On Inauguration Day, we are already chronicling the bitter media tears that Donald Trump the 'Fascist Threat to Democracy' is coming in and Joe Biden has to be nice to him. Even last-minute pardons for influence-peddling Biden family members was given a bizarrely positive spin.

A jury in Panama City, Florida found CNN guilty of defamation in the case of Zachary Young, who worked to rescue people from Afghanistan after America withdrew. CNN must pay $5 million in damages (not counting punitive damages). Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro has been in the courtroom to explain it all. 

Senate Democrats brought out the slime buckets for the Pete Hegseth confirmation hearing on Tuesday. The journalists call it "tense," but we might call the Democrats "unglued." Trump's nominees are receiving much harsher media treatment than Biden's nominees four years ago. Bill D'Agostino marvels at the sight.  

CNN touted a former CNN producer from the "fact-checking" site Lead Stories saying Facebook cutting them is like "disbanding your fire department." That's wrong, and deeply insensitive. The media are now crying "disinformation" when anyone seeks to blame Democrats for their preparedness before the Los Angeles wildfires.

NewsBusters reported that five late-night comedy shows uncorked almost 6,000 jokes against Trump to about 1,110 about Joe Biden (and only 92 about Kamala Harris). All this allegedly hilarious hostility failed to prevent Trump from getting re-elected. Our comedy analyst Alex Christy has crunched all the late-night numbers and analysis of the Keystone Cops of comedy.

Mark Zuckerberg fired the so-called "independent fact-checkers" from the Meta websites. He said they're so biased they "destroyed more trust than they created." Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider says this is a big victory.

Surprisingly, the networks weren't riveted by President Biden awarding a presidential medal to Liz Cheney (and Democrat Bennie Thompson) for their work on the Pelosi-Picked Panel on January 6. One newspaper preposterously said the medals were part of Biden's "push for bipartisanship and decency in politics." This is pure publicity, claiming that Biden's been decent and bipartisan to the Republicans.

Filmmaker Adam McKay -- best known for making films like "Anchorman" with Will Ferrell -- comes unglued on Twitter, suggesting the movie musical "Wicked" is all about radicalization and fascism, so "If America keeps going on the track it is I wouldn’t be surprised to see the movie banned in 3-5 years." Which movies were banned under Trump in the first term?

Is CNN toast in 2025? Is MSNBC going to flounder? They're nervous on the Left about the legacy media being replaced by podcasters and the like. But if the usual pattern holds, the leftist base of these networks will return once Trump is inaugurated. We can hope they'll have a small audience in the long run if they're sticking to leftist propaganda.

Some media outlets aren’t interesting in wishing you a Merry Christmas. They use the occasion to suggest the Christmas story is bunk. But taxpayer-funded NPR will eagerly promote a pagan "High Priestex" at the Winter Solstice.