The vast majority of Americans are spending this Independence Day weekend taking pride in their country as they celebrate the freedoms established by the Founding Fathers. However, there are some journalists who are embarrassed by the USA. Some of them even seem to take pride in actually shaming the country.     Over the years, the Media Research Center has caught journalists ridiculing and deriding America. The following is a countdown of the Media’s  Worst Anti-American Outbursts (as culled from the MRC’s archives):   27. Americans Who Live on “Stolen Land” Should Stop Griping About Crime Epidemic “America is a sticky-fingered nation built on stolen land, and its current moral panic is about shoplifting.”— Washington Post features reporter Maura Judkis in March 1, 2024 story.   26. Hope You Had A Happy Fourth of July, Too “Oh say, we’ve seen too much. The Star-Spangled Banner pushes like a cough through America’s mouth and the twilight’s last gleaming is just that, a sickly flash above our heads as we ride unsuspecting in the bellies of sleek trains, plop to our knees in churches, embracing truths that disgust us.”— Boston Globe arts critic and poet Patricia Smith in The Nation’s “Patriotism” issue, July 15/22, 1991.   25. Respecting Anthem = Racism   FLASHBACK: “Some of the words of the National Anthem are white supremacist....I think this is a country whose history is racist, whose history is steeped in white supremacy, and the anthem reflects that in its very words.” — Detroit Free Press writer Stephen Henderson on NBC’s… pic.twitter.com/sawM4zwPc1 — Geoffrey Dickens (@GCDickens) June 30, 2026   “Some of the words of the National Anthem are white supremacist....I think this is a country whose history is racist, whose history is steeped in white supremacy, and the anthem reflects that in its very words.” — Detroit Free Press writer Stephen Henderson on NBC’s Meet the Press, September 24, 2017.   24. Now Is the Part of the Debate Where You Should Dump on America  “Governor Romney, Daniel Duchovnik [ph] from Walnut Creek, California wants to know, ‘What do you dislike most about America?’”— Online question selected by The Politico’s Jim VandeHei to pose to the Republican presidential candidates at their May 3, 2007 MSNBC debate.   23. Liberal Radio Host: It Pains Me to Chant “U.S.A!”  “As I’ve grown older, I find my ‘U.S.A.!’-chanting reflex increasingly interrupted by pangs of discomfort, and not because I’m ashamed of our country or our Olympians....Missed in the ensuing red-white-and-blue hoopla, of course, is the fact that we are not so exceptional outside the Olympic village....We are not gold, silver or even bronze medalists when it comes to healthcare; sadly, we are 39th for infant mortality, 43rd for female mortality, 42nd for adult male mortal-ity....If we do stand atop a dais anywhere other than at a sporting event, it is for military spending, carbon emissions and incarceration rates.”— Colorado radio host David Sirota in an August 1, 2012 piece for Salon.com, “Don’t chant ‘U.S.A.!’ It’s liberal Americans’ Olympic dilemma: How do they root for their countrymen without being jingoistic?”   22. Ringing the Bells of Jingoism  “The pro-American approach is one NBC rarely detours from. It is in the DNA of Olympic broadcasting. Networks around the world with the rights to the Games can toll their jingo bells when they please. And it’s easier to interview your own nation’s athletes, especially if language barriers exist. Still, there should be a better way to present these stories without so much American navel-gazing.”— New York Times sports/TV columnist Richard Sandomir in an August 17, 2016 column.   21. Sunny Hostin: America is a “Sick” and “Racist” Country   FLASHBACK: “I think it’s ridiculous that people don’t see what this country was founded on and what this country still is sickened with. It’s a sick country. It’s a racist country.” — ABC’s The View co-host Sunny Hostin on Behind the Table podcast, November 18, 2025. pic.twitter.com/hqhtKGMWnO — Geoffrey Dickens (@GCDickens) June 30, 2026   “I think it’s ridiculous that people don’t see what this country was founded on and what this country still is sickened with. It’s a sick country. It’s a racist country.”— ABC’s The View co-host Sunny Hostin on Behind the Table podcast, November 18, 2025.   20. Embarrassed by the Star Spangled Banner    FLASHBACK: “I mean, when you think about it, it’s ‘bombs bursting in air,’ ‘rocket’s red glare,’ it’s all kinds of — you know a lot of national anthems are that way, too — all kinds of military jargon, and the land — there’s only one phrase ‘the land of the free,’ which is kind… pic.twitter.com/1gyMf9XxGs — Geoffrey Dickens (@GCDickens) June 30, 2026   “I mean, when you think about it, it’s ‘bombs bursting in air,’ ‘rocket’s red glare,’ it’s all kinds of — you know a lot of national anthems are that way, too — all kinds of military jargon, and the land — there’s only one phrase ‘the land of the free,’ which is kind of nice, and ‘the home of the brave?’ I don’t know....Are we [Americans] the only ones who are brave on the planet? I mean, ‘all the brave people live here.’ I mean, it’s just stupid, I think. I’m embarrassed, I’m embarrassed every time I hear it.”