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BROADCAST BIAS: Media circle the wagons to protect their anti-Trump reporting

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01.02.2026

California Post opinion editor Joel Pollak and The Federalist elections correspondent Brianna Lyman discuss criticism of media's coverage of Minnesota shootings, NBA star Steph Curry's praise for the protests and the launch of the California Post.

The liberal media includes a cadre of media reporters who see their jobs as waging war on any media owner or executive who might move their outlet ever so slightly toward the center. They’re very happy to find their allies inside newsrooms and grant them anonymity to trash anyone who doesn’t see their job as impeaching and jailing President Donald Trump and describing everyone who works for him as Gestapo equivalents.

CBS News under new owner David Ellison and his hand-picked Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss became a hot topic again this week when Weiss held an all-staff meeting to clear the air with all the anonymous sources who are trashing her behind her back. The Daily Beast headline captured their tilt: "MAGA-curious CBS boss dares defiant staffers to quit in tense all-hands." Their headlines on new evening news host Tony Dokoupil tag him as "MAGA-coded."

Critics of this new regime love to predict doom around the corner. The Ringer literally cartooned Weiss’s CBS as "pancaked, Wile E. Coyote–style, against the side of the mountain." Variety’s CBS sources described the network being on the verge of a "death spiral" that is "hard to reverse." CBS News has been in third place for decades, and their audience continues to decline, but only adding viewpoint........

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