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Three cheers for Jeff Bezos' fight for truth at Washington Post

Becoming the MSNBC of print has not only hurt the paper's credibility, but also its bottom line — and owner Jeff Bezos has finally had enough.

Dour Democrats, giddy GOP: can-do Trump captures Gen Z

At heart, it's not about action-packed visuals of Donald Trump's first week back to Washington: It’s about America’s yearning for optimistic, can-do leaders who are the anti-Biden.

Reality bites leftist media with shakeups, layoffs amid decline

Legacy media are facing up to the flight of viewers and readers, with MSNBC President Rashida Jones running for the exit and The Washington Post making even more cuts to...

Media flail as their anti-Trump narratives fail — again and again

The legacy media have been smearing Trump for the better part of a decade without dragging him down — but the outrage merchants are still spinning new negative tales.

Freefalling media's grim prospects as reach, influence wane

No longer do the liberal media ecosystems of New York and Washington, DC, set the terms of the national conversation — and after wrecking the public's trust in 2024, the...

After a year of gaslighting, here are the worst media lies of 2024

Journalism morphed into blatant activism before our eyes, we were told things we all witnessed or heard didn't actually happen — and trust in the legacy media hit an all-time...

Failed smears of Trump's cabinet picks proves biased media's irrelevance

The media has tried to smear President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks.

Why viewers dealt MSNBC, CNN a 'Trump slump' ratings crash

They feel betrayed and misled after years of being told that Trump was a fascist, racist, sexist xenophobe — yet his big victory showed most of the country doesn’t buy...

News media dug its own grave with absurd Trump coverage

Donald Trump's improbable, historic, decisive victory on Tuesday showed us that the so-called free press is dead and buried. 

Biden's 'garbage' slur reflects Democrats' snobbery — and could cost Harris the presidency

It was a "basket of deplorables" moment that came at the worst possible time for the Kamala Harris campaign. 

Kamala Harris' failure to secure key endorsements suggests her campaign is in free-fall

The joy is clearly gone for the Kamala Harris campaign — along with the endorsements she needs from voices Democrats have always had in the bag.

Vance's burns of media 'elite' reveal they're siloed from reality

JD Vance keeps schooling the media because by operating in their bubble, journalists-turned-activists have made themselves ignorant.

Kamala Harris' pre-election media blitz didn't make her look any better – it was just a massive flop

Vice President Kamala Harris finally sat down this week for multiple media interviews on consecutive days, a first for her presidential campaign.

Debate revealed Tim Walz to be a fraud 'everyman'

Walz was chosen for his Midwestern, regular-guy appeal, which the Democratic brain trust was sure would win over blue-collar men — but it's not working.

Kamala's toxic campaign means no Al Smith civility with Trump

How can she trade lighthearted jabs with Trump after repeatedly calling him "a threat to our democracy" and "our greatest national security threat" — even after two assassination attempts on him in...

Kam's canned answers wowed media, didn't convince voters

After Tuesday’s big debate in Philadelphia between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, we may be looking at another big disconnect between the press and the public. 

Selective media smothers Walz's rogue family, boosts Trump's

When members of the Walz family oppose Tim Walz's candidacy while publicly supporting Donald Trump, there's zero media interest in putting any of them on camera to give them the Mary...

Off-script Kamala Harris blows it in the swing states

Kamala Harris has finally left the bubble that has carried her to record fundraising and competitive poll numbers with Donald Trump in key swing states.

Why Democrats' convention set them up to lose in November

All icing and no cake is the only way to describe the Democratic National Convention that mercifully ended Thursday night with Kamala Harris's acceptance speech as the party's improbable nominee.

Biden is president in name only so Harris can duck blame

The Democratic Party doesn't want Harris put in a position of responsibility for this administration's disastrous record on the economy, inflation, wages, crime, the border and a world seemingly on fire.