It has been a whirlwind of a week for the press, with trying to rationalize a hate-crime murder of Jewish embassy workers, President Trump addressing the killings of South African farmers, and this was taking place while all were attempting to grapple with the fallout of the Jake Tapper book exposing the media cover up of Joe Biden’s condition.
The national media is completely off balance, which means competition was fierce this week, so let’s start mucking around in the media swamps and see who took top (bottom) honors this week.
THE CONTENDERS
NBC News – Peter Alexander was humiliated in the Oval Office for asking an insipid question after Trump showed a video of murdered farmers. Yamiche Alcindor met a similar fate with WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. We were told that even though far-right hate groups were dropping in numbers they are growing in influence at the same time. The network had to correct a report on babies in Gaza dying. We were supposed to be mad at Trump because a princess may not be able to attend Harvard.
The Atlantic – Mark Leibovich may have delivered the most imbalanced explanation for the press scandal of defending Biden’s condition. Jeffrey Goldberg had his good buddy Jake Tapper on his show to discuss the media, saying people who state there was a press cover-up do not understand how journalism works. After months of the press insisting Elon Musk was the actual president, when he has not wielded that power, the outlet has declared it to be a fall from a perch…which he never had.
CBS News – When covering the Tapper book, “The CBS Evening News” pretended the network was not part of the cover-up. The CEO of the news division resigned amid the swelling tensions in the executive suites. Margaret Brennan had a bad week, getting schooled by both Marco Rubio and then Robert Gates on the same program. They desperately tried to make Tom Homan’s security detail a controversy. After Pete Hegseth toughened press access inside the Pentagon, reporter Jim LaPorta asked for DoD officials to reach him on Signal.
Washington Post – We were told that Donald Trump is firing “experts” in government, then the outlet got weepy over the trauma fired government workers experience. The paper that helped hide Biden now says voters should have been more informed. Following the Israeli embassy shooting the site put out a post asking “where Jews belong?” The paper claims Trump is simply ignoring laws, something they were never bothered about with Biden. The Network health correspondent suggested Biden was not previously diagnosed with cancer due to saving money on the tests.
THE WINNER
NEW YORK TIMES
The paper of record made the moronic claim that the government of South Africa is not seizing farmlands, it is merely taking over the farms without compensation.
The paper also disputes Trump’s statements that farmers are being murdered, even though they have been reporting on this detail for decades.
They also tried to equate the South African violence on farmers to Trump using some farming property for his border wall.
Peter Baker impugned Trump with a list of those Trump has indicted, as if most had not broken laws.
After the Israeli embassy shooting, when a killer shouted pro-Palestine dogma, the Times was confused over a motive.
It is a common dig on news outlets to say something like, "Do you even read your own content?" when they manage to make a claim in opposition to its prior coverage.
— Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) May 23, 2025
But how is it a headline writer fails to read the very content they are covering?!?!
The headline:
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