The Trump White House launched a new "Media Bias" section on its official website on Friday featuring a "Media Offender of the Week" spotlight and "Hall of Shame" leaderboard aimed at calling out what it calls "false and misleading stories" from mainstream media.
The inaugural weekly offenders include David Ellison-owned CBS News—despite the president's recent praise for its leadership—alongside The Boston Globe and The Independent, accused of misrepresenting Trump's comments on "sedition" by six Democratic lawmakers.
The page, accessible at whitehouse.gov/mediabias, lists dozens of specific TV segments, articles, and reporters, with categories like "bias," "lie," and "left wing lunacy," and invites users to "Scroll for the Truth" while signing up for "Offender Alerts" newsletters.
CBS News, now under Paramount Global CEO David Ellison and editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, tops the weekly list for coverage of a video by Sens. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), and four other Democrats urging military personnel to disobey "illegal orders" and uphold their oaths. The White House claims outlets falsely portrayed Trump's response—labeling the video a "sick plot" for rebellion—as a call for the lawmakers' "execution," when it was allegedly just accountability for "inciting sedition."
Named reporters include CBS's Nancy Cordes, The Boston Globe's Alyssa Vega, and The Independent's Andrew Feinberg and Eric Garcia. The Hall of Shame leaderboard ranks The Washington Post (owned by Jeff Bezos) as No. 1, followed by CNN (potentially soon under Ellison influence via a Warner Bros. Discovery bid), MSNBC (rebranded as MS Now), and a rotating cast of "repeat offenders" like The New York Times, Politico, BBC, ABC News, and USA Today.
This move escalates Trump's long-running feud with the press, whom he has dubbed the "enemy of the people," amid data from the Media Research Center showing 92% negative coverage of his administration in early 2025. The inclusion of CBS is particularly notable: Ellison, son of Trump ally Larry Ellison (Oracle co-founder), acquired Paramount in summer 2025 with FCC approval under Trump appointee Brendan Carr, settling a $16M lawsuit over a edited 60 Minutes Kamala Harris interview.