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Networks Dodge Senate Dem Saying the Timing of ObamaCare Was a Mistake

November 26th, 2014 10:00 PM
In speech at the National Press Club on Tuesday, New York’s senior Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer expressed regret over how Democrats handled their large majorities following the 2008 election in passing ObamaCare when they should have focused first on economic issues to address the recession. Since then, the remarks have received no coverage from any of the “big three” in ABC, CBS, and NBC on…
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Networks Ignore Gov't Report That ObamaCare Plans Cover Abortions

September 16th, 2014 10:46 PM
On Tuesday, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report documenting how abortions are being funded by taxpayers under ObamaCare despite a provision in the law stating that abortions will not be covered under ObamaCare insurance plans. When the Tuesday evening newscasts for the major broadcast networks had passed, however, none of them devoted even a second to the story.…

Fox's Jim Angle: HealthCare.gov Wouldn't Talk to Me, Knew I Was in the

November 2nd, 2013 5:59 PM
Maybe the folks running the HealthCare.gov call centers don't have an enemies list. Instead, based on the experience of Fox News's Jim Angle, it might be an enemies directory, with anyone they're aware of in the media and perhaps other organizations included therein. That's what one almost has to think based on the experience Angle recounted on the air and relayed via Twitter Friday (HT Twitchy…

ABC Touts Dem Claims of ‘Drastic’ Medicare Cuts as a 'Gift,' Amanp

May 1st, 2011 3:30 PM
   Saturday's World News on ABC highlighted complaints from Democrats about the Medicare reform plan proposed by Congressman Paul Ryan as the Wisconsin Republican seeks to restrain the growth of Medicare spending by having private insurers compete for seniors as customers. Without delving into the Republican argument in favor of using private insurance, correspondent David Kerley recounted…

Evening Newscasts Downplay or Ignore Obama Appointee Berwick’s Pro-S

July 9th, 2010 10:27 AM
President Obama’s recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick – a controversial advocate of socialized medicine and of government rationing of health care, particularly for the elderly – as head of the Medicare and Medicaid programs has so far received no attention on ABC’s World News or on the CBS Evening News, while the NBC Nightly News on Thursday devoted just 38 seconds to the President’s…

CBS Highlights Cynthia McKinney’s Gaza Adventure, Ignores Extremism

January 6th, 2010 2:57 AM

Nets Ignore Climategate While FNC & CNN Report, CNN Dismisses Relevanc

November 27th, 2009 7:24 AM
Even though all three of Wednesday’s broadcast network evening newscasts reported on President Obama’s decision to attend the climate change summit in Copenhagen, they also continued to ignore email evidence that scientists who push global warming theory have distorted data to support their assertions while trying to suppress the views of dissenters. FNC’s Special Report with Bret Baier gave…

NBC’s Engel Compares Iran Govt Murder of Woman to Dubious Israeli Sh

June 25th, 2009 4:31 AM
On Monday’s Countdown show on MSNBC, as host Keith Olbermann and NBC News correspondent Richard Engel discussed the apparent murder of 27-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan by Iranian government forces as part of the crackdown against pro-democracy protesters, and the possibility that she will become the visual symbol for her country’s pro-democracy movement because her death was recorded, Engel brought…

ABC and NBC Fail to Correct Obama's 'Seance' Gaffe

November 7th, 2008 8:47 PM
Friday night stories on ABC's World News and the NBC Nightly News ran a clip of President-elect Barack Obama's gaffe at his press conference in which he related he had talked to all of the “living” former Presidents, as “I didn't want to get into a Nancy Reagan thing about, you know, doing any seances.” But both newscasts failed to note it was Hillary Clinton, not Nancy Reagan, who reportedly had…

Fox News Blames Democrats for Financial Crisis, Bill Clinton Agrees

September 25th, 2008 11:25 AM
Going very much against the media meme that the current financial crisis is all George W. Bush and the Republicans' fault, Bill Clinton on Thursday told ABC's Chris Cuomo that Democrats for years have been "resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress or by me when I was President to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac" (video available here, relevant…