The Deluge Begins: Morning Shows Devote 73 Minutes to Royal Baby, Igno

July 22nd, 2013 4:41 PM
The deluge of royal baby coverage went into overdrive on Monday with all three morning shows devoting a staggering 73 minutes total to the impending birth and the child's gender. At the same time, Good Morning America, Today and CBS This Morning ignored any developments in the growing Internal Revenue Service scandal. The Today show obsessed over the royal baby the most, pushing the story for…

NBC Cheers 'Firebrand for Science' Bill Nye Pushing Climate Change

July 22nd, 2013 11:37 AM
On Monday's NBC Today, correspondent Mara Schiavocampo offered a fawning report on the 20th anniversary of the popular children's show, Bill Nye, The Science Guy, describing its host as "Part teacher, part crusader." A sound bite followed of Nye declaring: "Climate change is happening." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] While Schiavocampo started by describing the…

Andrew Sullivan: ‘With Any Luck’ America Won’t Be a Superpower i

July 21st, 2013 6:25 PM
Talk about your America-hating media members. On the final episode of the syndicated Chris Matthews Show Sunday, Andrew Sullivan actually said that - to laughter from many in the studio - “with any luck,” America won’t be a superpower in 20 years (video follows with transcript and commentary):

David Brooks: Obama's Address on Race 'Was a Symphony

July 21st, 2013 2:25 PM
As NewsBusters has been reporting, the Obama-loving media's gushing and fawning over the President's address Friday concerning race and the George Zimmerman verdict has been nothing less than sick-making. Potentially the most vomitous remark yet came from New York Times columnist David Brooks who actually said on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday - with a straight face, no less! - it "was a…

Tavis Smiley: Obama Leads Nation in Conversation on Gay Marriage But N

July 21st, 2013 12:51 PM
Unlike most of the Obama-loving media, PBS's Tavis Smiley has been deeply critical of the President's comments Friday regarding race and the George Zimmerman verdict. Smiley continued his criticism on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday saying, "I don't know how he argues he can't lead us in a conversation on this, but he can on gay marriage?" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

Today Show Sheds 600,000 Viewers Since Savannah Guthrie Replaced Ann C

July 19th, 2013 6:24 PM
Roughly one year ago, NBC's Today show clumsily replaced Ann Curry with Savannah Guthrie. Fans seem to still be holding it against the Peacock network for the show has not only lost its first-place position to ABC's Good Morning America, it has also shed over 600,000 viewers.

NBC's 'Today' Gushes Over Rahm Emanuel's Dance Moves, Ignores Chicago

July 19th, 2013 12:44 PM
On Friday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie promoted a video of Rahm Emanuel caught dancing at a Chicago music festival: "Rahm's rhythm. You know, a lot of people find it just hard to sit still when they hear Robin Thicke's hit summer anthem Blurred Lines. Well now you can add Rahm Emanuel, Chicago's mayor, to that group." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] While the…

On Detroit Bankruptcy, All Three Networks Skip the Sky High Taxes, Dem

July 19th, 2013 11:17 AM
 All three networks on Thursday night and Friday morning avoided key factors in the bankruptcy of Detroit, skipping the city's astronomically high tax rate and ignoring Democratic dominance for the previous half century. (Detroit's last Republican mayor left office in 1962.) Instead, ABC, NBC and CBS acted as though the bankruptcy, what Brian Williams called "the slow-moving tragedy of decline…

ABC, CBS and NBC to Viewers: IRS Scandal? Please, That's Old News

July 19th, 2013 10:57 AM
The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks have essentially censored the latest IRS scandal news. Not a single network reported on the bombshell coming out of Thursday’s congressional hearing that IRS employees were ordered to send Tea Party tax-exemption applications to the office of the IRS’s Chief Counsel, which was headed by William Wilkins, who at that time was the only Obama political…

NYT Columnist: Rolling Stone 'Committed An Act of Journalism' With Tsa

July 18th, 2013 6:03 PM
During a report on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News on the widely panned cover of Rolling Stone magazine featuring Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a sound bite was included of New York Times media columnist David Carr defending the offensive display: "I think that Rolling Stone committed an act of journalism in both publishing this photo and publishing the story that they did." [Listen to the…

NBC's Lauer to Martin Parents: 'Do You Think the Legal System Failed T

July 18th, 2013 3:01 PM

In a live interview with Trayvon Martin's parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer urged them to condemn the justice system for the acquittal of their son's shooter George Zimmerman: "Do you think the legal system failed Trayvon?" [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] Lauer set up the question by quoting their attorney Benjamin…

NBC Touts 'National Discourse' on Trayvon Martin Case...With Liberals

July 17th, 2013 5:26 PM
On Wednesday's NBC Today, a report by correspondent Kerry Sanders featured a series of sound bites of public figures, all of them liberal, reacting to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin shooter George Zimmerman. Most of the statements focused on using Martin's death to call for the elimination of Stand Your Ground self-defense laws. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]…

Leno: Kids Believed Obama Loves Broccoli, Burst Out Laughing When He S

July 17th, 2013 4:26 PM
Jay Leno continued his comedic attacks on the White House Tuesday. Early in his NBC Tonight Show monologue, the host said, “Last week, President Obama told a group of school children that broccoli was his favorite food, which the kids seemed to believe. They believed him. Then he told them ObamaCare would reduce the deficit - the kids all burst out laughing.”

Feds Targeted Tax Records of Political Candidates; All Three Networks

July 17th, 2013 3:45 PM
 The tax records of political candidates and certain donors were improperly accessed by government officials, but the Justice Department has refused to prosecute, according to the Washington Times. This revelation, published on Tuesday, has been ignored by the morning and evening newscasts of CBS, NBC and ABC. Times writers Dave Boyer and Ben Wolfgang explained, "In a written response to a…