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Disney-Owned ABC Fails to Report Outrage to NBA’s Kowtow to China
October 7th, 2019 9:17 PM
ABC’s World News Tonight was the only broadcast network evening newscast to completely ignore the sweeping and bipartisan outrage against the NBA for their kowtow to communist China’s totalitarian censorship policies. That news blackout came after their Good Morning America segment which boosted Chinese outrage at Houston Rockets GM Daryl Morey for daring to support pro-democracy protesters in…
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NBC IGNORES Record Low Employment Rate, New Jobs Report
October 5th, 2019 1:52 PM
The jobs report that came out Friday showed that the unemployment rate dropped to 3.5 percent; the lowest in half a century. Yet, the three evening newscasts on the “alphabet soup” networks decided that this historic occasion merited little to no coverage. NBC Nightly News did not bring up the jobs report at all while the other two newscasts spent a combined 32 seconds on the economy.
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NBC Pounces on Second Whistleblower Complaint With No Confirmation
October 3rd, 2019 10:17 PM
One could almost hear the excitement in anchor Lester Holt’s voice during Thursday’s NBC Nightly News when he announced the possibility of a second so-called whistleblower. “Meantime, there's a new report tonight out about a second government whistleblower, this time at the IRS,” he touted before going to chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson, who eventually admitted the network hadn’t…
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Nets Skip Whistleblower’s Dem Affiliation, CNN Claims ‘Nothingburger'
October 3rd, 2019 9:00 PM
On Thursday’s The Lead, CNN host Jake Tapper had some “breaking news” to share that he didn’t seem to think was too important: “A source familiar with the investigation prompted by the whistleblower tells me....the whistleblower is a registered Democrat.” Despite this revelation about the political bias of the so-called “whistleblower” (whose complaint kicked off the impeachment inquiry), the…
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ABC, CBS Suppress Report Schiff Was Tipped Off to Whistleblower
October 2nd, 2019 9:15 PM
In a Wednesday bombshell by The New York Times, which confirmed what many suspected, Democratic Congressman and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (CA) was apparently tipped off to the whistleblower complaint before it was filed. Meanwhile, during their evening newscasts, ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News latched onto soundbites of Schiff accusing President Trump of…
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Nets Devote 7 Hours to Trump-Ukraine, Only 46 Minutes to Hunter Biden
October 1st, 2019 8:30 AM
In just ten days (September 20 through September 30) the broadcast networks overwhelmed their evening and morning shows with more than 7 hours of coverage devoted to a whistleblower’s complaint about President Donald Trump’s phone call with Ukranian president Volodymyr Zelensky and the ensuing calls for impeachment. Only 46 minutes of that coverage referenced Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden’s…
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Liberal Nets Spend Nearly 10 Minutes Hyping Fake Hate Crime [UPDATED]
September 30th, 2019 11:37 PM
As previously documented by NewsBusters, a number of shows on the major networks late last week ran with reports of a racist bullying incident at Springfield, Virginia's Immanuel Christian School that, by late Monday morning, was revealed to be a hoax. The family of 12-year-old Amari Allen admitted that their daughter made up her story accusing three white classmates of forcibly cutting her long…
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NBC Anchor's 'Powerful Monologue' on Truth... After Skipping Schiff
September 27th, 2019 9:09 PM
Mediaite touted some end-of-show braggadocio on Thursday's NBC Nightly News: "Lester Holt Delivers Powerful Monologue on Trump Impeachment Drama." It sounded like an advertisement as Holt promised NBC would "examine the facts and demand nothing short of the truth." This came after they skipped over Adam Schiff's completely phony summary of Trump's phone call with the president of Ukraine.
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Nets Ignore Dem Schiff Reading FABRICATED Trump Transcript in Hearing
September 26th, 2019 10:49 PM
As part of his opening remarks during the highly anticipated House Intelligence Committee hearing with acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire Thursday, chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) read from a transcript of President Trump’s call with the president of Ukraine. The only problem was; he was making it up with the goal of dramatizing it into a mafia-style shakedown. And, while the…
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ABC, NBC: Congress Can ‘Read Between the Lines’ to Impeach Trump
September 25th, 2019 10:53 PM
With the infamous phone call between President Trump’s and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appearing to be a nothingburger following the release of a transcript of the conversation, the liberal media appeared to be urging Congress to find a way to use it for impeachment anyway. During the Wednesday evening newscasts of ABC and NBC, ‘reading between the lines’ was a common refrain.
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ABC, NBC Hide IG Warning of the Whistleblower’s ‘Political Bias'
September 25th, 2019 8:43 PM
While the liberal media was treating the newly released transcript of President Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as the smoking gun they needed to impeach him, CBS Evening News flashed a shred of honesty on Wednesday and reported that the Justice Department was warning lawmakers of the whistleblower’s anti-Trump “political bias”. Although, CBS’s reporting did have…
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ABC Declares Impeachment Announcement ‘Historic’, CBS/NBC Hold Back
September 24th, 2019 8:54 PM
In contrast to CNN sprinting to bestow the mantle of “historic” onto Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s Tuesday announcement that House Democrats would be starting official impeachment inquiries, there was only one network evening newscast that used the term to glorify the move: ABC’s World News Tonight. Neither CBS Evening News nor NBC Nightly News used that term, with the former cautioning about the harm…
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Embarrassed? Network News Fail to Report Climate Extremists in D.C.
September 23rd, 2019 11:17 PM
While the liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were busy fawning over the bitter ranting of radical climate teen Greta Thunberg at the United Nations on Monday, they completely ignored her cohorts in Washington, D.C. staging an illegal protest to shut down the city’s major traffic arteries, resulting in an all-day traffic nightmare in the nation’s capital.
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They Back States' Rights? Nets Gripe Trump Revoking CA Emissions Regs
September 18th, 2019 11:19 PM
The same networks that banded together to bully pro-life states earlier this year after they passed sweeping legislation to protect the life of unborn children, spent Wednesday evening whining about President Trump threatening to revoke California’s self-prescribed emissions standards in favor of a national standard.