said he might vote for Vice President JD Vance in the 2028 election because he doesn’t want to live in “communist America.” Comedian and HBO show host Bill Maher sat down for an interview with ABC News on Sunday following his reception of the 2026 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, and… -
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Democrat State Attorneys Sue to Keep CNN as Partisan as Possible
The Left has thrown a completely counterfactual fit about how the Paramount takeover of CBS created some kind of “MAGA-coded” news division under Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. No one who watches network news daily right now can see much of a difference today between CBS and ABC and NBC. But mere internal questioning of whether CBS… -
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Florida Just Showed Us How to Fight Back Against Media Blacklists
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis put his signature on the state’s new budget last week and tucked inside is a provision worth celebrating. State agencies in Florida are now barred, for a second straight year, from hiring advertising firms that use “misinformation” ratings to decide which news outlets deserve ad dollars and which don’t. I’ll be… -
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Teaching America’s Founding Through Film: MPI’s Gen Alpha Project ‘Son of 1776’
“Son of 1776” is a film in development that will tell the story of the American Revolution through the eyes of a teenage orphan who joins Gen. George Washington’s Continental Army. It’s a project of the Moving Picture Institute (MPI)—a New York-based nonprofit film production organization that develops, produces, and distributes high-impact visual storytelling about… -
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Bringing Revolutionary Heroes to Life: Wedgwood Circle Wins America 250 Innovation Prize
Before Gen. George Washington crossed the Delaware, a band of hardened fishermen rewrote the rules of the American military—and history nearly forgot them. But Wedgwood Circle, a collective of investors, patrons, and creative talent in the entertainment industry, did not. With the help of a $50,000 Heritage Foundation America’s 250th Innovation Prize grant, Wedgwood Circle is producing… -
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‘Fox & Friends’ RV Giveaway Ends in a Surprise for All 6 Finalists
Viewers of “Fox & Friends” have watched the show’s co-host, Steve Doocy, travel across the country in recent months ahead of America’s 250th anniversary celebration. Today, Doocy joined his co-hosts at Liberty State Park in New Jersey to wrap up the “For All America” road trip with a live giveaway of a Camping World RV…. -
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Fox News Just Beat 2 Broadcast TV Networks
Fox News Channel closed out June by beating two broadcast networks in weekday primetime viewers while also easily outpacing its cable news rivals. According to Nielsen data released this week, Fox News drew 2,628,000 weekday primetime viewers in June, compared with 2,419,000 for NBC and 2,049,000 for CBS. Fox News also led all of cable… -
The Feminist Fashionistas Uncork Ugliness Against Usha
One way our nation’s most “prestigious” newspapers show they’re Democratic Party propaganda sheets is when their fashion critics apply all of their tawdry partisan biases to their evaluations of the clothes of politicians (or their spouses). Robin Givhan of The Washington Post was a transparent Democrat, and so is Vanessa Friedman of The New York… -
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Legacy Media Retracts Alito Story After SCOTUS Decisions
National Public Radio had to retract a story announcing the retirement of Justice Samuel Alito after the report was deemed false. The retraction comes after Alito faced widespread criticism over his recent opinions in different Supreme Court cases, including siding with conservative arguments to bar transgender athletes from women’s sports, dissenting in a case involving… -
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An Inside Look at Daily Signal Documentary ‘Sacred Honor: The Declaration That Defines a Nation’
The Daily Signal has released a new trailer for its latest documentary titled “Sacred Honor: The Declaration That Defines a Nation.” “Sacred Honor” takes the audience inside the years and months leading up to America’s Declaration of Independence and invites viewers to think like the great statesmen of our Founding. It premieres on the Daily… -
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The Conservative Movement and ‘The Odyssey’
Just a few weeks after our nation’s 250th anniversary, Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of Homer’s 3,000-year-old epic “The Odyssey” will hit theaters. The conservative movement can learn something from Odysseus, the “man of twists and turns,” nearly three millennia after the poem was composed. As colossal as the poem’s story is—being stretched over 10 years…