MediaWatch
March 16, 2025
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Free Speech
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Free Speech - Conservative media figures targeted - one murdered, others swatted
Slumping New York Times shrinks its editorial operations, publishing fewer op-eds and offering editorial board members buy-outs
Trump places journalists at Voice of America (VoA) on administrative leave, signs executive order eliminating VoA’s parent agency US Agency for Global Media (USAGM)
ICYMI - Newsmax may be in the ascendancy among conservatives these days, but did you know Newsmax took $50 million from Qatar on the condition it not criticize Qatar?
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Free Speech
We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Free Speech - Conservative media figures targeted - one murdered, others swatted
Slumping New York Times shrinks its editorial operations, publishing fewer op-eds and offering editorial board members buy-outs
Trump places journalists at Voice of America (VoA) on administrative leave, signs executive order eliminating VoA’s parent agency US Agency for Global Media (USAGM)
ICYMI - Newsmax may be in the ascendancy among conservatives these days, but did you know Newsmax took $50 million from Qatar on the condition it not criticize Qatar?
March 9, 2025
Bloodbath at ABC News
ABC News Laying Off Staff and Completely Cutting Polling Outfit 538
CNN retracts ‘fact-check’ which had falsely claimed Trump was wrong about $8 million being spent on transgender mice experiments
Trump’s VOA Pick Kari Lake also named senior advisor to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees the VOA
Louisville Public Media enlists audience to lobby for continued federal funding
Bloodbath at ABC News
ABC News Laying Off Staff and Completely Cutting Polling Outfit 538
CNN retracts ‘fact-check’ which had falsely claimed Trump was wrong about $8 million being spent on transgender mice experiments
Trump’s VOA Pick Kari Lake also named senior advisor to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees the VOA
Louisville Public Media enlists audience to lobby for continued federal funding
Legacy media White House Correspondents Association stripped of monopoly power over which reporters have access to the Oval Office and who gets to ask the president questions
Associated Press loses emergency motion to get back into White House press pool
Sweet! MSNBC fires Joy Reid, lets go most of Rachel Maddow’s staff
Leftists go berserk when Jeff Bezos says he wants pieces about free markets and civil liberties on the op-ed pages of his Washington Post
Advocacy ‘Journalism’
Republicans introduce companion House and Senate bills to defund NPR
Associated Press loses emergency motion to get back into White House press pool
Sweet! MSNBC fires Joy Reid, lets go most of Rachel Maddow’s staff
Leftists go berserk when Jeff Bezos says he wants pieces about free markets and civil liberties on the op-ed pages of his Washington Post
Advocacy ‘Journalism’
- New York Times doxxes dozens of DOGE employees
- DOGE protests - reported by the press as spontaneous protests - were organized by left-wing groups
Republicans introduce companion House and Senate bills to defund NPR
- this has been attempted many times and has never succeeded.... so far
February 23, 2025
Associated Press sues after being banned from certain presidential events, Oval Office, and Air Force One for refusing to use the term ‘Gulf of America’
Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board survives motion to dismiss
Associated Press sues after being banned from certain presidential events, Oval Office, and Air Force One for refusing to use the term ‘Gulf of America’
Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the Pulitzer Prize Board survives motion to dismiss
February 16, 2025
Congressional testimony describes how USAID attempted to co-opt investigative media around the world in coordination with intelligence agencies through censorship, claims of disinformation, and ‘prebunking’ campaigns (case in point: Hunter Biden laptop)
PBS closes DEI office, lays off staffers to comply with Trump executive order
Congressional testimony describes how USAID attempted to co-opt investigative media around the world in coordination with intelligence agencies through censorship, claims of disinformation, and ‘prebunking’ campaigns (case in point: Hunter Biden laptop)
PBS closes DEI office, lays off staffers to comply with Trump executive order
February 9, 2025
USAID paid hundreds of millions of dollars to thousands of left-wing journalists to push phony government narratives
Trump orders GSA to cancel all media contracts, including Politico, BBC, and Bloomberg
Trump ousts board that controls Voice of America, easing the way for Kari Lake to take over (n.b. - Brent Bozell still awaits Senate confirmation as chief of VOA parent agency)
FCC releases raw ’60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris
Bill Whitaker: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening?
Kamala Harris: Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.
Edited -
Bill Whitaker: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening?
Kamala Harris: We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.
New York Times buries the lede - again: it isn’t until the 43rd paragraph of a hit piece on DOGE/Musk you learn that they have discovered $236 billion in fraudulent government payments
Pete Hegseth kicks NBC, NYT, NPR, and Politico out of Pentagon offices to make way for to New York Post, Breitbart, OANN, and HuffPost
White House opens press room to independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers, and content creators
NPR and PBS summoned to testify before Congress on systematically biased news coverage funded by tax dollars
Wikipedia Blacklists All Conservative Media Outlets, Prevent Any From Being Cited
USAID paid hundreds of millions of dollars to thousands of left-wing journalists to push phony government narratives
Trump orders GSA to cancel all media contracts, including Politico, BBC, and Bloomberg
Trump ousts board that controls Voice of America, easing the way for Kari Lake to take over (n.b. - Brent Bozell still awaits Senate confirmation as chief of VOA parent agency)
FCC releases raw ’60 Minutes’ interview with Kamala Harris
- Key exchange:
Bill Whitaker: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening?
Kamala Harris: Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.
Edited -
Bill Whitaker: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening?
Kamala Harris: We are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.
New York Times buries the lede - again: it isn’t until the 43rd paragraph of a hit piece on DOGE/Musk you learn that they have discovered $236 billion in fraudulent government payments
Pete Hegseth kicks NBC, NYT, NPR, and Politico out of Pentagon offices to make way for to New York Post, Breitbart, OANN, and HuffPost
White House opens press room to independent journalists, podcasters, social media influencers, and content creators
NPR and PBS summoned to testify before Congress on systematically biased news coverage funded by tax dollars
Wikipedia Blacklists All Conservative Media Outlets, Prevent Any From Being Cited
February 2, 2025
- American Renaissance Network calls out the New York Times:
Our Opinion: New York Times resorts to cheap fearmongering in hit piece on RFK, Jr., laced with alarmist statements (“chilling prospect”, “dangerous”, “concerning”, “troubling”, “a disaster”, etc.) - Heads-up, FCC (ownership has consequences) - Soros Owned Radio Station Tips off Criminal Aliens to ICE Agents Locations and Vehicle Make and Models in California
- Trump’s FCC Chair Launching Investigation of NPR and PBS, Taxpayer Funding Under Increased Scrutiny
- NPR is Such Liberal Propaganda It Refused to Cover March for Life (NPR - “Narrative Public Radio”)
- Ditto, NBC (“Narrative Broadcasting Company”)
- Heads Up - Threat to the First Amendment: Hawaii bill would establish a Journalistic Ethics Review Board to handle complaints and appeals regarding violations of a state Journalistic Code of Ethics. Penalties apply. What could possibly go wrong?
- Letter from Sen. Jim Banks to Secretary of State Marco Rubio cites a Daily Signal report that the Biden administration was pressuring Sierra Leone to pass an unpopular pro-abortion bill before Trump took office