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Pelley Uses Trademark Humor, Puns to Revel in Rubio Exit, Trump Wins
March 16th, 2016 12:07 AM
For weeknight viewers of the CBS Evening News, they’re treated to consistent helping of puns and cheesy jokes from anchor Scott Pelley on everything from political stories to humorous news briefs and throughout the network’s Super Tuesday 3 special reports, Pelley employed his fair share to knock departed GOP candidate Marco Rubio as Donald Trump racked up more victories.
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CBS Sounds the Alarm Playing the Race Card Against Voter ID Laws
March 15th, 2016 8:16 PM
Amidst their voluminous Super Tuesday 3 coverage, the CBS Evening News found just over two minutes to trot out the tired liberal argument that voter ID laws, like the one in North Carolina, have a racist angle. Mark Strassamann: “In North Carolina, about 1,000 voters cast provisional ballots because they didn't have enough identification to meet the state's new, strict voter ID law. The law was…
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Networks Censor Possible Terror Attack at Canadian Military Center
March 15th, 2016 12:18 PM
As of Tuesday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the Monday afternoon stabbings at a Canadian military recruitment center in Toronto. During the attack, the suspect, Ayanle Hassan Ali, shouted, "Allah told me to do this, Allah told me to come here and kill people." According to an AP report on Tuesday, Ali first targeted a "uniformed Canadian Forces…
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Nets Silent on Hillary Claim U.S. ‘Didn’t Lose Single Person’ in Libya
March 15th, 2016 12:01 PM
Despite all three network morning shows on Tuesday covering Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders answering questions during back-to-back MSNBC town halls, none of the broadcasts reported on Clinton committing a major gaffe by claiming that the U.S. “didn’t lose a single person” in Libya.
Network Cover-Up: Soros Backed Chicago Trump Protesters
March 15th, 2016 9:50 AM
Imagine if the Koch brothers supported disruptive protests that shut down a Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders rally, The broadcast news networks would be tripping over each other to tell the story.
But because it was Soros-funded groups undermining free speech and silencing a Trump rally, the morning and evening news on ABC, NBC, and CBS haven’t even hinted at that part of the story from the…
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'Supergirl' Litmus Test for New Employees: No Republicans Need Apply
March 15th, 2016 1:21 AM
In the episode “Falling,” Supergirl’s Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart) needs a replacement for Lucy Lane, who resigned from CatCo during last week’s show. When Kara (Melissa Benoist) tells her she has a list of qualified applicants who are ranked according to the “least annoying,” Cat asked if there were any Republicans. Kara answers, yes – but they're reformed. Cat, a Hillary supporter, is happy…
Nets Award Trump 84 Percent of Pre-Super Tuesday 3 GOP Coverage
March 14th, 2016 11:01 PM
Ahead of the third installment of Super Tuesday on Monday, the broadcast network evening newscasts followed their predictable pattern of focusing almost exclusively on Donald Trump to the tune of a whopping 84 percent of the Republican campaign segments totaling nearly 15 and a half minutes.
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CBS's Democratic Doctor Sides 7 to 1 With Assisted Suicide Activists
March 14th, 2016 4:38 PM
Dr. John LaPook, chief medical correspondent for CBS Evening News, aired a largely one-sided report on Sunday's 60 Minutes that featured seven advocates for legalized assisted suicide for the terminally-ill. Dr. LaPook hinted at his slant during the introduction to the segment: "We wanted to hear from patients and family members who've experienced it, and are fighting to make it legal nationwide…
By 15:1 Margin, Nets Blame Trump, Not Lefties, for Campaign Violence
March 14th, 2016 4:37 PM
Since Friday night’s mayhem in Chicago, all three broadcast networks have made the violence surrounding Donald Trump’s rallies the near-exclusive focus of their campaign coverage. But an MRC analysis of ABC, CBS and NBC news coverage found that the left-wing protesters who forced the cancellation of a presidential campaign event escaped nearly all blame, as reporters dumped 94% of the blame on…
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ABC Censors Mother of Benghazi Victim’s Charges Against Hillary
March 12th, 2016 9:00 AM
In an all too rare moment Patricia Smith got her grievances aired against Hillary Clinton, when Univision anchor Jorge Ramos played a clip of the mother of Benghazi attack victim Sean Smith to Clinton at the March 9 Democratic debate. It was a rare moment because while Fox News outlets have pursued her story, the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, NBC) have barely touched it. In fact, since 2012, ABC…
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CBS Touts Euthanasia Advocates in Preview of '60 Minutes' Report
March 11th, 2016 11:36 PM
Friday's CBS Evening News gave a one-sided preview of a euthanasia segment on an upcoming episode of 60 Minutes. The nearly two-minute long segment from Dr. Jon LaPook featured two of the most prominent supporters of euthanasia proponent Brittany Maynard — her husband, Dan Diaz, and the doctor who prescribed the lethal drugs she used to kill herself in November 2014. Scott Pelley noted that Dr.…
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ABC Yawns at 'Mysterious Death' of Former Putin Advisor; NBC Covers
March 11th, 2016 9:57 PM
ABC's morning and evening newscasts, as of Friday evening, have yet to cover the Thursday announcement by Washington, D.C. law enforcement officials that Mikhail Lesin, a former advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, died in November 2015 of "blunt force injuries of the head." Friday's NBC Nightly News devoted a full report on the Lesin's death; while earlier in the day, CBS This Morning…
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Nets Catch ‘Justin Fever,’ Infatuated With Obama-Trudeau ‘Bromance’
March 11th, 2016 11:52 AM
Continuing their unhealthy obsession with the “bromance” between newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Obama on Friday, all three network morning shows were thrilled by the pair exchanging pleasantries at a White House state dinner Thursday evening.
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Networks Finally Cover Michelle Fields Incident with Trump Staffer
March 10th, 2016 8:28 PM
Two days after Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski allegedly forcefully grabbed the arm of Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC finally noticed this disturbing incident just as a Trump protester was sucker punched at a rally on Wednesday night. All told, the three network evening newscasts combined for two minutes and 18 seconds reporting on how…