Survey after survey shows that America's newsrooms have a decidedly Leftist bias. And we don't even need surveys to tell us this. A cursory glance at anything put out by NBC, CNN, The Washington Post, or The New York Times makes it clear as day that our national media are, by and large, little more than stenographers and propagandists for the DNC.
Isolated as those Leftists are, they believe that this is not only normal, but the gold standard for all of media, including social media. They cannot fathom a world outside their bubble where people exist who don't think and feel the way they do about politics, and they're incapable of grasping that people actually like and support Republicans — including President Trump — and Republican policies.
But much like a fish, always submerged in water, doesn't know it's wet until it's caught, Democrats have no concept of just how one-sided the media are. Or maybe they do, and they like it that way.
Regardless, the second even one media platform becomes even slightly less progressive, Democrats start flopping and gasping like the fish just jerked out of the lake. The latest such flopper is Jim Acosta, who hilariously thinks our media has somehow been compromised by the Trump administration.
As I’ve been warning, America now has state-compromised media. When 60 Min or CNN is in trouble, we’re all in trouble. Trump has cracked the code in how to hurt the press. Free speech is now at risk. MAGA corporations must not control the news. Support independent media.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) February 27, 2026
Forgive me if I don't take a guy who just wore a frog hat at an anti-State of the Union event all that seriously.
I hope Jim was wearing his Froggy hat when he tweeted this https://t.co/uEguaIs2y6 pic.twitter.com/JT4hMEpPJH
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) February 27, 2026
In Acosta's world, that — whatever that is — passes for acceptable journalism and non-"compromised" media. And we'll even set aside the fact that Acosta closed replies.
So much for free speech, I guess.
What are the offenses of CNN and 60 Minutes, you might wonder, that lead Acosta to call it "compromised"? CBS hired Free Press founder and former New York Times editor Bari Weiss, who doesn't blindly follow the Left's partisan news coverage. She demands standards, a balanced approach, and a measure of journalistic integrity. That's anathema to guys like Acosta.
As to CNN, is Acosta referring to the perfectly reasonable interview Gavin Newsom recently had with Dana Bash? She didn't lick his boots, but instead pressed Newsom on his privileged upbringing. Is that problematic for Acosta? I'd love to know why.
Or it's possible he's referring to the acquisition of Warner Bros./Discovery, which owns CNN, by Paramount. Paramount is led by President Trump's ally David Ellison. The reason, of course, that Warner Bros./Discovery had to be acquired by anyone is the studio was struggling. That includes CNN, which ranks fifth in the major news networks behind Fox and MSNOW, with weekly viewing averages between 500,000 and 900,000.
I'm old enough to remember when Twitter was suspending accounts like mine, or President Trump's, the Left said it was a private company that could do whatever it wanted. That, of course, went away when Elon Musk took over and the Left framed it as an attack on free speech, and the rebirth of "misinformation" and "racism" on the Internet. The concept of free speech never even crossed their mind.
The Left loves to push DEI and demands representation in all things. Except for the media, where just 3.4 percent identify as Republican, that is. Suddenly, the fact that the Left has an ideological capture on the outlets that are supposed to inform the public is no big deal.
The second a company even begins to shift towards representing the 45-50 percent of Americans who vote Republican, guys like Acosta see it as the end of the free, independent press.
It's not, of course.
Independent press came about precisely because guys like Acosta turned CNN and other outlets into bastions of Leftist ideology. Conservatives had no choice but to create their own outlets and, much as they dominated talk radio, they did the same in independent journalism, too.
In the end, what Acosta and his peers are really afraid of isn’t "state-compromised media." It's competition. It’s the idea that Americans might finally be offered something resembling balance, scrutiny, or even mild skepticism toward the Left’s preferred narratives. For decades, they mistook ideological monopoly for journalistic virtue and an accurate representation of American society. Now that the monopoly is cracking, they’re calling it tyranny as they clutch pearls and run around with their hair on fire.