FLASHBACK: As CBS Evening News Anchor, Katie Couric Was a Liberal Flop

September 2nd, 2023 8:42 AM

At CBS, Katie Couric sounded indistinguishable from liberal politicians when it came to climate change, government health care, President Barack Obama’s massive spending, and even a government takeover of U.S. banks. She flattered Obama, condemned the rest of the media for being too tough on Hillary Clinton, and blamed her own failures at CBS on — what else? — sexism.

Big Three Networks Ignore Rising Prices in Thursday Inflation Report

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September 1st, 2023 11:30 AM

Prices rose in July, but viewers of networks shows such as ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, and NBC’s Today wouldn’t know it. 

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‘Like a Toddler’: Tell-All Biden Book Exposes Mental Slips, Nets Skip

August 31st, 2023 10:21 PM

During the Trump era, the liberal media clamored to get their hands on any and all tell-all books that would help them tear down the Republican president. They would read passages from anti-Trump books written by liberals like Bob Woodward and Michael Wolff on-air like they were gospel. But this week, the broadcast networks threw pre-released passages from The Last Politician from…

NewsBusters Podcast: Gold Star Families Angry at Biden Deemed Not News

August 30th, 2023 10:54 PM

Gold Star families who lost loved ones in the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan are not happy with President Biden, or the State Department, or the Pentagon. This might explain why the networks have tried to avoid these people, since they seem like guardians of whatever popularity Biden still has.

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Nets Ignore ISIS Sympathizer Smuggling Allies Across Border

August 29th, 2023 10:48 PM

On Tuesday, Fox’s Special Report revealed that the U.S. government has caught an ISIS sympathizer “copying the cartels who have successfully smuggled people into this country for years.” This latest potentially deadly result of the Biden border crisis has once again been ignored by the big three evening news broadcasts in their frantic attempt to rescue the President. 

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After MRC Pressure, NBC Covers Gold Star Hearing, ABC & CBS Ignore

August 29th, 2023 8:16 PM

Over two weeks since the three networks refused to cover the congressional testimony from numerous Gold Star families, and one week since NewsBusters’s parent company Media Research Center demanded an answer for why they refused to cover the emotional pleas from the families, one of the networks (NBC) decided to report on another hearing held today. 

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Study: Nothing Is a ‘Bombshell’ When It Comes to Biden

August 29th, 2023 1:17 PM

Journalists’ efforts to sanitize President Biden’s scandals extend beyond what they do or don’t cover. Take, for example, the media’s use of the term “bombshell” to describe political scandals. Journalists almost never use this descriptor in reference to scandals which are politically damaging to Democrats. Meanwhile, they apply the term liberally when discussing Republicans.

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Return of the King: Doocy Goes Guns Blazing Post-Paternity Leave

August 29th, 2023 10:24 AM

Fox White House correspondent Peter Doocy finally made his return to the White House Briefing Room Monday after paternity leave and, given his long time away, he came out guns blazing on Biden family corruption and even the latest attempt by the federal bureaucracy to further encroach on the lives of ordinary Americans. On both counts, he made Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre look even more…

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Nets Swoons Over ‘Renewed Energy’ for March on Washington Anniversary

August 28th, 2023 6:13 PM

From Saturday night through Monday morning, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC got weak knees over the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream speech that, based on even a cursory view, was no more than a far-left political rally led in part by ethnic and racial arsonist, MSNBC host Al Sharpton.

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CBS Puts on Leftist Columnist to Tout MLK's 'Evolution' Away from 1963

August 28th, 2023 6:08 PM

To mark the 60th anniversary of Martin Luther King's March on Washington, the CBS program Sunday Morning aired a commentary by left-wing New York Times columnist Charles Blow, who started out celebrating the speech as "iconic," but then turned on its idealism, touting that King later hardened to the left, focusing on systemic racism. All the leftists prefer the more radical…

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Nets Push Left-Wing Grievances For March On Washington Anniversary

August 26th, 2023 12:00 PM

The Saturday editions of ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today, and CBS Saturday Morning all focused on the festivities 60th anniversary of the March on Washington not just by recounting Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech, but by assisting today’s organizers in portraying overcoming current progressive grievances as the next chapter in the…

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‘At Least 280’: CBS Gleefully Mocks Trump for His Weight at GA Booking

August 25th, 2023 11:33 AM

Never let anyone in the liberal media claim they’re not gleeful that former President Trump was booked and had his mugshot taken at a Fulton County jail. Nearly 40 minutes after concluding their opening segment about Trump surrendering to authorities in Georgia, the cast of CBS Mornings revisited the topic in their “What to Watch” segment so they could make fun of Trump’s “self-…

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ABC, CBS Dismiss Debate As 'Fantasy Land,' Sham 'Job Interview'

August 24th, 2023 12:12 PM

When it comes to elections, the media should be pro-debate, especially when no votes have officially been cast, but the post-non Trump debate coverage on Thursday’s Good Morning America on ABC and CBS Mornings dismissed the whole thing as a “fantasy land” that resembled a “job interview” in which the candidate has already been selected.

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Networks Ignore Biden Comparing Hawaii Fires to His Small Kitchen Fire

August 22nd, 2023 8:15 PM

On Monday evening, President Joe Biden made comments during a trip to Hawaii to view the devastation from the Maui wildfires which caused an uproar throughout the country and deeply offended the victims who lost their homes in the fires. During a speech in Lahaina, Hawaii, Biden compared the deadly and destructive wildfires to a small fire in his home kitchen that occurred 15 years ago.…