Opinion Headlines

Media bias. Book review of: “Politics is a Joke” by S. Robert Lichter, et.al., 8-20-14
Media Manipulation “935 Lies” book review […producers would regularly kill stories…] 7-16-2014
Media Bias. “Full Employment at Rolling Stone.” By Edward Kosner. [The article ‘A Rape on Campus’ was nothing more than elementary journalistic malpractice.] 4-8-15
Media bias. “When Reportage Is Propaganda.” By Bret Stephens. [“…but a pretense of openness is the way by which totalitarian regimes have always enlisted useful idiots …One in four North Korean children suffer from chronic malnutrition.] 6-23-15
Media Bias. LTE. “Progressive Media Creatives Get Their Reward.” 6-14-16
Media. “Chris Wallace’s Moderating Secret.” [He asked questions based on premises from the left and right.] 10-24-16
Media Bias. “The Racist Smear Against Jeff Sessions.” By Quin Hillyer. [Trump’s pick for attorney general spent a decade trying to fix disparities in drug sentencing.] 11-30-16
Media. “Trump’s Military ‘Junta.’” [Another media furor that isn’t worth worrying about.] 12-10-16
Media. “Facebook’s Fake Fix for Fake News.” [Liberal fact-checkers are not the way to ensure a more informed public.] 12-17-16
Media Bias. “Trump, ‘Lies: and Honest Journalism.” By Gerald Baker (Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief). [Why editors should be careful about making selective moral judgments about false statements.] 1-5-17
Media. “The Press Deserves Freedom, Not Privilege.” By Wm. McGurn. [Don’t tell journalists to shut up. Subject them to increased competition instead.] 1-31-17
Media Bias. “Stop Chuck Todd Before He Tweets Again.” By Wm. McGurn. [If Twitter is hurting Trump, what is it doing to the press’s credibility?] 2-21-17
Media Bias. “The Media Do Battle With a Pragmatic New President.” By Jason L. Riley. [Trump talked policy in his Florida rally, but journalists thought it was about them.] 2-22-17
Media bias. “A Victory Over Fake News.” [Alex Jones apologizes to Chobani and its employees for his slurs.] 5-20-17
Media Bias. “What Comey Told Us About Trump.” By Peggy Noonan. [The president has no understanding of the norms, rules and traditions of his job.] 6-10-17
Media Bias. “Rage is All the Rage, and It’s Dangerous.” By Peggy Noonan. [A generation of media figures are cratering under the historical pressure of Donald Trump.] 6-17-17
Media Bias. “America Shouts While Europe Shrugs.” By Peggy Noonan. [The U.S. media capitalize on division. Meantime, Parisians hardly notice a terror attack.] 6-24-17
Media Bias. “On Don Jr., the Media Can’t Help Itself.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.” 7-15-17
Media Bias. “Victory, Sacrifice and Questions of ‘Collusion.’ By Peggy Noonan [Mosul is liberated, a fallen policewoman is mourned, and Donald Trump Jr. is exposed.] 7-15-17
Media Bias. “The Latest ‘Hate’ Smear Target Is a Civil-Rights Group.” By Edwin Meese III. [The media again parrots the Southern Poverty Law Center’s scurrilous claims.] 7-20-17
Media Bias. “Trump, ObamaCare and the Art of the Fail.” By Peggy Noonan. [What happens when we elect a president who prefers to freelance rather than to lead.] 7-22-17
Media Bias. “Trump Is Woody Allen Without the Humor.” By Peggy Noonan. [Half his tweets show utter weakness. They are plaintive, shrill little cries, usually just after dawn.] 7-29-17
Media Bias. “Trump Finally Pivots – But Will It Last?” by Peggy Noonan. [He had a reat meeting with ‘Chuck’ and ‘Nancy.’ What comes next is anybody’s guess.] 9-9-17
Media Bias. “Never Mind Jemele Hill, ESPN Isn’t Doomed.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Why Amazon and Facebook don’t want ‘Monday Night Football.’] 9-23-17
Media Bias. LTE. “ESPN Should Eschew Politics, Cover Sports.” 9-25-17
Media Bias. “What Bob Corker Sees in Trump.” By Peggy Noonan. [His concerns are widely shared. The senator deserves credit for going on the record with them.] 10-14-17
Media Bias. “The Media and the President It Deserves.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Reason, honesty and self-discipline don’t come naturally to humans, including press humans.] 10-14-17
Media Bias. “Trump May Be Following Palin’s Trajectory.” By Peggy Noonan. [Support for her cooled due to antic statements, intellectual thinness and general strangeness.] 10-21-17
Media Bias. “New Rules for More Media Competition.” [Limits on media ownership don’t reflect Digital Age reality.] 10-28-17
Media Bias. “The Press Loves Fusion GPS.” [Politico fails to disclose that one of our critics has worked for Fusion.] 11-1-17
Media Bias. “Who Leaked the Paradise Papers?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Is the consortium of journalists fronting for an intelligence agency?] 11-8-17
Media. “The Modern Epic of Denunciation.” By Crispin Sartwell. [The media drives the story, but Americans are all caught up in the moral drama.] 11-24-17
Media bias. “Can anyone save Neighborhood Journalism?” by Alfred Levitt. [Joe Ricketts spent millions trying, only to be smeared once he moved on.] 11-28-17
Media Bias. “San Francisco Wasn’t a Sanctuary for Kate Steinle.” By Jason L. Riley. [Did the jurors acquit her killer to send a message of disapproval to President Trump?] 12-6-17
