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As we head into the final month of the 2024 campaign it’s time to take a look at how leftist journalists and celebrities ended their summer of hate for the Trump-Vance ticket. In September some in the media disgustingly blamed the second attempt on Trump’s life on his own rhetoric. (See here).  Then instead of “lowering the temperature,” the press turned up the heat with the likes of MSNBC’s Joy Reid and The View’s Sunny Hostin comparing Trump to Hitler.  As for the Harris-Walz ticket?…

[UPDATED THROUGH OCTOBER 4 MORNING SHOWS] On September 27, ICE revealed that it estimates there are roughly 13,000 non-citizen murderers running loose in the country, but of the three (ABC, CBS, NBC) broadcast networks only NBC found time to mention it on the September 27 Nightly News and on Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press. It should be noted the mention on Meet the Press (made by Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute) was immediately “fact-checked” by moderator Kristen…

Tonight’s VP debate, between GOP nominee J.D. Vance and Democratic nominee Tim Walz comes on the heels of a months-long media assault on Vance contrasted with a friendly sales-pitch of Walz.  The contrast couldn’t be more stark in how the two were greeted into the 2024 race. Walz has been sold to the American public as a “moderate” “folksy” “football coach” with “rural roots.”  On the other hand, Vance has been depicted as a “weird” and “dangerous” anti-women candidate who “believes in the…

Tomorrow night, CBS’s Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan will moderate the 2024 vice presidential debate between Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Ohio Senator JD Vance. Much as we found prior to the presidential debate on ABC three weeks ago, our analysis of CBS’s campaign coverage suggests the event will likely be a friendly venue for the Democratic nominee, and far more hostile to the Republican. During the two months from July 21 (when President Biden left the race) through September 27,…

CBS’s Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan are set to moderate Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate but if their recent reporting is an indicator, viewers should expect a one-sided attack from the CBS Evening News anchor and the Face the Nation moderator.  After the first attempt on President Donald Trump’s life, O’Donnell actually wondered if he was partially to blame as she pressed Rep. Kevin McCarthy on did Trump “bear responsibility” for the “hotter” political temperature and does he…

In the immediate aftermath of the second attempt on Donald Trump’s life you would think the media would show some restraint and “lower the temperature” in their attacks on him.  Nope.  An MRC study reported that in the first 72 hours after the shooting, the anti-Trump spin — on the broadcast evening news programs  — was 95% negative to just five percent positive. It wasn’t just ABC, CBS and NBC that were horrible in the first few days after the assassination attempt. CNN and MSNBC also…

Not even Sunday’s close call with a would-be assassin could interrupt the liberal TV networks’ barrage of bad press against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. A look at the first 72 hours of coverage on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts — Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights — finds that while the attempted assassination dominated campaign coverage, these networks’ anti-Trump spin was nearly as bad as it could be: 95% negative, vs. just five percent positive. MRC analysts…

Vice President Kamala Harris will meet former President Donald Trump tomorrow night for a debate hosted by ABC News, and she could not have chosen a friendlier forum for their first encounter. A new study by the Media Research Center finds that, of the Big Three evening newscasts, ABC’s World News Tonight — run by debate moderator David Muir — has been the most positive towards Harris and the most hostile to Trump. MRC analysts reviewed all 100 campaign stories that aired on ABC’s World News…

David Muir and Linsey Davis are set to moderate Tuesday night’s presidential debate but don’t expect a fair and balanced effort from the ABC anchors.  If their past reporting is any indication of how Muir and Davis will perform, debate viewers should expect their questions to frame Trump as a “racist” “white supremacist” who will restrict abortion “rights.” They will also set up Kamala Harris to position herself as a “glass-ceiling” breaker as well as a protector of “reproductive freedom.” …

The essential idea of an objective news media is that journalists (aside from clearly-identified opinion commentators) present a factual rundown of the news, and it’s up to the public to sort through that information and forms their own judgements. An objective news media is vital if citizens are to make the decisions for society based on their own values, rather than being steered by powerful news organizations with their own agendas. Eight years ago, however, many in the media admitted they…

The leftist press has been laying it on thick in hyping the Kamala Harris-Tim Walz ticket. It wasn’t just at the DNC (see here). It’s been going on for well over a month.  Network and cable anchors, reporters and hosts celebrated the “joyful” “jubilation” surrounding the Harris nomination, and whipped-up excitement for the selection of “folksy” “football coach” Walz. Some even dared to sell Harris as a Democratic version of Ronald Reagan. Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews crawled out of…

There was as an overload of absurd, obnoxious and over-top outbursts from leftist journalists during their coverage of the Democratic National Convention. The NewsBusters team worked literally day and night to track them down.  On the first night of the DNC, ABC weekend anchor Linsey Davis disgustingly linked the KKK to Donald Trump. MSNBC host Alex Wagner, on the second night, proclaimed Trump and his supporters were fearful of a President Kamala Harris ending their “white patriarchy.” On…

It’s a challenging task but we here at NewsBusters are going to try to sift through all the crazy, angry and ridiculous observations made by leftist journalists every night of the Democratic National Convention coverage and pick one for Worst of the Night. So without further ado, the Worst Media Outburst for Thursday night goes to MSNBC host Rachel Maddow for her incredibly gushy review of Kamala Harris’s acceptance speech: “You will remember where you were,” “an inflection point in history…

Since Joe Biden exited the 2024 presidential race four weeks ago, the liberal networks have delivered an unprecedented boost of positive publicity to his successor in the race, Vice President Kamala Harris. Not only has Harris received 66% more airtime than former President Donald Trump, but the spin of Harris’s coverage has been more positive (84%) than any other major party nominee, even as Trump’s coverage has been nearly entirely hostile (89% negative). As always, our calculation of spin…

"It's 2020 all over again. As it stands now, another leftist media coverup will decide the election." -- L. Brent Bozell III, Media Research Center founder and president   A significant new Media Research Center poll finds that large majorities of registered Democrats and Independents who voted for Joe Biden in 2020 — exactly those who would be expected to support Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s contest — are mostly in the dark about many of the controversial and radical…