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Terrorists Kill Nuns at Nursing Home in Yemen; Networks Out To Lunch
As of Tuesday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the attack by suspected ISIS gunmen in Aden, Yemen on Friday which left 16 people dead — including four nuns of Mother Teresa's order — at a nursing home. According to a Friday article by the New York Times, the deceased Nobel Peace Prize winner founded the home, which was "one of several care facilities in…
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Naomi Watts Thrilled to Be in E-Mails of ‘Impressive’ Hillary
Actress Naomi Watts appeared quite happy that her name turns up in State Department e-mails of the “impressive” Hillary Clinton. Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Monday, the star of such films as The Ring and the King Kong remake, gushed, “I've actually met her a couple of times. She's always very, very lovely to me. An impressive woman.”
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Dem Candidates Finally Asked About Abortion, Nets Yawn
Despite Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton being asked about abortion for the first time during a town hall on Fox News Monday night, on Tuesday morning, none of the network morning shows bothered to highlight the hardline positions of both Democratic candidates on the issue.
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ABC, NBC Hype Comparing Trump to Hitler, the Nazis
Both ABC and NBC on Tuesday hyped the comparison of Donald Trump to the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. Today co-host Savannah Guthrie noted that the businessman has asked crowds to take a loyalty oath. Reporter Peter Alexander reminded, “One prominent Jewish leader comparing the loyalty gesture from the Trump audience to a Nazi salute.” Guthrie pressed, “I wonder how you feel about that comparison and…
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Nets Cheer Nancy Reagan Breaking With GOP on Stem Cells
While remembering the legacy of Nancy Reagan on Monday, all three network morning shows made sure to highlight an issue in which she broke with much of the Republican Party – embryonic stem cell research. On NBC’s Today, Peter Alexander touted: “With Alzheimer's Disease robbing her husband's memory, Mrs. Reagan was again cast into a supporting role, with a new cause, a champion of stem cell…
Notable Quotables: GOP Top Goal = 'Keep Blacks from Voting'
This issue: MSNBC host Chris Matthews says the GOP's "number one goal is to keep blacks from voting," while journalists debate whether Donald Trump more resembles an American Adolf Hitler or a "right-wing" talk radio host. Meanwhile, NBC anchor Lester Holt is already getting tingles up his leg about the prospect of "the first female President;" Disney boss Robert Iger insists that George…
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Nets Slam ‘Vulgar’ and ‘Childish’ GOP Debate Reaching ‘New Lows’
On Friday, the NBC, CBS, and ABC morning shows all blasted Thursday’s Republican presidential debate as “vulgar” “silly” and “childish.” The same networks that have routinely provided ample airtime to Donald Trump’s personal attacks on his rivals, lectured the GOP contenders on civility.
Evening News Shows Downplay Hillary Staffer Talking to FBI
NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell accused Republicans of attacking Hillary regardless of the facts. “It is very likely that Clinton will have to testify. Her team says they're glad her former aide is now cooperating, but clearly, no matter what the Justice Department decides, this is an issue that the Republicans will continue to use against her.”
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Nets Cheer Hillary’s ‘Star-Studded’ Fundraiser, Lament E-Mail Scandal
On Thursday, all three network morning shows thrilled over Hillary Clinton holding a “star-studded” fundraiser in New York City while worrying that her e-mail scandal “won’t go away” in the wake of new developments about the FBI investigation. NBC's Kristen Welker touted Clinton “celebrating her strong Super Tuesday....with a star-studded fundraiser at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. Katy Perry…
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Networks Skip Trump Son Appearing on Pro-Slavery Radio Show
All three networks on Wednesday night and Thursday morning skipped the latest racial controversy engulfing the Donald Trump campaign: The businessman’s son went on a pro-slavery radio show and the campaign issued media credential’s to the program’s host, James Edwards.
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Why Dan Savage's Gay Anti-Catholic Comedy 'Real O'Neals' Is Real Hell
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ABC’s new bigoted anti-Catholic show The Real O’Neals makes fun of Catholic teachings and believers to the point that if the network had targeted any other religious group for these attacks, journalists would call it hate speech.
In the two-episode premiere, there were 93 separate visual or verbal reminders that this was a show making fun of Catholics, 8 admissions of Catholic sins, and I…
TV News Gives Trump Three Times More Airtime Than Cruz or Rubio
Once again in February, ABC, CBS and NBC devoted a majority of their Republican primary coverage to Donald Trump, who received three times more attention than his top competitors, Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz. Since the start of the campaign, Trump has received a total of 923 minutes of airtime from the three broadcast evening newscasts, or 54 percent of the total GOP coverage. This is more…
Surprise: The Worse ‘The View’ Gets, the Better it Does
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Whatever national sin America committed to deserve The View must have been grave indeed. As The Hollywood Reporter reminds readers, ABC’s soul-killing coffee klatch has been on for nearly 20 years. That’s two decades of the marginally informed imparting liberal conventional wisdom to the intellectually incurious, with all the soothing aural ambiance of a dog pound at walkies time.
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Ted Cruz Mocks Stephanopoulos: Hillary Is ‘Your Former Boss’
Appearing on ABC’s live Super Tuesday coverage, Ted Cruz openly mocked former Democratic operative turned journalist George Stephanopoulos. A skeptical Stephanopoulos questioned Cruz’s path to the nomination, despite his wins in Oklahoma and Texas: “Marco Rubio is staying in the race. John Kasich is staying in the race. Ben Carson is staying in the race.”