Media. “A Year in Trump-Russia Hysteria.” By Holman w Jenkins, Jr. [What the country can learn from ‘Z’ and ‘Seven Days in May.’] 12-30-17
Media Bias. “’Button It, Mr. President.” By Peggy Noonan. [JFK and Reagan had the good sense not to speak flippantly about nuclear weapons.] 1-6-18
Media Bias. “Scholars Get the Real Scoop on ‘Fake News.’” By Allysia Finley. [It turns out the people likeliest to read false stories are the ones who read lots of hard news too.] 1-8-18
Media. “Trump, Oprah and the Art of Deflection.” By Peggy Noonan. [Will American politics return to normalcy in 2021 or 2025? I’m not betting on it.] 1-13-18
Media Bias. “Did Fake News Lose the Vietnam War?” by Wm. J. Luti. [Journalists wrongly portrayed the Tet Offensive as a U.S. defeat and never corrected the record.] 1-30-18
Media Bias. “I Love a Parade, but Not This One.” By Peggy Noonan. [Trump’s supporters and opponents alike are decent and patriotic. If only he lived up to their standard.] 2-10-18
Media Bias. “The Facebooking of Every thing.” By Daniel Henninger. [In the era of social media, of course you cover Kim Yo Jong like Kendall Jenner.] 2-15-18
Media Bias. “Protect the News From Google and Facebook.” By David Charvern. [A partial exemption from antitrust laws would help publishers and readers.] 2-26-18
Media Bias. “Russia, the NRA and Fake News.” By Kimberley A. Strassel. [Journalists propagate another wild tale from Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson.] 3-23-18
Media. “Freer Markets, Freer Media.” By Kevin Brookes and Patrick Dery. [Want to protect reporters? Promote economic liberty.] 5-2-18
Media. “A Dog’s Breakfast of a Dinner.” By Peggy Noonan. [The Correspondents’ Association fete isn’t just bad, it’s bad for America. Let this one be the last.] 5-5-18
Media. “Tom Wolfe Had the Right Stuff.” By Roger Kimball. [America has lost one of its greatest men of letters – a journalist, novelist and profound cultural observer.] 5-16-18
Media Bias: “It All Comes Out in the Greenroom.” By Hoh Brabender. [If you think liberal talking heads are obsessed with Trump, you should hear what they say in private.] 5-31-18
Media. “What CBS’s Boardroom Blood Feud Says About TV.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Disney has it right: Owning and creating great content is key to survival.] 6-2-18
Media Bias. “Skepticism Beat Snopes as an Antidote to Fake News. “ by Amar Bhide. [These days what’s called ‘fact checking’ is no more than a comprehensive gotcha effort.] 6-9-18
Media. “On Big Media, the Court Speaks.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [But the real question media moguls will ask themselves: Is Donald Trump listening?] 6-13-18
Media. “The Press’s Cult of Trump.” By Patrik Muller. [He thrives on media obsession. We’ve seen it in Switzerland.] 6-19-18
Media. “Trump’s Newsprint Tariff Is a Tax on America’s Free Press.” By Steve Forbes. [Local newspapers were already struggling when Trump imposed a 30% levy on Canadian paper.] 6-29-18
Media. “Ajit Pai and Sinclair.” [The FCC Chairman follows the law in stopping a merger.] 7-19-18
Media. “The Press Abets a Coverup.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [There is much to know about America’s own spies in 2016, but it would be impolitic to ask.] 8-18-18
Media. “The Media Fesses Up.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [To its credit, the New York Times mentions the press’s role in fanning racial angst.] 8-22-18
Media. “Reform Public Broadcasting to Save Local Journalism.” By Howard Husock. [Why should stations have to pay for ‘Masterpiece Theatre’ or national radio programming?] 8-25-18
Media. “Media Guilt by Russian Association.” By Charles G. Boyd and Dimitri K. Simes. [On the hunt for ‘collusion,’ journalists attack our think thank and others for engaging in dialogue.] 9-5-2018
Media. “CBS and the Function of Severance.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Why the company is not glad to save $180 million by refusing to pay off Les Moonves.] 9-12-18
Media. “Venture Out of Your News Bubble.” By Ted Rall. [Liberal and conservative cable networks cover different stories altogether.] 9-18-18
Media. “A Shameful Season for U.S. Journalism.” [The Nation, the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books all run scared from criticism.] 9-25-18
Media. LTE. “Liberal Publications Need to Show Backbone.” 9-29-18
Media. “’Gosnell,’ Like Its Namesake, Faces a Media Blackout.” By Jason L. Riley. [Reviews are withheld and ads rejected for fear of facing up to what ‘abortion rights’ mean in practice.] 10-17-18
Media. “The Jim Acosta Hour.” By Wm McGurn. [A CNN suit claiming a constitutional right to a press pass will inevitably backfire.] 11-20-18
Media. “How the News Became Fake.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [We in the media have our hands full with newsmakers who are frauds and sensationalists.] 1-26-19
Media. “Bezos vs. the Enquirer Could Be a Watershed.” By Homan W. Jenkins, Jr. [If it means journalists start reporting on how other journalists source their stories, hooray.] 2-9-19
Media. “Google And Facebook Worsen Media Bias.” By Mark Epstein. [Silicon Valley’s advertising monopoly translates into editorial influence.] 2-11-19
