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ABC and NBC Tout Clintons Strolling in NYC, Decline to Explain Clinton Sex Scandals

By Curtis Houck | December 30, 2015, 1:03 AM EST

On Monday, the major network evening newscasts all alluded to Donald Trump criticizing Bill and Hillary Clinton by bringing up Clinton’s numerous bouts of sexual misconduct from the 1990's, but chose not to remind viewers of what those scandals actua ...

Networks Block Out Over 10 Minutes for Harping on Trump’s Comment About Hillary Losing in 2008

By Curtis Houck | December 23, 2015, 2:05 AM EST

Just over two weeks after the major network evening newscasts spent 24 minutes obsessing on December 8 over Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the U.S., the three programs returned on Tuesday night to devote ten and a half minutes to Trump’s ...

Awkward: ABC Restarts Democratic Debate Without Hillary Clinton Onstage

By Curtis Houck | December 19, 2015, 10:04 PM EST

In one of the more awkward and bizarre happenings you’ll see in a debate, Saturday’s Democratic presidential debate on ABC restarted without frontrunner Hillary Clinton following a commercial break and continued for over a minute until she returned to the ...

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 ...

Networks Cheer Hillary as ‘Grown Up’ on ISIS Compared to GOP, Chelsea Joining Campaign Trail

By Curtis Houck | December 15, 2015, 8:23 PM EST

Just after the undercard Republican presidential debate began on Tuesday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC offered previews of the impending “freewheeling and fiery slugfest” debate and contrasted that with plenty of laudatory rhetoric ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NBC Trashes ‘Ugly’ GOP for ‘Angry Debate’ on Refugees; Hails Hillary ‘Going Against the Tide’

By Curtis Houck | November 20, 2015, 3:40 PM EST

NBC Nightly News lashed out at conservatives and Republicans on Thursday for creating an “ugly” and “angry debate” with President Obama over whether to accept Syrian refugees while gushing how Hillary Clinton was “[g]oing against the tide” of a bipartisan ...

ABC Omits Polls Showing Majority of Americans Oppose Obama on Syrian Refugees

By Curtis Houck | November 19, 2015, 10:04 AM EST

Following the Wednesday morning newscasts in which ABC, CBS, and NBC praised the “outraged” President Obama for “slamming” Republican wanting to restrict Syrian refugees in light of the Paris terror attacks, the “big three” were back on the case Wednesday ...

ABC’s Jonathan Karl to Ted Cruz: Isn’t It ‘Un-American’ to Put Restrictions on Syrian Refugees?

By Curtis Houck | November 18, 2015, 10:04 AM EST

In a combative exchange that aired on the Tuesday edition of ABC’s World News Tonight, chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl hinted to Republican Senator Ted Cruz (Tex.) that he was “un-American” for suggesting that only Syrian refugees who are Ch ...

Networks Ignore John Kerry’s Suggestion of a ‘Rationale’ for Charlie Hebdo Terror Attacks

By Curtis Houck | November 17, 2015, 8:57 PM EST

On Tuesday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC saw no reason to inform their viewers of Secretary of State John Kerry’s assertion that he could recognize there having been a “rationale” and “particularized focus” for Islamic terrorists to ...

Nightly News Skips Democratic Avoidance of ‘Radical Islam'

By Scott Whitlock | November 17, 2015, 10:07 AM EST

In a recap of the November 14 Democratic presidential debate, Sunday’s Nightly News avoided awkward moments, such as the candidates refusing to use the term “ radical Islam ” or Bernie Sanders doubling down on climate change being the greatest national se ...