Lucas Escala is a Summer Intern with Media Research Center's NewsBusters division. He is a sophomore at Benedictine College majoring in Politics & Government and English. He is a member of his college's Center for Constitutional Liberty Fellows Program.

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So often, the liberal media likes to portray itself as fighting disinformation and fighting for the truth. There is just one problem with that narrative, as Tuesday's CBS Mornings Plus co-hosts Adriana Diaz and Vladimir Duthiers voiced to Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) — they didn’t think there was one objective truth. While interviewing Scott about his recently published book, on Judeo-Christian…
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In recent news, it wasn’t uncommon to hear liberals throw the name Benito Mussolini around for a cheap comparison to whatever they disliked about President Trump. But MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime took it to the next level in their conversation with Ruth Ben-Ghiat, author of Strongmen, asking her where she would rank Trump on a scale from one to the Italian dictator. And her…
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On CBS Mornings Plus Tuesday, co-hosts Vladimir Duthiers and Adriana Diaz, alongside immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez, finally asked themselves whether or not President Donald Trump’s immigration policy was truly as unprecedented as the media made it out to be. Unfortunately, even with all the information to the contrary clearly laid out in front of them, they came to the same…
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MSNBC’s Ari Melber, on his show The Beat Monday, hosted FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez to speak out against the recent Paramount-Skydance merger. Featuring the obviously inflammatory headline “TRUMP VS. 1ST AMENDMENT,” it was clear which way Melber and his guest leaned. The two discussed how the FCC’s typical role in the merger was really an attack against our Constitution. After…
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On Monday’s CBS Mornings Plus, co-hosts Vladimir Duthiers and Adriana Diaz brought on Doctors Without Borders U.S. CEO Avril Benoit to promulgate some absurd theories on the war in Gaza.. Discussing the situation of humanitarian aid in the area, all the blame was on Israel as they ignored Hamas’s role in confiscating the aid for themselves, and the correction the Doctors…
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Like many others in the liberal media, CNN’s The Situation Room co-hosts Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown were quick to jump on the growing wave of fear that somehow spread from a flopping comedy show getting cancelled. In an interview with CNN chief media analyst Brian Stelter, the three expressed their concerns over what Colbert’s cancellation meant for the…
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On MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime, co-hosts Antonia Hylton and Ayman Mohyeldin highlighted the Trump administration’s decision to abandon funding the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ-specific care, a move being called a “dangerous decision to play politics with real young people's lives” by... those contracted to carry out the service.  Of course, the two hosts – with help from their…
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Disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon expressed on his Wednesday podcast that he has had enough of the way legacy media was covering the Texas floods. The problem wasn’t that the media was trying to politicize the event, unnecessarily and inaccurately placing blame on President Trump’s cuts to various government weather agencies. The problem was that the media wasn’t politicizing…
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On her eponymous show Wednesday afternoon, MSNBC’s Chris Jansing decided maybe it was time to stop pointing fingers over the prevention of last weekend’s devastating Texas floods. Jansing didn’t imply that President Trump, who made cuts to the National Weather Service, was at fault. She didn’t place any definitive blame on Texas officials for not having certain warning systems in place…
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While interviewing Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell of California Tuesday morning, CNN News Central co-host Kate Bolduan gave a suggestion straight out of 1984 in order to justify biased reporting. The dystopian world she lived in? One where the White House disagreed with the media’s accusations that cuts to the National Weather Service were directly responsible for the death toll in the…