Media. “Suddenly, Bezos is Media’s Hero.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [Once more, the press manufactures a ‘narrative’ in advance of the facts.] 2-13-19
Media. “The Smottett Hoaxers.” [Again the media rushed to conclude the worst about their countrymen.] 2-22-19
Media. “The Media Will Re-Elect Trump.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [They would rather believe tall tales about Russia than hear what voters said in 2016.] 2-27-19
Media. The Media Wanted to Believe Jessie Smollett. By Jason L. Riley. [Victims of gun violence in Chicago get almost no coverage, while his tale got hours and hours.] 2-27-19
Media. “Planes Crash, So Does the Media.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [Ignorance is no deterrent to Mr. Trump or newsies in the Boeing disaster.] 3-13-19
Media. “Shocked by Biased Journalism? Please.” By Lance Morrow. [Democrats make a mistake in trying to freeze out Fox News.] 3-15-19
Media. “A Catastrophic Media Failure.” By Sean Davis. [America’s blue-chip journalist botched the Russia story from its birth to its final breath Sunday.] 3-26-19
Media. “Trump-Russia Made for Gripping Fiction.” [Journalists defend their ‘important digging’ as ‘reality-based.’ What does that even mean?] 3-27-19
Media. “Hollywood Admits Abortion Is Violent.” By Joseph F. Naumann. [The MPAA gives ‘Unplanned’ and R rating, fittingly.] 3-29-19
Media. “Can the Media Survive Mueller?” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [What’s the future of news outlets that decided it wasn’t news if Steele was lying?] 4-17-19
Media. “Escape From Collusion Hell.” By Daniel Henninger. [The bet that Mueller would nail Trump didn’t pay off. We’re left with the rubble.] 4-18-19
Media. “After 40 Years, C-Span’s Founder Signs Off.” (The Weekend Interview with Brian Lamb by Kyle Peterson) [The man who put Congress on live television reflects on the results and explains why the Supreme court ought to be next.] 4-20-19
Media. “Assange, Espionage and the Press.” [Is WikiLeaks a publisher or a ‘hostile intelligence service’?] 5-25-19
Media Bias. “Trump, Social Science and Media Bias.” By Richard Hanania. [A dubious study finds a correlation between Russian troll activity and his 2016 polls.] 7-5-19
Media Bias. “Trump and the Sex Offender.” By Holman W. Jenkins. [Guess why the press makes a villain out of Jeffrey Epstein’s only successful prosecutor?] 7-10-19
Media Bias. “Bad Reporting Took Down Alex Acosta.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Honest accounts emerge to show that the 2007 Jeffrey Epstein plea deal was on the up-and-up.] 7-20-19
Media. “What Ails the U.S. Press?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The media’s lack of interest in the Steele dossier amounts to collusion in a coverup.] 8-3-19
Media Bias. “The Tragedy of the Times.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The loss of advertising dollars is why a newspaper spends its credibility sucking up to readers.] 8-24-19
Media Bias. “Smearing Steven Menashi.” [CNN and MSNBC distort another judicial nominee’s views.] 8-26-19
Media Bias. “NBC News Smears a Competitor.” By Stephen Gregory. [Its attack on the Epoch Times is in line with Beijing’s propaganda demonizing Falun Gong. 8-28-19
Media Bias. “End the Media’s Campaign Privilege.” By David B. Rivkin and Lee A. Casey. [As journalism blurs into partisan politics, the rules governing the latter are becoming unjustifiable.] 9-4-19
Media Bias. “Impartiality Is the Source of a Newspaper’s credibility.” By Walter Hussman Jr. [That means honestly reporting, editing and delivering the news without opinion or bias.] 9-10-19
Media. “Schiff Threatens Press Freedom.” By John Solomon. [When the surveillance state exposes a journalist and his sources, there’s an instant chilling effect.] 12-10-19
Media. “The Man on the Street Has Died.” By Peter Funt. [Asking the Public’s view is out; reporting ‘expert’ tweets is in.] 1-13-20
Media. “The Comey Coverup Unravels.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr [The FBI, the CIA and the press all have much to be embarrasses about.] 1-18-20
Media. “No One Is Safe From Biased Reporting.” By Michael Milken. [The New York Times builds a false narrative aimed at discrediting me and tax reform’s opportunity zones]. 1-31-20
Media. “Coronavirus Needs a Free Press.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The U.S. stands a better chance than Wuhan because the public is informed.] 2-12-20
Media. “A Bid to Revise the New York Times Bad History.” By Jason L. Riley. [The ‘1776’ Project’ will counter the claim that America was founded to preserve slavocracy.’] 2-19-20
Media. “The Cure for News Burnout.” By Stephen G. Smith. [Hate polarization? Watch the network newscasts, not cable.] 4-14-20
Media. “The Media vs. Flatten the Curve.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Despite the dopamine economics of on-line news, we need to see multiple variables.] 4-29-20
Media. “Disinfecting Journalistic Ethics.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Donald Trump’s ‘Lysol’ moment says more about the media than it does him.] 5-6-20
Media. “Hulu’s Stylish Hatchet Job on Phyllis Schlafly.” By Abigail Shrier. [‘Mrs. America’ invents character flaws, but at least Cate Blanchett captures her magnetism.] 5-16-20
