The latest Megyn Kelly conversation with Emily Jashinsky and Eliana Johnson throws a spotlight on something every decent American already suspects: the liberal media is not merely biased, it is often willfully dishonest and dangerously incurious about stories that matter. Kelly’s show lays out clear examples and ties together how this malpractice shapes public ignorance and corrodes trust in institutions.
Take the ABC-Stephanopoulos fiasco, where sloppy reporting and reckless language landed the network with a $15 million settlement, paid after on-air claims about a legal verdict proved inaccurate. This wasn’t a simple typo or a minor error — it was a massive failure with real-world consequences, and the network’s capitulation shows how expensive newsroom arrogance can be when it’s finally forced to answer for falsehoods.
Meanwhile, supposedly principled outfits like Media Matters have become weapons in an information war, pushing narratives that pressure advertisers and skew the marketplace of ideas. The battle over ads on X and the ensuing lawsuits reveal how left-wing media operatives use influence to punish platforms and silence opposing viewpoints, and the result is less free debate and more corporate kowtowing to political activists.
The Hunter Biden saga is the clearest demonstration of how the establishment media protects the political class rather than informing the public, with evidence once suppressed or downplayed until it became inconvenient to ignore. Congressional probes and investigative reporting have since shown how platforms and newsrooms treated the story, and the public paid a price for the blackout — because when the press decides what voters may or may not know, democracy suffers.
Even individual reporters get exposed when they refuse to do their jobs. The awkward podcast appearance by a Washington Post columnist, in which he stumbled and walked off rather than grapple with uncomfortable facts about the Bidens, is not an outlier — it’s emblematic of an entire culture of intellectual laziness in elite media. That moment should shame every newsroom that still pretends neutrality while reflexively defending the powerful.
The consequence is predictable: a public more confused than informed, civic trust evaporating, and institutions that ought to be guardians of truth acting as partisan PR shops. Conservatives have been warning about this for years, and the evidence keeps piling up — settlements, lawsuits, advertiser boycotts, and humiliating on-air meltdowns all tell the same story. It’s time the American people demanded better from outlets that still pretend to be nonpartisan.
We should not beg gatekeepers for scraps of accuracy; we must build and back independent, principled journalism that tells the whole truth and holds power to account regardless of party. That means supporting local reporting, subscribing to outlets that refuse to traffic in narrative-driven deception, and pushing for newsroom accountability when errors are made. Patriotism in the information age looks like refusing to accept lies packaged as news.
Megyn Kelly, Jashinsky, and Johnson were right to be furious — and conservatives should be proud, not ashamed, of calling out media chicanery. This is about protecting the republic, not protecting a party, because a free people cannot make free choices without honest information. Stand up, pay attention, and demand that the press return to its proper role as watchdog, not spin doctor.
