New York Post on X - "Paramount to buy Bari Weiss’ Free Press for up to $200M, give her senior editorial role at CBS News"
Jonathan Kay on X - "Remember back five years ago, when a bunch of BLM diehard arts & life copy editors at @nytimes thought they were going to end @bariweiss’ career by getting her canceled?"
The left wingers were very upset by this and claimed CBS news would become unreliable (how ironic)
New York Post on X - "Dan Rather questions Bari Weiss’ credentials for CBS role, says hiring is ‘dark day’ for network"
AG on X - "This is the same Dan Rather that had to step down in disgrace and publicly apologize for running a bogus report to try to affect a Presidential election? The internal CBS report determined he disregarded "fundamental journalistic principles" Are those preferable "credentials"?"
David Zweig on X - "This fake narrative that Weiss has no journalism experience is what’s “absurd,” Dan. Under her editorship, TFP has published countless straight news articles, including in-depth investigations. The left’s fixation on Weiss is bizarre. It’s like TDS but now WDS."
AG on X - "It’s not bizzare. The left feels entitled to control of major news organizations because that’s been the norm for years. Dan’s buddy Ben Rhodes openly bragged (see below) about how they created an “echo chamber” using selective experts and media allies to push their talking points. @bariweiss is a threat to that. Not because she’s on the right, but because she is pushing to ensure that viewers/readers get access to all of the context and facts, not just get specific pre-conceived narratives pushed down their throats."
Scandal Rocks CBS News As Bari Weiss Asks Journalists To Do Journalism | Babylon Bee
Maxwell Meyer on X - "The Axios reporting makes very clear that Bari was totally correct in pulling the segment. The hacks who put it together just straight up refused to report what the US Government said in response, and then made it sound like they had refused to comment!"
Matt Whitlock on X - "Naturally we find out all these key details days later. A lot of people owe some big apologies for attacking Bari Weiss for demanding *basic journalism standards* like “including both sides,” and “not LYING about willingness to comment.”"
This didn't stop left wingers continue to go on about "fascism" and condemning CBS and Weiss
Dylan Byers on X - "NEW: Sharyn Alfonsi goes scorched earth on Bari Weiss: "Over the weekend, my contract with CBS News expired, drawing to a close nearly twenty years with the network, including more than a decade at 60 Minutes. Following an intense editorial dispute over our CECOT story, repeated attempts by my representation to establish a path forward were met with absolute silence from network executives. The message could not be clearer: my time at 60 Minutes is apparently over. In the coming days, network leadership may attempt to hide behind corporate euphemisms like "modernization" and “restructuring” to explain away my departure. Don't be misled. This was not a routine corporate transition; it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize factually accurate reporting, and it sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom. Fearless, independent reporting has always been the defining standard at 60 Minutes. Today, CBS management is abandoning that mission, choosing access journalism over accountability and protecting power rather than scrutinizing it. The wall between editorial independence and corporate interest at CBS is being methodically torn down. Journalists willing to challenge authority are being pushed aside in favor of those who will not. If this continues, the result will be a broadcast that looks like 60 Minutes but lacks the courage and character to produce journalism that matters. To my colleagues, who became family - working beside you has been the privilege of a lifetime. You are second to none. I’ve learned exactly what it costs to hold the line right now. Hold it anyway. Viewers and the people who trust us with their stories deserve nothing less.""
Mary Katharine Ham on X - "A reminder that Alfonsi was reporter on a 13-minute 60 Minutes feature this year that opened w a German police raid on a man’s apartment for posting a cartoon they didn’t like. There were no critical questions for the German speech police and zero pro-speech figures interviewed."