Media. “Media Cowardice and the Collusion Hoax.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [What happens when the press becomes an interest group whose interest isn’t the truth.] 5-23-20
Media. “The ‘Liberal Leaning’ Media Has Passed its Tipping Point.” By Van Gordon Sauter . [A return to balance would be commercially unviable. The best solution may be an honest embrace of bias.] 5-26-20
Media. “Cancel Culture Journalism.” [Two liberal editors fall for violations against progressive orthodoxy.] 6-9-20
Media. “The Media’s Self-Censors.” By Daniel Henninger. [The pre-liberal idea of settling issues with coercion has made a comeback in the U.S.] 6-11-20
Media. “NBC Tries To Cancel a Conservative Website.” By Ben Domenech and Sean Davis. [The network colluded with a foreign advocacy group that wanted Google to demonetize the Federalist.] 6-18-20
Media. “The Press on Mount Rushmore.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [When Donald Trump is gone and forgotten, the media’s lies won’t be so easy to forget.] 7-8-20
Media. “The Media’s PPP Potshots.” [Don’t blame companies for taking loans to survive the shutdown.] 7-8-20
Media. “Political Neutrality Is What Made American Newspapers Great.’ By John Steele Gordon. [The New York Herald pioneered impartial coverage, whose value is underappreciated today.]] 7-11-20
Media. “The News Media Becomes Fluent in Newspeak.” By Gerard Baker. [Orwell’s observation that language shapes thought holds true for Covid-19 and Black Lives Matter.] 7-21-20
Media. “A Note to Readers.” [These pages won’t wilt under cancel-culture pressure.] [[280 Wall Street Journal staffers send letter to publisher criticizing the Opinion Pages.]] 7-24-20
Media. “A Weekend of Urban Anarchy.” [These were not peaceful protests, despite what many in the media claim.] 7-28-20
Media. “A Steeley Media Silence.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [A newspaper of record disapproves of you knowing the truth but at least it tells you so.] 7-29-20
Media. “In the Mood for UFOs?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Of course you are. And modern news ‘reporting’ standards are ready to oblige.] 8-1-20
Media. “Untangling the Media Myths of Covid-19.” By Gerard Baker. [They’re countless. States reporters shamed have done the best, and the U.S. is average among its peers.] 8-11-20
Media. “The Media Overestimates Trump.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [The country is put at risk when the narrative gets in the way of the facts.] 9-16-20
Media. “Before Reporting Became ‘Journalism.’” By Lance Morrow. [Writers subdued their egos and encouraged readers to think. Nowadays it’s all about arousing emotion.] 9-24-20
Media. “Fake and Real Russia News.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [A CBS reporter breaks ranks to report real news about the Steele dossier’s main source.) 9-28-20
Media. “U.S. Bans Me for Committing Journalism.” By Jonathan Spyer. [Why am I accused of being ‘associated’ with terror groups? I interviewed members.] 9-30-20
Media. “The Press of Conformity.” [A case study in how the media stigmatize opposing views.] 10-26-20
Media. “Media Watchdogs Aren’t Supposed to Guard Biden.” By Gerard Baker. [If the Democrats win, will America’s free press become an instrument of state propaganda?] 10-27-20
Media. “The Other Media Blackout.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [How can Americans use good sense about an epidemic about which they are fed false information?] 10-31-20
Media. “Trump Has Torn the Mask Off the Liberal Media.” By Fran Pavone. 11-2-20
Media. “100 Years of Media Lying.” By Holman W. Jenkins, jr. [A 1920 pundit and a 2020 provocateur have in common a respect for facts.] 11-4-20
Media. “Media Treat Trump’s Team Like Dogs, Biden’s Like Puppies.” By Gerard Baker. [The largely celebratory coverage unwittingly emphasizes the triumph of the press’s own class.] 12-1-20
Media. “A Pandemic of Misinformation.” By Scott W. Atlas. [The media’s politicization of Covid has proved deadly and puts Americans’ freedoms at risk.] 12-22-20
Media. “American’s Deserve Better Than Clickbait Crack.” By Ben Sasse. [The week’s Electoral College challenge is in part the result of tribal media consumption.] 1-6-21
Media. LTE. “When Media Censorship Only Runs One Way.” 1-14-21
Regulation. “An Antitrust History Lesson.” [How trust busters botched the Staples-Office Depot merger.] 1-14-21
Media. “Mainstream Media Partisanship Come to Voice of America.” By Michael Pack. [VOA aired a ‘news’ report in Pakistan that was no more than a repackaged Biden campaign ad.] 1-16-21
Media. “Justices May Usher In the Modern Broadcast Age – Two Decades Late.” By Robert M. McDowell. [Since 2003, two activist judges on the Third Circuit have been arbitrarily stalling FCC innovation.] 1-19-21
Media. “The Times Is Changing, Badly.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Editors and managers at a great newspaper gather around Twitter to find out what they think.] 2-13-21
Media. “Media Tries To Divide Republicans.” By Nikki R. Haley. [Praising Trump’s record and criticizing his conduct isn’t ‘having it both ways.’ It’s simply common sense.] 2-18-21
Media. “Google and Facebook on the Barbie.” By Holman W Jenkins, Jr. [Why an antitrust exemption for news outlets is better than Australia’s scheme.” 2-24-21
