CENSORED: Networks Spent 0.008% of News Shows on Abortion Videos

Editor’s Note: Explicit Content Below. ABC, NBC and CBS are doing their best keep the public from seeing abortion for what it really is: the ripping apart of little baby bodies. Since the release of the first Center for Medical Progress (CMP) video July 14 exposing Planned Parenthood’s harvesting of aborted baby parts, the three broadcast networks have spent only 1 minute and 13 seconds playing…
Katie Yoder
August 13th, 2015 11:14 AM

Not a Joke: Hillary Wanted How-to Book on Deleting E-Mails; Nets Skip

In what sounds like a story from the satirical Onion, it turns out that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton requested a book on how to delete your e-mails. However, ABC relegated this news to its website. CBS and NBC also avoided discussing the book, Send: Why People Email So Badly and How to Do It Better. The ABCNews.com story was co-written by Jon Karl, yet on Thursday's Good Morning…
Scott Whitlock
August 13th, 2015 11:11 AM

Howard Dean Accuses Matt Lauer of Using ‘Republican Talking Points’

Interviewing former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean on Thursday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer wondered if Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal would have a lasting impact on the 2016 campaign: “You don't have to be a Republican operative to find trouble in the headlines surrounding Hillary Clinton. Any time you put the words ‘Hillary Clinton, e-mail, top secret, and FBI’ in the same…
Kyle Drennen
August 13th, 2015 10:59 AM

Networks Ignore Obama's Broken Cybersecurity Promise in 90% of Stories

The Obama administration has managed cybersecurity so poorly, Secretary of State John Kerry has admitted to CBS that it is “very likely” the Russians and Chinese are reading his emails. Kerry’s admission came after multiple hacks of U.S. government data including the largest data breach in American history, when hackers allegedly working for the Chinese government stole the detailed records of…
Joseph Rossell
August 13th, 2015 10:57 AM

Jonathan Alter: Norquist’s Anti-Tax Pledge ‘Helped to Wreck’ the U.S.

Wednesday night on The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, MSNBC political analyst Jonathan Alter claimed that Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge “has helped to wreck the United States." The discussion centered around New Jersey governor Chris Christie’s decision to sign the pledge, and Jeb Bush’s refusal to do so. The Newsweek veteran declared the pledge was “about the worst kind of public policy…
Connor Williams
August 13th, 2015 10:37 AM

Fox Panel Blasts Clinton’s ‘Ridiculous’ Handling of E-Mails

On Wednesday’s Special Report with Bret Baier, the three-person political panel took turns slamming Hillary Clinton for how she has handled the ongoing controversy surrounding the use of a private e-mail server while Secretary of State. 
Jeffrey Meyer
August 13th, 2015 10:01 AM

NYT Reporter: Rush Forced Fox to Back Down on Trump

Did Rush Limbaugh force Fox News, in the wake of the Donald Trump/Megyn Kelly dust-up, to back down and welcome Trump back on its network?  That's what New York Times reporter Nick Confessore suggested on today's Morning Joe. Asked by Mika Brzezinski who was the most powerful person in the media today, Confessore responded: "I think Fox or Rush Limbaugh [whose last name Confessore pronounced "…
Mark Finkelstein
August 13th, 2015 8:30 AM

NewsBusted: America's Wising Up to Hillary

"Hillary Clinton's poll numbers continue to fall. Pollsters say it's too soon to draw a conclusion, but this could be a sign that Americans are getting smarter." -- NewsBusted anchor Jodi Miller
NB Staff
August 13th, 2015 12:48 AM

NPR Lets Obama Demonize Dishonest, Illogical Foes on Iran (Corrected)

NPR Morning Edition anchor Steve Inskeep was granted another interview with President Obama just before he left on another Martha’s Vineyard vacation, and the first story aired on Tuesday's Morning Edition, with a second on Tuesday night’s All Things Considered. The subject was limited to the Iran deal. Despite the strange notion held by many liberals that NPR is a voice for civility in media…
Tim Graham
August 12th, 2015 10:07 PM

Nets Pass Off Hillary Handing Over Server; ‘Distraction’ & ‘Headache'

The “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC continued to cover on Wednesday night news that scandal-ridden Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton turned over her private e-mail server and numerous thumb drives to the FBI but largely brushed it off as “a headache” and “distraction” for Clinton in what has “been a tough summer.”
Curtis Houck
August 12th, 2015 10:01 PM

AP Predictably Ignores All-Time One-Month Govt. Spending Record

Records are made to be broken, but apparently government spending records are not meant to be reported. The Monthly Treasury Statement released today showed that the federal government spent a mind-boggling $374.86 billion in July. That's an all-time single-month record, surpassing the previous high of $369.39 billion "achieved" in August 2012. Yes, there was a calendar "quirk" which caused this…
Tom Blumer
August 12th, 2015 9:44 PM

NPR Affiliate Host Violates Style Manual, Calling GOPers 'Anti-Choice'

On the August 10 edition of National Public Radio (NPR) Boston affiliate WBUR's Here & Now program, host Robin Young made reference to pro-life Republicans as "anti-choice." The reference, which violates NPR's own style manual, came in the midst of a discussion with Princeton University professor Julian Zelizer about Republican presidential candidates' plans to roll back various policy…
Ken Shepherd
August 12th, 2015 9:15 PM

Kudos: MSNBC Promotes Critic of Campus Censorship

MSNBC's Saturday mornings might be dominated by professor Melissa Harris-Perry and her exceedingly esoteric left-wing academic nuttiness, but weekday anchor Craig Melvin today offered viewers a breath of fresh air when it comes to the issue of political correctness run amok at America's colleges and universities.
Ken Shepherd
August 12th, 2015 6:30 PM

Media Groups Call for Transparency From Obama Administration -- Again

A coalition of 53 press and open government organizations has “once again” urged President Barack Obama and the people in his administration “to stop practices in federal agencies that prevent important information from getting to the public.” According to an open letter sent to the Democratic occupant of the White House on Monday and released to the public the following day, groups ranging from…
Randy Hall
August 12th, 2015 5:25 PM