— Former CNN and MSNBC host Bill Press on his Full Court Press nationally-syndicated radio show, June 5, 2012.   19. Despising the Stars and Stripes  “My daughter, who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Definitely not, I say: The flag stands for jingoism and vengeance and war. She tells me I’m wrong — the flag means standing together and honoring the dead and saying no to terrorism. In a way we’re both right....[The flag] has to bear a wide range of meanings, from simple, dignified sorrow to the violent anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bigotry that has already resulted in murder, vandalism and arson around the country and harassment on New York City streets and campuses.”— The Nation’s Katha Pollitt in an October 8, 2001 column.   18. Red, White, and Scary  “A friend of ours, a prominent member of the ‘liberal media,’ wrote to the head of our kids’ school last week suggesting that students spend more time with the Pledge of Allegiance and The Star-Spangled Banner. The principal agreed. Our 10-year-old daughter asked her mother if we could put a flag on our car. My wife reluctantly agreed, but hasn’t procured the flag yet....My wife essentially shares our daughter’s feelings. But for her, the symbol of the flag was appropriated in her youth by counter-protesters who used it to deny the patriotism of the war’s opponents. Flag-waving feels aggressive to her.”— Former CBS Evening News producer Dick Meyer in a commentary posted October 1, 2001 on CBSNews.com.   17. CNN Celebrates America’s 250th Birthday: “There is a Slur” in the Declaration of Independence   Happy 4th of July! CNN anchor Victor Blackwell devoted a segment to "Grievance 27" in the Declaration of Independence and its language about "merciless Indian savages" and the Founders having a "deep hatred for indigenous people." Don't watch CNN this weekend. pic.twitter.com/t61UJTMWWp — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) June 29, 2026   “There is a slur in America’s founding documents….a list of grievances against the king. A series of reasons the colonies wanted to split from the United Kingdom. And this is the final one. ‘He has excited domestic insurrections among us and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.’ ‘Merciless Indian savages.’ Words in the Declaration of Independence largely forgotten that line and Native Americans place in the celebrations of the 250 years since our nation’s founding.”— CNN anchor Victor Blackwell on CNN’s First of All, June 27, 2026.   16. Ali Velshi: I Feel “Deep Unease” About Celebrating 250th Anniversary of “Our So-Called Democracy”   Go back to Canada? MS NOW anchor Ali Velshi thinks America is a mess, not worth celebrating: "I feel a deep unease about the celebrations to which I am invited to mark the 250th anniversary of our so-called democracy." MS NOW sounds like Al-Jazeera. pic.twitter.com/74FqKkiNjM — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) June 3, 2026   “In one month, America will mark the 250th anniversary of its founding. Like previous anniversaries, there is a deep unease about this. I feel a deep unease about these celebrations to which I am invited to mark the 250th anniversary of our so-called democracy because this 250th anniversary is taking place during yet another period of deep and fundamental and existential unrest in this country brought on by the country’s unresolved racial politics. That’s what this is. Women and Black Americans have seen their rights taken away. The Voting Rights Act has effectively been gutted.”— Host Ali Velshi on MS NOW’s Velshi, May 31, 2026.   15. America Is a Country “Based on Racism and Slavery”  “Because of my lived experience as an afro-Latina, I’m able to look at this world with a different prism and I’m able to tell this country and tell this audience and tell my fellow co-hosts some uncomfortable truths. This is a country based on racism and slavery and founded in it. — Co-host Sunny Hostin on ABC’s The View, November 17, 2025.   14. Bakari Sellers: Not Much Difference for Black Americans In 1896 and 2026   “If somebody fell asleep in 1896 and woke up today in 2026, they would simply say the only difference is now negroes have a TV show, and we wear nice suits. They’ve swapped out Klan hoods for Brooks Brothers suits.” — CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers on CNN NewsNight with… pic.twitter.com/CpRDw6i5n3 — Geoffrey Dickens (@GCDickens) June 4, 2026   “If somebody fell asleep in 1896 and woke up today in 2026, they would simply say the only difference is now negroes have a TV show, and we wear nice suits. They’ve swapped out Klan hoods for Brooks Brothers suits.”— CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers on CNN NewsNight with Abby Phillip, May 11, 2026.   