Media. “What Changed the Public’s Taste for Lies?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Donald Trump is not the only one who lacked a prudent reluctance to be caught fibbing.] 2-27-21
Media. “Reconsidering Times v. Sullivan.” [An influential judge says the ‘actual malice’ standard needs revision.] 3-23-21
Media. “ Yellow Journalism Turns Blue.” Kimberley A. Strassel. [Ron Johnson is under attack from a press that’s abandoned honesty and fairness.] 3-26-21
Media Bias. “The Progressive Case for Libel Reform.” By Jeremy Lewin. [Judge Silberman is a conservative, but he’s right about Sullivan.] 4-6-21
Media. “Must the Supreme Court Create a Trustworthy Press?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Why not just hire smart people and ask them (or free them) to do honest reporting?] 4-10-21
Media. “Media’s Racial Narrative Target Whites, Harms Blacks.” By Robert E. Woodson Sr. [An insistence on ‘systemic’ racism tells minority communities they have no power over their own lives.] 4-17-21
Media. “Race Relations in America Are Better Than Ever.” By Jason L. Riley. [Obsessed with theories of ‘systemic racism’ and ‘unconscious bias,’ the media ignores good news.] 4-28-21
Media. “The Russia Collusion Smear Returns.” [Dubious stories about FBI briefings intended to tar Republicans.] 5-3-21
Media. “Media Mistrust Won’t Inoculate You Against Misinformation.” By Gerard Baker. [The impressions we form about important events will still be driven by their unreliable reporting.] 5-4-21
Media. “Jeff Bezos Wags the Dog, Part II.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The Washington Post’s owner spun a tall tale and perhaps this should be ‘news.’] 5-12-21
Media. “Toobin, 1619 and the Journalistic Reign of Error.” By Gerard Baker. [As long as you further the narrative, no bad behavior or corruption of the truth will go unrewarded.] 6-15-21
Media. “Your Stolen Tax Records Are News.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [ProPublica soiled itself with the gimmicky use it made of personal tax data.] 6-16-21
Media. “Media Partisanship in Plain View.” By Karl Rove. [Journalists used to aspire to objectivity. Now they barely even bother to pretend.] 6-17-21
Media. “Catholic Journalists Expose a Scandal, and Liberals Scoff.” By Matthew Hennessey. [A prominent priest was leading a double life. A scrappy new site called the Pillar held him to account.] 8-3-21
Media. “Scrubbing Cuomo’s Emmy.” [Entertainment Elites try to erase their political sycophancy.] 8-25-21
Media. “Media Ignore Florida Covid Recovery.” By Dave Seminara. [Journalists credited Gavin Newsom for a similar turnaround but won’t stop vilifying Ron DeSantis.] 11-1-21
Media. “Left-Leaning Media Seek a Misinformation Monopoly.” By Gerard Baker. [They peddle their own falsehoods while trying to drive opposing views out of circulation entirely.] 11-16-21
Media. “CNN’s Modified Limited Steele Climbdown.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [We are right even when we are wrong, says the network about its part in the collusion hoax.] 11-20-21
Media. “Media Stonewalls on Steele Dossier.” By Eric Dezenhall. [News companies are even more reluctant than other businesses to come clean about their misbehavior.] 12-6-21
Media. “The Conformity Crackup of 2021.” [From Covid lockdowns to crime and cops, the political -media consensus was wrong.] 12-31-21
Media. “CNN’s Downfall Is a New York Story.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [In America’s ‘corporate media’ capital, the elites fall for an opportunist every time.] 2-12-22
Media. “Lesson of the Palin Verdict.” 2-16-22
Media. “In Durham vs. the Press, Who’s the Straight Shooter?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Instead of ankle-biting, big media might join the special prosecutor in airing the secrets of 2016.] 2-19-22
Media. “Hunter Biden’s laptop and America’s Crisis of Accountability.” By Gerard Baker. [New and social-media companies will pay no price for suppressing vital information in 2020.] 3-22-22
Media. “A Defiant Scribe in the Age of Conformity.” (The Weekend Interview with David Mamet by Barton Swaim.) [The playwright won’t play along with woke signaling, talismanic masking, or deference to petty tyrants.] 4-9-22
Media. “Media Spin and Hunter’s Laptop.” By Holman W. Jenkins, J. [The press won’t claw back its credibility until it admits why it buried the story.] 4-13-22
Media. “The Last of the Afternoon Newspapers.” By Peter Funt. [They’ve been closing for decades. Only two, in Montana, are left.] 4-20-22
Media. “To Prosper, Can Netflix Become a Multi-Trick Pony?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The honeymoon is ending and, like cable TV before it, streaming will have to annoy its customer.] 4-23-22
Media. “Political Narratives Are the Media’s Default in Times of Tragedy.” By Gerard Baker. [Every had event can supposedly be fixed by a new government tax, program or regulation.] 5-31-22
Media. “C-Span Faces a Budget Crisis.” By Peter Funt. [As Congress spends more than ever, the channel that covers it struggles for revenue.] 6-15-22
