Media Industry

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.

If the 2024 election told us nothing else, it confirmed that the voters aren’t nearly as credulous as the Democrats and the corporate media believe them to be. Indeed, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Center six weeks prior to the election, only 22 percent of American adults believed news organizations deal fairly with all sides.

Pope Leo XIV used his first audience with news outlets on Monday to appeal to journalists to help cool the heated language of today’s media landscape.

The comments once again echoed some of the themes highlighted by his predecessor, Pope Francis, as Leo backed a free press to enable informed decisions and renewed his calls for a more peaceful world.

 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.

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.

Three Banner journalists spearheaded the project in collaboration with the New York Times

The Baltimore Banner was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for groundbreaking local journalism that exposed Baltimore as the deadliest large city in the nation for drug overdoses, calling attention to a crisis that has unfolded as government officials paid little attention to the problem and treatment centers were poorly regulated.

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.

A federal appeals court on Saturday blocked a ruling, opens new tab that had ordered the Trump administration to return more than 1,000 Voice of America employees back to work.

U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth on April 22 ordered the administration to "take all necessary steps" to restore employees and contractors to their positions at the U.S. news service and resume radio, television and online news broadcasts and some grants.

President Trump signed an executive order late Thursday terminating federal funding for National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).