Curtis Houck

NewsBusters Managing Editor

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Curtis Houck currently serves as the Managing Editor of NewsBusters after almost two years as a news analyst in the Media Research Center’s News Analysis Division. During that time, he served as the sole evening news analyst, chronicling the best and worst of the network evening newscasts, primetime cable shows, and late-night comedy programs. From January 2016 to April 2016, he also acted as the Sunday news analyst for NewsBusters.

In the eight years that he's been with NewsBusters, his work has been featured on various Fox News Channel programs and outlets such as The Blaze, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, Drudge Report, The Federalist, FoxNews.com, Los Angeles Times, The Mark Levin Show, Mediaite, New York Times, Red State, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Resurgent, Townhall, Washington Examiner, Washington Free Beacon, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, and The Wrap. He’s also made over 200 television appearances on the Fox News Channel, Newsmax, One America News Network, America's Voice, Cheddar, Fox 5 D.C., NRA-TV, and over 700 radio appearances from coast to coast on both local and syndicated programs. His articles and tweets have been shared by conservative leaders such as Dan Bongino, Erick Erickson, Greg Gutfeld, Mark Levin, Kayleigh McEnany, Stephen Miller, Dave Rubin, Ryan Saavedra, and Ben Shapiro.

He returned full-time to the MRC after serving in summer 2013 as an intern with CNS News. Curtis is a 2014 graduate of Penn State University with Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and Political Science. He also had the pleasure of interning with The Heritage Foundation in fall 2013. A proud native of Lancaster County in Pennsylvania, Curtis is also an Eagle Scout and lives in Vienna, Virginia.

NBC Declines to Label Gunmen in TX Terror Shooting ‘Islamic Extremists’ or ‘Terrorists’

Curtis Houck | May 5, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In covering the failed terrorist attack at a Prophet Mohammad cartoon event in Texas, NBC neglected to describe the two gunmen on Monday evening as “Islamic extremists” or “terrorists” while all three English networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) prominently touted the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) description of AFDI as an “anti-Muslim” or “anti…

ABC, CBS, Spanish Nets Ignore News That Hillary Will Testify Before Benghazi Committee

Curtis Houck | May 4, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. On Monday night, English-language networks ABC and CBS joined Spanish-language networks MundoFox, Telemundo, and Univision in ignoring the news that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has finally agreed to testify before the House Select Committee on Benghazi regarding the 2012 terror attack in Libya and her usage of a private e-mail…

Nets Downplay 2016 Presidential Announcements of Republicans Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina

Curtis Houck | May 4, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Following the announcements from Republicans Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina that they will each be running for president, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC showed no interest in giving extensive to either candidate during their Monday evening newscasts with a combined one minute and 10 seconds of news briefs devoted to new 2016 candidates.…

Jake Tapper Asks O’Malley If Baltimore ‘Shows that Liberal Policies Are Failing Urban America’

Curtis Houck | May 1, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. During an exclusive interview with former Baltimore Mayor and Maryland Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley on Thursday’s edition of The Lead on CNN, host Jake Tapper asked the possible presidential candidate for what he thinks of “conservatives who say, this shows that liberal policies are failing urban America.” In addition to discussing the…

Seth Meyers Cheers Iranian Foreign Minister’s ‘Well-Done’ Response to Tom Cotton’s Tweets

Curtis Houck | May 1, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. During a segment early Friday morning about Twitter, NBC’s Late Night host Seth Meyers praised Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif’s reaction to series of tweets from Republican Senator Tom Cotton (Ark.) as “well-done” and admitting that he was “very impressed” with Zarif’s use of “reverse criticism.” Transitioning from talking about a…

NBC Hails Bernie Sanders as ‘Not Your Typical Blow-Dried Politician’; ABC, CBS Drop Socialist Label

Curtis Houck | April 30, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. All six of the major English and Spanish broadcast networks covered the news on Thursday night that independent Senator Bernie Sanders (Vt.) will seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, but only NBC Nightly News chose to label him a “socialist” after ABC and CBS had previously done so on Thursday morning. While correspondent and…

ABC’s WNT, NBC NN Blackout of Clinton Foundation Scandal Hits One Week

Curtis Houck | April 30, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. With the coming and going of the network evening newscasts on Thursday, the Clinton Foundation scandal blackout stretched into a full week since it was last covered on ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir and NBC Nightly News while the CBS Evening News covered twice in the same time span. Following a 20-second news brief on Monday…

CNN’s Marc Lamont Hill: Police Officers Are Bad Apples Acting as ‘an Occupying Force in the Hood’

Curtis Houck | April 30, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. Late Wednesday on CNN Tonight, CNN commentator Marc Lamont Hill verbally attacked police officers once again as he decried the notion that there are only a few “bad apples” in law enforcement and that they instead serve as “an occupying force in the hood.” Two nights after he hailed the violence on the streets of Baltimore as “uprisings”…

ABC, NBC Continue to Dodge Bad News on the Economy; Nets Again Skip Recovered IRS E-Mails

Curtis Houck | April 29, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. In the Wednesday edition of bias by omission, five of the English and Spanish network evening newscasts again refused to report on a troubling sign for the U.S. economy while all six omitted any mention of a new development in the IRS scandal. After completely ignoring the story all together Wednesday morning, the CBS Evening News stepped up…

NBC’s Ron Allen Touts How ‘Eloquently’ Baltimore Protesters Chanted ‘No Justice, No Peace’

Curtis Houck | April 29, 2015

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. At the top of Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News, correspondent Ron Allen reported from the streets of Baltimore with the crowd protesting the death of Freddie Gray and gushed that the crowd was “so loudly and eloquently” chanting “no justice, no peace” like those had done in Ferguson, Missouri a few months ago. In the moments prior, Allen…