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NBC Asks Booker: Are Police Budgets Across the Country ‘Too Large’?

June 10th, 2020 12:20 PM

During a softball interview with Democratic Senator Cory Booker on Wednesday, 3rd Hour Today show co-host Craig Melvin gently pushed from the left when he touted the effort to defund police departments across the country, even wondering if law enforcement budgets in major cities were “too large.”

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NBC Finally Notices COVID ‘Double-Standard’ With Protests

June 9th, 2020 1:23 PM

After joining the rest of the media last week in justifying mass Black Lives Matter protests in the time of coronavirus, on Tuesday, NBC’s Today show finally discovered the blatant double-standard of such demonstrations occurring while businesses and places of worship across the country remain shut down amid the health crisis.

 

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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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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…

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 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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Nets Insists Protests, 'Mostly Peaceful' 'Largely Peaceful'

June 1st, 2020 11:10 AM

The networks went out of their way to protect violent left wing mobs like Antifa rioting and looting this past weekend, by insisting they were the outlier in demonstrations that happened across the country, protesting the death of George Floyd. While showcasing…

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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…

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Nets Cheer Lefty Who Compared Reagan to Hitler: ‘Echo for Generations'

May 28th, 2020 12:39 PM
When an important conservative dies, journalists make sure to note that he angered liberals. In 2016, The Washington Post marked the death of Antonin Scalia with this angry front-page headline: “Supreme Court Conservative Dismayed Liberals.” Yet the networks on Thursday offered little in the way to indicate that far-left gay activist Larry Kramer was controversial. Instead, ABC, CBS and NBC “…
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NBC Gently Describes Biden as ‘Rusty’ for ‘You Ain’t Black’ Gaffe

May 26th, 2020 3:30 PM
After the long Memorial Day Weekend, ABC and CBS hoped you had forgotten about Joe Biden’s “you ain’t black” gaffe. The two networks on Tuesday avoided a recap of the presumptive Democratic nominee’s insistence that you can’t be African American and vote for Donald Trump. On the Today show, however, Andrea Mitchell gently brought the topic up, describing Biden as “rusty.”
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Chuck Todd Laments Biden Has to Answer for Racist Comment

May 24th, 2020 10:15 AM
In a tacit admission of how the Democratic Party thinks of the black community on Friday, presumptive nominee Joe Biden exclaimed that if a black person had to think about voting for him or President Trump, then their blackness was in question. By Sunday, NBC was tired of hearing the outrage at Biden’s blatantly racist remark with Sunday Today host Willie Geist huffing that Biden had to apologize…
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NBC & ABC Tout Laughable Lauer ‘Fact-Check’ of Rape Claims

May 20th, 2020 12:19 PM
It’s funny how liberal journalists suddenly warn of media bias when they are the ones facing press scrutiny. That hypocrisy was on full display Tuesday, when Mediaite decided to publish an op/ed from disgraced former Today show host Matt Lauer, who portrayed himself as a victim of “shoddy journalism.” On Wednesday, both NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America seized on the article, framing it…