NewsBusters Managing Editor
CurtisHouck

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 TimesThe Mark Levin Show, Mediaite, New York Times, Red State, The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Resurgent, TownhallWashington Examiner, Washington Free Beacon, The Washington PostThe 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.

Curtis Houck | June 27, 2014
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.During Thursday’s edition of The Situation Room on CNN, host Wolf Blitzer committed an act of journalism in grilling IRS Commissioner John Koskinen with question after question about the growing IRS e-mail scandal. His questioning included one where he asked (via a Twitter follower), “[w]hy shouldn’t taxpayers use the crashed hard drive excuse…
Curtis Houck | June 27, 2014
On Thursday's Today, NBC host Matt Lauer walked into trouble with the feminists by asking GM CEO Mary Barra if she could be a mother and a CEO and do both jobs well -- causing every liberal to pull out the "you don't ask the males that."
Curtis Houck | June 26, 2014
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.Thursday’s edition of CBS This Morning featured the latest installment in the media’s love affair with President Barack Obama. CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante switched course from a constructive work of journalism he did Tuesday to a fluff piece on how Obama uses letters Americans send to the White House “to construct his…
Curtis Houck | June 25, 2014
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.On Wednesday, NBC’s Today was the only broadcast network morning news show to give coverage to House Speaker John Boehner’s lawsuit against President Obama. Today devoted 19 seconds to the story, while both ABC and CBS ignored it completely.During the 7:00 a.m. news brief, NBC national correspondent Peter Alexander reported that Boehner was…
Curtis Houck | June 25, 2014
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.On Tuesday night’s edition of his PBS show, Charlie Rose interviewed former Vice President Dick Cheney and pushed him to “give the president some credit for trying” to negotiate for a contingent of American troops to stay in Iraq after the status of forces agreement expired in 2011. Later, Rose defended the president’s move to leave no residual…
Curtis Houck | June 24, 2014
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.It turns out Vice President Joe Biden's claim that he's not wealthy and does not own any stocks, bonds, or a savings account isn't entirely true. Unfortunately, only one network did the work to debunk his statement from the White House Summit on Working Families yesterday. CBS This Morning was the only broadcast network show on either Monday…
Curtis Houck | June 23, 2014
Mark Halperin, a frequent panelist on MSNBC's Morning Joe, made an intriguing observation on Monday's show about the IRS scandal. After saying that the recent news regarding destroyed hard drive belonging to former IRS official Lois Lerner would be "a test for the news media," Halperin took a stance on the scandal that few on the cable channel would dare take. "I think with a different…
Curtis Houck | June 20, 2014
On Friday’s edition of CNN Newsroom with Don Lemon, host Don Lemon and CNN chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash made some unusual remarks in agreeing with a Republican in the form of Representative Paul Ryan's questioning of an IRS commissioner. However, Bash later retreated to downplaying one of the many scandals facing the Obama administration because the GOP is "so mad about it."
Curtis Houck | June 20, 2014
More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.Despite the newest revelation in the Veterans Affairs scandal Thursday that one in ten veterans have to wait at least one month before they can get an appointment to see a doctor, CBS and NBC refused to cover the latest news in both their evening news shows on Thursday night as well as their morning shows on Friday morning. ABC News only gave…