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Former President Donald Trump's White House asked Twitter to censor one of Chrissy Teigen's tweets after she referred to him as a "p---y ass b---h," an ex-Twitter employee told a congressional hearing Wednesday.
“My management believes they did the right thing as service to the American people,” Amanpour told the crowd during her Columbia Journalism School commencement speech.
On the Christmas morning of 2018, Trump at the time had an impromptu news conference at the White House and was clearly lacking the holiday spirit.
Hillyard had questioned Elise Stefanik about the E. Jean Carroll case.
Former White House aide and CNN contributor David Axelrod on Friday criticized President Biden for snapping at a reporter for the network who earlier asked about concerns regarding his memory and age. “Donald Trump is a gaffe-machine himself, but because he is energetic these questions are not as profound for him,” Axelrod said Friday. More…
The New York Times has been criticized over the past several months for its constant coverage of President Joe Biden and his age without giving Donald Trump the same treatment despite what other reports categorize as mental decline. But over the weekend, it got considerably worse when the Times did ...
A journalist was reportedly ejected from a Colorado Republican event after the state GOP chairman determined her reporting was "unfair."Ernest Lee Luning, who covers politics in Colorado at coloradopolitics.com, flagged the development involving Sandra Fish of the Colorado Sun. According to the Sun'...
Former President Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson's Mar-a-Lago press conference Friday was met with almost immediate scorn from a slew of social media skeptics. Trump and Johnson's national address focused on an "election integrity" bill the two Republicans argued was necessary to prevent "hund...
The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial has ordered the media not to report where potential jurors have worked.
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden delivered an election-year roast on Saturday night at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner as protesters outside criticised his support...
TV talking heads — reading word for word off their prompters — are dissecting, excoriating Donald: liar, narcissist, etc., etc., blah, blah.
With no cameras recording Donald Trump’s criminal trial, anchors and producers are improvising to animate dramatic moments like Michael Cohen’s testimony.
The White House Correspondents' Association criticized CNN for not including White House pool reporters in the studio during the first presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Despite requests, CNN only allowed one print reporter to observe briefly during a commercial break. Both campaigns had agreed to the request.
The White House Correspondents' Association criticized CNN for denying requests to include White House pool reporters in the studio for the Biden-Trump presidential debate. Despite CNN allowing limited access to one print reporter and photographers, the exclusion raises concerns about press freedom and future debates.
Those with an interest can find several exhaustive, independent fact checks of claims made by Joe Biden and Donald Trump during their televised debate on Thursday night.
President Joe Biden has left many Democrats concerned that he is not their best chance to defeat Donald Trump in the 2024 election.
Audience number is about 30% lower than the 73 million people who watched the candidates’ first face-off in 2020
CNN did the country no favors on Thursday night.
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Staying the course may risk handing the election to Trump
It's a DefCon 1 level of panic throughout the party as Democrats process that, if the presidential election were held today, Donald Trump would win in a landslide — but Joe Biden refuses to bow out.
Former President Donald Trump has inched ahead of President Biden in the first national poll since the incumbent’s disastrous CNN debate.
MSNBC viewers took to social media on Sunday to slam the network, as well as one of its hosts, for letting a Donald Trump surrogate "steamroll" through an interview without much pushback. Jason Miller, senior advisor to the 2024 Trump campaign, appeared on MSNBC over the weekend, where he was in...
It was his first public appearance since Ms Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee.
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris will face off in a US presidential debate on 10 September, according to television network ABC.
U.S. Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic opponent Kamala Harris will debate on September 10th. This marks their first face-to-face encounter in a close race. Harris's rapid rise in the polls has reshaped the contest, as both candidates prepare for additional debates and recalibrate their campaign strategies.
ABC News says that both Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and his Democratic counterpart, Kamala Harris, have agreed to meet in a debate on Sept. 10.
As expected, Biden and former President Donald Trump cruised to victory in their respective primary campaigns to set up an election rematch in 2024.
Wiles, who will be the first woman to serve in the role, helped to manage Trump’s successful run for the US presidency
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Karoline Leavitt, his campaign press secretary, to serve as his White House press secretary.