Mario Nawfal on X - "🇺🇸 CATHERINE HERRIDGE: CBS WALKED AWAY FROM ELON BECAUSE THEY COULDN’T CONTROL HIM
Catherine revealed CBS passed on what could have been one of the biggest interviews in modern media, not because Elon refused, but because the network did. She said discussions were underway after her work connected to the Twitter Files, and an opportunity emerged to interview Elon live on his own platform. That’s when everything stalled. “I went to the CBS executives and I said, this is the opportunity that we have. He’s saying, I want to do it live and on my platform. He’s one of the most influential human beings on the planet. And the reaction from the executives was, well, we can’t do it live. And I was like, what do you mean we can’t do it live? They said, we don’t know what he’s going to say. And I’m thinking, isn’t that the point of journalism? They said it has to be taped. We have to be able to edit it. It has to be on our platform. We have to control the platform. Everything just got shut down. It was one of the biggest interviews you could ever have. I felt ashamed. I never went back to Elon to say they want to do it, but only if they can control it. I couldn’t do that to someone whose DNA is free speech.” Source: @C__Herridge"
Catherine Herridge on X - "Straight to the Point: Independent Journalism Will Dominate 2026 When Corporate Media Attacks Investigative Journalism In 2024, when CBS News "eliminated" by job as a senior investigative correspondent, network executives "seized" my files including confidential source reporting about COVID-19 origins, Hunter Biden, the Trump Mar-a-Lago classified documents case and others. @CBSNews eventually returned four large boxes of reporting files after my union @SAGAFTRA got involved, mounting public pressure and a congressional investigation. I testified to Congress that the seizure of my reporting files felt like a "journalistic rape” and an attack on investigative journalism. I hope no investigative reporter has to suffer a similar injustice. @thelatmg @latimesstudios_"
Catherine Herridge Reveals How CBS Executives Blocked the Hunter Biden Laptop From Hell Story (VIDEO) - " Investigative reporter Catherine Herridge revealed how CBS executives blocked the Hunter Biden laptop from hell story. Catherine Herridge previously worked as the chief intelligence correspondent for Fox News. In 2019, she joined CBS News as a senior investigative correspondent. She was fired in 2024 after she probed the Hunter Biden laptop from hell story... “When we did the story, we did it after the (2022) midterms. I argued against that because it was ready before the midterms, and my training is that you should always do the story when it’s ready to go. You should not be dictated by the political cycle,” Herridge said. Catherine Herridge said that after CBS finally aired the Hunter laptop story two years after it was already known to the public, the executives spiked several stories, including one about Joe Biden. Herridge said executives and producers overrode CBS CEO George Cheeks."
Half of Americans believe news organizations intend to mislead or misinform, survey shows - "Half of Americans in a recent survey indicated they believe national news organizations intend to mislead, misinform or persuade the public to adopt a particular point of view through their reporting. The survey, released Wednesday by Gallup and the Knight Foundation, goes beyond others that have shown a low level of trust in the media to the startling point where many believe there is an intent to deceive... Over the past five years, the level of distrust has particularly spiked among independents. Overall, 55% of respondents said there was a great deal of political bias in coverage, compared to 45% in 2017."
