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ABC, NBC Boast N.H. Is ‘Clinton Country’; ‘The Pressure Is on Sanders'
February 3rd, 2016 8:44 PM
Hours before CNN hosted a Democratic presidential town hall on Wednesday night between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News went out of their way to spin New Hampshire as “Clinton country” despite Sanders’ massive leads in the polls and argued that “[t]he pressure is on Sanders” in the race due to an unfavorable primary calendar after the Granite State…
Drilling Big Oil: Nets Mentioned Profits 9x More When Prices Were High
February 3rd, 2016 1:45 PM
When gas prices were high, the media pumped their shows with stories about profit. But when prices were low, those stories took a back seat.
In 2015, gas prices tumbled from a high of $2.80 in June to a low of $2 in December after a glut in supply flooded the market. BP and Exxon reportedly lost billions in profit last year, and according to The Telegraph, oil prices crashed into 2016 with…
TV Keeps Touting Trump Over His GOP Competitors
February 1st, 2016 7:11 AM
A new analysis by the Media Research Center finds Trump continued to receive the vast majority of TV news coverage throughout the month of January, leading up to tonight’s crucial Iowa caucuses. An examination of all campaign coverage on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts from January 1 through January 31 finds Trump received nearly 157 minutes of airtime, or almost 60 percent of the total…
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ABC Touts Hillary Dismissing E-Mails; NBC Promotes Her Team's App
January 31st, 2016 9:43 PM
Sunday's World News Tonight on ABC and the NBC Nightly News on the eve of the Iowa caucuses (with golf on CBS) previewsed the Democratic race. ABC parroted Hillary Clinton’s dismissal of e-mail scandal as a partisan hit job while NBC touted an “exclusive look” at a smartphone app that will be utilized by the Clinton campaign.
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ABC Blends 'Bombshell' Hillary E-mail Development Into 2016 Coverage
January 29th, 2016 11:56 PM
Friday's World News Tonight set aside the least amount of air time to the State Department's revelation that at least 22 of the e-mails on Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server contained top-secret information. The ABC program devoted a total of one minute and 28 seconds to the development. Jonathan Karl folded his coverage of the story into a segment about the Democratic presidential race…
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NBC’s Holt Frets to Hillary Clinton: ‘Do You Get Your Feelings Hurt?’
January 29th, 2016 8:29 PM
Reacting more as a supporter than an impartial observer, NBC anchor Lester Holt, during an interview with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, admitted he “winced” when he heard someone call her “dishonest.” He then worried: “Do you get your feelings hurt sometimes?”
Nets Waste Nearly 10 Mins on Trump; Barely Preview Actual GOP Debate
January 28th, 2016 8:16 PM
In the latest sign that the liberal media loves the candidacy of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted nearly 10 minutes of their Thursday evening newscasts to capitulating to the “master of stealing the show” in Trump but only one minute and 29 seconds for previewing the actual debate with the top seven candidates that don’t include Trump. …
TV Touts Trump Controversies But Avoids His Past Liberalism
January 28th, 2016 9:30 AM
As of Friday, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s seven-month-old candidacy has been the focus of an incredible 684 minutes of coverage on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts, far more than any of his GOP rivals. But amid that sea of Trump news, the networks have spent only about nine minutes (1.3% of Trump’s overall coverage) discussing the candidate’s clearly documented past support for…
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Liberal Nets Heap Praise on ‘Shrewd’ Trump ‘Eviscerating' Megyn Kelly
January 27th, 2016 9:15 PM
On Wednesday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted 10 minutes and 43 seconds over four segments on their evening newscasts to 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s decision to boycott Thursday’s Fox News Channel (FNC) debate and, in that coverage, ABC and NBC hailed Trump as a “renegade” making “a very shrewd move” by “eviscerating” moderator Megyn Kelly and FNC.
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ABC, NBC Ignore ‘Dangerous Precedent’ to Journalism by CMP Indictment
January 27th, 2016 4:17 PM
Undercover journalists from both sides of the political spectrum could be severely limited by a Texas grand jury indictment against pro-life activists. The charges are so sweeping that they could affect the entire journalism industry, everything from the network news to environmental activists.
Yet, out of the three broadcast evening news shows, only CBS Evening News has noticed the “dangerous…
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CBS Maintains Blackout on Bloomberg's Gun Control Stance; ABC Covers
January 26th, 2016 12:27 AM
Monday's CBS Evening News followed the example of CBS This Morning earlier in the day in failing to mention Michael Bloomberg's outspoken gun control stance in their coverage of the former New York City mayor's potential presidential run. By contrast, Jonathan Karl gave ABC's first mention of this liberal political position on Monday's World News Tonight: "He [Bloomberg] is a socially-liberal New…
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NBC, CBS Tout Indictment of Pro-Life Activists Behind Undercover Vids
January 25th, 2016 10:37 PM
On Monday, NBC Nightly News and CBS Evening News both spotlighted how a Texas grand jury indicted two people from the pro-life Center for Medical Progress on the felony charge of tampering with a government record. One of the two was also charged with purchasing and selling human organs, a misdemeanor. The grand jury also cleared Planned Parenthood of the Gulf Coast of any crime, despite the…
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Nets Hail Hillary ‘On the Attack’ But Again Censor Her E-Mail Scandal
January 21st, 2016 9:28 PM
The major broadcast networks offered on Thursday night five minutes and 15 seconds on the Democratic presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, but made no effort to mention the new details that broke this week pertaining to the highly classified nature of some e-mails found on her private server and instead trumpeted her “on attack” and “unloading” on Sanders.
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ABC’s Kimmel Covers New Hillary E-Mail Scandal News as WNT Stays Mute
January 21st, 2016 4:13 PM
In the latest sign that the liberal media has next to no interest in covering the new Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal news that broke on Tuesday, ABC’s World News Tonight has remained silent on the story (along with its fellow newscasts on CBS and NBC) concerning above top secret material being contained in her emails, but ABC’s late night comedy host, Jimmy Kimmel, offered a string of jokes on…