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.

Networks Barely Acknowledge Bobby Jindal’s Entrance into the 2016 Presidential Race

Curtis Houck | June 24, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. While Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal became the 12th Republican on Wednesday to join the 2016 Republican presidential field, the top English and Spanish-language network evening newscasts all but dodged Jindal’s decision by providing a total of 54 seconds across English networks ABC, CBS, and NBC. As for the Spanish-language networks,…

Megyn Kelly, Guest Engage in Epic Duel over SPLC’s ‘Women Against Islam’ Hate List

Curtis Houck | June 24, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. During Tuesday’s edition of The Kelly File on the Fox News Channel, host Megyn Kelly and liberal syndicated radio host Richard Fowler spared over a list from the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) that included drawings of women who have denounced radical Islam that include conservative authors Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham. At…

Once Again, Matthews Diminishes Dylann Roof's Personal Responsibility; He 'Inherited' Hate

Curtis Houck | June 24, 2015

See more in Ken Shepherd's post on the NewsBusters blog. It was just a fleeting remark, but quite a telling one. Closing out a segment on his June 23 Hardball program, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews made reference to Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof in a way which diminished the racist terrorist's responsibility for his actions.

O’Reilly Blasts ‘America Haters’ for Trying to Undo ‘the American Compact’

Curtis Houck | June 23, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Tuesday’s O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly used his opening “talking points memo” segment to call out a guest on CNN International and “America haters” who he believes “are succeeding to some extent” in “trying to tear down the racial fabric” of the country by “selling rank propaganda.” Prior to his heated debate with Fox News contributor…

Networks Again Punt on E-Mails Showing Gruber’s Deeper Role with WH on ObamaCare

Curtis Houck | June 22, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. The top English and Spanish-language broadcast networks again ignored on Monday night a new development in the Jonathan Gruber saga as new e-mails have surfaced that revealed how his role with the White House on ObamaCare was more detailed than previously thought. As initially reported by The Wall Street Journal, e-mails given to the House…

Networks Omit How Democratic Governor in S.C. Raised Confederate Flag in 1962

Curtis Houck | June 22, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In their coverage on Monday night of the calls by South Carolina officials to remove the Confederate flag from the State Capitol’s grounds, the major broadcast networks failed to note the full context of the flag’s history in the Palmetto State and how it was a Democratic Governor who first hoisted it above the Capitol dome in 1962. Meanwhile…

Lester Holt Addresses Viewers, Support from Brian Williams on First Night as Nightly News Anchor

Curtis Houck | June 22, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In his first night as the permanent weekday anchor of NBC Nightly News, Lester Holt took time at the conclusion of Monday’s newscast to mention his new job by stating that he’s “honored” to be the “new anchor” and thanked “my friend and colleague Brian Williams for his kind words of support.” With Holt’s name now added to the show’s title,…

Bernie Goldberg Hammers Liberal Media for Blaming Conservatives after Tragedies

Curtis Houck | June 19, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Reacting to the media coverage thus far of the deadly church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, Fox News contributor Bernard Goldberg joined Thursday’s O’Reilly Factor on the Fox News Channel and eviscerated the liberal media for having “a long, detestable history” of using instances of innocent lives being senselessly lost “as an…

Rachel Maddow; ‘I’m Really Happy That Brian Williams Is Coming Here to MSNBC’

Curtis Houck | June 19, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Rachel Maddow became the first member of the MSNBC community on Thursday evening to express her support for recently removed NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams and took time on her eponymous show to opine that she’s “really happy” he will be joining her on the cable network since she “believe[s] in redemption” and “second chances.” After…

CBS, NBC Hype ‘Increasing Mistrust Between Blacks and Whites; ‘Virus’ from ‘60s ‘Never Died’

Curtis Houck | June 19, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Thursday’s network evening newscasts, CBS and NBC did their parts in touting the supposed state of race relations in America with CBS’s Scott Pelley holding up the deadly shooting in Charleston as “com[ing] at a time of increasing mistrust between blacks and whites” while NBC’s Harry Smith proclaimed that the “virus” of racism from the 1960s…