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Time to wave bye-bye to Norah O’Donnell. The CBS Evening News anchor’s final show will be Thursday. So as is customary here at NewsBusters — whenever a longtime left-leaning host departs their program or network  — we like to show them the door with a reminder of their most biased moments.  O’Donnell (who began her run in the anchor chair in July 2019) most recently inserted herself in the 2024 campaign. NewsBusters readers will remember when she and her colleague Margaret Brennan tag-teamed…

We’ve got a brand new, fun interactive series for the new year called Worst Media Take of the Week, where you — our loyal NewsBusters visitors and MRC supporters — get to vote on which leftist journalist or celebrity had the worst media take of the week.   Much appreciation to all who voted last week via NewsBusters and the MRC’s various social media sites (Facebook, Instagram and X.com).   The results are in and the winner is…. Joy Behar! It wasn’t a close race as the ABC’s The View co-…

POLL: What was the worst media take of the week? (Vote below)     NOMINEES:    1. Will Trump Immigration Limits Stop the Next Albert Einstein From Coming to America? “When you look at Einstein and you look at Henry Kissinger, they were refugees to this country. Donald Trump set refugee admissions at very low levels first term. He’s talking about blocking refugee admissions this term. Is that a mistake?”— Host Margaret Brennan to former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich on CBS’s Face…

[LANGUAGE WARNING] With President Joe Biden’s imminent departure and Donald Trump’s return to the White House the leftist media have spent the last month making last gasp defenses of Biden’s “mental acuity” while trashing Trump cabinet nominations (like Pete Hegseth) as a “throwback” to the “11th century.”  MSNBC host Symone Sanders laughably asserted that Biden’s “mental acuity is there.” Her MSNBC colleagues Joe Scarborough and Elise Jordan claimed Defense Secretary nominee Hegseth’s views…

From the beginning of June through the end of December, the late night comedy shows welcomed 120 liberal guests and only one conservative, according to a new NewsBusters study. The 99 percent figure came during the heat of the presidential campaign season, including both party conventions, and its aftermath from June 3 through December 19. The study looked at the five daily late night comedy shows: ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy…

After a strike-shortened 2023, 2024 was a busy year for the late night comedians. During the last year, the men of late night told a total of 13,676 political jokes, of which 11,226, or 82 percent, were directed at someone or something on the right side of the political aisle, an MRC study has found. From January 8 through December 19, MRC analysts analyzed all five of the daily late night talk shows: Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring…

[LANGUAGE WARNING] It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and on December 18 announced The Brian Stelter Award for Quote of the Year.   Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break…

It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and on December 18 announced The Brian Stelter Award for Quote of the Year.   Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of…

It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and on December 18 announced The Brian Stelter Award for Quote of the Year.   Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of…

It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and on December 18 announced The Brian Stelter Award for Quote of the Year.   Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of…

It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and on December 18 announced The Brian Stelter Award for Quote of the Year.   Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of…

It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and on December 18 announced The Brian Stelter Award for Quote of the Year.   Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of…

It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and on December 18 announced The Brian Stelter Award for Quote of the Year.   Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of…

It was a challenging task but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors led by MRC President L.Brent Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2024 and on December 18 announced The Brian Stelter Award for Quote of the Year.   Of course, every year there is way too much bias for just one category. So Baker led a panel of NewsBusters editors to break down the Worst of…

While polling demonstrates a majority of Americans approve of President-elect Trump’s handling of the transition process, the coverage by broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC has been almost uniformly negative. In addition to a whopping 96 percent negative tilt across their flagship evening newscasts, these networks also appear to have paid the most attention to cabinet nominees who appeared to have the highest chances of sinking. MRC analysts examined all coverage of Trump’s cabinet…