Media. “Hunter and the Press: Who’s the Real Degenerate?” by Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [U.S. intelligence meddling in the 2020 election is likely to have a longer tail than we realize.] 7-2-22
Media. “The Pro-Biden Media’s False Narrative About Green Subsidies.” By Holman w Jenkins, Jr. [Those peddling the inflation Reduction Act know better and can’t help showing it.] 8-27-22
Media. “The Spectacle of Grief Through Media.” By Joseph Epstein. [Maybe we shouldn’t be watching families weep from the comfort of our couches at home.] 10-13-22
Media. “John Durham and the Press’s Battle With Truth.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [ To the media, ignorance is bliss when it comes to the true 2016 election story.] 10-15-22
Media. “John Durham Discredits the Press.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [The way back to sanity for America is for the media to rediscover its interest in truth.] 10-26-22
Media. “Now the Press Tells Democrats.” [The party’s media allies are a little late in calling out bad policies.] 11-8-22
Media. “When Time’s ‘Man of the Year’ Meant something.” By Lance Morrow. [Subjects of the magazine’s annual story were once viewed as secular saints—or, on occasion, devils.] 12-3-22
Media. “The Year in Exaggeration.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Jr. [Correcting the record on democracy’s death, nasty railroads, killer hurricanes, etc.] 1-4-23
Media. “Right’s Wrong Attack on DirectV.” [A commercial dispute with Newsmax isn’t about censoring conservatives.] 2-16-23
Media. “Bring Back Objective Journalism.” By Walter Hussman Jr. [Too many editors are responding to a crisis of public trust by abandoning traditional news values.] 2-16-23
Media. “The Public Taste for Lies Revisited.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [A Fox News lawsuit exposes the dilemmas of ‘post-objectivity’ journalism.] 3-8-23
Media. “The Fox-Dominion Settlement.” [A verdict against the network might have hurt all of the press.] 4-20-23
Media. “Justice Thomas and the Plague of Bad Reporting.” By James Taranto. [The Washington Post and ProPublica commit comically incompetent journalism. But by stirring up animus, they increase the risk of a tragic ending.] 4-21-23
Media. “Fox Case Shows Why Pressies Love Unnamed Sources.” By Holman w. Jenkins, Fr. [There’s much to be learned from new developments in the 2011 British phone-hacking scandal too.] 4-22-23
Media. “Press Freedom Is Your Freedom.” By Almar Latour. [The imprisonment of Journal reporter Even Gershkovich is a reminder of the fight we’re in.] 5-3-23
Media.. “Silicon Valley Didn’t Abet ISIS Attacks.” (“Once again the press freaks out about a Supreme Court argument…) [A unanimous Supreme Court says Twitter didn’t aid terror.] 5-19-23
Media. “The Clarence Thomas Stories That PBS Refused to Tell.” [I gave an interview that ended up on the cutting room floor. Here’s what the network didn’t air.] 5-20-23
Media. “Finally, Can We Ask Who Really Colluded With Russia?” by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [If the crime is promoting distrust in institutions, the evidence is strongest against the FBI and media.] 5-27-23
Media. “What Chris Licht Got Right and Wrong.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Before making up with Trump voters, CNN should apologize for gaslighting its most loyal viewers.] 6-10-23
Media. “ProPublica’s Fishing Expedition.” [The attack on Justice Alito on recusal is a form of Court-thinning.] 6-22-23
Media. “Skyhorse Publishing, the House of the Canceled.” (The Weekend Interview with Tony Lyons by Daniel Akst.) [An old-fashioned liberal, its president welcomes authors from Woodie Allen to Alex Jones and topics from 2020 election fraud to a defense of Venezuela.] 7-1-23
Media. ‘The Media Try to Inflate Biden’s Stock.” By Gerad Baker. [Journalism by omission aims to suppress news of the president’s frailties and possible misdeeds.] 8-29-23
Media. “A Salute to Rupert Murdoch.” [The newsman invested in the Journal and saved it from decline.] 9-22-23
Media. “The Media, Like the Terrorists, Aim at Israel and Miss.” By Elliot Kaurman. [The Arab street has a new blood libel: that Jews slaughter Palestinians in their hospitals.” 10-19-23
Media. “AI and Journalism Need Each Other.” By Francesco Marconi. [Without the information news organizations gather, artificial intelligence is garbage in, garbage out.] 12-29-23
Media. “2024 May Not Be a Year of Media Deals After All.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Solutions are needed for streaming and cable losses, but Team Biden stands in the way.] 12-30-23
Media. “The FCC vs. the News in Your Neighborhood.” By Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. [Local broadcasting might have a future if the agency’s ownership rules would get out of the way.] 1-13-24
Media. “Can the Media Get Trump Coverage Right?” by Peggy Noonan. [At first they enabled him to win ratings. Then they turned hostile. How about being factual and fair?] 2-10-24
Media. “Gerald Levin Championed Old-School Journalistic Independence.” By Norman Pearlstine. [He let me know when Bill Clinton tried to kill a story about Chelsea in 2000, but he didn’t interfere.] 3-18-24
Media. “NBC’s Ronna McDaniel Tantrum.” [The conformity caucus chases the former RNC chairwoman off the air.] 3-28-24