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday offered a public show of support for Pete Hegseth, his embattled choice to lead the Defense Department, whose confirmation by the Senate is in doubt as he faces questions over allegations of excessive drinking, sexual assault and his views on women in combat.
US president-elect Donald Trump says he has appointed British TV producer Mark Burnett as his special envoy to the UK.
The Trump administration has blocked The Associated Press from traveling with President Trump on Air Force One and also from covering an Oval Office event.
A TOP Trump official has suggested Volodymyr Zelensky may have to quit as President of Ukraine to get peace talks back on track.It comes as the UK’s
The New York Times on Monday denounced "intimidation tactics" by President Trump against its reporters after days in which the administration assailed the newspaper's...
President Trump suggested Wednesday that the Signal messaging platform his top national security brass used to discuss the Houthi strike may be "defective."
Instead of restoring access to The Associated Press newswire, as required by a federal judge, the Trump administration is removing the wire position in the daily press corps rotation altogether.
No wire service reporters, who supply reports to news outlets around the world, were on the plane to the Middle East with President Trump.
A federal appeals court is allowing the Trump White House to ban the Associated Press from the Oval Office and other restricted spaces for now.
The White House had restricted the AP’s access over its choice to continue referring to the Gulf of Mexico instead of the Gulf of America
California senator Alex Padilla was pushed out of the news conference by authorities after he interrupted Noem.
Palantir has never had a great reputation. Even before it teamed up with Trump to create a massive, abusable database of American residents’ information, it was working with forward-looking cop shops, that wanted similar massive, abusable databases of their o…
Democrats have reacted with outrage to Senator Alex Padilla's rough removal from a conference about the LA protests.
California Sen. Alex Padilla continued to defend himself Friday and refute the claims that he crashed DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's news conference.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters the President will see through negotiations before deciding whether to strike.
At Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity this week, the tech vendor has been working to convince advertisers — and skeptics — that it can help fix the brand safety system, which many say it helped break.
The news conference is scheduled for 9 a.m. ET at the conclusion of the summit in the Netherlands as the world watches to see whether a ceasefire between Israel and Iran will endure.
The White House said The Wall Street Journal would not be in the press pool traveling with Trump to Scotland due to its report on the Epstein letter.
A reporter from The Wall Street Journal was removed from the press pool for Donald Trump’s trip to Scotland this weekend because of the publication’s recent story on the president’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt …
The host noted that he was having "real comms problems" just minutes after the uncomfortable, on-air moment.
ABC announced Wednesday that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would be off the air indefinitely following comments regarding speculation swirling around the suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk.
The move follows an appearance by the FCC commissioner, who criticized Kimmel's recent monologue.
President Donald Trump celebrated ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air over Charlie Kirk comments and urges NBC to cancel its late-night hosts.
ABC said it pulled Jimmy Kimmel off the air "indefinitely" over his comments about Charlie Kirk's killing.
"Maybe their licence should be taken away," Trump said of broadcasters that he argued covered him unfairly.
The earliest reports of his initial public response to Kimmel’s censoring aren’t impressive
Three current Pentagon insiders told The Intercept that new Department of War rules are an egregious assault on press freedom. The post Unnamed Pentagon Officials Ridicule Hegseth’s Plan to Stop War Department Leaks appeared first on The Intercept.
The Walt Disney Company said that it had suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! “to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country”
By Carly Tennes Published: September 22nd, 2025
The flood of outrage at the Disney/FCC cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel ultimately forced the company to retreat and put Kimmel back on the air. Disney apparently didn’t much like the wave of folks cancelling their Disney+ streaming video subscriptions in respons…
Our great national censorship nightmare is over — but only for about three-quarters of the ABC stations in America. Jimmy Kimmel was back on the air Tuesday night after Disney, the parent company of ABC, reversed its decision last week to suspend his talk sho…
The outrage machine has moved on.
Paramount is acquiring The Free Press, an independent media publication started on Substack. As part of the deal, Paramount is installing The Free Press’s founder, Bari Weiss, as the editor-in-chief of CBS News, according to an announcement on Monday. Before …
Reporters must promise not to publish unauthorised material to obtain press credentials.
