NewsBusters Podcast

When is a non-lethal car accident a national news item -- and a car crash that killed three is not? When an illegal alien killed three. ABC, CBS, and NBC wouldn't touch the story of an illegal alien (with a commercial driver's license from California) who drove a truck into three people during a U-turn in Florida. We discuss this and other wokeness topics with Bill D'Agostino.

The late professor Ted Smith accused the liberal networks of an “omnidirectional bias,” of granting negative coverage to Republicans regardless of where the winds blow, or the facts land. Nothing can go right or deserve praise. That goes double for President Trump over his talks with Russia and Ukraine.

President Trump's temporary takeover of law enforcement in DC caused an outburst of media protest, that somehow crime was at a "historic low" -- if you use bogus numbers. Plus to celebrate the 20th anniversary of NewsBusters, we remember some of the most outrageous examples of network nonsense with Geoffrey Dickens.

President Trump held a press conference Monday to announce a federal takeover of D.C. police, and CNN unfurled its usual fury, starting with Canadian "fact checker" Daniel Dale lamenting "there was a lot of deception." But was there? Dale hemmed and hawed over Trump's framing of crime stats, while allowing that D.C. is a high-crime city.

The Left was furious that Fox late-night host Greg Gutfeld was going to appear on "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon." But the interview was non-political as they laughed about an old bar-hopping memory. After the Colbert cancellation, does it signal that Fallon wants a broader audience?