The Media

Last week, some of our best and brightest journalists in the field of left-wing propaganda faced something even more terrifying than front-row seats to the Melania documentary: They were fired from their jobs. The Washington Post announced it would be laying off one-third of its workforce as part of its ridiculously selfish bid to stay afloat.

Now, if you were to look at other left-wing propaganda journalists who (for now) remain employed, you’d think this was the worst news in the world. “The Murder of The Washington Post,” wrote The Atlantic’s Ashley Parker, “Jeff Bezos Killed the Washington Post,” declared Slate’s Alex Kirshner, while MS NOW — formerly MSNBC — published Zeeshan Aleem’s opinion column titled: “The Washington Post bloodletting symbolizes our great media crisis.”

I am old enough to remember when Peggy Noonan was worth reading.

She is smart and charming, with a real way with words. She has the soul of a poet and the common sense one expects from one.

Wednesday 4 February 2026 will live on as a day of infamy in the United States. For, lo, twas the day that the Washington Post – tagline ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ – laid off 300 democracy-savers, after it transpired that ‘saving democracy’ was not a profitable enterprise.

Oh the irony.

Back there in the stone age of the 1970’s, two young, talented rising stars at The Washington Post- Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein by name – rose to fame and fortune investigating the unraveling Nixon White House. And what was eventually labeled the “Watergate” scandal.

After US troops swarmed into Venezuela, seizing the country’s president and his wife, there was little to be heard from the Pentagon.

Typically, it would be a time for defense officials to talk to the Pentagon press corps: a group of journalists made up of some of the most talented reporters in the US. The Pentagon could have been expected to be held to account over what has been criticized as a violation of international law.

Under the Trump administration, that didn’t happen.

The TDS infested MSM are a cut and paste crew who literally lie to the American public.

Block Communications, which owns Pittsburgh’s major daily newspaper, announced today that it plans to shutter the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which is now scheduled to publish its last edition on Sunday, May 3. According to the newspaper, the Block family expressed its regret on how this would impact the Pittsburgh region, and that it was “proud of the service the Post-Gazette has provided to Pittsburgh for nearly a century.”

CNN isn’t a real news network, but on New Year’s Eve it can be pleasant to have it on while you’re doing other things – so that every hour, on the hour, you can look at the screen for a couple of minutes and see the arrival of the midnight hour celebrated with fireworks in one world capital after another.

To be sure, when the new year arrives in the Middle East, things on CNN start to get – well – a bit curious. This year, CNN’s coverage from the Gulf region was based in Abu Dhabi and hosted by CNN veteran Becky Anderson, who, during the several years she’s been living in that city, has been promoting it, and the United Arab Emirates generally, with a consistently fervid intensity. Her conduct on New Year’s Eve was no exception to the rule: even more than celebrating the New Year, Anderson’s assigned job for the evening seemed to be to celebrate the Gulf autocracies, especially the UAE.

’Tis the season for year for the media to look back and write about old news. The lists tell more about the compiler than the stories themselves.

2025 marked a year of arguably unparalleled success for the NewsBusters team seeing as how, along with chronicling the best and worst in daily and long-term liberal media bias, we helped see to a successful conclusion a decades-long fight to defund National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS.

In addition to President Trump’s successful media lawsuits and changes inside CBS News, the NewsBusters team was proud to take credit for the suspension of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel plus the May 2026 cancellation of CBS’s The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

It was a challenging task, but an esteemed panel of NewsBusters editors, led by MRC President David Bozell and MRC’s Vice President for Research and Publications Brent Baker, boiled down all the biased outbursts from lefty hack hosts, anchors, reporters and pundits in 2025 and on December 17 announced The Media Research Center Award for Worst Quote of the Year.

Of course, every year, there is way too much bias for just one category. So we broke down the Worst of 2025 into five additional categories (The Craziest Analysis Award; The Trashing Trump Award; The Damn Those Conservatives Award; The ICE Breakers Award for Hating Trump’s Deportation Policy; and the Celebrity Freak-Outs Award).

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has offered more insight about her last-minute decision to shelve a segment on the ‘brutal and tortuous conditions’ at a prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has deported illegal immigrants.

Weiss, 41, told colleagues that she spiked the segment simply because it ‘did not advance the ball’ during the network’s typical 9am editorial call on Monday, The New York Times reported.

She pointed out how the the Times and other publications have ‘previously done similar work’ while maintaining that fresh, through-provoking content was her ‘north star.’