Pollak: The Public Responsibility of a Political Journalist
A journalist has a duty to report the truth, and to hold the media to account. But a journalist is also a member of a community, and a citizen of a nation.

A journalist has a duty to report the truth, and to hold the media to account. But a journalist is also a member of a community, and a citizen of a nation.

Fact check – CLAIM: NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander claims he asked the president to calm Americans, and he lashed out.
VERDICT: False. Alexander first asked whether the president was giving Americans “false hope.”

“Is it possible that your impulse to put a positive spin on things may be giving Americans a false sense of hope and misrepresenting preparedness right now?” Alexander asked.

To sum this up, the fake news media floods these words and terms into the American lexicon, and then sanctimoniously turns around and attacks those who repeat them as racist.

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Wednesday doubled down on his belief that the nation has hit a pivotal point in combating the coronavirus pandemic.

A Today show staffer has contracted the Chinese coronavirus, leading co-hosts Craig Melvin and Al Roker to temporarily go off-air, co-anchor Savannah Guthrie announced on Monday.

Late-night shows including those of NBC’s Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers have announced they will shut down production in the wake of the Coronavirus.

Late-night comedy shows hosted by Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Trevor Noah, and others will reportedly tape without in-studio audiences as network producers seek to implement social distancing in response to the spread of the coronavirus.

NBC has rebuffed ESPN’S requests to let host Al Michaels out of his contract so he can join the cable network’s Monday Night Football broadcast.

The official start to free agency is less than two weeks away. Though, if a new report is true, the biggest acquisition surrounding the NFL may take place in the broadcast booth, not on the football field.

Thursday on NBC’s “Today,” 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden took aim at President Donald Trump, saying he can “hardly wait to debate” the president should he go on to win the Democratic presidential nomination.

It’s been quite a couple of weeks for former NHL star Jeremy Roeninck: Last week, the former Blackhawk and Coyote was let go by NBC. This week, he got a shout-out from the most powerful man in the world.

The Democrat presidential candidates launched at least 50 different attacks that, at times, appeared to overwhelm the NBC debate moderators.

The collapse of the Russian and Ukrainian impeachment hoaxes has left a huge void to fill in the left’s ceaseless war on the will of the American voter.

NBC has fired hockey analyst Jeremy Roenick after “inappropriate” comments made last year about one of his co-workers.

During Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary coverage on NBC’s “Today,” network host and foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell weighed in on former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign.

During the roundtable discussion segment of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” former “Nightly News” anchor Tom Brokaw admitted his skepticism of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) chances at the presidency, especially with the success of the economy.

“Saturday Night Live” sent former Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz to “hell” in a sketch this weekend — shortly before Dershowitz is due to defend President Donald Trump in his Senate impeachment trial this week.

Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, during Monday’s “Today” on NBC discussed the 2020 presidential election and his decision to enter the race.

Monday, 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg said if he were a senator, he “would vote to convict” President Donald Trump in the upcoming Senate impeachment tri

Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday shared some insight into the briefing the day before on the Iran airstrikes which killed Iran Gen. Qasem Soleimani.

NBCUniversal’s reboot of the classic 90’s teen comedy “Saved by the Bell” will feature transgender teen Josie Totah in its lead role.

Left-wing pop icon Cher has warned that “evil” President Donald Trump makes liberal journalists such as Chuck Todd “kowtow” to him by creating an atmosphere of fear within the mainstream media.

NBC Sports has taken action against hockey analyst Jeremy Roenick for repeatedly making “inappropriate comments” about his co-workers during a recent podcast.

Saturday, during his monologue hosting NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” Eddie Murphy took a jab at Bill Cosby. “If you told me 30 years ago that I’d be this boring stay at home house dad and Bill Cosby would be in

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has charged NBC’s ‘Saturday Night Live’ of being “very sexist” when she was a cast member in the 1980s.

NBC arrogantly refuses to clean up its act, and now it has another major #MeToo problem on its hands with Gabrielle Union. Union claims she was fired from Simon Cowell’s America’s Got Talent for being “difficult” during her one season, the 14th, on the show.

Celebrities and Hollywood stars took to social media over the Thanksgiving holiday to express their solidarity with actress Gabrielle Union and attack NBC after the network removed her as a judge from America’s Got Talent.

Wednesday night’s Democrat debate hosted by MSNBC garnered the lowest ratings out of the five other debates this year, according to early Nielsen numbers.

“Saturday Night Live” cast member Bowen Yang wants baked goods giant Sara Lee to lighten up following a raunchy, gay-themed sketch starring pop star and actor Harry Styles that poked fun of the brand’s squeaky clean image.

NBC’s “Will & Grace,” starring virulent leftist actress Debra Messing, fell to a new ratings low, this week.

An Emmy-winning former NBC medical correspondent has been accused of asking a nine-year-old girl for sexually explicit photos.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley defended President Donald Trump amid the House Democrats’ push for impeachment in a Tuesday appearance on NBC’s “Today.” Haley argued that when looking at the accusations against Trump of a quid pro

One of ESPN’s senior writers says the NFL’s annual recognition of America’s veterans reveals “a staggering level of hypocrisy.”

NBC analyst former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) on Tuesday cautioned voters and politicians alike to shift their focus from national polling to state by state polling if they want to win the presidency in 2020 after pundits were fooled by

Reporters never can tell exactly what they’re going to be confronted with, or what they’re going to have blown in their face, when they report in the field.

A judge has reversed his ruling and allowed Covington Catholic’s Nick Sandmann to proceed with his lawsuit against the Washington Post.

Actor and “Saturday Night” Live cast member Pete Davidson appeared in a sketch thanking Alec Baldwin’s President Trump for “bringing jobs back to ISIS” just as reports surfaced that President Donald Trump had ordered U.S. military forces to conducted a raid that ended with the death of the murderous ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Alec Baldwin made a return to “Saturday Night Live,” reprising his role as Donald Trump as the show took aim at the president’s voters.

Rich McHugh, a former NBC News producer for Ronan Farrow’s short-lived television program, appeared on Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson Tonight and accused the network of mishandling reports of “#MeToo” allegations against disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein.
