A “hall of shame” for the media has appeared on the White House website
30 November 2025 16:27
The White House has launched a “Media Criminals” page on its website, which publishes English-language media, as well as links to their articles, which allegedly distort the actions of the US authorities. The project appeared on Saturday, November 29, according to the Wayback Machine online archive, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports citing DW.
The page, published in the Media section, consists of several parts. At the top is the headline “Misleading. Biased. Exposed”, below it are listed the “media criminals of the week” – The Boston Globe, the news department of CBS News, and the American edition of the British newspaper The Independent.
These publications, according to the White House, “misrepresented President Trump’s words by presenting his call to prosecute members of Congress for inciting a riot as if he were calling for their ‘execution.
“Hall of Shame”
The next section was titled “The Offenders’ Hall of Shame”, in which the White House administration published a “list of misleading media reports”. The summary table lists many English-language media outlets, notes that have caused dissatisfaction with the American authorities, and their authors.
For example, one of the accusations against CBS News concerns the fact that the publication in the headline of its article called the deported “nelagal from Cuba, who was detained 27 times,” a “grandfather from Colorado.” And the White House accused Politico of “bias” and “lack of context” because in its article a source called US Presidential Special Envoy Steven Witkoff, who is working on a plan to end the war in Ukraine, incompetent.
“Leaderboard” and “Repeat offenders”
The next section – “Leaderboard” or “descending distillation” – is an animation of the top 7 media outlets by the number of “crimes”. The list is headed by The Washington Post, followed by MSNBC, CBS News, CNN, as well as The New York Times, Politico, and The Wall Street Journal.
The final section is a chart with “repeat offenders”. This is a more expanded version of the Leaderboard, which includes not only other media outlets (such as the Axios news portal, the Associated Press, and the BBC), but also information about the number and nature of each outlet’s “violations.” For example, the political and pop culture news portal The Daily Beast has only one “violation,” but three accusations at once – of “bias, left-wing lunacy, and lies.”