13. Taking Back the Flag     FLASHBACK: “I decided to put on my flag pin tonight — first time. Until now I haven’t thought it necessary to display a little metallic icon of patriotism for everyone to see....I put it on to take it back. The flag’s been hijacked and turned into a logo – the trademark of a… pic.twitter.com/npQy3RehNB — Geoffrey Dickens (@GCDickens) June 30, 2026   “I decided to put on my flag pin tonight — first time. Until now I haven’t thought it necessary to display a little metallic icon of patriotism for everyone to see....I put it on to take it back. The flag’s been hijacked and turned into a logo – the trademark of a monopoly on patriotism….When I see flags sprouting on official lapels, I think of the time in China when I saw Mao’s Little Red Book on every official’s desk, omnipresent and unread. But more galling than anything are all those moralistic ideologues in Washington sporting the flag in their lapels while writing books and running Web sites and publishing magazines attacking dissenters as un-American....I put it on to remind myself that not every patriot thinks we should do to the people of Baghdad what bin Laden did to us.”— Bill Moyers on PBS’s Now, February 28, 2003.   12. America Needs to Be Sanctioned, “We Are the Bad Guys”   FLASHBACK: “Our country needs to be sanctioned; we are the bad guys on the world stage. We are a menace to not only free people everywhere, but we are a menace to peaceful people everywhere.….We have to be stopped through the same kind of means that we have that our country and… pic.twitter.com/8uFY81JZDI — Geoffrey Dickens (@GCDickens) June 30, 2026   “Our country needs to be sanctioned; we are the bad guys on the world stage. We are a menace to not only free people everywhere, but we are a menace to peaceful people everywhere.….We have to be stopped through the same kind of means that we have that our country and others have used to rebuke a North Korea or a China or name a rogue state, we are the rogue state, and other countries need to start treating us like that.”— The Nation justice correspondent Elie Mystal on The Joy Reid Show podcast, June 28, 2025.   11. Happy Independence Day, America Sucks  “We know what July 4th is. What about July 5th? After the fireworks, the music, the rhetoric of freedom what then?...What kind of nation does our flag fly over now? Not a less innocent one, because American innocence was never the truth. Not one less reluctant to go to war without a good reason, because we have foolishly credited bad reasons in the past. But now the nation lacks even that. As our President demonstrated last week, we have become a people who wage unending war killing and maiming our young ones and theirs without being remotely able to say why.”— Columnist James Carroll in the July 5, 2005 Boston Globe.   10. Editor: I Want to Burn the Flag  “If the U.S. Senate follows its silly siblings in the House of Representatives and votes for a ban on burning the American flag, I’m going to burn one. It never occurred to me to burn a flag — except in some flag-retiring ceremony — but just the idea that Congress has nothing better to do than spend time on this nutty issue makes me want to burn one.”— Linda Grist Cunningham, Executive Editor of the Rockford Register Star in Illinois, in a June 26, 2005 column.   9. Let’s Shred the Constitution! “The framers were not gods and were not infallible. Yes, they gave us, and the world, a blueprint for the protection of democratic freedoms — freedom of speech, assembly, religion — but they also gave us the idea that a black person was three-fifths of a human being, that women were not allowed to vote and that South Dakota should have the same number of Senators as California, which is kind of crazy....If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it sure doesn't say so.”— Time managing editor Richard Stengel in the magazine’s July 4, 2011 edition, which featured a picture of the U.S. Constitution going through a shredder with the headline, “Does It Still Matter?”   8. Post-9/11 Flag-Waving “Sometimes a Cousin to Intolerance”  “The CNN film [The Flag], based on a book by David Friend, focuses on the smudged American flag that three firefighters raised through the dust of the collapsed buildings at ground zero late in the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001. A photograph of the flag raising taken by Thomas E. Franklin of the New Jersey newspaper The Record became a heartening, patriotic symbol for many on an otherwise awful day....[But] the photographer rebelled at efforts to make him a celebrity, and so did the three firefighters. A plan to turn the photograph into a sculpture became a source of controversy. Nationwide, flag-waving was sometimes a cousin to intolerance.”— From New York Times critic Neil Genzlinger’s September 4, 2013 review of CNN’s The Flag.   7. Forget About the “Terse and Old” Founding Documents  “The United States Constitution is terse and old, and it guarantees relatively few rights….The Constitution is out of step with the rest of the world in failing to protect, at least in so many words, a right to travel, the presumption of innocence and entitlement to food, education and health care. It has its idiosyncrasies. Only two percent of the world’s constitutions protect, as the Second Amendment does, a right to bear arms. (Its brothers in arms are Guatemala and Mexico.)”— New York Times Supreme Court reporter Andrew Liptak in a front-page February 7, 2012  “Sidebar” news analysis, “We the People Loses Appeal with People Around the World.”   