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NBC’s Today Skips Planned Parenthood Videos, Clinton E-Mail/Foundation Scandals in Year in Review

By Curtis Houck | December 31, 2015, 12:01 PM EST

With New Year’s Eve upon us, NBC’s Today dedicated a segment in its 9:00 a.m. hour on Thursday to looking back at the year in news, politics, and entertainment. Not surprisingly, the liberal network made no mention of the Planned Parenthood baby parts vid ...

Carson Daly: Important for Him to Get Married ‘to Have the Sacrament of Marriage’ in Catholic Church

By Curtis Houck | December 30, 2015, 7:40 PM EST

Discussing his marriage to longtime girlfriend Siri Pinter while guest-hosting Wednesday’s Today, Carson Daly offered a rather surprising reason for finally getting married to Pinter after having been together for the past decade. Speaking of how tying th ...

Nets Hype 'Outraged’ Obama ‘Slamming’ GOP Opposition to Refugees

By Scott Whitlock | November 19, 2015, 12:00 PM EST

All three network morning shows on Wednesday hyped Barack Obama’s “outrage” at Republican governors and presidential candidates, “slamming” them for opposition to Syrian refugees coming to America. On Good Morning America, Jon Karl parroted, “Overnight in ...

ABC and NBC Hype SNL Mocking ‘America’s Love Affair With Guns’

By Scott Whitlock | October 13, 2015, 9:53 AM EDT

ABC, NBC and CNN on Sunday and Monday couldn’t get enough of Saturday Night Live mocking “America’s love affair with guns.” NBC’s Today  replayed the entire sketch on Sunday and then hyped it again on Monday. On Monday’s Good Morning America, co-host Robi ...

Networks Slam 'Controversial,’ ‘Beyond Insensitive’ Ben Carson

By Scott Whitlock | October 7, 2015, 12:07 PM EDT

The outraged journalists at NBC, ABC and CBS on Wednesday slammed the “controversial,” “beyond insensitive” Ben Carson for his comments about last week’s shooting in Oregon. Their anger provides a strong contrast to controversial statements by Hillary Cli ...

NBC Hosts Pan GOP Debate: Like ‘Real Housewives,’ Not Presidential, ‘A Little High School’

By Kyle Drennen | September 17, 2015, 11:27 AM EDT

At the top of the 9 a.m. ET hour on NBC’s Today, co-host Tamron Hall slammed the Republican presidential debate as being like a bad reality show: “...a friend of mine said it was like The Real Housewives with Andy Cohen, because they were just pitted agai ...

CBS and NBC Tout Obama’s Climate Change Speech In Alaska

By Jeffrey Meyer | September 1, 2015, 7:48 PM EDT

On Tuesday, CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today acted as unofficial White House spokesmen and eagerly promoted President Obama’s visit to Alaska in which he pushed his climate change agenda. ABC’s Good Morning America did not cover President Obama’s climate ...

CENSORED: ABC, CBS Ignore Horrific Planned Parenthood Video

By Katie Yoder | July 27, 2015, 3:16 PM EDT

A taxpayer-funded organization reportedly selling baby hearts and livers should be a huge story. Not so, say the broadcast networks, which have devoted just 39 seconds to the story, out of the 9 hours and 30 minutes of news shows they’ve aired since it br ...

Nets Tout ‘Encouraging Progress’ in Iran Nuclear Talks; Predict ‘Celebration in the Streets’ of Tehran

By Kyle Drennen | July 13, 2015, 3:01 PM EDT

On Monday, all three network morning shows eagerly touted the Obama administration’s long-delayed effort to reach a deal with Iran over its nuclear program. On NBC’s Today, news anchor Natalie Morales announced: “Negotiators from six world powers are fina ...

NBC and ABC Hit George W. Bush Over Speaking Fee

By Kyle Drennen | July 9, 2015, 12:42 PM EDT

On Thursday’s NBC Today, news anchor Natalie Morales seized on criticism of former President George W. Bush giving a paid speech to a veterans charity: “This morning some veterans are criticizing former President George W. Bush for charging a veteran' ...

ABC, NBC Ignore Downside of Obama’s Wage ‘Boost’ Proposal

By Jeffrey Meyer | June 30, 2015, 10:19 AM EDT

On Tuesday, the “Big Three” (ABC, CBS, and NBC) networks all highlighted President Obama’s plan to increase the income threshold for salaried workers who earn overtime pay but only CBS This Morning acknowledged the potential harm such a policy change coul ...

CBS, NBC Punt on Covering Impending SCOTUS Rulings

By Jeffrey Meyer | June 25, 2015, 9:42 AM EDT

On Thursday, the “Big Three” (ABC, CBS, and NBC) network morning shows all touted President Obama confronting an LGBT activist who heckled him at a White House event on Wednesday but only ABC’s Good Morning America was the only network morning show to cov ...

NBC and ABC Morning Shows: Forget G7 Foreign Policy, Look at This Photo Meme!

By Kyle Drennen | June 9, 2015, 12:09 PM EDT

Despite President Obama making the stunning admission at the G7 Summit on Monday that the U.S. still lacks a “complete strategy” to combat ISIS, NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America ignored the news on Tuesday. Instead, both network morning shows pr ...

CBS, NBC Hype Cruz’s Biden Joke, Ignore Liberal Group Behind Video

By Jeffrey Meyer | June 5, 2015, 9:47 AM EDT

On Thursday, both CBS This Morning and NBC’s Today rushed to play up how Senator Ted Cruz apologized for a joke he made about Vice President Joe Biden just days after his son died but both ignored that the video of the comment was provided by the far left ...

NBC’s ‘Today’ Mocks Michelle Obama’s Latest Food Police Push

By Kyle Drennen | May 30, 2015, 1:20 PM EDT

On Friday, even the hosts of NBC’s Today had enough of Michelle Obama’s effort to micro-manage people’s food choices as they mocked the First Lady’s attempt to create a healthy version of s’mores. At the top of the 9 a.m. ET hour, co-host Willie Geist exp ...