NewsBusters Podcast: NBC Rips 'DeathSantis' on Mask 'Bullying' of Kids

March 4th, 2022 10:35 PM

NBC spent not one, but two nights trying to make a scandal out of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis telling high-school kids behind his podium at an event that they didn't have to wear masks, since that was "ridiculous." NBC found an outraged parent and that completely nonpartisan head of the CDC for rebuttal. Even after the CDC relented on mask requirements, the networks are still ripping Republicans…

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'Face of Controversy': NBC Trashes DeSantis on Masks

March 3rd, 2022 9:00 PM

On Thursday night for the second night in a row, NBC Nightly News spent valuable air time trashing Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis for telling a group of high school students at a public event that they don’t have to wear masks. 

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CBS, NBC Lie About Ron DeSantis 'Admonishing' Kids to Take Off Masks

March 2nd, 2022 11:39 PM

On Wednesday, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News both took issue with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis letting a group of High School students know that it is ok for them to take their masks off while they were standing behind him during a public event at the University of Florida. 

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ABC, CBS Ignore Report CDC is Hiding COVID Data from Public

February 21st, 2022 8:54 PM

On Sunday the New York Times published a shocking report that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admitted that some COVID vaccine data was not disclosed to the public because it could lead to misinformation. While the CDC openly admitting that it is trying to hide vital health information from the public is big news, apparently only one of the evening newscasts…

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CBS/NBC Gawk at Lack of Covid Tests, Ignore Biden Grilled on Failures

December 23rd, 2021 8:38 PM

Two days before Christmas, and CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News spent part of their Thursday newscasts gawking at the long lines in major cities as people scrambled to get tested for Covid before gathering with family for the holiday. But what they failed to share with viewers was ABC World News Tonight grilling President Biden the previous evening on his ‘…

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ABC Refuses to Tie Texas Democrats to D.C. Covid Superspreader

July 21st, 2021 1:07 AM

Masquerading as an attempt to save democracy, Tuesday saw the PR stunt from Texas Democrats further blow up in their faces as not only had the number of infected lawmakers grown to six, but their charade turned into a superspreader event with an infection in the Speaker’s office and cases inside the Biden White House. And yet, ABC’s World News Tonight felt the need to defend the Lone…

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Damage Control: Nets Downplay Biden’s Facebook Change, Stocks Tanking

July 20th, 2021 1:14 AM

On Monday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC played the role of PR professionals for the White House as they assisted them in minimizing President Biden’s about-face that Facebook “is killing people” with misinformation and the pitiful day on Wall Street amid new liberal fear-mongering about the need to bring back Covid restrictions.

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Mask Addiction: NBC Can’t Quit, Presses Fauci to Rip New Guidelines

May 13th, 2021 8:57 PM

Like they were fighting a nicotine addiction, NBC Nightly News just didn’t want to give up wearing the masks. Last year, NewsBusters documented NBC’s “despair porn” cycle where the network would cheer on crippling lockdowns then mourn for the devastation they wrought. Well, it was a new version of that concept on Thursday as the network tried to spread fear of the CDC’s new no masks…

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NBC Reports on Multiple Crises Without Mentioning Biden Once

May 3rd, 2021 12:55 PM

In a classic example of leftist media corruption, on Monday, NBC’s Today show reported on multiple international crises occurring on the Biden administration’s watch without mentioning the President’s name even once. The topics ranged from the U.S. imposing a travel ban on India amid a massive surge in coronavirus cases there, to a boat full of migrants capsizing off the California…

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Nets Hide Blue CT Reopening Businesses, Smear GOP as Against Relief

March 4th, 2021 11:46 PM

The liberal broadcast networks made a full-court press Thursday evening, smearing Senate Republicans with the suggestion that were against giving struggling Americans aid in the midst of economic lockdowns. On top of that, they bashed Republican-led Texas and Mississippi for left restrictions and mask mandates, but completely ignoring the fact that Democratic Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont…

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 the other…

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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 by NBC News…