Networks Air 4-to-1 Favorable Coverage of Minimum Wage Hikes in 2015

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January 7th, 2016 11:27 AM
When it comes to raising the minimum wage, networks minimize balance and maximize bias. After a year of protests clamoring for a $15 minimum wage, Christian Science Monitor reported that 14 states and several cities increased minimum wages or planned to in 2016. Several more cities and states are expected to consider a $15 minimum wage with ballot or legislative initiatives, according to USA…
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Nets Fail to Cover TransCanada Suing Obama for Rejecting Keystone

January 7th, 2016 12:40 AM
Along with skipping on Wednesday night the successful congressional vote to repeal ObamaCare and defund Planned Parenthood, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC also declined to dedicate a second of airtime to the Canadien energy company TransCanada filing lawsuits against the Obama administration for having rejected the Keystone XL pipeline.
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ABC to Cruz: ‘How Can You Be’ POTUS If You ‘Hate’ Dems, DC 'Culture'

January 6th, 2016 10:40 PM
While interviewing Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz for the Wednesday edition of ABC’s World News Tonight, Republican campaign correspondent Tom Llamas demanded Cruz explain how he could “be a president and hate the Democrats and hate the culture of Washington so much and be effective.”
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Nets Punt on ObamaCare Repeal, Defund PP Vote Passing Congress

January 6th, 2016 9:14 PM
On Wednesday night, the major network evening newscasts all failed to cover the first full, successful congressional vote to repeal of ObamaCare and defund of Planned Parenthood that will go to President Obama’s desk where he’ll likely veto the measures seeking to undo his health care law and strike federal funding from the nation’s largest provider of abortions. Providing a more balanced…
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CBS’s Pelley Lectures GOP: Reagan ‘Wouldn’t Recognize’ Party in 2016

January 6th, 2016 1:51 AM
After having spent seven and a half minutes on Tuesday trumpeting President Obama’s executive actions on gun control, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley eventually turned his newscast to the 2016 election and invoked Ronald Reagan in lecturing Republicans that “he wouldn't recognize the melee just four weeks before Iowa.”

Bozell & Graham Column: Burying Negative Polls

January 5th, 2016 11:07 PM
Network news outlets conduct their own polls. They also bury the poll results when they don’t like them. On PBS on January 1, liberal pundit Mark Shields brought some very bad news for the Left. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found 73 percent say they want the next president to take a different approach from President Obama's. So NBC, both the creator of the poll and a relentless…
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ABC, NBC Promote Obama’s ‘Rallying Cry’ on Guns; ‘Showdown' Post-Tears

January 5th, 2016 11:01 PM
Tuesday’s editions of ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News aired nowhere near the exhaustive coverage of President Obama’s executive actions on gun control that the CBS Evening News did, but they were not short on fawning language for Obama’s “rallying cry...after years of anger and frustration” in what ABC hyped as “[t]he showdown after the President breaks down.”
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Nets Hail Bill Clinton Campaigning as ‘Decisive Moment’ in 2016 Race

January 4th, 2016 10:55 PM
Following former President Bill Clinton’s first 2016 campaign events on Monday for wife Hillary, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC proclaimed that Hillary’s use of her “secret” and “most potent” weapon as a surrogate in New Hampshire was “a decisive moment” of this election season.
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Nets Applaud Obama’s ‘New Gun Checks’ Hoping ‘to Restrict Gun Sales'

January 4th, 2016 9:15 PM
Moments after the White House revealed to reporters on Monday details of President Obama’s executive orders on gun control, the network evening newscasts could barely contain their approval for the President “picking a major fight with Republicans” as his “new gun checks” seek “to restrict gun sales.” CBS anchor Scott Pelley: "The President, frustrated by mass murders that seem to come every…
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ABC, NBC Tout Clinton Family Walk, Punt on Clinton Sex Scandals

December 29th, 2015 11:58 AM
On Monday, the major network evening newscasts all alluded to Donald Trump criticizing Bill and Hillary Clinton by bringing up Clinton’s numerous bouts of sexual misconduct from the 1990's, but chose not to remind viewers of what those scandals actually were and instead deflected away from that by touting the Clintons going for a walk over the weekend with daughter Chelsea and granddaughter…

Nets Block Out Over 10 Mins for Harping on Trump’s Hillary Comment

December 23rd, 2015 2:01 AM
Just over two weeks after the major network evening newscasts spent 24 minutes obsessing on December 8 over Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the U.S., the three programs returned on Tuesday night to devote ten and a half minutes to Trump’s declaration that Hillary Clinton was “schlonged” in 2008 by losing to then-Senator Barack Obama.
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CBS Downplays Sanders vs. Clinton-DNC Scandal; ‘Brewing’ 'Family Feud'

December 19th, 2015 12:38 AM
On Friday, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC covered the new scandal brewing inside the Democratic presidential campaign with the data breach involving the Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton campaigns (plus the Sanders camp suing the Democratic National Committee), but it was the CBS Evening News that sought to downplay the story by not covering the “brewing” “family feud.” 
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Nets Censor NYT Deleting Obama Quote on Not Understanding Terror Fears

December 18th, 2015 9:29 PM
The major broadcast networks on Friday morning and evening showed no interest in reporting to viewers that The New York Times had scrubbed from an article on its website that contained a quote from President Obama telling columnists that he did not watch enough news coverage of the Paris and San Bernardino terror attacks to truly grasp the anxiety of the American people. 

Networks Censor ABC Poll Finding 53 Percent Oppose Assault Weapons Ban

December 16th, 2015 6:00 PM
ABC's morning and evening newscasts, along with those of competitors CBS and NBC, have yet to cover on the latest Washington Post/ABC poll finding that 53 percent of Americans oppose a new assault weapons ban. This is the "first time in more than 20 years of ABC News/Washington Post polls, with the public expressing vast doubt that the authorities can prevent 'lone wolf' terrorist attacks and a…