NewsBusters Podcast

The latest NewsBusters study from Curtis Houck underlined that ABC, CBS, and NBC unloaded more than 27 hours of coverage on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, mostly playing up his association with President Trump (and not Bill Clinton). By contrast, the networks spent months ignoring Graham Platner's Nazi tattoo and other embarrassing scandals.  

The elitist media put Independence Day fireworks on national TV, but afterward, they treated the smoke as a health hazard. PBS put on a half-hour special on Bruce Springsteen, who claimed his vicious partisan attacks are "critical patriotism." We hate, because we love? 

It's pretty sick that Socialist Revolution is the new fad in primary elections around America's 250th birthday. The media have a nasty habit of disparaging America, especially on race, and can even warn the American flag is a "red flag," now triggering people like "a MAGA hat on a stick." 

In 2018, after President Trump suggested Haiti was a terrible place, Jake Tapper gave a softball interview to comedian Conan O’Brien, who made a special for TBS mocking Trump by going to Haiti and telling everyone what a beautiful place it was. Now in 2026, Tapper lectured that Haiti is a very dangerous place, so you shouldn't send Haitians back home.

When radical socialist nuts endorsed by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani won their House primaries (in overwhelmingly Democrat districts), the "news" networks responded by sanitizing their extremism. For example, their support for Hamas and for eradicating Israel means believing “the U.S. relationship with Israel needs to be rethought.”  

Over the last few days, the networks have overflowed with gooey propaganda about the new Obama Presidential Center in Chicago. But the fakest news in the goo was claiming Obama's career was all about "bridging divides and finding common ground." This spin pretends there was only unity, and no conservative opposition.

The "Big Four News Apps" -- Apple, Google, MSN, and Yahoo! -- have a nasty habit of promoting not just "news" sites, but trashy opinion bins like the Daily Beast, Salon, and Rolling Stone. MRC Free Speech America studied 100 days of GOP primaries, and these "curators" are heavily leaning on negative midterm messages.  

The effete snobs of the leftist media were on full display as they lamented the "despicable vulgarity" of President Trump hosting a UFC event on the White House lawn on his 80th birthday.  Plus: Ladies of "The View" kvetch about talking to Vice President Vance. 

The liberal broadcast and cable news networks have attacked widespread skepticism about the slow-moving reversal in the Los Angeles mayoral election results as Trump and the Republicans spreading “baseless conspiracy theories.” California's unique way of taking a month to count votes was touted as careful, not manipulative.

Media Research Center President David Bozell and NewsBusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck spoke to Universal Coin & Bullion Founder and President Dr. Mike Fuljenz, a leading numismatics expert with more than 60 awards to his credit on why now is a great time to invest in gold and silver. Fuljenz shared how the Founders believed in the necessity of investing in precious metals, advice on where...

NewsBusters editors Curtis Houck and Nick Fondacaro were joined by 2026 MRC Bulldog Award winner for Outstanding Reporter Jennie Taer of the Daily Wire to discuss her latest news-breaking scoops on the immigration beat, including one about the left’s latest meltdown over an ICE facility in northern New Jersey. They also discussed Taer’s rise from The Laura Ingraham Show intern to one of the countr...

You have to laugh when Jim Acosta is warning that CBS and CNN are going to turn into a "propaganda giant" when they're in danger of being a little more balanced in their "news." The CBS show "Sunday Morning" has been a routine propaganda stop for Democrats, and that was no different for Jill Biden, who preposterously claimed her husband was still lucid.   

New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart spent half a minute last week introducing President Trump at a rally in the suburbs, and somehow became Public Enemy #1 to the Left. But the media adore political athletes when they land on the radical left, like former pro quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling to protest the police during the national anthem.   

Three men were killed at the San Diego Islamic Center by two teenagers who were then found dead of self-inflicted gunshot wounds. It’s easy for us to feel unified in horror over this, but it’s also going to become grist for claims America is overwhelmed by "Islamophobia."

Democrats want to exploit the war in Iran to claim they’re the Affordability Party. Trump bluntly answered a Daily Caller question by saying Americans’ financial situation didn’t matter “not even a little bit” in his negotiating with Iran to end the war. “They can’t have a nuclear weapon.” 

There's a ludicrous talking point being shopped by the Democrats, that somehow blacks have been denied their "voting rights" unless they're allowed to be represented by a black Democrat. If you end "majority-minority" districts, their votes no longer count. MS NOW has been a hourly cesspool of leftists crying "Jim Crow" and "Dred Scott" and "most racist Supreme Court ever" over their decision agai...

The Democrats are fighting among themselves, and it's the "establishment" versus the fringe. But the media can't find an actual extreme, so they just find "outsiders" who oppose the "centrists," defined as the Biden Democrats. This leads them to make excuses for candidates who have a Nazi tattoo, for example.

CNN contributor Shermichael Singleton has daily or nightly adventures sparring with liberals (including the liberal CNN hosts at times). We awarded him our MRC Bulldog Award for Outstanding Achievement Behind Enemy Lines, and he came into our studio to discuss cable-pundit battles and the expectation that blacks must always stay "with their own kind" on the Left.   

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer has a brand-new book titled "Trump 2.0: The Revolution That Will Permanently Transform America." He discusses how "markedly different" the second Trump term is, and how Republicans should never go to the White House Correspondents Dinner.

A California man decided to shoot up the White House Correspondents Dinner, and ruined all the fun where President Trump was expected to unload about an hour of mockery on the elitist media. Does anyone expect this scare to change the longstanding hostility of the press corps?

The Justice Department has indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for financial fraud, taking money from leftist donors and paying informants inside racist and extremist groups and trying to hide the money trail as they "fight extremism and hate." Naturally, the leftist networks and newspapers don't want to get into the ugly specifics of the indictment underlining that scam.  

Violent crime has declined dramatically in the District of Columbia since 2024, but can we trust the statistics? Washington Examiner reporter and author Anna Giaritelli discusses her book "Under Assault" and how her sexual assault in 2020 was left out of the DC police statistics, as well as how crime and illegal immigration are filtered through the elitist media.   

A bill moving through California's state legislature would give taxpayer-funded "immigrant service providers" the power to demand the removal of videos recorded in public spaces that they don't like — and impose steep financial penalties on them. It's a narrowly tailored punishment on "anti-immigrant" journalists. Republicans call it the "Stop Nick Shirley Act."  

When Americans interview foreign tyrants, you have to question how they paint themselves as champions of democracy. They’re often so pleased to be granted access that this leads to compliant questioning. That happened on "Meet the Press" with Cuban “President” Miguel Diaz-Canel. "It's an honor," Kristen Welker said.

The elitist media are wildly inconsistent on President Trump, except for one thing: the coverage has to be negative. So this week, it swung from "Trump's about to destroy Iranian civilization" to "Trump chickened out again" when they announced a ceasefire. Whichever direction Trump takes -- left or right, backward or forward -- it's always wrong.