Friday Bias: ABC, NBC Skip WH Scandal, Nets Downplay Cuomo in Trouble
February 12th, 2021 8:49 PM
On Friday night’s broadcast network newscasts, they all chose to finally acknowledge but downplay the Cuomo story while ABC and NBC skipped over Ducklo.
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NBC Warns Reopening States Kills, Gawks at Restaurants Shutting Down
January 26th, 2021 8:35 PM
If we’ve learned anything about the news media during the pandemic, it’s that they care more about gawking at people on TV instead of genuine, unvarnished compassion for those suffering (especially business owners). And that notion was quite evident on Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News when, out of one side of their mouth, the network decried states for deciding to reopen. And with…
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NBC Omits They Set Up Catering for Comedy Outside Struggling Business
December 7th, 2020 11:49 PM
In something of an update to their Sunday morning newscast, Monday’s edition of Today saw NBC finally acknowledge that a “movie company” had set up a catering tent just feet away from the outdoor patio of the shutdown and struggling restaurant of Angela Marsden of Los Angeles, California. But they still refused to admit that the catering was for an NBC comedy show, Good Girls…
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NBC Helped Russia ‘Spread Racial Tensions in America’ Via Viral Videos
August 8th, 2019 9:29 PM
In a special NBC News investigation aired Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt and chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel explained how Russia aimed to “spread racial tensions in America. It comes from new research showing Russians are behind the push to spread some of the most shocking viral videos.” But the kicker? Some of those same viral videos were proliferated…
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Nets Glorify Activists Who Obstructed ICE Raids, 'Protesting' Arrests
July 23rd, 2019 10:28 PM
Almost two weeks after they showed their viewers how to evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on their evening newscasts, ABC, CBS, and NBC marveled at their work Tuesday night as they celebrated the activists who obstructed ICE raids last week.
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ABC Gave Smollett a Platform as His Claims Seemed to Fall Apart
February 14th, 2019 11:11 PM
In roughly 24 hours, ABC News had spent over 24 minutes (24 minutes 19 seconds) between their flagship morning and evening broadcasts gushing over Empire star Jussie Smollett and the alleged hate crime he claimed to be a victim of. But recent reporting from ABC7, their local affiliate in Chicago, suggested that Smollett may have collaborated with others to stage the attack because he…
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Without Evidence, MSNBC Pushes Claim Chicago Attackers Wore MAGA Hats
January 29th, 2019 4:33 PM
Empire star Jesse Smollett was brutally attacked early Tuesday morning in Chicago in what police have suggested could be deemed a hate crime due to Smollett being gay with the assailants allegedly hurling homophobic and racist slurs. However, two claims that has not yet been substantiated were that the alleged perpetrators either wore Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats or shouted…
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ABC, CBS Ignore Second Body Found in Home of Dem Activist/Donor
January 8th, 2019 8:37 PM
As the Media Research Center has previously documented, the liberal broadcast networks often give prominent Democrats cover when they’re accused of serious crimes by refusing to cover the story. But there seemed to be some accusations that manage to break through. During Tuesday’s evening broadcast, NBC Nightly News was the only network program to report that a second body was found…
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NBC Promotes ‘Music Royalty’ Boycotting Super Bowl Halftime Show
December 17th, 2018 9:06 PM
After ABC spent two days touting celebrities boycotting the Super Bowl, NBC Nightly News used their Monday evening broadcast to do the same. “It's long been one of the highly coveted gigs in the music industry, but tonight some of the world’s most popular artists appear to be saying no thanks to the Super Bowl Halftime Show,” announced anchor Lester Holt.
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Nets Thrilled by Taylor Swift Backing Dems in Midterms
October 8th, 2018 3:19 PM
On Monday, the focus of midterm election coverage on all three network morning shows was cheering on pop star Taylor Swift “as she uses her voice to venture into the political fray” by endorsing Democrats in her home state of Tennessee. Anchors and reporters gushed over the singer finally using her influence to push a liberal agenda after having “avoided politics in the past.…
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CBS Skips Release of Terror Suspects, Hypes Fighting Fishermen
August 29th, 2018 9:08 PM
On Wednesday, New Mexico prosecutors appeared to have dropped the ball as a group of suspected Muslim extremists were released on a technicality. Despite a dead three-year-old child being found in their compound, 11 starved children, and claims they were being trained to carry out school shootings, five suspects were let go all because prosecutors missed a crucial deadline. It was shocking and…
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MSNBC Ignores Woman Who Used Gun to Save Her Children from Carjacker
July 6th, 2018 8:46 PM
Between Thursday evening and Friday morning, most of the networks ran at least one report on a mother in Dallas who shot a carjacker as he tried to steal her car while her two young children were still inside. But the far-left MSNBC has been true to form in not making any room during its 24 hour a day airtime to give any attention to this story of a woman using a gun to defend her children which…
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NBC Report Paints America as the Villain Thwarting Caravan Progress
April 30th, 2018 11:45 PM
With the caravan of migrants now sitting at an entry point on the U.S.-Mexico border outside California, the liberal major network news outlets (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were sure to make it a big part of their Monday evening broadcasts. And while ABC and CBS both bemoaned how the people were stuck as they waited to attempt to get into the country, the report on NBC Nightly News cast America in a…
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Nets Mourn ‘Desperate’ Immigrant Caravan Being Denied U.S. Entry
April 30th, 2018 4:31 PM
On Monday, all three network shows recited the same liberal script as they bemoaned a caravan of over 100 migrants from Central America being blocked from entering the United States illegally. The Border Patrol simply doing its job was portrayed as a cruel act that created a “desperate situation” and “crisis at the border.”