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ABC Touts George Clooney Predicting Trump Won't Become President
May 13th, 2016 6:09 PM
On Thursday's World News Tonight, ABC's David Muir spotlighted George Clooney's prediction about the U.S. presidential election later this year. Clooney contended, "There's not going to be a president Donald Trump. That's not going to happen." Muir hyped "the room full of international journalists applauding the actor" after he made his remark at the Cannes Film Festival in France.
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Priorities: ABC, CBS Hype 'Royal Mic Drop;' Ignore Russian Aggression
April 29th, 2016 11:29 PM
ABC and CBS's evening newscasts on Friday spotlighted the friendly transatlantic trash-talking between the British and American heads of state. However, the programs failed to cover the latest too-close intercept of American military assets by Russian aircraft. On World News Tonight, ABC's David Muir touted "the royal mic drop — the Queen and Prince Harry responding to the First Family's…
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NBC Scolds Cruz: D.C.'s 'Most Hated Man' ‘Needs Help’ From GOP
April 28th, 2016 8:17 PM
Thursday night’s NBC Nightly News broadcast tried to shame Ted Cruz for earning the wrath of former House speaker John Boehner. During a speech at Stanford University yesterday, Boehner told students that he would vote for Cruz “over his dead body” and “that miserable son of a bitch” was “Lucifer in the flesh.” That crass characterization didn’t earn Boehner any harsh words from NBC but it did…
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ABC Only Network to Report Alleged Death Threats Against Delegates
April 13th, 2016 9:50 PM
On Wednesday’s evening news broadcasts, ABC was the only network to report on new threats delegates were allegedly facing from Trump supporters. Delegates from Colorado and Indiana complained to the media that they had been receiving death threats aimed at themselves and their families.While NBC did a full report on the GOP race and Trump’s complaints about the system, CBS did a short brief on…
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ABC Piles on Cruz Over ‘NY Values,’ Cheer Trump ‘Relishing’ Home Rally
April 7th, 2016 8:21 PM
While the networks piled on Bernie Sanders over his comments about Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton being unqualified for president, ABC’s World News Tonight jumped on the same bandwagon Thursday night to criticize Republican Senator Ted Cruz for his three-month-old comments about “New York values” held by Donald Trump.
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ABC’s WNT Promotes Trump Ally’s Threat to Anti-Trump RNC Delegates
April 5th, 2016 7:40 PM
Instead of focusing on the latest developments in Wisconsin concerning the Republican presidential primary, ABC’s World News Tonight used 25 seconds to eagerly promote Donald Trump supporter/former adviser Roger Stone’s threat to expose the hotel room numbers and locations of delegates to the Republican National Convention that won’t be supporting the billionaire candidate.
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ABC Spends Day Before WI Vote Resurrecting Tabloid Smear of Cruz
April 4th, 2016 8:23 PM
On the night before voters in Wisconsin go to the polls for the presidential primary, ABC’s World News Tonight found it worthwhile to spend nearly its entire time allotted for Ted Cruz rehashing the unsubstantiated smears from the National Enquirer tabloid about extramarital affairs.
Notable Quotables: Does Castro 'Have a Point' on Health Care?
April 4th, 2016 8:58 AM
In the April 4 edition of Notable Quotables the liberal media: Barack Obama’s trip to Cuba inspires journalists to sing communism’s praises and worry about capitalism ruining that country’s “charm.” Meanwhile, anchors at PBS and CBS slam Ted Cruz for his “ugly” anti-terrorism policies and a former New York Times editor decries sexist persecution of “fundamentally honest” Hillary Clinton.
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ABC Grills Sanders With Clinton Talking Points, Touts ‘Fed Up Hillary’
April 1st, 2016 11:57 AM
Guest Good Morning America co-host David Muir on Friday hyped Hillary Clinton as “fed up” when she screamed at a Bernie Sanders supporter. Meanwhile, Muir also spouted Clinton talking points and demanded to know just how pro-choice Sanders really is. Citing the Vermont senator’s response to Trump’s abortion comments, Muir highlighted a Clinton complaint: “She pointed out that you said Trump's…
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Nets Tout Trump Abortion Comments as ‘Gift’ for Hillary
March 31st, 2016 12:55 PM
On Thursday, all three network morning shows gleefully seized on Donald Trump’s abortion comments during a Wednesday MSNBC town hall to boost Hillary Clinton, declaring the remarks to be the “perfect” “gift” for the Democratic frontrunner.
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Despite Complete Lack of Solid Sources, Networks Push Cruz Smear Again
March 28th, 2016 1:29 PM
Despite the fact that there’s a complete lack of solid sourcing in the sleazy National Enquirer allegations against Ted Cruz, all three networks on Monday morning reported on the story again, offering an additional three minutes and 44 seconds. This is on top of 11 minutes and 43 seconds devoted to the sketchy claims from Friday through Sunday. In total, the ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening…
ABC and NBC Both Cover Anti-Cruz Tabloid Smear; CBS Refrains
March 25th, 2016 8:42 PM
Despite the complete lack of any evidence, and only unequivocal denials from women named in the story, a story based on what even the National Enquirer itself labeled only as “rumors” against GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz found its way onto both the ABC and NBC evening newscasts on Friday. For its part, the CBS Evening News responsibly noted only that Cruz had accused Trump’s campaign of…
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ABC, CBS Paint Cruz as Down in the Mud with Trump in Wives Debate
March 24th, 2016 8:35 PM
On Thursday, ABC’s World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News chose not to be the arbiter of whether Donald Trump or Ted Cruz was in the wrong concerning the debate over the wives and despite the fact Cruz had nothing to do with an ad of a naked Melania Trump, the newscasts painted Cruz as down in the mud with Trump for “defending the virtue of his wife.”
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Muir: Does Castro 'Have a Point' About No U.S. Universal Healthcare?
March 21st, 2016 9:20 PM
In what was otherwise a solid interview of President Obama that focused heavily on communist Cuba’s horrid human rights record, ABC’s World News Tonight anchor David Muir dropped the ball when he wondered if Cuban President Raul Castro is onto something when criticizing the United States for not being an authority on human rights when the U.S. lacks guaranteed rights to food and health care. “But…