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ABC, NBC Continue to Ignore Proposed EPA Regulations on Airplanes
June 11th, 2015 9:23 AM
On Thursday morning, ABC and NBC continued their blackout of the Obama administration’s plan to use the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the airline industry’s greenhouse gas emissions.
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NBC, ABC Morning Shows: Forget G7 Foreign Policy, Look at This Photo!
June 9th, 2015 12:09 PM
Despite President Obama making the stunning admission at the G7 Summit on Monday that the U.S. still lacks a “complete strategy” to combat ISIS, NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America ignored the news on Tuesday. Instead, both network morning shows promoted a social media meme about a photo of Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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GMA Hypes a Daredevil 'at Top of His Game,' Slams Other Stunts
June 9th, 2015 11:22 AM
Good Morning America is not a serious news show. But even by the loose standards of ABC, the program's journalists set a new standard for cynicism. On Tuesday, hosts both hyped a reckless daredevil and later condemned such people. At 7:15am, news reader Amy Robach enthused, "One daredevil is surely at the top of his game! Take a look at his latest stunt. He's the first person in the world to…
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NBC Airs, Then Repeatedly Censors 'Racist Image' Left By Escapees
June 8th, 2015 6:39 PM
NBC News censored itself on Sunday, after it broadcast the "have a nice day" message left by two prison escapees from New York State on Today. The Post-It note included a caricature of an East Asian man with slanted eyes, a bucktooth grin, and wearing a stereotypical conical hat. Hours later, when NBC Nightly News covered the manhunt for the fugitives, the newscast blurred out the "racially-…
ABC Skips Own Poll on 'Record Low Support' for ObamaCare
June 8th, 2015 4:50 PM
According to an ABC News/Washington Post poll, support for ObamaCare is at a "record low" level. Yet, viewers wouldn't know that from watching the network. Journalists on Sunday's World News and Monday's Good Morning America failed to cover the poll from their own network. According to the Washington Post, "The survey finds opinion on the health-care law among the worst in Post-ABC polling; 54…
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ABC Devotes Over Six Minutes to Shilling Mrs. Stephanopoulos's Book
June 8th, 2015 12:26 PM
Less than a month after being forced to apologize for a conflict of interest, George Stephanopoulos's Good Morning America on Monday devoted almost seven minutes of air-time to aggressively promoting the new book from the journalist's wife. Co-host Robin Roberts interviewed Ali Wentworth for six minutes and 39 seconds. In contrast, the latest details on the massive hack from the Chinese…
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ABC, NBC Move on from Perry Announcement, but Mock Him on Comedy Shows
June 5th, 2015 1:00 PM
After providing minimal coverage of former Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry’s 2016 announcement on Thursday night, ABC and NBC moved on from the story all together with zero mentions of Perry or the 2016 campaign on their Friday morning newscasts. Their late night comedy shows, however, spent plenty of time mocking Perry over his intelligence and eating of a corn dog back in 2011.
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ABC, NBC Again Skip EPA Finding Fracking Doesn’t Harm Drinking Water
June 5th, 2015 10:44 AM
ABC and NBC sustained their refusal on Friday morning to cover a new report from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that found oil and natural gas fracking does not cause harm to the country’s drinking water. After all three networks omitted any mention of the study on their Thursday evening newscasts, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today continued that pattern while CBS This Morning…
LZ Granderson Joins ABC News As Newest Contributor
June 4th, 2015 12:09 PM
Liberal ESPN and CNN commentator LZ Granderson is getting a new gig, and will join ABC News as a contributor to provide, in the words of ABC News president James Goldston, “his perspective on politics, sports and pop culture across all of our shows and platforms.” Granderson is no stranger to controversy and has made numerous statements attacking conservatives as bigots.
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ABC Finally Mentions Own Bad Poll Numbers for Hillary...for 25 Seconds
June 4th, 2015 11:55 AM
After initially ignoring the ABC News/Washington Post poll showing bad approval ratings for President Obama and Hillary Clinton, Thursday’s Good Morning America finally noticed the Clinton numbers 48 hours after the poll was released. Co-host George Stephanopoulos noted: “...and a new challenge for Hillary Clinton, too, as her poll numbers take a dip.”
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Pummeling Perry: The Media’s Worst Attacks on the Fmr Texas Governor
June 4th, 2015 10:00 AM
If his 2012 presidential run is any indicator, Rick Perry’s jump into the 2016 presidential race will bring about a flurry of the liberal media’s favorite pejoratives to hit Republicans with. Racist? Anti-science? Religious bigot? Gun nut? Heartless cutter of programs for the poor? You name it, the former Texas governor was called it by his haters in the leftist press.
ABC Punts on Own Poll Showing Troubling Numbers for Hillary & Obama
June 3rd, 2015 9:47 PM
On Wednesday, ABC’s Good Morning America and World News Tonight neglected to cover the results of the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll that found Hillary Clinton’s personal ratings are still tumbling along with President Barack Obama’s approval rating which a Post article described as being “well behind historic norms.”
Nearly 8-In-10 Americans Support Voter ID: Will Media Report?
June 3rd, 2015 3:34 PM
A new poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports found that 76 percent of Americans and even 58 percent of Democrats support voter ID laws across the country. Given that polling has repeatedly shown wide support for photo ID, will the media acknowledge this public support?
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CNN Covers Plight of Marine Held By Iran; ABC and CBS Out to Lunch
June 3rd, 2015 1:57 PM
ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts were too busy giving 48 minutes of coverage to Bruce Jenner's Vanity Fair photo spread to give one second of coverage to the four Americans currently being held hostage by the oppressive regime in Iran. NBC mentioned two of them – Amir Hekmati and Robert Levinson – back on the April 24, 2015 edition of NBC Nightly News. However, ABC and CBS haven'…