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NBC Churns Out Full Story with Soft Piano Music Looking at Obama's Year in Photos

By Curtis Houck | December 31, 2015, 1:50 PM EST

Closing out 2015 on the Thursday morning newscasts, NBC’s Today churned one of its most fawning pieces on President Obama as NBC News correspondent Ron Allen reviewed Obama’s top photos by White House photographer Pete Souza while hushed, soft piano music ...

Guthrie Briefly Tries to Tell Trump That Bill Clinton's Extramarital Affairs Were Only ‘Alleged’

By Curtis Houck | December 29, 2015, 3:46 PM EST

During his latest phone-in interview Tuesday morning, Donald Trump appeared on NBC’s Today where co-host Savannah Guthrie attempted to convince Trump that former President Bill Clinton’s extramarital affairs (and specifically what occurred with Monica Lew ...

Only ABC Sees Latest Use of Private E-Mails as ‘Embarrassment’ for Obama

By Scott Whitlock | December 17, 2015, 11:48 AM EST

All three network morning shows on Thursday covered the breaking news that Defense Secretary Ash Carter used private e-mails for government work. But only ABC deemed it an “embarrassment” for Barack Obama himself.  Good Morning America ’s Mary Bruce asser ...

NBC, CBS Eager for Brokered GOP Convention; Pushed Obama-Hillary ‘Dream Ticket’ in ‘08

By Kyle Drennen | December 17, 2015, 10:18 AM EST

Interviewing Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus on Wednesday, the hosts of both NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning pushed the idea that the 2016 Republican field was so divided that there would have to be a brokered convention to pick the ...

NBC Uses Cabdriver Jumping on Moving Car to Go After Uber

By Kyle Drennen | December 10, 2015, 3:19 PM EST

On Thursday, NBC’s Today seized on a cabdriver in Toronto attacking the car of an Uber driver as a chance to attack the entrepreneurial car service, with co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaiming: “A cabbie confronts an Uber driver and gets dragged 60 feet dow ...

Mauled in the Morning: GOP Candidates Hit from the Left

By Geoffrey Dickens | December 10, 2015, 9:53 AM EST

As the Republican candidates prepare to meet in their fifth cable news debate, they’ve also been participating in what might be considered a year-long, slow-motion debate on the broadcast TV morning news shows. An MRC analysis of interviews from January 1 ...

NBC Rips Obama Speech: ‘He Didn’t Offer Anything New’

By Kyle Drennen | December 7, 2015, 1:30 PM EST

Moments before President Obama’s Sunday night address to the nation about the San Bernardino terrorist attack, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt hoped the speech might be “a defining moment for his presidency.” By Monday morning, reaction from hosts and ...

NBC’s Guthrie Fails to Ask John Kerry About His Charlie Hebdo Comments

By Jeffrey Meyer | November 23, 2015, 10:34 AM EST

On Monday’s Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie grilled Secretary of State John Kerry on the United States’ strategy to defeat ISIS yet the NBC host failed to question Kerry on his recent inflammatory comments in which he suggested a rationale existed for the ...

NBC: GOP ‘Defying’ Obama With ‘Fearmongering and Heated Rhetoric’

By Kyle Drennen | November 20, 2015, 1:00 PM EST

On Friday, NBC’s Today lambasted Republicans for daring to oppose President Obama on the process of accepting Syrian refugees into the U.S. Co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed: “Defying the President, the House on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to impose s ...

NBC Touts White House Exploiting Baby’s Death to Push Paid Family Leave

By Kyle Drennen | November 19, 2015, 12:38 PM EST

Teasing an upcoming report that amounted to Obama administration propaganda on Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed: “Fighting for family leave....How one mom's courageous battle for more time at home made it all the way to the W ...

On NBC’s Today, Former DHS Chief Tom Ridge Blasts Obama

By Kyle Drennen | November 18, 2015, 10:34 AM EST

Appearing on Wednesday’s NBC Today, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge repeatedly ripped President Obama’s failing foreign policy against ISIS as co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Matt Lauer sat back without comment. Lauer asked: “From where you ...

NBC’s Guthrie to Romney: ‘Pretty Tough’ to Say Obama Just ‘Dabbling at War With ISIS’

By Kyle Drennen | November 16, 2015, 11:06 AM EST

In an interview with former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie was incredulous of his criticism of President Obama’s strategy against ISIS: “You wrote in The Washington Post that the President shoul ...

Only NBC Mentions Controversy Over Hillary’s Marine Claims

By Kyle Drennen | November 13, 2015, 1:09 PM EST

As questions began to be raised regarding Hillary Clinton’s dubious claim that she once tried to join the Marines in 1975, on Friday, only NBC’s Today briefly noted the controversy, with co-host Savannah Guthrie warning: “Democratic frontrunner Hillary Cl ...

Nets Line Up to Hit Rubio on Immigration; GOP ‘Alienating’ Hispanics

By Kyle Drennen | November 11, 2015, 10:45 AM EST

On Wednesday, all three network morning shows interviewed Florida Senator Marco Rubio following Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate and grilled him on GOP opposition to illegal immigration. On NBC’s Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed: “One of ...

ABC, NBC Yawn at Missouri Media Professor's Attack on Reporter; CBS Covers

By Matthew Balan | November 11, 2015, 10:08 AM EST

CBS This Morning stood out as the sole Big Three network morning newscast on Tuesday to cover a University of Missouri academic shouting down a reporter, briefly physically attacking him, and then calling people over to "get this reporter out of here ...