Bill D'Agostino
Bill D'Agostino | January 18, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. When Speaker Pelosi called for the State of the Union address to be postponed, network morning show anchors celebrated it as a “bold” move and a “power play” — until they needed an excuse to criticize the President for retaliating. President Trump responded to Pelosi’s move by cancelling her military flight overseas, prompting those same network hosts…
Bill D'Agostino | January 14, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. On Monday, CNN hosts Chris Cuomo and Van Jones falsely claimed that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer had not said they would never fund the President’s proposed border wall. 
Bill D'Agostino | January 14, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews on Monday insisted multiple times that President Trump was unable to deny that he was a Russian agent – even minutes after playing a clip of the President doing just that.
Bill D'Agostino | January 13, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. This stern chiding of CBS looks somewhat ironic when one considers that Stelter himself works for a network which has never had a female president. All of CNN’s five current and former presidents have been men, and only one of its six top executives is a woman. Furthermore the Turner Broadcasting Network, of which CNN is a subsidiary, also has never…
Bill D'Agostino | January 13, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. CNN’s Brian Stelter on Sunday complained — with a straight face — that some in the news media were not spending enough time covering the Russian collusion narrative. The Reliable Sources host was frustrated that ABC’s Good Morning America had had the temerity to start both its Saturday and Sunday shows talking about other topics, such as weather: “How…
Bill D'Agostino | January 8, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. When Congress in 2006 voted overwhelmingly to construct a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border, TV news networks barely noticed. Perhaps even more surprising to today’s viewers of broadcast news, reporters back then admitted that the border fence worked.
Bill D'Agostino | January 3, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. Broadcast news networks have vocally opposed the President’s border wall since he first discussed the idea during the 2016 election. While the proposed wall has returned to the spotlight thanks to the ongoing government shutdown, the media’s hostility towards it is nothing new. 
Bill D'Agostino | December 27, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. For the sixth straight day, liberal news outlets blew their racism whistles on Thursday at a referee who ordered black high school wrestler to cut his dreadlocks. Journalists on ABC, CBS, and NBC have pointed to the ensuing “outrage” on social media – always an effective barometer for determining the national importance of a story – as evidence that…
Bill D'Agostino | December 26, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. The stand-in hosts of CBS This Morning repeatedly implied on Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security was responsible for the recent death of a detained Guatemalan child. In an interview with U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAaleenan, the second-string anchors asked a series of questions that framed the agency as…
Bill D'Agostino | December 20, 2018
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. Over the past 10 days, journalists on CNN and MSNBC have dutifully repeated the Democrats’ claim that “the walls are closing in” around President Trump. Cable hosts and their guests have used this precise verbiage a total of 50 times since December 10 – and that’s not including the instances in which Democratic politicians have made the same assertion.