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 | May 17, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews is no stranger to awkward and bizarre outbursts of affection for liberals (plus the occasional fellow cable host) and so Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown (Ohio) could be added to the list as he professed his admiration during Tuesday’s live coverage of the Kentucky and Oregon primaries with a full-blown…
Curtis Houck | May 15, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On the first Sunday morning political talk shows since the Facebook trending topics scandal broke, the major network Sunday shows and CNN's State of the Union (with NBC's Meet the Press preempted for a Barclay's Premiere League game) failed to cover or debate this reported suppression of conservative stories by the social media behemoth.…
Curtis Houck | May 13, 2016
See more in Randy Hall's post on the NewsBusters blog.
Curtis Houck | May 13, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. David Rutz of Washington Free Beacon came across the latest mind-baffling statement by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews early Friday afternoon when he remarked to Trump surrogate Dr. Ben Carson that non-white people are handicapped similar to how some develop or are born with “physical handicap or they’re born to poverty.” If that statement wasn’t…
Curtis Houck | May 13, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Friday morning, NBC’s Today completely ignored a statement published late Thursday night by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg denying claims that his site has censored conservative news stories and promoted some topics as trending even though they weren’t.  CBS This Morning and ABC’s Good Morning America devoted full stories to defending…
Curtis Houck | May 12, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthew has offered NewsBusters readers perhaps the largest library of ridiculous statements over the years but his segment topics took a bizarre turn on Wednesday when he devoted an entire block to Hillary Clinton’s interest in releasing documents pertaining to Area 51 and the chances that aliens exist inside the U.…
Curtis Houck | May 11, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. MSNBC political analyst and former Democratic Vermont Governor Howard Dean attempted on two occasions during Wednesday’s Hardball to further the extremely flawed and borderline irresponsible claim that Donald Trump’s candidacy is similar to that of 1964 GOP presidential nominee Barry Goldwater.  Host Chris Matthews was discussing Trump’s…
Curtis Houck | May 10, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Early in Tuesday’s live coverage of the Nebraska and West Virginia primaries, MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews perpetuated the notion that Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton “is a safe, sort of centrist Democrat” just like Walter Mondale and “not much different from Obama” aside from a more “hawkish” foreign policy.  While…
Curtis Houck | May 9, 2016
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In an utterance that could only be described as outrageous and irresponsible, MSNBC hosts Tamron Hall and Thomas Roberts went unchallenged by their combined four guests Monday morning and afternoon as they claimed that Bill Clinton’s voluminous instances of marital infidelity were just “alleged affairs” or “alleged misconduct” in context of…
Curtis Houck | May 6, 2016
See more in P.J. Gladnick's post on the NewsBusters blog.