The first two months of 2018 mark the half-century anniversary of the birth of a widespread and deeply consequential change in the nature of televised news. In 1968, a major media source replaced fact with opinion, not in an editorial,…
A week ago, Louisiana pollster Bernie Pinsonat released a survey that all but ruined Christmas for Louisiana’s Republicans, and particularly those considering a run at the state’s highest political office when it next comes up for election in 2019. Namely,…
The media tells Judge Roy Moore that his Christian views have no place in this time period dominated by hectoring progressivism and moral rot across all civic and cultural institutions. He is, they say, a relic, a demographic outlier, a…
Few stories excite the media more than a Republican who rips into the GOP. That critic can always count on a round of solicitous, unchallenging interviews. Reporters immediately christen the critic’s motives as noble and his proposals for reform vital….
For a year, the Democrats and the legacy media have waged a relentless propaganda campaign calculated to convince the public that Obamacare’s myriad failures — from skyrocketing premiums to stagnant enrollment — are the result of sabotage by President Trump…
Headline writers beware: statutory tax rates require context. And writing headlines about them without it makes you look silly. Often, in a rush to be the first to break a story, reporters will make assumptions and report information without context….
So. A few weeks ago I was abruptly fired from CNN for tweeting two words from this sentence in my then-two day old column in The American Spectator. The sentence, mocking a would-be re-write of the First Amendment by the…
Much chat today on political sites about how it is the New York Times came by internal Wall Street Journal emails wherein Journal editor in chief Gerard Baker lectures his reporters for editorializing in their news stories about President Trump….
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., the former Democratic National Committee chairwoman known in political circles as DWS, is knee-deep in a scandal that involves a laptop, money and possible foreign entanglements. Unlike the Trump Russian scandal, however, the Washington Post and New York Times have barely reported on the story, which has conservatives observing — with President Donald Trump’s Twitter account concurring — that the mainstream media have a double standard.
It is impossible to overstate the partisan jackassery of CNN, which is at once a product of the cynical, ratings-driven scumbaggery of its head Jeff Zucker and the pretentious liberalism of its “reporters,” almost all of whom come from Democratic…