6. American Revolution = “Monumental Mistake”  “American independence in 1776 was a monumental mistake....I’m reasonably confident a world in which the revolution never happened would be better than the one we live in now, for three main reasons: Slavery would’ve been abolished earlier, American Indians would’ve faced rampant persecution but not the outright ethnic cleansing Andrew Jackson and other American leaders perpetrated, and America would have a parliamentary system of government....Government spending in parliamentary countries is about 5 percent of GDP higher.”— Dylan Matthews in a July 2, 2015 post on Vox.com: “3 reasons the American Revolution was a mistake.”   5. Triggered By the American Flag    FLASHBACK: “We have tens of millions of Trump voters who continue to believe that their rights as citizens are under threat by simple virtue of having to share the democracy with others. I think as long as they see Americanness as the same as one with whiteness, this is going to… pic.twitter.com/xKdEFTTe1s — Geoffrey Dickens (@GCDickens) June 30, 2026   “We have tens of millions of Trump voters who continue to believe that their rights as citizens are under threat by simple virtue of having to share the democracy with others. I think as long as they see Americanness as the same as one with whiteness, this is going to continue….I was on Long Island this weekend, visiting a really dear friend. And I was really disturbed. I saw, you know, dozens and dozens of pickup trucks with you know, expletives against Joe Biden on the back of them, Trump flags, and in some cases, just dozens of American flags, which you know is also just disturbing, because essentially the message was clear: ‘This is my country. This is not your country. I own this.’”— New York Times editorial board member Mara Gay on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, June 8, 2021.    4. Standing For National Anthem is “Affirmation of American Empire”  “It’s a political statement to pledge allegiance to the flag. It’s a political statement to stand for the singing of the National Anthem. The fact is, Colin Kaepernick and me and many other people simply have different politics. It’s not neutral to pledge allegiance or sing the National Anthem. It’s an affirmation of the American empire.”— Political analyst Marc Lamont Hill on CNN Newsroom, September 23, 2017.   3. Elie Mystal: U.S. Constitution Is a “Piece of Crap”   FLASHBACK: “When South Africa got over apartheid, did they just go back to their Afrikaner racist constitution…No! They threw the whole thing out and started again….and they came up with a new constitution. It’s one of the reasons why the South African constitution is generally… pic.twitter.com/XEnOXuaMDa — Geoffrey Dickens (@GCDickens) June 30, 2026   “When South Africa got over apartheid, did they just go back to their Afrikaner racist constitution…No! They threw the whole thing out and started again….and they came up with a new constitution. It’s one of the reasons why the South African constitution is generally thought of as one of the best constitutions in the world and ours continues to be a piece of crap.”— The Nation justice correspondent Elie Mystal on the syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club, April 3, 2025.   2. “Uncomfortable” With Calling Veterans “Heroes”    FLASHBACK: “I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words ‘heroes.’... I feel comfortable — ah, uncomfortable, about the word ‘hero’ because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to… pic.twitter.com/TtuZLDTWLF — Geoffrey Dickens (@GCDickens) June 30, 2026   “I think it is very difficult to talk about the war dead and the fallen without invoking valor, without invoking the words ‘heroes.’... I feel comfortable — ah, uncomfortable, about the word ‘hero’ because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war, and I don’t want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that’s fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine and tremendous heroism: hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I’m wrong about that.”— Host Chris Hayes talking about “The Meaning of Memorial Day” on MSNBC’s Up With Chris Hayes, May 27, 2012.   1. July 4th, MSNBC-Style: “Imperialism, Genocide, Slavery”    FLASHBACK: “The land on which they [the Founders] formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class….This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times we’ve torn and… pic.twitter.com/1ga4n3QIFH — Geoffrey Dickens (@GCDickens) June 30, 2026   “The land on which they [the Founders] formed this Union was stolen. The hands with which they built this nation were enslaved. The women who birthed the citizens of the nation are second class….This is the imperfect fabric of our nation, at times we’ve torn and stained it, and at other moments, we mend and repair it. But it’s ours, all of it. The imperialism, the genocide, the slavery, also the liberation and the hope and the deeply American belief that our best days still lie ahead of us.”— MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry on her eponymous July 1, 2012 program, delivering what she called “my footnote for the Fourth of July.”

