1 week ago 2025 lookback: Matthew Dowd fired by MSNBC after bizarre Charlie Kirk commentary

A stunning media saga unfolded in 2025 when MSNBC fired political analyst Matthew Dowd for suggesting "hateful" rhetoric from Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk led to his own assassination.

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2 w. ago 2025 lookback: Media's credibility fractures again after Biden mental decline exposed

Videos of President Biden freezing up or appearing confused at various events went viral throughout 2024, but the White House aggressively pushed back, and liberal reporters bought the story.

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2 w. ago 2025 lookback: Quitting or fired liberal journalists opt for the independent route

Joy Reid, Jim Acosta and several other prominent media figures left corporate or mainstream positions to launch independent, more outspokenly liberal ventures.

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2 w. ago 2025 lookback: ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel briefly suspended by Disney after Charlie Kirk remarks

One of the most shocking moments of 2025 came in September when Disney announced ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel would be preempted "indefinitely," in what turned out to be a short-lived benching.

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2 w. ago 2025 lookback: CBS pulls plug on Stephen Colbert's liberal late

The entertainment industry was stunned when CBS announced in July that the liberal-leaning "Late Show with Stephen Colbert" would end in 2026.

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2 w. ago 2025 lookback: Trump yanks federal funding from NPR in move conservative advocates said was long overdue

NPR was long lambasted by President Trump and other Republicans as a left-leaning institution that didn’t deserve taxpayer money, and after years of banter, federal funding was cut in 2025.

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