The media isn’t checking Hunter Biden’s white privilege
Since George Floyd’s death in May 2020, the media has had almost a singular focus on portraying the American justice system as institutionally racist. The political left and their big-name donors have...
View ArticleYouTube’s inconsistent conspiracy policy
YouTube is back up to its pandemic-era tricks with a sketchy and unexplained censorship policy — this time as it pertains to the 2024 election. By all appearances, it once again looks as though Big...
View ArticleThe media’s bizarre Sound of Freedom freakout
A small studio-produced film managed to best a big-budget iconic action hero franchise from Disney on the July 4 box office. You would think that would make for the media an interesting story, both...
View ArticleWhy the media is pushing climate lockdown fantasies
Back in February 2021, I wrote a piece here at The Spectator headlined “Are you ready for the climate lockdowns?” It concerned the predictability of where the climate alarmist movement was heading,...
View ArticleFlorida versus California is the election we should be having
National elections should be about contrast and choice — and those choices should offer the clearest opportunity for parity in the candidates and the parties. If the polls are to be believed, the 2024...
View ArticleMedia begins shoring up Biden’s network flank
Members of presidential administrations taking roles with news networks isn’t a particularly new phenomenon. Former Bush administration press secretary Dana Perino has fostered a successful career on...
View ArticleWho in the media will be Trump’s debate co-conspirator?
Donald Trump is executing an identical debate strategy that he deployed in 2016, right down to the same complaints and threats of boycotts against Fox News and their debate moderators. Trump is...
View ArticleThe death of Superman
In 2003, the Scottish comic book writer Mark Millar penned a three-part illustrated series for DC Comics titled Red Son. In it, he creates an alternate Superman universe that hypothesizes what would...
View ArticleHave you missed them?
You may or may have not noticed, but there is currently a writers’ and actors’ strike happening across Hollywood. Major film productions have been shut down, as have regular television and streaming...
View ArticleWho will be the next great Climate Teen?
Now that truant Greta Thunberg is all grown up and aging out of her usefulness, progressive groups and our media are on the hunt, American Idol-style, for the next great Climate Teen. Just as the left...
View ArticleThe Senate dress code is not the issue
Last October, after several questions arose about the severity of then-candidate John Fetterman’s stroke, his campaign released a health update — not a medical record, mind you. We have yet to see any...
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It would appear some people are above the law
“In this country, no one is above the law” has become a rallying mantra of both our national media and increasing, the Democratic Party (but is there a difference, really?). Attorney General Merrick...
View ArticleMainstream media sanitizes Hamas terror attacks
For years, the Gaza Strip conflict has been as much about media optics as anything else. Hamas, the controlling party in Gaza, have become expert media manipulators. They carefully stage propaganda...
View ArticleRon DeSantis models presidential behavior
In the week-long fallout from the Hamas massacre in Israel and Israel’s military counteroffensive, the sitting president and the GOP front-runner were more publicly focused on their own pet projects...
View ArticleThe media accuracy crisis around Israel mirrors how it got BLM wrong
After an explosion in Gaza this week, Hamas asserted that an Israeli airstrike had targeted a hospital, killing up to 500 civilians. Outraged at this evidence-free claim, news outlets such as the New...
View ArticleLet them fight
Legislative scuffles breaking out on the floors of parliaments are a tradition as old as democracy itself, dating back at least to the Ides of March. Sometimes a good dust-up is necessary to restore...
View ArticleWashington Post reporter comes after citizen journalists
Most of the time, single posts on Twitter/X aren’t worth rebuking with an entire piece, but Washington Post media reporter Paul Farhi laid out an absolute banger this weekend when he lamented the idea...
View ArticlePay attention to California’s new mandatory ‘media literacy’ law
While you’ve been preoccupied with Thanksgiving, or following international conflicts or rising inflation, California governor Gavin Newsom quietly signed Assembly Bill 873 last month.Assembly Billy...
View ArticleThe Atlantic’s ongoing Trump histrionics
As long as there exists an upper Acela Corridor audience, the Atlantic will be there to fearmonger Donald Trump and make him the center of their universe. The January issue of Laurene Powell Jobs...
View ArticleCNN rearranges the deck chairs… again
After CNN ousted Chris Licht, who attempted, at least, to moderate CNN’s biased news coverage, the floundering network has found itself in limbo, unsure of how much more it wanted to lean into a...
View ArticleThe media’s war on your eyes and ears
Ever since the release of Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on Joe Biden’s illegal handling of classified materials and documents (he “stored” them in open boxes and grocery bags in his home garage,...
View ArticleThe battle of the late-night scolds
Chris Farley would have had his sixtieth birthday last week. One of the comedian’s most memorable live bits happened when, after being introduced by Late Show host David Letterman, burst through the...
View ArticleWhy everybody should have seen the Google Gemini blunder coming
Has it ever bothered you that all the Founding Fathers were white? Fear not: Google Gemini AI is here to save the day. In February, Google updated its artificial intelligence LLM, or Large Language...
View ArticleThere are no good guys at NBC
Former Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel was invited to the cafeteria, where she was promptly told by the cool kids that she can’t sit with them. The news cycle sits on...
View ArticleX and the return of the social-media sandbox
Elon Musk’s X, the social media site once known as Twitter, is a wasteland. It consists of uncontrolled pornography, crypto spambots, broken “mentions,” unpaid invoices for subscriptions, a useless...