PBS debuted its latest Frontline documentary on Tuesday entitled The Crown Prince & The President, which sought to examine the relationship between President Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Towards the end, correspondent Martin Smith observed that October 7 ended any real possibility of Trump’s big goal of Israeli-Saudi normalization and not only suggested Special Envoy Jared Kushner and the Abraham Accords were to blame but that such criticism is actually conservative. One of the people Martin interviewed was President Biden's ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2023-2025, Michael Ratney. As Ratney tells it, even an autocratic de facto ruler of an absolute monarchy needs to consider public opinion, which led MBS to end normalization efforts with Israel as a result of its response to October 7. That led Smith to claim, “Some observers put the blame on Kushner's Abraham Accords.”   PBS's new Frontline documentary on Trump and Saudi Arabia tries to pass off blaming the Jared Kushner and the Abraham Accords for October 7 as a conservative opinion by having Curt Mills say "I don't think the Abraham Accords happen without Jared Kushner. But if there was any… pic.twitter.com/8waFRGGe2V — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) July 1, 2026   In a voiceover, Ratney added, “I think the clear flaw from the beginning of the Abraham Accords was it did nothing to settle the fate of the Palestinian people.” A second person blaming Kushner for October 7 was Curt Mills, executive director of The American Conservative. Mills claimed, “I don't think the Abraham Accords happen without Jared Kushner. But if there was any leading intellectual critique of them, it was that they abandoned Palestine. They abandoned the Palestinian people.” Sitting down with Trump’s former deputy national security advisor for Middle Eastern affairs, Victoria Coates, Martin tried to give credence to Mill’s claim, “Curt Mills of American Conservative laid the events of October 7 at the feet of Jared Kushner.” Coates reacted with an appropriate amount of revulsion, “Well, that's completely inconsistent with my experience with Jared. Jared is sincerely interested in the future of the Palestinian people and worked hard to come up with a deal that would be satisfactory because, you know, in his mind, to my understanding, this is also the best thing for Israel.” No matter what any left-wing college campus agitator, jihadi terrorist, or allegedly conservative commentator says, October 7 is Hamas’s fault. To lay the blame “at the feet” of anybody else is obnoxious and repulsive. Here is a transcript for the June 30 show: PBS Frontline: The Crown Prince & The President 6/30/2026 11:15 PM ET MARTIN SMITH: Some observers put the blame on Kushner's Abraham Accords. MICHAEL RATNEY: I think the clear flaw from the beginning of the Abraham Accords was it did nothing to settle the fate of the Palestinian people. CURT MILLS: I don't think the Abraham Accords happen without Jared Kushner. But if there was any leading intellectual critique of them, it was that they abandoned Palestine. They abandoned the Palestinian people. SMITH: Curt Mills of American Conservative laid the events of October 7 at the feet of Jared Kushner. VICTORIA COATES: Well, that's completely inconsistent with my experience with Jared. Jared is sincerely interested in the future of the Palestinian people and worked hard to come up with a deal that would be satisfactory because, you know, in his mind, to my understanding, this is also the best thing for Israel.

