Media Bias

This story is adapted from the forthcoming book "Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again," by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson.

Joe Biden's physical deterioration was so severe in 2023 and 2024 that advisers privately discussed the possibility he'd need to use a wheelchair if he won re-election, CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson write in their new book, "Original Sin," out May 20.

Nearly half of voters believe the news media are biased in favor of Democrats, and most Republicans think it’s impossible to hate the media too much.

 The far-right One America News Network will provide “newsfeed services” to Voice of America and other U.S. government-funded media outlets, according to Kari Lake, senior advisor to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, VOA’s parent company.

In a post on X on Tuesday, Lake said the network, which features content that is consistently supportive of President Donald Trump, would provide its news and video service free of charge.

MEDIA jingoism is not new. But the spectacle of news and talk show anchors frothing at the mouth as they call for a war against Pakistan, following the Pahalgam terrorist attack, verges on psychosis. There appears to be no space for saner voices amid the beat of war drums. With the rise of media warriors, the basic tenets of objective journalism have long been lost. The campaign for the annihilation of another country and deliberate killing of an entire population is sickening.

The rise of new media, bolstered by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s inclusion of bloggers and influencers in the presidential press “pool,” has prompted the nation’s top conservative media watchdog to crown a handful of them “Bulldogs” of the industry.

Both X owner Elon Musk and top influencer Megyn Kelly lead the Media Research Center’s “Bulldog Awards,” a sign of the expanding media universe taking over a landscape once dominated by newspapers, magazines, radio, and TV.

Using different names to properly show a difference between the complicit media -- that no longer does journalism -- and the media willing to do deep dives and tell the truth, makes sense. That isn’t what’s really happening if you’re talking about truth in reporting or journalism. Legacy Media no longer does journalism or present the facts. They simply push their agenda, riding on the back of the reputations and news brand-names, who actually did the work in the distant past.

The White House launched a Drudge Report-style website on Wednesday designed to be a “hub to trusted news sites and resources.” 

As of Thursday, links on the site direct readers to updates from the White House’s Rapid Response X account and news stories from sources such as Fox News, Breitbart, the New York Post, and more.

Key Trump administration officials appeared on Fox networks over 500 times in his first 100 days in office. President Donald Trump's “border czar” Thomas Homan led all officials with at least 59 appearances while Fox News' Hannity led all shows with 71 interviews.

Just over a year ago, in April 2024, ABC News’s The View announced that they had “stopped asking” President Trump to be on the show and said they had banned election deniers. But what if the moderator of the show was an election denier? During Thursday’s opening segment, Whoopi Goldberg suggested that Trump had rigged the 2024 presidential election.

Donald Trump has never been a huge fan of journalists—unless they say nice things about him, that is. His relationship with the press was probably much better in the days when the only threat he posed to the country was in the form of a brain-cell-killing reality show. Since becoming president, however, the media has been increasingly hard on Trump, and Trump, in turn, has been increasingly hard on the media.