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CBS Downplays Sanders vs. Clinton-DNC Data Scandal; Merely a ‘Brewing’ ‘Family Feud’

By Curtis Houck | December 19, 2015, 2:12 AM EST

On Friday, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC covered the new scandal brewing inside the Democratic presidential campaign with the data breach involving the Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton campaigns (plus the Sanders camp suing the Democratic Nationa ...

Big Three All Cover Carter Private E-Mail Scandal; Only CBS Omits GOP Criticism

By Ken Shepherd | December 18, 2015, 11:54 AM EST

The Big Three broadcast network evening newscasts all touched on the revelation that Secretary of Defense Ash Carter used private e-mails for government business and this well after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came under fire for exclusively ...

CBS and NBC Use Newtown Anniversary to Lament Lack of Gun Control; Compare It to Car Seats, Driver’s Licenses

By Curtis Houck | December 15, 2015, 11:43 AM EST

With Monday marking the third anniversary of the horrifying murders of 20 children and their teachers in Newtown, Connecticut, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News used the somber occasion to lament the lack of gun control passed by the GOP Congress ...

Networks Omit Obama Criticism on ISIS, Tout Pentagon Visit; Forced to ‘Reassure an Anxious Nation’

By Curtis Houck | December 14, 2015, 9:36 PM EST

The “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC all prominently touted on Monday night President Barack Obama’s visit to the Pentagon to discuss the fight against ISIS, but skimped on reporting any criticism of the administration’s strategy but instead lamenting tha ...

ABC, CBS Trumpet Canadian Leader's 'Warm Welcome' for Syrian Refugees

By Matthew Balan | December 14, 2015, 9:26 AM EST

On Friday, ABC and CBS's evening newscasts touted how Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau " personally welcoming Syrian refugees " as they flew into Toronto. ABC's David Muir heralded, " Trudeau greeting fathers, mothers, and c ...

CBS Hypes Trump Poll Numbers, Skips Obama’s Poor Marks on ISIS, Terrorism, Growing Gun Rights Support

By Curtis Houck | December 11, 2015, 9:25 AM EST

The December edition of the CBS News/ New York Times poll came out on Thursday and, naturally, the results were covered on the CBS Evening News but, as per the liberal media’s usual pattern, it left out a slew of poll results in which voters gave Presiden ...

Networks Decline to Mention Party Label in Dem. Governor Banning Guns for Americans on Watchlists

By Curtis Houck | December 10, 2015, 9:52 PM EST

On Thursday night, the major broadcast networks saw no point in informing their viewers of Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy’s party affiliation (Democrat) as ABC, CBS, and NBC all reported that Malloy had issued an executive order banning those on governme ...

CBS Pushes Report on Income Inequality, Decline of Middle Class; No Mention of Obama’s Policies

By Curtis Houck | December 9, 2015, 11:00 PM EST

In the middle segment of Wednesday’s CBS Evening News, the newscast promoted a new Pew Research Study that illustrated the decline of the middle class in the years since the Great Recession to the point that, as anchor Scott Pelley highlighted, “[t]he mid ...

Obsession: Network Evening Shows Spend 24 Minutes on Trump’s Muslim Ban

By Curtis Houck | December 10, 2015, 9:09 AM EST

Acting as though the latest news the war against ISIS, new developments in the Hillary Clinton scandal or any other story barely existed, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted a whopping 24 minutes and three seconds of their Tuesday evenin ...

Irony: CBS Hails Australia’s Massive Gun Confiscation After Story on Surging U.S. Gun Sales

By Curtis Houck | December 9, 2015, 9:20 AM EST

In what certainly won’t be the latest case of irony in the liberal media, Tuesday’s CBS Evening News immediately pivoted from a full report on surging gun sales in the United States following mass shootings to a piece prominently touting Australia’s massi ...

CBS Runs CAIR-Heavy Piece on Islamophobia Fears Post-San Bernardino

By Curtis Houck | December 7, 2015, 10:06 PM EST

On Monday, the CBS Evening News ran a full story about fears of continued Islamophobia in America following the terror attack in San Bernardino and turned to none other than the Council for American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for help, but neglected to ment ...

NBC, CBS Promote NY Daily News's 'Terrorist' Smear of the NRA's CEO

By Matthew Balan | December 5, 2015, 12:45 AM EST

Friday's NBC Nightly News and CBS Evening News both spotlighted the New York Daily News's latest anti-conservative front page, which denigrated Wayne LaPierre of the NRA as a " terrorist." CBS's Nancy Cordes touted how " the ...

ABC and CBS Omit Obama Backpedaling on ISIS Strategy, Disconnect with Joint Chiefs Chairman

By Curtis Houck | December 2, 2015, 12:19 PM EST

On Tuesday night, ABC and CBS refused to acknowledge a pair of points in its respective stories concerning news that additional U.S. special forces will be stationed inside Iraq to fight ISIS and will engage in combat roles.  Along with not mentioning tha ...

Scorched Earth: Networks Evening Shows Spend 15 Minutes Hyping Climate Change Agenda, Summit

By Curtis Houck | December 1, 2015, 2:37 PM EST

Seeking to boost President Barack Obama and backers of the Paris climate change summit, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted on Monday night over 15 minutes of airtime across six segments touting the summit, a Discovery Channel documentar ...

CBS: Syrian Refugees Face ‘Another Brewing Problem’ with GOP Opponents After Fleeing War

By Curtis Houck | November 25, 2015, 7:50 AM EST

Following in the footsteps of Monday’s CBS This Morning, the CBS Evening New s featured on Tuesday a segment sounding the alarm on opposition to the U.S. accepting Syrian refugees with the comparison that those Syrians who have settled in the U.S. are fac ...