Car accidents kill 100 Americans every day. But now an amazing solution is available: self-driving cars. Robotaxis like Google-owned Waymo, for example. Passengers who try them, like them. Wherever robotaxis are allowed, ridership increases fast. Two years ago, there were 50,000 trips per week -- today 500,000. “The car did a better job than if somebody was driving!” says a passenger in my new video. Waymo claims its cars are “10 times safer” than human-driven ones. I wouldn’t believe that if insurance companies, with their own money at stake, didn’t agree. Reinsurance News reports Waymo’s had an “88% reduction in property damage claims and a 92% reduction in bodily injury claims.” “We have the data,” says Adam Thierer, author of “Permissionless Innovation.” “94% of all accidents are attributable to human error ... We can address one of the leading killers of Americans!” Unfortunately, some politicians say you shouldn’t be allowed to try robotaxis. New York state senator Luis Sepulveda wants a law that says motor vehicles for hire “shall not be ... operated by an automated driving system without a human driver ... seated behind the steering wheel and engaged in the task of driving.” He says the state must protect immigrant taxi and Uber drivers who live in his district. “I cannot support something that is going to almost overnight lead to loss of jobs of over 100,000 people.” “Even if he isn’t needed?” I ask. “Even if he’s worse than the machine?” “I don’t think that having an individual in a vehicle would be worse than a machine,” says Sepulveda.      “That’s just wrong,” says Thierer. “Humans get drunk, drowsy, distracted. Say what you want about robots, they don’t get drunk.” Sepulveda responds: “Waymo is going to make billions of dollars -- let them pay for the disruption to the labor force.” “Sounds like a mafia pitch,” I push back. “‘Want to come here, Waymo? You have to pay.’” “If the pitch sounds like a mafia pitch, so be it,” Sepulveda replies. I thought I might change his thinking by making a creepy comparison, telling him his ban would kill more people than infamous serial killers have. Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy combined killed about 80 people. Human-driven cars kill more people every day. “The data on Waymo is not 100% safety,” he replies. “A Waymo vehicle struck a child in California.” Like most critics, he cites isolated incidents. Even that child wasn’t injured. Millions of miles of data show that robocars are much safer. And they keep getting safer. We humans learn from our own experiences, but self-driving cars learn from millions of miles of experience. They get better while we sleep. Yes, some drivers will lose jobs. But technology constantly does that. Despite all the jobs destroyed by computers, U.S. unemployment has stayed relatively low. Typists, switchboard operators and elevator operators lost jobs. But most found other jobs, often better jobs. “Some people want cars with no drivers,” I tell Sepulveda. “Women feel unsafe. Some drivers don’t smell good. Some are reckless.” “Many women feel safer with a driver,” he replies. “Shouldn’t people have the choice?” I ask. “Absolutely.” “But you want to take away the choice!” “No,” says Sepulveda. “I’m saying, (protect) the drivers that exist now.” I say, with 100 Americans dying in cars every day, politicians who slow the arrival of self-driving cars have blood on their hands. Every Tuesday at JohnStossel.com, Stossel posts a new video about the battle between government and freedom. He is the author of “Government Gone Wild: Exposing the Truth Behind the Headlines.”

