Don’t miss your chance to engage in our new, fun interactive series called Worst Media Take of the Week, where you — our loyal NewsBusters visitors and MRC supporters — get to vote on which leftist journalist or celebrity had the worst media take of the week.
Much appreciation to all who voted last week via NewsBusters and the MRC’s various social media sites (Facebook, Instagram and X.com).
The results of the Worst Media Take of the Week are in and the winner is…
Chuck Todd!
Todd won with 44 percent of the vote for his overheated bloviating about how FCC Chairman Brendan Carr “decided to just blow up the First Amendment, and has made CBS state TV.” Former CBS anchor Connie Chung finished in second place for her wacky talk about Fox News people needing ankle monitors with 31 percent. New Yorker scribe Susan Glasser took third with 25 percent.
Here again is our montage of the worst takes:
WINNER (44 percent of the vote)
Chuck Todd: Trump Administration Has Turned CBS Into “State TV”
“So, when you—this Brendan Carr at the FCC, who has now decided to just blow up the First Amendment, and has made CBS state TV. The restrictions that have been put on CBS now make it state television.…
But he wants a bias monitor. Well, biased through whose prism? Is CBS, is he gonna look out to make sure CBS does a percentage of programming that’s communist, a percentage of programming that’s fascist, a percentage of programming that’s MAGA, a percentage of programming that’s progressive, a percentage of programming that is quote ‘centrist,’ that is not, who’s, what are his qualifications?
— Former anchor of NBC’s Meet The Press, Chuck Todd on his podcast, July 28.
SECOND PLACE (31 percent of the vote)
Connie Chung: Fox Anchors Need “Ankle Monitors”
“I think they should be putting ankle bracelets on – ankle monitors on certain anchors at certain cable stations in prime time. Those are the culprits.”
— Ex-CBS anchor Connie Chung on CNN News Central, July 25.
THIRD PLACE (25 percent of the vote)
Susan Glasser: Republicans “Lost Their Souls” To Support Trump
“You know, these are people who’ve lost their souls. And, you know, ultimately it’s for a political power that may or may not last more than, you know, two or four years. And you got to ask, you know, was it really worth it for them?”
The New Yorker Staff Writer Susan Glasser on PBS’s Washington Week With The Atlantic, July 24.
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