By Curtis Houck | August 28, 2015, 12:18 PM EDT
On Thursday, the CBS Evening News seized on the deadly shooting of two local news reporters in Roanoke, Virginia to promote the idea that gun control should be treated like “a public health issue” akin to seat belts, airbags, and anti-smoking campaigns. ...
By Jeffrey Meyer | July 15, 2015, 8:41 AM EDT
On Tuesday, CBS This Morning sounded like members of the Obama administration during an interview with Carly Fiorina as its hosts repeatedly defended the newly agreed upon Iranian nuclear deal from criticism. Throughout the discussion with the Republican ...
By Kyle Drennen | June 10, 2015, 4:54 PM EDT
After comedian Jerry Seinfeld told ESPN radio that political correctness on college campuses was hurting comedy, Wednesday’s CBS This Morning was the only network news broadcast to report on the topic. Fill-in co-host Jeff Glor declared: “Jerry Seinfeld t ...
By Jeffrey Meyer | June 8, 2015, 10:40 AM EDT
On Monday, CBS This Morning continued to act as an unofficial spokesman for the marijuana industry as it eagerly promoted the growing trend of celebrities investing millions into pot startups. Fill-in host Jeff Glor introduced the segment by playing up h ...
By Jeffrey Meyer | April 22, 2015, 10:31 AM EDT
On Wednesday, CBS This Morning hosted Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) to discuss his opposition to the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger but co-host Charlie Rose found time to press the liberal senator to endorse the idea of more comedians running fo ...
By Jeffrey Meyer | April 20, 2015, 10:36 AM EDT
During an appearance on Monday’s CBS This Morning to promote her annual Women in the World summit, former Daily Beast editor-in-chief Tina Brown did her best to sidestep questions about the Clinton Foundation’s practice of taking money from foreign countr ...
By Jeffrey Meyer | April 10, 2015, 11:26 AM EDT
During an appearance on Thursday’s CBS This Morning, Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren was repeatedly pressed from the left about Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects within the Democratic Party. After discussing the guilty verdict for Boston Marath ...
By Curtis Houck | April 7, 2015, 9:39 AM EDT
During its coverage of the Iran framework on Monday, NBC Nightly News touted the hopes of proponents and the Obama administration that the “details of a deal may be changing” the minds of “some” critics as President Obama and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz ...
By Matthew Balan | March 19, 2015, 1:09 PM EDT
Thursday's CBS This Morning celebrated the introduction of a transgender character to its network's long-running soap opera, The Bold and the Beautiful. Jeff Glor trumpeted the " 'bold' move for daytime drama," and hyped how ...
By Scott Whitlock | March 18, 2015, 3:49 PM EDT
So, just how slanted were the Big Three broadcast networks in their coverage of the letter sent by 47 Senate Republicans to the Iranian government? A new study by the Media Research Center has found ABC, CBS and NBC gave three times more coverage to criti ...
By Jeffrey Meyer | March 17, 2015, 9:03 AM EDT
On Tuesday, CBS This Morning introduced its coverage of the ongoing U.S. nuclear negotiations with Iran by promoting President Obama blaming the rise of ISIS on the Bush administration as well as his condemnation of the Republican letter to the leadership ...
By Jeffrey Meyer | March 10, 2015, 11:48 AM EDT
On Tuesday morning, the big three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks continued to play-up the supposed controversy surrounding a letter signed by 47 Republican senators to the leaders of Iran regarding its negotiations with the Obama administration over its nuclear ...
By Kyle Drennen | February 10, 2015, 12:08 PM EST
Following all three network evening newscasts on Monday devoting full reports to "a full blown civil rights battle" in Alabama after the state's supreme court chief justice refused to carry out a federal ruling allowing gay marriage in the ...
By Jeffrey Meyer | February 11, 2015, 1:38 AM EST
On Tuesday, CBS This Morning hosted David Axelrod, former senior advisor to President Obama, and treated the former White House official to a friendly interview to help promote his political biography. Throughout the interview, the three CBS hosts lobbed ...
By Kyle Drennen | February 6, 2015, 11:48 AM EST
On Friday's CBS This Morning, substitute co-host Jeff Glor introduced a report on the growing scandal surrounding NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams by proclaiming: "This morning, one of the biggest names in media is fighting for his reputat ...