Even Fox News is fed up with the Pentagon’s new press restrictions
The Pentagon said that more than 60 correspondents signed on to its new restrictions, with major news outlets as well as conservative sources like Newsmax and The Washington Times shunning the new policy. Sean Parnell, the chief Pentagon spokesman, wrote in a…
Rob Weisbord, COO and President of Local Media at Sinclair, insisted that the local TV station giant’s recent clash with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel was “never about the First Amendment.” In meetings with ABC after pulling the show from its affiliates, the c…
At a Senate hearing Wednesday on government censorship of tech platforms, a Meta executive expressed regret to Republican lawmakers for failing to speak out more against the Biden administration's requests that it remove health and election misinformation, in…
Reporters blocked from key White House area without prior approval, citing structural changes and security concerns.
The station that endlessly covers all of Trump's insane rallies across the country from end to end cut away after just a minute of President Obama campaigning in Virginia for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Abigail Spanberger. The Fox Report host Jon Scott…
Limiting access of journalists to the White House is a possibility
The BBC’s chairman is planning to apologize after a documentary edited Donald Trump‘s January 6 speech to make it appear as if the president was encouraging the 2021 Capitol riot. On Monday, Samir Shah will write to UK Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Co…
The BBC's director general and head of news both resigned on Sunday after criticism of the programme.
MSNBC will rebrand as MS Now on Saturday, a reflection of the cable news network’s separation from Comcast and sister network NBC News. As the new Versant network sets out on its own, it has been building up its own newsroom, with two major hires with a focus…
You might recall that right wing propaganda broadcaster Sinclair Broadcasting recently tripped over its own ass after working with the Trump administration to try and censor Jimmy Kimmel for criticizing the President. The flood of outrage at the Disney/FCC/AB…
"I think the license should be taken away from ABC," Trump told an ABC reporter. "Because your news is so fake, and it's so wrong."
Donald Trump isn’t just content this week with personally demeaning female journalists, POTUS has now decided to make his war on the so-called “enemy of the ...
Coverage of a video by six Democratic lawmakers urging members of the military not to obey illegal orders sparked an angry response from the White House
White House tracker calls out 'media offenders'... (Second column, 9th story, link) Related stories:How big tech creating own friendly bubble to 'win narrative battle online'... Drudge Report Feed needs your support! Become …
The Trump administration is using the "lügenpresse" strategy to push back against negative coverage.
The new website features sections categorizing media coverage under labels including "Bias," "Lie" and "Left-wing Lunacy."
Race To The Bottom: White House Launches 'Media Offenders' Leaderboard Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Trump White House unveiled a scathing new website Friday, “Media Offenders,” complete with a “race to the bottom” leaderboard ranking out…
President Donald Trump's White House is taking on the role of media critic and asking for help from “everyday Americans." Over the Thanksgiving weekend, the...
The Associated Press has long been a fixture in the White House press pool, but earlier this year the entire organization found itself locked out over a dispute that stemmed from the correct name for the Gulf of Mexico -- President Donald Trump wants it to be…
Weiss' town hall of Kirk with faith-driven language and limited journalistic pushback leaves some unsettled
Weiss addressed the backlash during a network-wide editorial call, saying she held the segment because “we simply need to do more,” according to a recording ...
The venerable CBS newsmagazine canceled plans to present a story that took a tough look at the administration's decision to deport Venezuelans to a notorious...
Yesterday, Bari Weiss, the new editor-in-chief of CBS News, censored a segment of its newsmagazine 60 Minutes about men who had been deported to an El Salvador prison. Today, it's popping up online. 60 Minutes had already begun promoting the now-censored segm…
As "60 Minutes" finalized its "Inside CECOT" report last Thursday, CBS sent the White House a request for comment. A WH spokesperson responded within a few hours. The quote was not included in the "60" report – so, judge for yourself whether it should have be…
CBS News aired the Kennedy Center Honors on Tuesday using a sharply edited Donald Trump monologue and dodging his controversial “Trump Kennedy Center...
When a news event is ignored by one side of the aisle, we bring it to you. Here are some of the most notable stories ignored by the left media in 2025. The...
