NewsBusters Managing Editor
CurtisHouck

Curtis Houck currently serves as the Managing Editor of NewsBusters after almost two years as a news analyst in the Media Research Center’s News Analysis Division. During that time, he served as the sole evening news analyst, chronicling the best and worst of the network evening newscasts, primetime cable shows, and late-night comedy programs. From January 2016 to April 2016, he also acted as the Sunday news analyst for NewsBusters.

In the eight years that he's been with NewsBusters, his work has been featured on various Fox News Channel programs and outlets such as The Blaze, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, Drudge Report, The Federalist, FoxNews.com, Los Angeles TimesThe Mark Levin Show, Mediaite, New York Times, Red State, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Resurgent, TownhallWashington Examiner, Washington Free Beacon, The Washington PostThe Washington Times, and The Wrap. He’s also made over 200 television appearances on the Fox News Channel, Newsmax, One America News Network, America's Voice, Cheddar, Fox 5 D.C., NRA-TV, and over 700 radio appearances from coast to coast on both local and syndicated programs. His articles and tweets have been shared by conservative leaders such as Dan Bongino, Erick Erickson, Greg Gutfeld, Mark Levin, Kayleigh McEnany, Stephen Miller, Dave Rubin, Ryan Saavedra, and Ben Shapiro.

He returned full-time to the MRC after serving in summer 2013 as an intern with CNS News. Curtis is a 2014 graduate of Penn State University with Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and Political Science. He also had the pleasure of interning with The Heritage Foundation in fall 2013. A proud native of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania, Curtis is also an Eagle Scout and lives in Vienna, Virginia.

Curtis Houck | September 11, 2014
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.On Thursday’s NBC Nightly News, senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing provided not only spin favorable to President Obama a day after his prime time speech on ISIS, but also suggested that this could help the President in the midterm elections.At the conclusion of her report, Jansing told viewers that: "It's a war the President…
Curtis Houck | September 11, 2014
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.After President Obama’s speech to the nation on Wednesday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow asked NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel what he thought of President Obama’s analogy that the U.S. strategy in fighting terrorism in Yemen and Somalia would carry over to dealing with the Islamic terrorist group ISIS in both Iraq and Syria…
Curtis Houck | September 11, 2014
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.After President Obama’s speech to the nation on Wednesday night, CNN brought on its newly-minted senior political commenator and former Obama White House Press Secretary Jay Carney and Republican Senator John McCain (Ariz.) to comment on what the President’s speech regarding U.S policy in dealing withy the Islamic terrorist group ISIS. However…
Curtis Houck | September 10, 2014
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.After President Obama’s speech on confronting the Islamic terrorist group ISIS on Wednesday night, each of the major broadcast networks offered some brief analysis before returning to regularly scheduled programming. Over on CBS, Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer anchored that network’s coverage and had nothing but good things to say in the…
Curtis Houck | September 9, 2014
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.On Tuesday night, ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir and NBC Nightly News omitted from their coverage any mention that President Obama’s upcoming speech to the country on Wednesday night will not include some crucial details on how he plans to go about defeating the Islamic terrorist group ISIS. In contrast, the CBS Evening News offered a…
Curtis Houck | September 9, 2014
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.Tuesday evening marked a return to ignoring President Obama’s poll numbers for ABC News as its evening newscast, ABC World News Tonight with David Muir, failed to report on the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll and its findings.Over on CBS, it continued to ignore these poor numbers as the CBS Evening News made no mention of them on its…
Curtis Houck | September 9, 2014
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.Appearing on Monday night’s Late Show with David Letterman, liberal talk show host Bill Maher joked with Letterman and the audience about the droughts in California (where he lives) and after suggesting global warming was killing off fish but not jellyfish, he drew laughs from the audience when he said that “[t]he future looks bright if you’re…
Curtis Houck | September 8, 2014
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.Beginning on Monday afternoon, Democrat and former Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin began a 10 year prison sentence on corruption charges that were as result of his actions following the landfall of Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding of the city in August 2005.When it came to reporting on the story during either their evening newscasts,…
Curtis Houck | September 4, 2014
Appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman on Wednesday night, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) faced no sort of challenging questions or oppositions from the liberal late-night talk show host. Whether it were being asked to explain “her background,” what she thought transpired during the 2008 financial crisis, or federal student loan interest rates, Warren was able to espouse her…
Curtis Houck | September 3, 2014
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.Filling in for Alex Wagner on her MSNBC show Wednesday, Luke Russert had a segment on NFL player and defensive end Michael Sam, who was signed earlier in the day to the Dallas Cowboys after being released by the St. Louis Rams on Saturday. Russert opined that the reason there was a delay before Sam was signed by another team was not because of…