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Nets Gave Nearly 2x Coverage to Pre-Election Jobs Vs. Jobs Revision

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September 19th, 2025 5:02 PM

Remember that blowout September 2024 jobs report the broadcast networks slobbered over in October just before the presidential election? Well, the government admitted last week to a big whoopsie in configuring the jobs numbers. Sure enough, ABC CBS and NBC were clearly not as keen on letting viewers know they just mindlessly swallowed up what the Biden administration spit out for political…

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Meyers, Stewart, Fallon Blast Kimmel's Suspension, Don't Play Remarks

September 19th, 2025 2:37 PM

CBS’s Stephen Colbert freaked out on Thursday’s edition of The Late Show at ABC suspending Jimmy Kimmel and downplayed his comments that MAGA was “desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” but at least he played the clip. The same could not be said of Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart on The Daily Show and NBC’s…

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Networks Get on Fainting Couch, LIE Trump Orchestrated Kimmel Timeout

September 19th, 2025 1:49 PM

Sensing an opportunity for exploitation Thursday night, the liberal broadcast networks went full bore with lying to their audience about why late night “comedian” Jimmy Kimmel was put in timeout by Disney/ABC, choosing to instead claim the suspension was orchestrated by the Trump administration. CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, and even ABC’s World News Tonight

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Networks Mourn Kimmel Suspension, ABC Falsely Claims FCC Canned Him

September 18th, 2025 5:33 PM

On Thursday, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC had full stories on their flagship morning news shows mourning the indefinite suspension of ABC late-night partisan tool Jimmy Kimmel, bemoaning an alleged conspiracy between the Trump administration and local TV conglomerates to censor a “Trump critic.”

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Bozell to O'Connor: Why Won't Lefty Media Employ Someone Like Kirk?

September 15th, 2025 1:59 PM

MRC President David Bozell visited WMAL’s O’Connor & Company on Monday morning to discuss what the Sunday talk shows (and others) had to say about the assassination of Charlie Kirk last week. O’Connor pointed out a major blind spot in the networks: a lack of someone who aligned with Charlie Kirk from an ideological perspective:

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FAKE NEWS: Scottie Mac Twists Gov. Cox’s Statements on Trans Motive

September 14th, 2025 4:49 PM

The left have been furiously spinning narrative in the wake of the horrific assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Much of this spin is dedicated to the negation of a transgender motive behind the shooting. In service of that narrative, CBS’s Scott MacFarlane completely misrepresented statements by Utah Governor Spencer Cox.

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Late Night Comedians Condemn Kirk Assassination, Some Push Gun Control

September 12th, 2025 10:17 AM

With the exception of NBC’s The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon, all of the late night comedy reacted to the assassination of Charlie Kirk on their Thursday program by hitting on all the proper points about political violence being unacceptable and un-American. Some even criticized some on the left for their reaction to it, but while some may sincerely believe that gun control is part…

Comcast Demands MSNBC, NBC Be More ‘Respectful’ in Kirk Coverage

September 12th, 2025 9:50 AM

In a letter sent to Friday morning, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts and President Brian Roberts teamed with Mark Lazarus as head of Versant (the new company consisting of spun off cable networks, including CNBC and MSNBC) to demand all company employees get their acts together and show more compassion in light of Charlie Kirk’s assassination while focusing on “fostering civil dialogue.”

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Meyers Welcomes Beshear To Talk Gen Z Slang, Plot Strategy

September 10th, 2025 1:48 PM

NBC’s Seth Meyers’s Tuesday interview with Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear could have been a case study in how the late night comedians conduct interviews with Democratic politicians. First, the Late Night host asked some softball questions about podcasting and Gen Z slang and then followed up with a strategy planning session to help Democrats win again.

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ABC/CBS Skip Biden Mental Decline Hearings, NBC/PBS Air 4 Minutes

September 10th, 2025 9:15 AM

MRC analysts looked at ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS evening, morning and Sunday roundtable news shows from June 18 to the morning of September 10 and found a grand total of 4 minutes, 2 seconds spent on the Biden mental decline hearings. 

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Ghoulish: Media Make Charlotte Stabbing a ‘Republicans Pounce’ Story

September 9th, 2025 1:19 PM

The corporate media have finally been shamed into covering the brutal stabbing of 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zaruska by a mentally ill black man in Charlotte, and predictably, they’ve turned it into a “Republicans pounce!” story. In between gasps of horror that the Trump administration has “seized on” the story, print outlets and TV talking heads have been hard at work identifying the…

NewsBusters Podcast: Why Is 'News Judgment' Clouded by Racial Angst?

September 8th, 2025 10:23 PM

Horror bubbled up on social media over the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was randomly stabbed to death while riding the light rail in Charlotte, North Carolina, by a homeless man with an extensive criminal and mental health record. A young woman fled war in Ukraine only to find death in an American city. The liberal networks struggled to locate it.

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ABC, NBC Use Sunday Night Shows to Whine Trump Wants ‘War’ on Chicago

September 8th, 2025 6:53 AM

On the Sunday editions of ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News, the liberal networks were grossly giddy in touting partisan protests against President Trump and joining them in opposing Trump’s desire to crackdown on crime in Chicago, hoping the city remains quiet.

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ABC, CBS, NBC Boast About China’s Military Parade Flexing Against U.S.

September 2nd, 2025 2:00 PM

The liberal media of today was still that same media that bashed America’s troops and supported our enemies during Vietnam. There was an updated version of that mentality visible during the Tuesday morning newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC when all three of them hyped China’s military parade marking the end of WWII; when, just a few months ago, they all condemned the U.S.’s military parade…