After Donald Trump gave a 13-minute interview to new CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil earlier this week, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt delivered a message to the anchor and his news team with a message from POTUS: Air the complete intervie…
Barf Bag: Leavitt warned CBS that Trump would sue them if they didn’t run Tony Dokoupil's recent interview with him in full. Dokoupil's response? "Yeah, we’re doing it!"
Becoming state news? The post Donald Trump ‘Decides What Gets Seen’ At One of America’s Biggest News Networks — Source appeared first on Reality Tea.
If you want to understand how little the current administration cares about the First Amendment, look no further than a pre-dawn FBI raid on a journalist’s home—conducted in apparent violation of a federal law specifically designed to prevent exactly this kin…
Bari Weiss was grilled by CBS News staffers in an all-hands meeting and said she's not "a mouthpiece for anybody" when asked about political bias.
Panelists joined to discuss the arrest of former CNN anchor Don Lemon, and more.
Last week, a federal magistrate judge told the DOJ it could not arrest journalist Don Lemon. The DOJ appealed and lost that appeal too. The legal system said no. So the DOJ arrested him anyway. On January 18th, protesters interrupted services at a Minnesota c…
Now-former CBS News producer Alicia Hastey revealed in a memo announcing her departure from the network that under Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, stories are being vetted for their ideological content, rather than for their newsworthiness. The memo further confi…
"The Late Show" host Stephen Colbert said CBS blocked an interview over FCC concerns. It highlights tension between broadcasters and their talent.
Here's the interview that CBS and the FTC don't want you to see.
Federal Communications Commission faces backlash after comedian Stephen Colbert blamed its rules for scuttled interview.
I’ve long written about how the U.S. establishment press no longer genuinely serves the public interest. Years of consolidation at the hands of (usually) rich, white, male, Conservative owners has resulted in a lazy U.S. press that reflects the interests of o…
Fox News is facing mounting criticism after repeatedly using old footage instead of airing Donald Trump’s real conduct at Saturday’s dignified transfer—but...
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The Trump admin wants to criminalize a key part of journalists doing their jobs — a broadside attack on a free press. The post Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions appeared first on The Intercept.
Trump demanded the journalist who reported on the rescue of the US airman in Iran reveal their source.
This will either be the best or the worst thing to happen to the American people.
Journalists should ditch dining with an administration committed to hobbling the press and the constitution.
The Federal Trade Commission and Media Matters have settled their litigation following a court ruling that the federal agency violated the First Amendment when it issued a civil investigative demand to the media watchdog. The Media Matters lawsuit was dismiss…
According to MS NOW, the FBI has launched an investigation into an Atlantic reporter.
Media freedom advocates condemn move as latest effort to curtail independent reporting on the US military.
Press freedom advocates, however, have warned that the dinner could give Trump a podium to attack the news media.
ABC is taking to the airwaves to warn viewers of the FCC’s crackdown on The View and the agency’s unusual demand that the network’s stations seek early renewal of their broadcast licenses. The spots, which will start airing on Monday, are the latest pushback …
Earlier this week we noted how ABC has been asking its audience to give the Trump FCC an earful about its clumsy efforts to censor journalists, comedians, and daytime talk show hosts: The ad only hints at the fact that FCC boss Brendan Carr has launched a fak…
You might recall that one of the conditions of the FCC’s approval of The Ellison family’s $8 billion acquisition of CBS was that the agency would install a “ombudsman” at the network to ensure CBS journalism was appropriately feckless and deferential to our m…
A federal judge handed another victory to The New York Times in its challenge to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s more restrictive press policies, this time sidelining a rule that any journalist must have an official escort in visits to the Pentagon. In grant…
A federal judge has ordered the Defense Department to temporarily halt its requirement that New York Times journalists be accompanied by an official escort,...
Back in February, Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr launched a fake “investigation” of ABC because the network’s comedians and daytime talk show hosts hadn’t adequately kissed Republican ass. Five months later and ABC’s The View is wimping out when it comes to host…
The New York Times said that a group of its journalists received subpoenas from the Justice Department after their report on the lack of certain security features on Donald Trump’s new Air Force One. The Times said that those who received subpoenas included J…