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ABC, NBC Omit Arrest of Muslim Migrants Accused of Killing Christians

April 20th, 2015 3:24 PM
As of Monday morning, ABC and NBC's morning and evening newscasts haven't aired any reports or news briefs on the recent arrests of 15 Muslim migrants from Mali, Senegal, and Ivory Coast, who allegedly murdered 12 fellow migrants by throwing them into the Mediterranean Sea – simply because they recited Christian prayers. On Friday, CBS This Morning devoted seven seconds of air time to a news…
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NBC: 'Ideological Problems' 'Torpedoed' GOP in 2008 and 2012

April 17th, 2015 9:57 PM
On Friday's NBC Nightly News, Peter Alexander hinted that the Republican Party's internal battles over conservative principles caused its losses in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. Alexander asked former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, "How are you going to help the party overcome the ideological problems that, sort of, torpedoed it in 2008 and 2012?"
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Cable Nets Cover Hillary's Fable About Grandparents; Big Three Yawn

April 17th, 2015 5:28 PM
As of Friday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts had yet to cover Hillary Clinton's false claim that all four of her grandparents emigrated to the United States. In reality, only one – Hugh Rodham, Sr. – was born abroad in England. By contrast, all three main cable news channels – CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC – covered Mrs. Clinton's tall tale about her family between…

A Tale of Three Governors, Media Bias Edition

April 16th, 2015 9:25 AM
It was the best of coverage - it was the worst of coverage.
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NBC Enthusiastically Cheers Union-Led Protests for $15 Minimum Wage

April 16th, 2015 3:12 AM
In response to the far-left and union-led protests nationwide on Wednesday for a $15 minimum wage for fast-food and retail workers, NBC Nightly News applauded the protests with a glowing report that felt more like a campaign commercial. Disguised as a segment on the broader topic of income inequality, interim anchor Lester Holt and correspondent Stephanie Gosk led the way in offering no opposing…
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NBC Moves on from Hillary's E-Mail Scandal, But Raises Bridgegate

April 15th, 2015 11:12 PM
On Wednesday night, ABC and CBS continued to ignore the latest development in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal while NBC moved on to instead ask Republican Governor Chris Christie (N.J.) if “your moment” had “passed” as the Republican front-runner for the 2016 presidential nomination due to the Bridgegate scandal.
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NBC Hails Cuba’s Removal from Terrorism List; 'Another Historic Step'

April 15th, 2015 2:51 AM
Hours after President Obama moved to strike Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News cheered the decision by the President as “another historic step” and “another remnant of the Cold War” tumbling down. Interim anchor Lester Holt began with the announcement that “[w]e are witnessing tonight another historic step in thawing relations between the U.S. and Cuba”…
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ABC: Hillary Working to Win Voters ‘One Handshake, One Chai at a Time'

April 14th, 2015 11:11 PM
ABC News’s senior national correspondent Cecilia Vega continued her cheerleading for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday’s World News Tonight as she gushed that Clinton is working to win over voters “one handshake, one chai at a time” (in reference to her order of a chai tea at an Iowa coffee shop).
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ABC, NBC Ignore Congressional Hearing on DEA Sex Parties in Colombia

April 14th, 2015 9:06 PM
On Tuesday night, ABC and NBC made no mention of a congressional hearing that took place earlier in the day addressing a scandal unveiled in a Department of Justice (DOJ) report that said Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents in Colombia had participated in sex parties over a multi-year period funded by American taxpayers and the very drug cartels they were fighting.
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Nets Bash Rubio Over Age, Not Having the 'Fame’ & ‘Fortune' of Clinton

April 14th, 2015 12:00 AM
Minutes after Republican Senator Marco Rubio (Fla.) declared his candidacy for president, the major broadcast networks went to work in their Monday evening newscasts attacking Rubio over his age, policy positions, and touting the “experience,” “fame,” and “fortune” possessed by Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and possible Republican candidate Jeb Bush. NBC's Kelly O’Donnell shouted to Rubio…
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Nets Continue Heralding the Clinton Campaign; ABC, CBS Omit Scandals

April 13th, 2015 10:04 PM
Following a Sunday night and Monday morning in which the networks cheered Hillary Clinton’s announcement of a presidential campaign, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC returned for more late Monday where all three evening newscasts acclaimed her road trip to Iowa and stop for food at a Chipotle in Ohio. All the while, ABC and CBS ignored yet again the numerous scandals surrounding the former…
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ABC, NBC Cheer Hillary’s Rollout; Fawn Over Video, Skip Liberal Label

April 12th, 2015 11:33 PM
In the first network newscasts since Hillary Clinton officially announced her presidential campaign, on Sunday night ABC and NBC cheered Clinton’s announcement and gushed over her campaign video as well as the traffic it received on Twitter. In addition, the networks refused to label her a liberal. “The campaign kicked off with this video sent out on social media. Twitter lighting up the…
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ABC Skips Hillary’s Scandals; Touts New Epilogue, Chelsea in Elle Mag

April 10th, 2015 9:50 PM
For the second straight news cycle, ABC News failed to mention any of Hillary Clinton’s scandals on Friday night as she’s expected to announce her second presidential campaign on Sunday as World News Tonight instead gushed over a new epilogue to her latest book and Chelsea Clinton’s appearance on the May issue of Elle magazine.
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AP Report Shows Backlog at VA Hasn’t Improved; Networks Fail to Cover

April 9th, 2015 11:09 PM
On Thursday night, the top English and Spanish broadcast networks made no mention of the latest surrounding the Department of Veterans Affairs scandal as an Associated Press (AP) investigation found that the number of delays for veterans seeking care has not improved as the scandal approaches its first anniversary.