Issue Headlines

American journalism is collapsing before our eyes

August 21, 2016 | 5:40am

“Donald Trump may or may not fix his campaign, and Hillary Clinton may or may not become the first female president. But something else happening before our eyes is almost as important: the complete collapse of American journalism as we know it…”

http://nypost.com/2016/08/21/american-journalism-is-collapsing-before-our-eyes/

Media Bias Drudgereport.com 1-20-17(Trump Inauguration)

Unhinged Media Meltdowns…

Maddow Cracks…

Coverage turns tense as TV channels pivot to protests…

Reporters outnumber protestors?

YMCA Bans CNN From Workout Room TVs Over ‘Fake News’…

Nancy Sinatra Slams Network: ‘Why Do You Lie?’

Media Bias: Drudgereport.com 2-10-17 Protesters swarm…

UPDATE: Lawsuits accuse CNN of racial discrimination…

Media Bias. Drudgereport.com 5-20-17

Does GOOGLE Have Liberal Bias? Search Results for Roger Ailes Speak Volumes…

Media bias. Drudgereport.com 6-21-17

Paglia Blames Dems for Destroying Journalism…

Media Bias. Drudgereport.com 8-23-17

President Calling Journalists ‘Sick People’ Puts Media on Edge…

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/business/media/trump-rally-media-attack.html

Media Bias. Drudgereport.com 10-2-17

CBS exec fired for ‘deeply unacceptable’ post about ‘Republican gun toters’ after Vegas shooting

RYAN GAJEWSKI

Oct 2nd 2017 2:40PM

CBS has fired the network’s legal executive who wrote in a social media that she is “not even sympathetic” to victims of Sunday’s Las Vegas shooting, given that most country music fans are Republican.

