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NBC on Marriage Ruling: Will 'Go Down in the Record Books' with Brown

June 26th, 2015 11:28 AM
On June 26, following the Supreme Court’s decision to grant a constitutional right to marry for gay couples, NBC News broke in to cheer on the ruling. Pete Williams labeled it a historic ruling and fought back tears while reporting the 5-4 decision to Savannah Guthrie. 

Lefty Apple Pays Musicians 27 Times Less Than Sweatshop Laborers

June 26th, 2015 9:35 AM
Left-wing Apple is huge and popular with the technorati. It became the world’s first company worth $700 billion, and was once rich enough to buy the entire island of Cyprus. But Apple said it can only afford to pay musicians pennies an hour for streaming their music, approximately 27 times less than Chinese factory workers earned making the Apple Watch. Apple came under intense criticism after…
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Networks Yawn at News IRS Destroyed 24,000 Lois Lerner E-Mails

June 26th, 2015 1:04 AM
On Thursday night, the major broadcast networks ignored a new development in the IRS scandal that the agency erased 422 backup tapes and in turn destroyed 24,000 e-mails of embattled former official Lois Lerner. With ABC, CBS, and NBC on the sidelines, the Fox News Channel’s Special Report offered a full report on Thursday’s House Oversight Committee hearing concerning the multi-year scandal.…
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Nets Cheer ‘Historic’ ObamaCare Ruling, Hail Roberts as 'Conservative'

June 25th, 2015 11:23 PM
Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in favor of President Obama in the ObamaCare subsidy case, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC were out in full force during their Thursday evening newscasts to cheer the “historic ruling” and labeled Chief Justice John Roberts as a “conservative” after having “saved” ObamaCare “from a devastating blow.” CBS anchor Scott Pelley assured viewers in an…
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NBC Trumpets ObamaCare Beneficiaries ‘Who Say It’s Been...a Lifesaver’

June 25th, 2015 9:30 PM
Touting how “over ten million people have now signed up for health insurance under the ObamaCare law,” NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt on Thursday night trumpeted “the ObamaCare law now directly effecting so many families who say it’s been quite literally a lifesaver.” Chris Jansing delivered heartwarming anecdotes about people who have benefitted and only, at the very end of her report, did…
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Networks Yawn at Farrakhan's 'Put the American Flag Down' Diatribe

June 25th, 2015 5:12 PM
As of Thursday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts had yet to report on Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's Wednesday rant against the American flag at Metropolitan AME Church in Washington, D.C. Conservative talk radio station WMAL recorded Farrakhan's diatribe, where the radical figure called for an end to that national symbol: "We need to put the American flag down…

NBC Writer Finds South Asians Dismissive of Jindal's 'Indian Heritage'

June 25th, 2015 4:21 PM
Following Bobby Jindal’s Tuesday announcement that he is seeking the presidency in 2016, he has received heat from several mainstream media sources. They have argued Jindal is not a true Indian-American. NBC News continued this trend in an article on their website which suggested that many Asian-Americans and Indian-Americans are skeptical of the Louisiana governor. Frances Kai-Hwa Wang, argued…
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NBC Hails Obama's 'Big Victory' That Is Key to Health Care 'Legacy'

June 25th, 2015 12:35 PM
After the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Barack Obama on Thursday, the journalists at NBC pounced to hail the "big victory" and assert just how relieved 2016 Republicans must be Peter Alexander touted, "So it is a big victory for the Obama administration. Basically, the Supreme Court has, for the second time, bailed out ObamaCare." 
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CBS, NBC Punt on Covering Impending SCOTUS Rulings

June 25th, 2015 9:42 AM
On Thursday, the “Big Three” (ABC, CBS, and NBC) network morning shows all touted President Obama confronting an LGBT activist who heckled him at a White House event on Wednesday but only ABC’s Good Morning America was the only network morning show to cover the highly anticipated Supreme Court cases regarding ObamaCare and gay marriage. 
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Nets Barely Acknowledge Jindal’s Entrance into 2016 Presidential Field

June 24th, 2015 8:58 PM
While Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal became the 13th Republican on Wednesday to join the 2016 Republican presidential field, the top English and Spanish-language network evening newscasts all but dodged Jindal’s decision by providing a total of 54 seconds across English networks ABC, CBS, and NBC. As for the Spanish-language networks, MundoFox and Telemundo ignored Jindal’s announcement…
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Networks Ignore SCOTUS Ruling Against Government Raisin Robbery

June 24th, 2015 12:14 PM
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a New Deal-era farm program on June 22, saying it was unconstitutional for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to force raisin farmers to give the government their crops without payment. ABC, CBS and NBC never reported on air about the legal fight or the latest court decision, which was more than a decade in the making. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of…
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NBC Gushes Over New Photos of ‘American Royalty’ Kennedy Family

June 24th, 2015 10:43 AM
On Wednesday, NBC’s Today devoted nearly three minutes to promoting some “never before-seen” photos of the Kennedy family while giving a mere 18 seconds to Governor Bobby Jindal’s presidential announcement, burying it in a story on the new U.S. policy on hostage negotiations.
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Nets Again Skip E-Mails Showing Gruber’s Deeper WH Role on ObamaCare

June 23rd, 2015 12:23 AM
The top English and Spanish-language broadcast networks again ignored on Monday night a new development in the Jonathan Gruber saga as new e-mails have surfaced that revealed how his role with the White House on ObamaCare was more detailed than previously thought. As initially reported by The Wall Street Journal, e-mails “show frequent consultations between Mr. Gruber and top Obama administration…
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Nets Omit How Democratic Gov. in S.C. Raised Confederate Flag in 1962

June 22nd, 2015 10:33 PM
In their coverage on Monday night of the calls by South Carolina officials to remove the Confederate flag from the State Capitol’s grounds, the major broadcast networks failed to note the full context of the flag’s history in the Palmetto State and how it was a Democratic Governor who first hoisted it above the Capitol dome in 1962. Meanwhile, Fox News’s Special Report noted this fact during one…