This week, another evil mass shooter unleashed horror at a gay club in Colorado Springs, killing five and wounding another 25. The shooter — whose name I refuse to mention in order to disincentivize future shooters, who seek notoriety —…
The Pulitzer board diminished the worth of its prize by refusing on Monday to rescind awards given to the New York Times and the Washington Post for reporting a hoax as true. “For deeply sourced, relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest that…
When did Amber Heard, Jussie Smollett, and Christine Blasey Ford become the fact checkers at the nation’s leading media outlets? Earlier this month, the Indianapolis Star reported that Ohio law compelled a 10-year-old girl to cross state lines into Indiana…
Suppression, Deception, Snobbery, and Bias: Why the Press Gets So Much Wrong — And Just Doesn’t Care By Ari Fleischer (Broadside Books: 368 pages, $28.99) Liberals embrace diversity everywhere except the newsroom. While Republicans represent approximately 50 percent of America’s…
If there is any maxim religiously observed by the corporate news media, it is this: “If it bleeds, it leads.” Moreover, if the blood in question gushes from gunshot wounds inflicted by a deranged mass murderer, the major news outlets…
Six Degrees of Tucker Carlson, a Washington parlor game now played online by journalists, tasks players with linking the Fox News talker to very bad things. The rules allow for tenuous connections — nonexistent ones, even. They call for proving…
CNN set out to capitalize on the rise of streaming services with CNN+, which launched March 29 featuring an ambitious number of live shows entirely separate from its cable lineup. The venture — so the thinking went — would give…
Not all that long ago, the founder of The American Spectator, the inimitable R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. — “Bob” as he is universally known and loved — wrote a book titled After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery. There,…
The following is an excerpt from James O’Keefe’s new book, American Muckraker: Rethinking Journalism for the 21st Century (Post Hill Press). Please join The American Spectator for a special conversation with James on March 4 at noon EDT. He will discuss…
The comparison between an NFL locker room and the newsroom at a cable news channel might not seem particularly appropriate, but for our purposes here, it’ll suffice. Because what we know about CNN is those guys are just like the…