Hayley Geftman-Gold wrote, “If they wouldn’t do anything when children were murdered I have no hope that Repugs will ever do the right thing. I’m actually not even sympathetic bc country music fans often are Republican gun toters.”

https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2017/10/02/cbs-exec-fired-for-las-vegas-post/23230144/

Media Bias. Weinstein. Drudgereport.com. 10-9-17 WAXMAN: NYT Killed Story In ’04…

https://www.thewrap.com/media-enablers-harvey-weinstein-new-york-times/

Media Bias. Weinstein. Drudgereport.com. 10-11-17 NBC ‘Killed’ Bombshell Story…

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-nbc-killed-ronan-farrows-weinstein-expose

Media Bias. Drudgereport.com 11-30-17

Press freedom plunges to worst level this century…

Media Bias. Drudgereport.com 12-4-17

ABCNEWS Chief Freaks Over False Flynn Story…

Brian Ross taken off Trump beat?

CNN Acosta Says Journalists Have To ‘Resist’…

Media Bias. Drudgereport.com 12-4-17

‘SNL’ Skit Slammed as ‘Hate Crime’…

Media Bias. Drudgereport.com 12-11-17

Walks Back ANOTHER ‘Bombshell’…(CNN)

Media. Drudgereport.com 12-27-17

STUDY: MAIN MEDIA COVERAGE JUST 5% POSITIVE FOR TRUMP…

Media Bias. Drudgereport.com 1-16-18

Media vs. Trump 2017: 90% negative…

Media bias: Opinions

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/even-now-republicans-are-ignoring-the-storm-clouds/2018/01/26/a6b727e6-02d9-11e8-8acf-ad2991367d9d_story.html?utm_term=.a3273c3f7741

By Joe Scarborough January 26 at 7:30 PM

Even now, Republicans are ignoring the storm clouds

“We learned this week that President Trump in June ordered the firing of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, but few Republicans on Capitol Hill bothered to raise an eyebrow. In more settled times, this kind of presidential assault on an independent investigation would have stirred grave concerns throughout the halls of Congress. But Trump’s corrupted coalition has instead trotted out one twisted conspiracy theory after another, all designed to distract the president’s most fevered fans and concoct a case against Mueller’s investigation.

Wild tales of secret societies, Obama wiretaps and “deep-state” conspiracies flow freely from the tongues of Trump apparatchiks. Those preposterous narratives are then spread across cable news networks and inside Capitol Hill cloakrooms…”

Media Bias. 3-7-18 Drudgereport.com

CBS Urges Oprah to Run Against Trump…

Media Bias Trump / Stormy Daniels 3-26-18

FLASHBACK: Media Deemed Clinton-Lewinsky Nothing More Than Consensual Sex…
NYT THEN: ‘Publicly humiliating anyone for consensual adultery is draconian, and wrong’…
CROWLEY: Do voters care? Not really…

Media Bias. Drudgereport.com 5-16-18

UPDATE: Porn Star Lawyer Interviewed 147 Times — in Ten Weeks…

Is Stormy Getting Her Money’s Worth?

Media bias. Drudgereport.com 5-28-18 Media Double Down After NYTIMES Busted Making Up Quote…

http://thefederalist.com/2018/05/28/media-double-down-after-new-york-times-gets-busted-peddling-fake-news/

Media bias. Drudgereport.com 5-30-18

Conservatives see double-standard on Roseanne, cite Olbermann, Joy Reid…

Media Bias – Europe. Drudgereport.com 5-30-18

Inside jail housing Tommy Robinson; Supporters fear ‘price on his head’…

Press Meekly Accepts Judge’s Gag Order…

Media. Drudgereport.com 10-9-18

STUDY: TV Coverage of Trump 92% Negative…

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2018/10/09/study-econ-boom-ignored-tv-trump-coverage-hits-92-percent-negative

http://www.theamericanmirror.com/confusion-pelosi-wishes-happy-thanksgiving-on-valentines-day/

Media. “State of the Union” address media ratings. Drudgereport.com

STATE OF UNION
TUES FEB 5, 2019

FOXNEWS 11,100,000
NBC 7,100,000
CBS 6,700,000
ABC 5,900,000
FOX 4,200,000
MSNBC 3,800,000
CNN 3,400,000

Media. Drudgereport.com 2-25-19

Seven Ugly Lessons About Media From Jussie Smollett Debacle…

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/christian-toto/2019/02/23/seven-ugly-lessons-jussie-smollett-debacle

Campaign Consideration

Talking Points

Media Bias. Democrats. 12 COMCASTNBC Execs Funded Harris Campaign… Drudgereport.com 7-30-19

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/business/joseph-vazquez/2019/07/29/12-nbccomcast-execs-funded-harris-campaign-debate

“Not only did NBC debate moderators give California Sen. Kamala Harris extra time during its June debate, it turns out twelve executives from NBC Universal and parent company Comcast gave her campaign cash too…”

Media bias