Clearly, they have been misled by misinformation and we need to restrict their media consumption so they are not deluded by false ideas and fake news
The Associated Press Exposed: How Trump’s White House Unveiled Media Bias - "Corporate media pearl-clutching has reached a new climax in recent days following the White House’s decision to bar Associated Press reporters from the Oval Office and Air Force One over the outlet’s refusal to recognize the name change of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. But while this may seem like a petty squabble, the incident has drawn broader attention to the AP’s blatant liberal bias, shredding the outlet’s veneer as an independent, nonpartisan news source. The saga began on the first day of Trump’s second term, when the 47th president signed an executive order implementing the name change. Then, earlier this month, the federal Board on Geographic Names formally changed the name of the body of water in question to the “Gulf of America.” On February 9, as Trump was en route to Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, he declared it the first-ever “Gulf of America Day.” The name change quickly became a hit with the public, with several companies selling “Gulf of America” themed merchandise. Google and Apple also both changed “Gulf of Mexico” to “Gulf of America” on their maps applications. But the AP stubbornly refused to acknowledge the change, continuing to refer to the “Gulf of Mexico” in their stories. The outlet says its guidance “will refer to it by its original name while acknowledging the new name Trump has chosen.” In response to the AP’s decision, the Trump administration barred AP reporters from the Oval Office and Air Force One – special privileges granted to only a select few outlets. “Nobody has the right to go into the Oval Office and ask the President of the United States questions,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters. “That is an invitation that is given.” “The Associated Press continues to ignore the lawful geographic name change of the Gulf of America,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich added on X. “This decision is not just divisive, but it also exposes the Associated Press’ commitment to misinformation. While their right to irresponsible and dishonest reporting is protected by the First Amendment, it does not ensure their privilege of unfettered access to limited spaces, like the Oval Office and Air Force One.” The AP unsurprisingly has remained indignant about the move. “It is alarming that the Trump administration would punish AP for its independent journalism,” the news wire service stated. “Limiting our access to the Oval Office based on the content of AP’s speech not only severely impedes the public’s access to independent news, it plainly violates the First Amendment.” Of course, nothing in the First Amendment guarantees any reporter or outlet direct access to the president.. “Beneath a veneer of calm, Trump’s inauguration holds warning signs for U.S. democracy,” a January 21 headline reads, adding later in the piece that “the head-spinning developments of Trump’s first day back in power suggested there will be no lack of controversy during his second term.” The Associated Press Stylebook, which is the de facto authority on language and style for most academic and journalistic endeavors, is also awash in liberal bias and blatant misinformation. For instance, the Stylebook instructs reporters to use the modifiers “anti-abortion” and “abortion-rights” but to not use “pro-life,” “pro-abortion,” or “abortionist.”... The Stylebook has likewise embraced the transgender movement’s crusade to twist and distort language to meet its ideological ends. In 2017 the AP Style Blog published an article “making a case for the singular ‘they.’” In 2022, the Stylebook issued an official update claiming that “gender is a spectrum, not a binary structure consisting of only men and women, that can vary among societies and can change over time.” So-called “preferred pronouns,” no matter how absurd, are now the official mandate of the Stylebook as well."
AP's snooty response to Trump betrays the media's delusions - " Recall that while it mourned the loss of the “charismatic and shrewd” terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah, it noted the death of former Republican Sen. Jim Inhofe by calling him a “defense hawk who called human-caused climate change a ‘hoax.’” Remember that it intentionally omits damaging information about Hamas from its reports. And don’t ever forget how it shamefully tried to pin the blame for a racially motivated shooting in Jacksonville on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis... There was the time the AP fretted over the mere existence of traditional Catholics in the United States. The time it called plagiarism a “new conservative weapon against colleges,” after shamed Harvard president Claudine Gay resigned amid scandal. The time it accepted $8 million from climate activists to launder their agenda under the AP’s journalistic aegis. Its efforts to bolster former President Joe Biden’s poisonous lies about so-called voter suppression. And its decree that writers refer to charitable crisis pregnancy centers not by their chosen label but as “anti-abortion centers,” even amidst a wave of violence against them."
Jacob Soboroff on X - ""When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”"
Tricia McLaughlin on X - "Leave it to @MSNBC to glorify a man who abandoned his own child in a vehicle to go and attack federal law enforcement, wielding a hammer and throwing rocks at law enforcement. When he was arrested for assault they found a pistol in his car that was reported stolen out of the state of New York. He has an active warrant for property damage. Law enforcement rightly looked over the child until they were in the safe custody of a guardian. Those pesky facts! Right @jacobsoboroff ?"