MRC Watchdogs churn out breaking news on a daily basis. Don't miss Today's Highlights, where you can keep up with the top MRC content, whether it's the latest study on media bias, a glaring omission from the elitist media, or how the Big Tech companies are serving up the same leftist spin as the media.  Top Stories: MRC Exposes How American Media Prioritizes British Royal Family Over Massive Child Exploitation Scandal MRC Uncovers CNN Anchor Audie Cornish Questioning GOP for Calling Democratic Socialists 'Communists' MRC Exposes Embarrassing NBC Segment Offering Transgender Trigger Warning MRC Blasts CNN for Whining Over SCOTUS Decision Allowing States to Protect Girls' Sports   MRC Exposes How American Media Prioritizes British Royal Family Over Massive Child Exploitation Scandal American television networks heavily focus foreign reporting on entertainment regarding the British Royal Family rather than on critical global events.  The networks dedicated multiple segments to Prince Harry's travel plans and Prince George's future school attendance instead of covering substantive foreign policy.  Major networks completely ignored a shocking British report detailing the systematic rape of an estimated 250,000 young girls since the 1990s.  The corporate media avoided the horrific grooming scandal because the perpetrators were predominantly Muslim, a demographic the media protects out of political correctness.   MRC Uncovers CNN Anchor Audie Cornish Questioning GOP for Calling Democratic Socialists 'Communists' CNN host Audie Cornish defended the Democratic Socialists of America by asking her panel why Republicans skip straight to using the word communism.  The anchor mocked the Republican branding of socialist candidates by comparing the rhetoric to a scare tactic from the 1950s.  The segment minimized the reality that a prominent New York Democratic Socialist nominee had previously posted online messages favoring Marxist ideology and communist figures.  A Democratic Socialist Senate candidate interviewed on the same program inadvertently validated critics by advocating for government oversight and public takeover of artificial intelligence companies. MRC Exposes Embarrassing NBC Segment Offering Transgender Trigger Warning The Media Research Center caught NBC News issuing an embarrassing trigger warning prior to a report on transgender issues. NBC journalists went out of their way to insist that radical gender transitions are purely personal choices that should be free from public scrutiny. This coddling by network anchors demonstrates a complete lack of journalistic objectivity when covering sensitive cultural topics. MRC research shows that legacy media outlets like NBC continue to prioritize progressive virtue-signaling over hard facts and biological reality.   MRC Blasts CNN for Whining Over SCOTUS Decision Allowing States to Protect Girls' Sports CNN anchors expressed open frustration after the Supreme Court ruled that states have the authority to restrict biological men from competing in female sports.  The network dismissed concerns about fairness in women's sports by choosing to minimize the protections given to biological females.  On-air commentators consistently favored progressive gender politics over the legal rights and physical safety of female athletes.  This biased coverage demonstrates the mainstream media's ongoing refusal to validate traditional values and common-sense legislation.      

National “Public” Radio legal reporter Nina Totenberg turned 82 in January, and she may be losing a step. On Tuesday, as the Supreme Court put out its final opinions of the term, she posted a false report on NPR’s website (and then repeated on air) that Justice Samuel Alito, 76, was calling it quits. “Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the Supreme Court’s opinion reversing Roe v. Wade, is retiring, the court announced Tuesday,” the article began. The court did not announce that. Totenberg had a pre-written analysis of Alito’s tenure on the top court ready to go, but the shocking part is she never called Alito’s office to confirm, which is Journalism 101. The fake news came down within minutes, and on Tuesday night’s All Things Considered, she confessed: TOTENBERG: I did to my boss, and I scared everybody half to death for about five minutes, and it's entirely on me. It's not anybody else's fault. And I've written to Justice Alito to apologize, and I thought I would read you most of this letter, 'cause it tells you everything. (Reading) “Dear Justice Alito, there are no words to adequately apologize for today's error in reporting your retirement. It was entirely my fault. I rushed out of the courtroom after the opinion announcements, and when I realized that the usual rush of folks, after a few minutes, had not happened, I asked somebody what was going on inside, to which the answer was retirement announcements. I didn't hear the S on announcements and assumed - something no reporter should ever do - that you were retiring. It was the worst professional mistake of my more than 50 years in journalism. I could go on, but I don't know what else to say, except that I am so, so sorry.” And I am, eternally. You know, this was a rookie mistake. That's true. In a response, NPR Public Editor Kelly McBride correctly suggested a rookie would be fired for this kind of elementary mistake. One reason Totenberg’s reporting was accepted without any real attempt at NPR to double-check her is the assumption that she is an NPR Legend, and so it must be accurate. She noted that many people began speculating that maybe Alito's retiring later in the week or something, and she just jumped the gun. It's harder to imagine she was just this incompetent. McBride also suggested: “For most news consumers, the error is a blip, something that flashed across their feed or they heard on their radio. It was corrected quickly and will not have lasting consequences.” Totenberg usually plans on reporting that has "lasting consequences," like ruining conservative Douglas Ginsburg's Supreme Court nomination in 1987, and attempting to ruin Clarence Thomas's nomination in 1991 with Anita Hill's unproven claims of sexual harassment. Totenberg was "tick tight" with leftist Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for decades, and even wrote a book about it (Dinners With Ruth) after Ginsburg died. Totenberg is Exhibit A in how NPR is a thoroughly ideological outlet that should never have been funded by the taxpayers.