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Coverage of media bias in journalism, Big Tech, and social platforms. The Daily Signal combines news reporting with conservative commentary.
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The Left Is Spreading Misinformation About Our Border Crisis. Here’s What’s Really Happening.
This is a transcript of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s remarks Monday to reporters at the White House. Well, good afternoon. It is my pleasure to be here because I would love to see if I can help explain some of what’s going on and give you some of the facts. I know there have been a… -
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Law Professor Alan Dershowitz Tells Mainstream Media to Stop Slamming Trump for Pardons
Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz criticized the media’s reaction to President Donald Trump’s recent pardons and accused them of blowing the story out of proportion. “It’s the most ridiculous thing to constantly say the president is saying is he’s above the law,” Dershowitz said on “Fox & Friends” Thursday. “The president’s spokesmen have said over… -
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Must-See Moments: Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ Withering Response to Mainstream Media
The Daily Signal’s Facebook Live show “Top 10” features the top news stories of the week—many of which went misreported by the mainstream media and some weren’t reported at all. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders had a withering response to CNN’s April Ryan during a heated press conference earlier this week. After discussing… -
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Must-See Moments: Why Mainstream Media Ignores the YouTube Shooting
The Daily Signal’s Facebook Live show “Top 10” features the top news stories of the week—many of which went misreported by the mainstream media, some not reported at all. Why is the shooting at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, California, going underreported by the mainstream media? If the shooter were an NRA activist, conservative commentator Ben… -
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Liberals Finally Find Some Media Bias They Dislike
Last month, news anchors at Sinclair Broadcast Group’s TV stations were required to read a script critical of “fake stories” and general bias in the major news networks. Because some of the phrasing mirrored President Donald Trump’s overcooked critique of liberal media outlets, the story triggered widespread and overwrought warnings about authoritarianism and the rise… -
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March for Our Lives: A Perspective You Won’t Get From the Mainstream Media
Thousands of people descended upon Washington, D.C., for the first-ever March for Our Lives, an anti-gun march following February’s horrific shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The Daily Signal went to the march and spoke with attendees. “I try to keep an open mind and I’ve looked at some of the… -
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The Numbers That Prove How Much the Mainstream Media Hate Trump
There may be fake news, but there’s no making up the media’s loathing of President Donald Trump. The press has been unrelenting toward this president since Day One—and the Media Research Center’s data proves it. Even the 89 percent negativity from his early months almost seem benevolent now, with numbers in the 91-93 percent range (the latter… -
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Must-See Moments: Why Isn’t the Mainstream Media Covering Uranium One?
The Daily Signal’s Facebook Live show “Top 10” features the top news stories of the week, many of which often go underreported or misreported by the mainstream media. This week, Facebook censored conservative Phil Robertson’s video that shows him field dressing a duck because it was too “graphic” and “violent.” The left just doesn’t want kids… -
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Mainstream Media: Trump’s Reaction to Hurricane Harvey Lacks ‘Empathy’
Every week, The Daily Signal’s Facebook show “Problematic Women” highlights strong conservative women, current events, and the hypocrisy of the “feminist” left. This week we’re highlighting some of the more outrageous reactions to Hurricane Harvey, including this idea that President Donald Trump lacked “empathy.” Instead of focusing on Hurricane Harvey victims, the mainstream media viciously attacked… -
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Here Are Some Key Ways the Mainstream Media Distorts the Truth
“Our leading media” are characterized by “indefensibly corrupt manipulations of language repeated incessantly.” Patrick Lawrence in The Nation, Aug. 9, on the media’s reporting of the alleged collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia. To understand America’s crises today, one must first understand what has happened to two institutions: the university and the news media…. -
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Late Night Joins Mainstream Media in Attacking Trump
Mainstream media’s not alone in attacking President Donald Trump. Late night hosts Jimmy Kimmel, James Corden, Stephen Colbert, and Jim Jefferies have joined in this week. Meanwhile, cities across the country are bracing for the “apocalypse,” formerly known as the solar eclipse. Every week, The Daily Signal’s Facebook Live show “Top 10” features the top… -
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How the Mainstream Media Gets Hate Wrong
We have a problem in the United States with hate. We saw this last week in Charlottesville, whether it be racism or anti-Semitism, whether it be the KKK or neo-Nazi. Those are hate groups, and they have no place in the United States and they should be condemned without mincing words without any equivocation. But… -
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By Choosing Trump Hater as Dinner Speaker, Mainstream Media Embraces ‘Opposition Party’ Status
Apparently the mainstream media doesn’t have a problem being seen as the “opposition party” to President Donald Trump, to use the phrase of Trump adviser Stephen Bannon. On Tuesday, the White House Correspondents’ Association announced that the comedian to be featured at the group’s fundraising dinner—the biggest annual event for D.C. political journalists—is Hasan Minhaj…. -
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The Myth of an Unbiased Mainstream Media
The attention on The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas’ role as occasional White House pool reporter has made one thing very clear: For many, the illusion still remains that the mainstream media is unbiased. “It’s concerning that news organizations with a clear and stated bias are serving as the eyes and ears of the White House… -
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What the WikiLeaks Hack Exposes About Democrat Media Bias
Leaked emails seem to suggest that the Democratic National Committee maintains cozy relationships with mainstream media outlets but takes a more caustic approach with publications it believes to be conservative. According to these emails, party officials stonewalled and blacklisted the Washington Examiner when editors approached the party in May to gather the names of delegates to the Democratic National Convention for… -
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The Mainstream Media Are Suffering From Freedom Envy
In 2005, when the internet and blogs were new, members of the elite mainstream media were skeptical, even hostile. Who are these unknown , uncredentialed so-called journalists who think they can compete with the big boys? Don't they know they didn't go to Columbia Journalism School? Who allowed them in the game? I defended the… -
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Cartoon: What The Mainstream Media Are Ignoring This Week
Genevieve Wood wrote about Planned Parenthood and the media in her column earlier this week: In the case of the unfolding scandal involving the nation’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, much of the mainstream media have fallen for the old line, “Nothing to see here.” And now we find out perhaps one reason why is… -
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Clinton Confidant Revealed as Source of Benghazi Misinformation
One of the mysteries surrounding the Benghazi scandal appears to have been solved with the release of the private emails of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The question was who came up with the false narrative of the cause of the attack on the U.S. Benghazi consulate on Sept. 11, 2012. The answer, according…