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EXCLUSIVE: TV Ignores Issues & Rivals, Fixates on Bashing Trump

January 11th, 2024 8:20 AM

As actual voting is set to begin in the 2024 presidential election, a new study by the Media Research Center finds the three broadcast evening newscasts’ fixation with bashing Donald Trump has meant both his fellow candidates and substantive policy issues have been shunted to the sidelines.

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Mixed Bag: Nets Mention But Downplay Clinton in Epstein Document Dumps

January 5th, 2024 4:05 PM

Despite what some might have predicted, the major broadcast networks have been covering the first two dumps of previously-sealed documents relating to serial sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein’s life of ruin and escapades alongside the rich and famous. As for how they did between Thursday morning and Friday morning, it was truly a mixed bag for ABC, CBS, and NBC in terms of highlighting former…

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ABC News Dutifully Carries Biden’s ‘Democracy’ Water

January 3rd, 2024 11:16 PM

ABC World News Tonight closed out a report on the ongoing Republican presidential primary by echoing Biden campaign talking points on upcoming campaign stops, which are aimed at highlighting “the stakes” of the 2024 election.

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Nets: ‘Conservative Attacks,’ Plagiarism ‘Claims’ Wounded Claudine Gay

January 3rd, 2024 5:02 PM

The “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC gave full stories Tuesday night and Wednesday morning to the long-delayed resignation of Harvard University President Claudine Gay following her infamous congressional testimony refusing to condemn rampant anti-Semitism on her campus and a growing list of examples of plagiarism.

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ABC, NBC Omit Sen. Bob Menéndez’s Superseding Bribery Indictment

January 3rd, 2024 12:30 AM

As tonight’s network evening newscasts went on the air, news broke of a superseding indictment in the federal bribery case against U.S. Sen. Bob Menéndez (D-NJ). Of the three major networks, only CBS made time to cover the story.

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Nets Note Record Border Surge, Hide WH ‘Root Causes’ Tie-In

December 22nd, 2023 12:44 AM

You just know that things are bad when the network evening newscasts have to actually make the time to report on the ongoing explosion at the southern border. Tonight, all three networks reported on the record detentions this week. None, however, reported on the White House's tie-in to the awful prisoner swap with the Maduro dictatorship in Venezuela.

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Network Newscasts Unsure About How To Cover Biden-Maduro Prison Swap

December 21st, 2023 12:17 AM

The network evening newscasts were unsure whether to hail, cover neutrally, or condemn the latest U.S. prisoner swap with an authoritarian regime. In this case, the exchange with Venezuela’s Maduro dictatorial regime, which returned his notorious bagman, Alex Saab, in exchange for fugitive “Fat Leonard” and 10 additional hostages.

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Network Newscasts Hype Colorado Ruling Taking Trump Off Primary Ballot

December 20th, 2023 6:17 AM

The evening network newscasts delivered their breaking news reports on the Colorado Supreme Court decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot with little substance, but plenty of emotional impact. 

 

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ABC, CBS Newscasts Continue The Media’s MELTDOWN Over Trump Remarks

December 19th, 2023 2:30 AM

The Acela Media are still abuzz over a controversial segment of former President Donald Trump’s remarks in Durham, New Hampshire, and two of the major evening network newscasts continued to parrot Biden campaign talking points in a scramble to turn Trump into Literally Hitler.

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ABC Plays ‘Guess The Race’ In Report On Sexual Predator Loose In AZ

December 14th, 2023 12:25 AM

If ABC News is going to spend precious newscast time on a sex predator that tried to grab and do God-knows-what to three female students on separate occasions, then wouldn’t it be worthwhile to provide viewers with as much information as possible on the suspect so people know what to look for? It appears not.

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TV News Won’t Call Anti-Trump Attorney General and Judge ‘Democrats’

December 13th, 2023 8:30 AM

As testimony in the New York civil trial against Donald Trump’s businesses concludes this week, it’s worth asking why the networks are refusing to accurately describe New York Attorney General Letitia James as a Democratic partisan? Because, after all, she is.

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ABC Mad At Lack of “Hero’s Welcome” For Zelenskyy, GOP Border Demands

December 13th, 2023 12:03 AM

As you may already know, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Washington, at President Joe Biden’s request, in order to lobby for additional U.S. military assistance (shorthand: taxpayer money) in its ongoing war against Russia. The GOP’s attachment of border reforms as a precondition to any further outlays of taxpayer dollars in Ukraine seems to have infuriated the media, if this…

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Networks SILENT On Harvard President’s Plagiarism Scandal

December 11th, 2023 11:04 PM

Across the major evening network newscasts, there was no mention of the accusations of plagiarism against embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay, already under fire due to her flippant responses to questions on whether a call for the genocide of Jews is violative of campus rules.

FLASHBACK: Barack Obama, ‘An Evolutionary Flash Point For Humanity’

December 9th, 2023 8:43 AM

Fourteen years ago tomorrow (December 10), liberals were ecstatic as President Barack Obama accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. Obama had been president for a mere 11 days before the window for nominations closed on January 31, but his media fan club nonetheless celebrated the “towering honor” bestowed upon their hero.