'Real patriots don’t root for failure': Fox News giddily predicted huge losses ahead of jobs report

At this point, do we need more evidence that Fox News is always off? Pun intended. It should be turned off.

Fox News has made headlines again, of course, for the worst reason. Moments before Joe …

Public opinion on masks in schools, or teachers, is not what you might imagine

In what feels like a pandemic education repeat of The New York Times’ series of reports on Trump supporters in Midwestern diners while the majority of voters who opposed Trump were largely ignored, …

Fascism: Trump vows pardons for Jan. 6 seditionists, calls for nationwide protests if indicted

Republican Party leader and traitor to the nation Donald Trump continues to test new rally waters in anticipation of a repeat presidential bid. On Saturday the delusional narcissist made no particular …

Trump once more telegraphs his plans to steal the 2024 election. The media yawns

We no longer have to worry about a disgraced ex-president who decisively lost both the popular and electoral vote working behind the scenes to undermine our democracy, because it’s happening right in …

'I just got hit by a car': Journalist goes viral for continuing to report after on-air accident

A video of a reporter in West Virginia being hit by a car while doing a live report has gone viral on social media, with many talking about the depths reporters go to get the news out. In the video, …

Very serious media just can't believe Biden dared point out how Republicans are attacking democracy

President Joe Biden dared to acknowledge that Republicans don’t have the warmest view of fair elections these days, and a series of media big names are very concerned about Biden acknowledging it. Not …

News editors now recognize the danger in Republican anti-democracy moves—but still refuse to act

As we close in on the anniversary of a coup that has not yet failed, even top voices in the nation’s political press are beginning to express exasperation with the political press. For an entire …

Fascism: House Republican extremists look to support candidates as devoted to Trump as they are

There’s a lot to take in on this Washington Post story about House Republican extremists recruiting like-minded conspiracy freaks in order to move their party even farther to the right than it …

The heroes of the Great British Baking Show are no one you've ever seen on screen

Last week, I sat down to watch a new show in which chefs create amazing things out of chocolate. It was … fine. It was just fine. The head chef was tremendously knowledgeable. The selection of …

The U.S. economy is beating the world, thanks to Joe Biden, but you wouldn't know it from the media

The U.S. economy is expanding at a 7% rate over the last three months, up by 5% from the beginning of the year. That number isn’t just three times the expected growth rate in Europe, it almost doubles …

Confirmed: The media is setting a gloom-and-doom tone on the economy

The United States, along with much of the rest of the world, has been through rocky economic times thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re traumatized and uncertain about the future and not sure where …

Conservatives fret: Why are young liberals so intolerant of plague-spreading democracy killers?

This poll has given conservatives a real sad. 

“Liberals are so intolerant!” they scream, because their plague-spreading, gun-toting, schoolchild-killing, antisemitic, racial- and …

Cheney promises that 2022 will bring 'weeks of public hearings' on events leading to Jan. 6

In recent weeks, the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 has issued flurries of subpoenas, targeting both well-known names directly connected to Donald Trump and more publicly obscure figures involved in …

As GOP redraws lines to assure new wins, Democrats have just 12 months left to protect democracy

As things stand right now, Republicans are heavily favored to take control of the House in the 2022 midterm elections. This isn’t because of dissatisfaction with Democratic results, or because a …

Allegedly neutral reporter has a problem with how Vice President Kamala Harris says 'the'

Today in traditional media nonsense, Vice President Kamala Harris emphasized the word “the” to make a point, and it is NEWS.

No, I’m not kidding.

It is not a parody. Jennifer Jacobs is a senior White …

'We quite literally hid photos of our children': Women missing from 69% of newspaper bylines

Let’s talk about newspapers, specifically the big-hitters in terms of circulation. Many consider newspapers the most dogged pursuers of truth and accuracy, the originators of journalism, tasked …

Boston-area parents rush to get their kids vaccinated, but the local newspaper isn't reporting that

Appointments for grade-school kids to be vaccinated against COVID-19 are starting to become available, and the media continues to send the message that this is something to fear. 

Significant side …

CNN's milk story isn't awful because it's about milk, it's awful because it's about CNN

On Thursday, CNN ran a story about milk prices and how those prices were affecting a family of 12. In short, the head of a family of 11 says she buys 12 gallons of milk a week, and it cost 80 cents …

CNN's average struggling family raised eyebrows with milk consumption, but there are bigger problems

There are good ways to cover how supply chain problems accompanied by inflation lead to rising prices on many products. CNN took another path with a human interest story on a middle-class family’s …

New York Times does it again: 'Hillary-Biden voter' has a long history of Republican contributions

The New York Times has embarrassed itself once again in the exact same way it embarrassed itself just last week: by using a right-wing activist as an example of the man or woman on the street who just …