Jason Locasale on X - "This is a small window into the rot of the modern biomedical system. This NPR segment gets it completely backwards. We’re told that a breast cancer researcher at Harvard is losing a third of her staff because of funding cuts. What the story doesn’t say: she is 76 years old, has produced little major research in years, and still commands an 18-person laboratory built on legacy connections, indirect-cost slush funds, and donors misled into thinking they’re funding imminent cancer cures. Those 18 people are not the future of cancer research. Many are trainees with vanishingly small career prospects - used as cheap labor to prop up a lab far larger than her actual scientific output warrants. This is the medical school money pyramid in its purest form: one senior former administrator professor on top, a rotating underclass beneath, and the entire structure justified through the emotional manipulation of cancer rhetoric. NPR frames the reduction of this empire as if it’s some catastrophic blow to biomedical science. In reality, it is the clearest indictment of the system we’ve built - a system where:
• aging PIs retain massive labs long after their most productive years
• Harvard and other nonprofits quietly subsidize them through indirects and internal slush funds
• trainees serve as disposable workers in an oversaturated job market
• cronyism dictates who gets resources
• cancer is wielded as a fundraising weapon
Reducing her staff is a long-overdue correction. The public deserves the truth. This is only a glimpse behind the curtain of how modern academic science really works."
Jason Locasale on X - "The public has no idea that U.S. biomedical research is run by an aging elite who captured the NIH system decades ago. A huge share of NIH funding goes to elderly investigators who established their careers in the 1980s and 1990s and have coasted on connections ever since. Fauci is the most visible example — but there are thousands of Fauci-like figures embedded across the system. The result is that many talented scientists are lost, and those who remain don’t get to pursue their own ideas until their mid-30 or 40s. NIH has done almost nothing to fix this — and the few policies they do offer amount to a kind of affirmative action for the young, handing out first grants to many who aren’t deserving while leaving the deeper structural problems untouched."
Jason Locasale on X - "Alzheimer’s is just one visible example. There are hundreds of fields across biomedical research where the same thing happens: dominant narratives persist for years or decades because everyone understands that challenging them - or criticizing the people who control career opportunities can amount to career death. Most scientists aren’t choosing the best science; they’re choosing survival. In a system built on fear and retaliation, bad ideas can live forever."
Wesley Yang on X - "According to a recent survey, the percentage of college students who listen to NPR is now 2 percent, down from 40 percent two decades ago. The sudden cascade toward relentless race and gender propaganda that the network underwent in the mid 2010's was justified by referencing the need for generational change. Generation Z is more than half-nonwhite and nearly 30 percent LGBTQ identified. But it seems woke identitarianism appeals least of all to them."
Cadessbor-x on X - "There was a piece they did that made me turn it off. It was about how a city was sued for race discrimination by not having any non white lifeguards at city pools. But there weren’t non white applicants that could swim well enough so they lowered the standards and a boy drowned"
Trust Me, I’m a Scientist on X - "Mine was a Planet Money episode where they featured black trans “women”in VT demanding (and receiving) “reparations” for slavery from random whites on Venmo. They never once in the 20 min episode mentioned that VT had made slavery illegal since before the founding."
