Curtis Houck

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 Times, The Mark Levin Show, Mediaite, New York Times, Red State, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Resurgent, Townhall, Washington Examiner, Washington Free Beacon, The Washington Post, The 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.

CNN Panel Makes Gallup Poll on Lack of Trust in the Media All About Trump, Ignore Huge Factors

Curtis Houck | September 19, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. As many have probably seen by now, Gallup released a poll on September 14 that a record-low percentage of the American people trust the media and, naturally, CNN’s Reliable Sources on Sunday addressed it, but the 11-minute segment made it another obsessive discussion of Donald Trump’s hostility toward them and ignored key factors such as…

NYT's Maureen Dowd: My Liberal Friends Want Donald Trump Censored

Curtis Houck | September 18, 2016

Hypocrites: CNN Fears Trump Will Treat Press Like Saddam, Omits Their Pro-Saddam History in Iraq

Curtis Houck | September 16, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Speaking of the hysterical outrage machine being turned up to a 10 after Donald Trump’s birtherism statement Friday morning, the pathetic behavior by the media continued into the afternoon as CNN host Ashleigh Banfield and media reporter Dylan Byers worried that Donald Trump and his supporters could undermine the media to the point that the…

CNN’s King, Tapper: ‘We Just Got Played’ by Trump and His ‘Political Rick-Roll’ on Birtherism

Curtis Houck | September 16, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Needless to say, the media were besides themselves on Friday in turning up the outrage machine at Donald Trump for dragging out his birtherism statement and aside from his lack of an apology for perpetuating the asinine belief about President Obama, few were willing to own up to their role in going along with Trump’s media circus. After Trump…

Pathetic MSNBC Runs Promo of Hillary Telling Andrea Mitchell She’s ‘My Kind of Woman’; ‘Love you!’

Curtis Houck | September 15, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. We at NewsBusters have chronicled some head-scratching promos in the last year by MSNBC but the most asinine and fawning one began airing recently featuring Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton telling MSNBC host/NBC News correspondent Andrea Mitchell at a press conference that she loves her and resembles “my kind of woman” who’s “…

Shapiro Takes Down Stelter Over Media Bias, Fact-Checking Hillary on E-Mails, Health Scares (Pt. 2)

Curtis Houck | September 15, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The heart of the debate and the further divulging of opinions came when fill-in host Andrew Ross Sorkin broadened the discussion to whether the media is biased with Ben Shapiro succinctly informing viewers that there’s both conscious and unconscious biases that can be first chalked up to the personal biases that reporters have. “[T]here is…

Shapiro Takes Down Stelter Over Media Bias, Fact-Checking Hillary on E-Mails, Health Scares (Pt. 1)

Curtis Houck | September 15, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. One of the more interesting and fulfilling debates concerning media bias took place on Wednesday night’s Charlie Rose on PBS as fill-in host Andrew Ross Sorkin moderated a debate between CNN’s Reliable Sources host Brian Stelter and Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro with the latter firmly denouncing the inability for the media to fact-check Hillary…

Matthews: It ‘Makes Me Happy’ and ‘Mirthful’ That Colin Powell Hates the Cheneys

Curtis Houck | September 14, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. When it comes to MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews, one constant throughout the last decade plus with him has always been an obsessive dislike of former Vice President Dick Cheney and his family with Wednesday offering the latest installment as he admitted to his guests that it “makes me happy” and even “mirthful” that Colin Powell’s leaked…

Williams: Obama Is ‘Communicator Who Can Deliver...Unlike Anything We Have Ever Seen’

Curtis Houck | September 14, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In the hours following President Barack Obama’s campaign stop for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday afternoon in Philadelphia, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews was beyond giddy at the “magical” stump speech but he was later joined by Brian Williams, who declared on The 11th Hour that Obama will go down as “a communicator who can deliver” enthusiasm “unlike…

Matthews, Clinton Author on What ‘Drives’ the Clintons: ‘They Really Want to Change the World’

Curtis Houck | September 13, 2016

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. As if MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews had done enough fawning over liberals in President Obama on Tuesday night, he dialed up the eye-rolling worship once again with the help of former Salon columnist Joe Conason to tout the latter’s new pro-Bill Clinton book and oozed praise for how the Clintons are driven by their desires “to change the…