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.

ABC, NBC Knock ‘Hardline’ Carson on Political Experience; ‘Issue’ ‘He Will Have to Address’

Curtis Houck | November 3, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. As part of their 2016 coverage on Tuesday night, both ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News took shots at Dr. Ben Carson for his “hardline conservative” stances on issues like abortion when other “issues” like “political experience” will be one that “he will have to address” as the campaign moves along. On NBC Nightly News, senior…

NBC’s Holt Praises Obama’s ‘Pointed Jabs’ at GOPers; ‘Candid Assessment of This Campaign’

Curtis Houck | November 3, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. One day after he pitched a softball to President Obama by asking him if criminal justice reform was “your defining moment” as the country’s first African-American President, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt returned with part two on Tuesday’s newscast by touting Obama’s “pointed jabs” but “candid assessment” of the 2016 Republican field.…

Frank Rich: ‘Fascistic’ GOP Debate Letter Appears ‘to Have Been Drafted by Stalin’

Curtis Houck | November 2, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Appearing on the Monday edition of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, New York writer-at-large Frank Rich denounced the letter written by numerous Republican presidential campaigns to media organizations concerning the format of future debates as “fascistic” and written by “scared little children” but “seem[s] to have been drafted by Stalin.”…

NBC’s Holt to Obama: Is Criminal Justice Reform ‘Your Defining Moment’ as President?

Curtis Houck | November 2, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In his first interview with President Barack Obama since taking over as NBC Nightly News anchor, Lester Holt spoke with President on Monday’s broadcast for a friendly interview as part one gave the President a friendly platform to promote criminal justice reform and his decision to send a small group of U.S. troops into Syria. During a…

Nets Censor Latest Hillary E-Mail Dump, But Find Time for Giant Flying Pumpkin

Curtis Houck | October 30, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Friday evening, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC all ignored the latest dump of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails from the State Department that included the retroactive classification of 268 e-mails that now makes for one out of every 16 e-mails that have been “released” to the public since her private e-mail server scandal was…

ABC, NBC Ignore Forced Abortions in News on China's One-Child Policy Reversal

Curtis Houck | October 30, 2015

Even Jimmy Kimmel Hated Jeb’s Attack on Rubio; ‘Literally No One Outside of Florida Cares’

Curtis Houck | October 30, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. While much of the media ruled that Jeb Bush did not have a satisfactory debate performance on Wednesday, the sentiment stretched even into the late-night comedy shows as ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel panned the “embarrassing” Bush on Thursday for attacking Rubio on an issue “that literally no one outside of Florida cares about” concerning his Senate…

Stelter Blames Conservatives for ‘More Polarization’ by Exposing Liberal Media Bias

Curtis Houck | October 30, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Riding his high horse as CNN’s senior media correspondent, Brian Stelter had a piece on during Thursday’s AC360 in which he lamented how Republican presidential candidates have often attacked the liberal media “to deflect tough, unwelcome questions” plus their conservative supporters have caused “more polarization” in the electorate by not…

Charles Pierce Grumbles GOPers Are 'Unruly, Nasty' Kids; Debate Should Be 'in a Sandbox'

Curtis Houck | October 30, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Making his now semi-frequent appearance on a primetime MSNBC show, lefty blogger Charles Pierce was on Thursday’s All In to trash the 2016 Republican presidential candidates as merely “a bunch of unruly, nasty children” during Wednesday’s CNBC debate and suggested that “the next one” should take place “in a sandbox.” Pierce was egged on by…

CNN's Gergen Blames GOPers for Media Ignoring Holes in Clinton Benghazi Story

Curtis Houck | October 30, 2015

See more in Brad Wilmouth's post on the NewsBusters blog.