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Jim Acosta Whines Trump Is “Winning” His War on the Press

Appearing on the “Power Lines” podcast with his fellow ardent leftists Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino, Acosta glumly proclaimed “I don’t think it takes a rocket scientist to figure out that Donald Trump is winning in his, you know, quest to reshape the media in this country that he’s cracked the code on how to hurt the press in the U.S.”

Media Play Tokyo Rose While Trump Plays 5-Dimensional Chess

Looking at the media’s coverage of the Iran war, it’s hard to recall when the press has been more dishonest or has more openly sided with America’s enemies. In fact, Tokyo Rose, the WWII Japanese broadcaster whose job was to demoralize allied forces in the Pacific, would marvel at the U.S.  media’s dedication to sowing discouragement.

The Media Is Losing the Media

The Ellison deals for Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery shows that Big Tech money is still buying the media, but unlike the Time, New Republic and Washington Post deals, it’s no longer willing to subsidize dead end woke media properties out of some sense of noblesse oblige.

The State of Our Journalism Is Viciously Anti-Trump

The State of the Union speech is an effective annual exercise to measure how journalists feel about a long speech on national TV by Donald Trump. They hate it intensely, like most children hate broccoli. They would like to scrape that steaming plate into the garbage.

CNN Is “Circling the Drain” as Warner Buyout Heats Up

CNN missed the move to social media, blew it on streaming, and its embrace of 24-hour-a-day nonstop TDS ten years ago just happened to coincide with the loss of nearly two-thirds of their viewers, many of whom are literally captive audiences in airport terminals around the world.

TV News Hammers ICE Border Enforcement with 93% Negative Coverage

MRC analysts pored through every report about the situation in Minneapolis which aired on ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News, from January 7 through January 17, 2026. We found a total of 121 minutes and 26 seconds of coverage devoted to the topic, of which a whopping 93 percent was negative toward federal immigration officials.