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Nets Tout Radical Push to Defund & Dismantle Police Across the Country

June 8th, 2020 1:13 PM

On Monday, all three network morning shows seized on the radical push to defund and even dismantle police departments across the country. The extremism of the effort was downplayed, if mentioned at all. Instead, the Minneapolis mayor objecting to his city council voting to dismantle the entire local police force was treated as the real controversy.

 

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Meyers Trashes NYT for Running Cotton's 'Chilling,' 'Fascist' Op-Ed

June 5th, 2020 8:33 PM

On Friday’s edition of Late Night, host Seth Meyers trashed Senator Tom Cotton's op-ed in The New York Times calling for President Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in an effort to put a stop to the looting and rioting that has engulfed major cities. In addition, Meyers repeatedly argued that the United States has become an “authoritarian regime.”

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Alexander, Alcindor Dismiss Positive Jobs News, Tie Economy to Floyd

June 5th, 2020 1:07 PM

Seeing as how the liberal media were incensed by Friday’s positive jobs report, PBS’s Yamiche Alcindor and NBC’s Peter Alexander decided to downplay it by shouting obnoxious questions at President Trump following remarks in the Rose Garden. Apparently, the report, which revealed the unemployment rate fell to 13.3 percent in May, wasn’t that important. At one point, Alexander sought to use a…

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Nets Ignore Lauded Anti-Hydroxychloroquine Study Getting Shot Down

June 4th, 2020 11:26 PM

Just as with their cable counterparts, the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC refused to give airtime to the revelation that a lauded scientific study, purporting to show anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine was ineffective and deadly…

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ABC, CBS Turn Their Backs on U.S. Sailor Trump Freed from Iran

June 4th, 2020 8:45 PM

U.S. Navy veteran Michael White stepped out of a Swiss government plane in Zurich, Switzerland, and back into American freedom, Thursday, after spending two years in an Iranian prison on charges of allegedly insulting the supreme leader. In an interview with Fox News, White thanked President Trump for his release and for making America great again. But neither his release nor his thanks were…

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STUDY: 99.3 % of TV's Protest Coverage Ignores Mob's Murder Victims

June 4th, 2020 12:45 PM

Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC have been consistent cheerleaders for the nationwide protests against police brutality, offering nearly 12 hours of coverage (710 minutes) over the past seven days on just their flagship morning and evening news shows. But despite dedicating all of those hours of airtime to the protests and riots, these networks have barely breathed a word about those who…

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Nets Outraged by 'Controversial' Pro-Flag Comments From NFL Player

June 4th, 2020 11:44 AM

NFL Quarterback for the New Orleans’ Saints Drew Brees came under immediate backlash from other athletes and the media yesterday after saying in an interview that players shouldn’t “disrespect” the American flag by protesting during the National Anthem. This statement was treated like heresy by the networks this morning, who hyped how “controversial” “tone-deaf” his comments were and hyped…

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Nets Skip Rosenstein Drop Support for FBI’s Lie-Filled FISA Warrant

June 3rd, 2020 11:36 PM

In a Wednesday hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified that he wouldn’t have approved the FBI’s FISA warrant to spy on a Trump campaign staffer, if he had known the bureau was lying to him and Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. It was testimony that went unreported on ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News…

Protests and Pandemic
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Nets Declare ‘Virus of Hate May Be More Dangerous’ Than COVID

June 3rd, 2020 2:27 PM

After having spent weeks trashing anti-lockdown protests during the coronavirus pandemic as racist and a threat to public health, on Wednesday, the broadcast networks tried to excuse the same COVID concerns amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd. In part, journalists argued “the virus of hate may be more dangerous” and that racism was the real pandemic.

 

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While Hyping Peaceful Protesters, NBC Ignores Man Murdered by Looters

June 3rd, 2020 11:38 AM

The big three networks continued to gaslight Americans by insisting that protests and riots across the country were “mostly peaceful” while cities burn, policemen are attacked and both officers and bystanders are assaulted and in some cases, murdered. Another one of these tragic cases happened Tuesday as 77-year-old retired police captain David Dorn was murdered by looters who shot him in cold…

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Nets Tout Biden’s ‘Stark Contrast’ With Trump, ‘Promise’ to End Racism

June 2nd, 2020 8:46 PM

Completely ignoring his recent racist comment declaring “you ain’t black” if you’re African American and vote for President Trump, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) praised former Vice President Joe Biden for providing a “stark” and “sharp” contrast to the President on the matter of George Floyd’s death.

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Nets More ‘Outraged’ by Trump Church Visit Than Rioters Burning It

June 2nd, 2020 12:45 PM

On Monday, the network morning shows offered a combined 69 seconds of coverage on historic St. John’s Church in Washington, D.C. being set on fire and vandalized by violent protesters Sunday night. On Tuesday, those same broadcasts devoted a combined 30 minutes of coverage to hyping the “outrage” over President Trump visiting the church Monday evening.

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Nuts: Nets Ask Bishop to Trash Trump, Not Antifa, After Church Visit

June 2nd, 2020 11:05 AM

The networks spent this morning crying outrage at President Trump for visiting the historic St. John’s Church on Monday to show his support, after Antifa broke windows and tried to burn it down the night before. On Good Morning America, White House correspondent Cecilia Vega was more upset at President Trump taking photos in front of the church, than she was of the rioters who defaced…

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Friends of Antifa: NBC Scoffs at Claims 'Left-Wing' Mobs Causing Riots

May 31st, 2020 10:59 AM

NewsBusters and this author have repeatedly pointed out how MSNBC and NBC have been a reliable safe harbor for the left-wing domestic terrorist group known as Antifa. And they back at it again, with Sunday Today anchor Willie Geist and White House correspondent Kelly O’Donnell scoffed at claims from the White House and the Department of Justice that Antifa was partially to blame for…