It was a week of close measurement in the media, as President Trump’s speech before the joint session of Congress had many outlets scrambling with condemnation. That said, there were those who managed to stand out in the sheer volume of dysfunctional journalism.
Though the competition was tighter, one outlet earned bottom-rung honors with just enough content to edge out the collection of fractured reports. Let’s get into the carnage.
THE CONTENDERS
CNN – Wolf Blitzer entertained Hakeem Jeffries on his show and allowed him to accuse Trump of doing little at the border, as he tried to take credit for the drop in immigration. Jake Tapper accused Trump of “attacking the opposition” in his speech on Tuesday, ignoring the Democrats spending the prior hour attacking Trump. The network gave a fact-check on the speech, and had to rewrite an entire passage it got wrong concerning research spending.
ABC NEWS – George Stephanopolous tried trapping Secretary of State Marco Rubio, but ended up looking foolish because of the facts. Mary Bruce gave a desperate report about the supposed backlash against Elon Musk and DOGE. Disney announced layoffs in the hundreds, most of which involve the news division.
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO – There was concern over the possible politicization of Voice Of America’s new leadership investigating the slanted coverage of a correspondent; his slanted coverage was not considered political. In an interview with Greg Gutfeld, much of the piece involved outrage at him making racist jokes. David Folkenflik criticized the owner of the LA Times for retweeting a questionable conservative account, the same man who defended NPR’s CEO past of biased posts on social media.
REUTERS – The news syndicate finally came around to the bold admission that net-zero emission standards are an unattainable reality. The outlet’s White House correspondent declared that Trump calling Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas” was the first time a racial slur was uttered to Congress. They put up a fraudulent headline claiming Trump was about to deport hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian residents, based on anonymous sourcing and no evidence.
THE WINNER
MSNBC
Little surprise that the dependably off-kilter outlet was off-kilter all week.
The night of Trump’s speech saw Nicolle Wallace desperately looking at the part with a 13-year-old cancer survivor; she lapsed into January fever dream analysis, in hoping the lad does not commit suicide.
Rachel Maddow was not much better, calling that part of the night “disgusting.”
Chris Hayes hosted a misguided episode where he attempted to help Stacey Abrams clear her name from the USAID controversy, but instead exposed the sham project she was involved with using that money.
Molly Jong-Fast gave a bizarre assessment of the image problems the Democrats have created for themselves, stating that a drop in unbiased news outlets is causing…umm…a lack of biased coverage for the Dems.
In more from Maddow, she jumped on the bandwagon of claims that the Trump administration was wrongfully citing university studies on “transgenic” mice, calling them knuckleheads for the supposed error. She gets it completely wrong, of course.
See you next week, readers!
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