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NBC Minimizes Covering RNC Suspending Future GOP Presidential Debate

October 30th, 2015 10:13 PM
Friday's NBC Nightly News set aside just 34 seconds of air time to the Republican National Committee suspending its planned February 2016 debate with NBC. The evening newscast surrounded this coverage with over two minutes of reporting on other 2016 presidential campaign developments, focusing on the spat between Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush. By contrast, ABC's World News Tonight and CBS Evening News…
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Nets Censor Hillary E-Mail Dump to Instead Hype Giant Flying Pumpkin

October 30th, 2015 8:17 PM
On Friday evening, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC all ignored the latest dump of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails from the State Department that included the retroactive classification of 268 e-mails that now makes for one out of every 16 e-mails that have been “released” to the public since her private e-mail server scandal was unearthed in March.
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Even Kimmel Hated Jeb’s Attack on Rubio; ‘No One Outside of FL Cares'

October 30th, 2015 2:36 PM
While much of the media ruled that Jeb Bush did not have a satisfactory debate performance on Wednesday, the sentiment stretched even into the late-night comedy shows as ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel panned the “embarrassing” Bush on Thursday for attacking Rubio on an issue “that literally no one outside of Florida cares about” concerning his Senate attendance record.
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NBC Promotes NYT Calling on Chris Christie to Drop Out after Debate

October 29th, 2015 9:09 PM
In the second of three segments on Thursday reporting on the fallout from Wednesday’s CNBC Republican presidential debate, NBC Nightly News touted an editorial by The New York Times calling on Governor Chris Christie (N.J.) to drop out of the 2016 field. 
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Whoopi Goldberg to GOP: ‘Grow Some Nuts’

October 29th, 2015 11:56 AM
Following Wednesday’s CNBC Republican presidential debate, View co-host Whoopi Goldberg defended the network from criticism and told the GOPers on stage to “grow some nuts” rather than complain about a lack of substantive questions. After Goldberg initially asked “who answered one substantive question” last night before she lectured the Republicans who complained about the biased moderators: “So…
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ABC: Don’t Blame Lib Moderators! Debate Was Just Too Short

October 29th, 2015 11:45 AM
Wednesday night’s Republican presidential debate didn’t suffer because of liberal media bias. It was simply too short and there were too many candidates. That’s the spin the journalists on ABC’s Good Morning America came up with, Thursday. Matthew Dowd asserted, “I think fundamentally the problem is there's too many candidates on the stage....Too many candidates on the stage is too much.” …
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Huh? ABC on GOP Debate: Hillary Was ‘One of the Biggest Winners’

October 29th, 2015 10:36 AM
According to ABC’s Cecilia Vega, Hillary Clinton was one of the biggest winners” at the Republican debate. Despite not being a member of the GOP or on stage, the Good Morning America reporter on Thursday cheered the Democrat: “I think, is actually one of the biggest winners last night. The more they [Republicans] duke it out, the more internal fighting there is, she stays above the fray.”
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'Blackish' Dresses Up as the Obamas and Disses Columbus Day

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October 29th, 2015 12:24 AM
Blackish celebrated Halloween on Wednesday, and they did so in style, with Dre (Anthony Anderson) and Bow (Tracee Ellis Ross) dressing up as the scariest couple I have ever seen in my life.

'Wicked City' Quest for the Limits of Permissable Sexual Violence

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October 28th, 2015 11:55 PM
The premiere of ABC’s new serial killer/cop drama Wicked City began with Billy idol’s “Dancing With Myself” playing as the camera panned the Hollywood Hills and iconic Hollywood sign. Normally an excellent sign of things to come, especially for a TV show set in early 80’s Los Angeles.
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NBC and ABC Hype Newspaper Ripping Rubio Ahead of Debate

October 28th, 2015 3:31 PM
Hours before Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate, NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America both seized on a hit piece in Florida’s Sun Sentinel newspaper demanding that Marco Rubio resign his Senate seat. At the top of Today, co-host Matt Lauer proclaimed: “Florida Senator Marco Rubio gets dealt a tough blow from one of his state's newspapers.”

Networks Exaggerate WHO Statement On Risk of Bacon and Hot Dogs

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October 28th, 2015 10:43 AM
After an international agency made an announcement about risk of eating processed meats, many media outlets went hog wild. That included the broadcast networks which hyped the “troubling new warning” and ordered people to “cut down on that red meat.” ABC and NBC evening news programming hyped the “unprecedented “warning,” and the decision to put them in the “same category” of carcinogens as…
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ABC Dumps on Trump: He’s Got ‘Electile Dysfunction’

October 28th, 2015 10:22 AM
On the morning of the latest Republican presidential debate, ABC’s Good Morning America mocked Donald Trump as having “electile dysfunction” and of being in need of “polling Viagra.” The comment on Wednesday by political analyst Matthew Dowd prompted laughs from journalists George Stephanopoulos and Jon Karl. 
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Journalists vs. 'Far Right,' 'Hardline' and 'Ultra-Conservative' GOP

October 28th, 2015 10:05 AM

Over the past four weeks, as the broadcast networks have covered the House leadership contest, reporters have gone out of their way to relentlessly paint House Republicans, especially the Freedom Caucus, as ideologues who are outside the American political mainstream. From September 25 to October 23, MRC analysts reviewed all 82 ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news stories about John…

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Nets Yawn at House Starting Impeachment Process for IRS Commissioner

October 27th, 2015 9:07 PM
On Tuesday, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC censored from their evening newscasts any mention of the House of Representative beginning the procedures to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen on the heels of Republican Congressman and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s expected ascension to Speaker of the House.