View ArticleO.J. Simpson was Patient Zero for our media culture
In the 2017 film I, Tonya, a biopic based on the Tonya Harding conspiracy and attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, Martin Maddox (actor Bobby Cannavale) describes himself as a reporter for Hard...
View ArticleWhere are Uri Berliner’s defenders in the press?
Uri Berliner, an economics and business reporter for NPR, resigned his position on Wednesday morning. His resignation comes after he was handed a suspension by NPR, five days without pay, for a piece...
View ArticleApple downplays the value of human achievement
In January 1984, Blade Runner and Alien director Ridley Scott shot an Apple computer Super Bowl commercial mocking Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four — and it changed the television advertising landscape...
View ArticleTrump deserves to be grilled at the debates
The Biden campaign, and by proxy, the Biden White House, released an unusual ransom list of debate conditions that the media and Trump campaign must meet for there to be any presidential debates this...
View ArticleInmates are running the newsroom asylums
Say what you want about Washington Post hypochondriac tech reporter Taylor Lorenz, but she was correct when she said that “the journalism industry is overrun by rich, elite, underqualified entitled,...
View ArticleNicholas Kristof tries to figure out who destroyed the West Coast
Like alcoholics, whenever a journalist has a moment, however brief, of political clarity to consider that perhaps they are the “baddies,” it should be commended. Such is the case with columnist and...
View ArticleThe cheap-fake presidency
From almost the outset of Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign, everyone — from his family to close aides to the White House comms shop — has engaged in careful stagecraft and clever editing to hide him away...
View ArticleThe outlets blaming Trump for his own assassination attempt
Within twenty-four hours of the assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump, several outlets were calling on his fellow Republicans to tone down their violent rhetoric. On ABC’s morning...
View ArticleThe media’s flip to Harris was predictable
This time last week, America’s media was excruciatingly examining Joe Biden’s current health condition and fading campaign to Donald Trump, with leaks coming from White House and campaign Zoom calls....
View ArticleDon’t expect much from Dana Bash’s tag-team Harris-Walz interview
The last time the country saw Kamala Harris give a meaningful live interview, she was sent out as cannon fodder to clean up Joe Biden’s disastrous debate night. She has yet to explain to the country...
View ArticleBrazil is showing a Harris administration how to de-platform Twitter/X
What happened in Brazil this past week — a magistrate suspended Twitter and threatened telecommunication companies, as well as Apple and Google — did not happen in a vacuum. To briefly sum up the...
View ArticleWho is Kamala Harris talking to?
Kamala Harris has spent the better part of the last week off the campaign trail and planting herself in the middle of New York City, finally making herself available to questions about what kind of...
View ArticleWill Kamala commit to certifying a Trump win?
For the past four years, the topic of who won the 2020 presidential election has been a central part of our national news cycle. It has been a favorite debate question — and several outlets, including...
View ArticleThe election was a referendum on the American media
In the final month of the 2024 election, the national media existed in another solar system from the country for whom is tasked at reporting accurate, unbiased and truthful information. The final...
View ArticleKamala Harris ran the Fyre Festival of campaigns
As the finger-pointing begins, and the autopsy of the Kamala Harris campaign continues, financial details are being released on how the Harris campaign managed to blow more than $1 billion in...
View ArticleCasa Bonita, the greatest restaurant in the world
Colfax Avenue is the longest commercial street in the United States. It’s over fifty-three miles long, from the foothills of the Colorado Rockies all the way through the capital of Denver and out to...
View ArticleBiden lied right to the media’s face
Shortly after President Donald Trump took office in 2017, there was about a week-long news cycle between the media and White House press secretary Sean Spicer regarding the size of the inaugural...
View ArticleWelcome to the era of personality media
Several high-priced journalists have begun experimenting with selling themselves instead of a corporate media brand. Chris Cillizza and Mark Halperin have both started Substack ventures without having...
View ArticleTrump must follow the law on TikTok
Donald Trump ended his first term in praise of Xi Jinping and China’s overall handling of a global pandemic that up-ended the world, which likely led to his opponent’s election victory over him — and...
View ArticleThe shockingly earnest anti-comeback of Tom Green
If you grew up in the 1990s and early 2000s as a Generation Xer, you either loved or hated Tom Green. You saw him as either some pioneering prankster and innovator of the cable-news troll or an...
View ArticleMSNBC pivots to the hard left by firing Joy Reid
Joy Reid was apparently just too moderate for what media reporters are calling a “hard-left” shift at MSNBC, terminating both Reid and Rachel Maddow fill-in host Alex Wagner (who is married to Obama’s...
View ArticleBill Burr is going the way of the media armchair scolds
Bill Burr has built a successful stand-up comedy and film career on being the cranky scold next door – and his acts have always been tinged with the politics of the moment. He built his reputation as...
View ArticleBook deals for those who hid Biden’s decline
The parade of books about the behind-the-scenes palace intrigue of Joe Biden’s cognitive and physical decline is in full-swing. And most are being written by journalists from the very news outlets who...
View ArticleThe left gives up on saving the planet
In his 2015 State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama praised American innovation and name-checked Tesla. “There are also millions of Americans who work in jobs that didn’t even exist 10 or 20...
View ArticleThe media must admit to covering up Biden’s decline
When it comes to the many forthcoming books about President Joe Biden’s decline, only one question matters: what role did the national news media play in assisting his White House in the cover-up?...
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