Why does The New York Times hate America? | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com - "Viet Thanh Nguyen wrote with glee that one good thing about COVID-19 is that it "is killing off the myth that we are the greatest country on earth." In his latest, he has implored American writers, specifically the white ones, not to "retreat to their pre-Trump selves." In Nguyen's view, "Mr. Trump destroyed the ability of white writers to dwell in the apolitical. Everyone had to make a choice, especially in the face of a pandemic and the killing of George Floyd, both of which brought the life-or-death costs of systemic racism and economic inequality into painful focus. But," he asks, "in 2021, will writers, especially white writers, take a deep breath of relief and retreat back to the politics of the apolitical, which is to say a retreat back to white privilege?" In short, white writers who do not cater their words to a political message advocating for minority groups are racist. If they do not engage the political realm once the hated orange menace is out of office, they are not actually helping the cause, posits Nguyen, and helping the cause, apparently, is the only valid reason to do any writing. Isabel Wilkerson wrote in The New York Times that America has a caste system, which it absolutely does not. We do not have a fixed caste system, instead people can move in and out of economic classes on the merit of their work, luck, and other factors, many of which are within an individual's own control. Yet Wilkerson wrote: "Thus, the caste lines in America may have at one time appeared even starker than those in India." It is as though, for Wilkerson and The New York Times, the Civil Rights Movement never happened. The entire New York Times opinion section was upended over the publishing of an op-ed from Republican Sen. Tom Cotton. Cotton called for an end to the riots and looting that rocked so many major cities in the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody in May of this year. The story now has a lengthy disclaimer that reads, in part, that "the essay should not have been published." Cotton's concerns were that "[t]hese rioters, if not subdued, not only will destroy the livelihoods of law-abiding citizens but will also take more innocent lives. Many poor communities that still bear scars from past upheavals will be set back still further." He wasn't wrong. Yet New York Times darling Nikole Hannah-Jones opined that, in fact, America wasn't burning, as America was quite literally burning. The New York Times did not run a disclaimer on the op-ed they published by deputy leader of the Taliban Sirajuddin Haqqani, entitled "What We, the Taliban, Want." They ran this story despite the fact that "Haqqani kidnapped one of their own journalists, David Rhodes, in 2008," as Anna Slatz wrote in The Post Millennial, "holding him hostage for seven months before Rhodes managed to bravely escape." In November, Cotton called out the paper of record for proclaiming that Thanksgiving is nothing more than a myth. Thanksgiving, one of America's founding stories, is believed by the Times to be just another example of white supremacy. This story about how Thanksgiving is "...a myth created to make white people feel comfortable" ran in the "Food" section. Another American holiday, Independence Day, no less, was an occasion for The New York Times to compare America, the legitimate land of the free, to Nazi Germany. At one point, the paper appeared to intend to dox Fox News host Tucker Carlson because they didn't like his views. In talking about Kamala Harris' historic placement on the presidential ticket, they said she was the only woman on the ticket since Geraldine Ferraro, which angered Hillary Clinton since she was not only on the ticket in 2016, but led it. The Times demanded that Twitter censors President Trump—and Twitter did as it was told. The paper thinks so little of Americans that they don't believe we can read what the president tweets and think for ourselves. Perhaps they know that they are accelerating the pace of misinformation to such an extent that they are making it hard for us to know what's reality and what is fiction... The New York Times' biggest story in recent memory was the "1619 Project," which was so anti-American that it claimed our Revolutionary War and separation from England were not the beginning of our nation, but that the date an enslaved person was first trafficked on our shores marked our founding. After the section was issued, historians wrote to the Times about the errors the piece contained."
Cynical Publius on X - "😡Reason #9,999 to hate the American media: When Republicans rule, the media fervently styles itself as crusading journalists "speaking truth to power" and holding the government accountable to the people. But when Democrats rule, the media instantly becomes running dog lackeys, mindlessly regurgitating whatever lies are fed to them by the likes of the Obama and Biden Administrations, and consciously making editorial choices to bury any story that might reflect poorly on Democrats.
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It's their smug self-righteousness in that first instance that angers me the most. Then they abandon it in the second instance. Which makes me even angrier."
Female reporter who slammed Hollywood for thinking female reporters sleep with sources accused of sleeping with sources - "Olivia Nuzzi got her break as a reporter during her coverage of the 2016 election for The Daily Beast., and went on to work for Politico, the Washington Post, New York magazine, and other major outlets. She is now the editor for Vanity Fair. In 2015, Nuzzi was upset at Hollywood for insinuating the female reporters use sex to get the scoop of stories: Well, in 2024, the news broke that Nuzzi's fiancé had called off the wedding due to an alleged affair with RFK, Jr... Nuzzi's ex claims she had another affair with 2020 presidential candidate Mark Sanford, except this time it wasn't just sexting: In 2019, Nuzzi had this exchange on then-Twitter where she touted how she had an "effect" on Sanford:"
Chief Nerd on X - "DAVID SACKS: “People can see the New York Times for what it is, which is basically a bunch of political activists who are pretending to be reporters. And essentially they just launder the point of view of their anonymous sources, who are basically left-wing Democrats.”"
Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 on X - "TIME claims “sources” told them I’m running for President in 2028, which means this is a complete lie and they made it up because they can’t even quote the names of the people who they claim said it. That’s not journalism, it’s called lying. I’m not running for President and never said I wanted to and have only laughed about it when anyone would mention it. If you fell for those headlines, you’re still being lulled everyday into psychosis by the Political Industrial Complex that always has an agenda when it does something like this. Running for President requires traveling all over the country, begging for donations all day everyday to raise hundreds of millions of dollars, arguing political talking points everyday to the point of exhaustion, destroying your health and having no personal life in order to attempt to get enough votes to become President all to go to work into a system that refuses to fix any of America’s problems. The fact that I’d have to go through all that but would be totally blocked from truly fixing anything is exactly why I would never do it. And most importantly, I’m not the kind of person who is willing to make the deals that must be made in order to be allowed to have the title. Again, I’m not motivated by power and titles. The Political Industrial Complex has destroyed our country and will never allow someone like me or you to rise to power and actually solve the crises that plague all of us. That would go against its business model. Instead of swallowing lies that you are spoon fed and parroting attack phrases against me in your comments, you all should open your eyes and focus on real actions and what is actually happening to our country. Are you happy with $38 trillion in debt and the fact that it will only drastically get higher? Are you happy that Social Security won’t be able to pay full benefits starting in 2033 and most of us will never receive any benefits at all? Are you happy that Democrats created our healthcare crisis with Obamacare and tax credits and Republicans refuse to fix it? Are you happy about paying taxes on literally everything and being one of highest taxed people on Earth? Are you worried we might be invaded one day and ignoring the fact that our government already allowed us to be invaded not only through our southern border but also by constantly handing out legal visas that steal your jobs? Are you afraid we might go to war but ignore that fact that our government already sent us to war to fight for foreign countries and cause not our own for decades already? If you all are still fighting each other about the shiny objects the Political Industrial Complex blinds you with everyday and not paying attention to the damage that has been done, and is still being done, then Americans will never join together to save themselves."
NBC News cuts NBC Out, NBC BLK & other identity-based teams - "NBC News has laid off about 150 employees, roughly 7 percent of its newsroom, and dissolved its dedicated editorial teams covering Black, Latino, Asian American, and LGBTQ+ communities... The move is part of a reorganization that separates MSNBC from NBC News under a new entity called Versant. Executives described the decision as an efficiency measure to eliminate overlap and streamline operations across NBCUniversal’s news division. But it also dismantles the network’s identity-based teams: NBC BLK, NBC Latino, NBC Asian America, and NBC Out... In May, MSNBC, which will be rebranded MS NOW, launched The Weekend show featuring Jonathan Capehart, Eugene Daniels, and Jackie Alemany—Capehart and Daniels being out gay Black men—raising expectations for new paths in diversity and inclusion in mainstream cable news... The layoffs reflect a broader contraction in U.S. media, where outlets are cutting diversity and identity desks amid economic strain and political backlash against diversity, equity, and inclusion programs. Gannett, Disney, and Condé Nast have made similar reductions in recent months."
Left wingers were very upset about this, of course. Greedy news companies are more evil than they are greedy, which is why they lay off "journalists" producing "news" that is in great demand
Benny Johnson on X - "In 2019, ABC News admitted to deliberately burying a key interview with Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts for three years that would have completely exposed and reshaped the Epstein conversation. The interview exposed damning evidence against Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, and other powerful figures. Knowing this, ABC sat on it for three years, calling it a “stupid story” and burying it to protect their access to royalty. If ABC had aired it, the victims would have justice and the American people would have answers. Media accountability isn’t optional. ABC should have lost their broadcasting license years ago."
Time to blame Trump
