NewsBusters Podcast

Jan 31 2025 100 ep. 31 mins 194
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NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham discusses the left's media bias.

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Episode 662: The 'Without Evidence' Gang Leaps After DC Crash

Jan 31 2025 29 mins  
Speculation can be the opposite of information, but any breaking news event is going to be wallowing in it. A plane-helicopter crash that kills 67 over the nation's capital is going to dominate many news cycles. The victims and their loved ones left behind deserve a nonpartisan, fact-based investigation of what happened. Our political system makes that difficult.

Episode 661: Lawrence O'Donnell Sounds Delusional on WH Press Patsies

Jan 29 2025 23 mins  
A Daily Caller study of first-week press interactions between Biden and Trump II drove MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell straight into delusional ranting. He claimed the White House press corps are now just polite stenographers of Trump's lies, that they are uniquely polite to Trump. How insulting it was to NBC's White House reporters!

Episode 660: J.D. Vance Coolly Disarms Margaret Brennan Bombs

Jan 27 2025 37 mins  
Conservatives wonder why J.D. Vance is wasting his time with liberals like CBS "Face the Nation" host Margaret Brennan. But when you watch him methodically take down every hostile question from Brennan, it's a win for him and a loss for CBS. Jorge Bonilla breaks down the battle.

Episode 659: Don't Write, Talk or Tweet About Hunter's Laptop!

Jan 24 2025 25 mins  
Two Politico alums dropped a bombshell about how their old employer mandated bias by omission on Hunter Biden in 2020: "Don’t write about the laptop, don’t talk about the laptop, don’t tweet about the laptop." Their "cowardly editors" made "dumb decisions"!

Episode 658: Will Media Coverage of Trump Sound Like a Rerun?

Jan 22 2025 35 mins  
It's a cruel winter for the liberals, and the media are not taking it well. Will coverage of Trump's second term sound like a rerun? Curtis Houck talks about inauguration coverage and Nick Fondacaro wraps up all the revelations from the CNN defamation trial.

Episode 657: Bitter Tears for Trump, Bizarre Spin for Biden

Jan 20 2025 30 mins  
On Inauguration Day, we are already chronicling the bitter media tears that Donald Trump the 'Fascist Threat to Democracy' is coming in and Joe Biden has to be nice to him. Even last-minute pardons for influence-peddling Biden family members was given a bizarrely positive spin.

Episode 656: Nick Fondacaro on CNN Found Guilty of Defamation

Jan 17 2025 26 mins  
A jury in Panama City, Florida found CNN guilty of defamation in the case of Zachary Young, who worked to rescue people from Afghanistan after America withdrew. CNN must pay $5 million in damages (not counting punitive damages). Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro has been in the courtroom to explain it all. 

Episode 655: Sneering Down Their Noses at Fox Host Hegseth

Jan 15 2025 38 mins  
Senate Democrats brought out the slime buckets for the Pete Hegseth confirmation hearing on Tuesday. The journalists call it "tense," but we might call the Democrats "unglued." Trump's nominees are receiving much harsher media treatment than Biden's nominees four years ago. Bill D'Agostino marvels at the sight.  

Episode 654: 'Fact Checkers' Are Not Heroes Like Firefighters!

Jan 13 2025 30 mins  
CNN touted a former CNN producer from the "fact-checking" site Lead Stories saying Facebook cutting them is like "disbanding your fire department." That's wrong, and deeply insensitive. The media are now crying "disinformation" when anyone seeks to blame Democrats for their preparedness before the Los Angeles wildfires.

Episode 653: The Comedy Tsunami Against Trump That Failed

Jan 10 2025 45 mins  
NewsBusters reported that five late-night comedy shows uncorked almost 6,000 jokes against Trump to about 1,110 about Joe Biden (and only 92 about Kamala Harris). All this allegedly hilarious hostility failed to prevent Trump from getting re-elected. Our comedy analyst Alex Christy has crunched all the late-night numbers and analysis of the Keystone Cops of comedy.