The White House Correspondents Dinner Follies. This year, a mentalist will perform at the dinner, because its best not to offend Donald Trump

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Cancel the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner

by Bill Scher April 21, 2026April 21, 2026

An event celebrating the free press should not spotlight Donald Trump, the biggest threat to the free press.

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O-MG: A New Low for NBC

by D.R. Tucker August 12, 2018January 9, 2022

Omarosa Manigault-Newman once said Trump’s critics would have to bow down to him one day. Shame on NBC for bowing down to her today.

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Reversal of Fortune: Progressive Media in a Democratic White House

by D.R. Tucker April 8, 2018January 9, 2022

Turnabout is fair play, no? CNN’s Brian Stelter apparently shares my concern about the excessive influence of the Fox News Channel on this administration, noting this morning that Rupert Murdoch’s creation is directly responsible for Donald Trump’s decision to deploy National Guard troops to Mexico: Yes, the nexus between Fox and the Trump administration is […]

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Brian Stelter Is All Wrong About the Ad Boycotts

by Martin Longman April 2, 2018January 9, 2022

Boycotting companies that advertise on hateful and offensive programs is good for the country.

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Unreliable Sources: Fox News Invades CNN

by D.R. Tucker March 25, 2018January 9, 2022

As if Rick Santorum wasn’t bad enough, did we really need to see former Fox News propagandist Eric Bolling being warmly received by Brian Stelter today? Bolling’s suggestion that Sean Hannity’s rantings are “always within the boundaries of fact” is beyond laughable: ever heard Hannity talk about climate change? Bolling’s suggestion that Donald Trump is […]

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The Hayes Code

by D.R. Tucker March 24, 2018January 9, 2022

When we look back on the Trump administration—and if the Kennedy administration was Camelot, what we’re suffering under now is most definitely Scamalot—we’ll give a round of applause to those journalists and media figures who disputed the disinformation and challenged the covfefe. However, some of these Fourth Estate figures deserve their props now—especially when they’ve […]

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Journalists Who Normalized Trump Betrayed the Public Trust

by D.R. Tucker March 11, 2018January 9, 2022

You know, it’s not like they weren’t warned. CNN’s Brian Stelter was generally spot-on this morning in pointing out the dangers of the rhetoric that flowed from Donald Trump’s mouth Saturday night in Pennsylvania, but he could have gone a little further–hell, a lot further: Here’s the problem: Trump has been this way for years. […]

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Trump and the Triumph of Fake News

by D.R. Tucker February 5, 2018January 9, 2022

It’s hard to dispute one word of Brian Stelter’s February 4 condemnation of the GOP’s memo-based malevolence–and the right-wing media’s key role in fueling the foolishness of Donald Trump and Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA): Geraldo Rivera is also unquestionably correct: had Fox News and Hannity been a prominent cultural/political force in the early 1970s, Richard […]

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Even More Nonsense from John Kasich

by D.R. Tucker December 18, 2017January 9, 2022

Does anybody buy the good-guy act at this point? America’s favorite fake-moderate was dragged on to NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday, and again tried to promote the dubious idea that Donald Trump and Roy Moore are anomalies in the GOP, as opposed to being an accurate representation of what his party thinks and believes: Ohio […]