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July 2nd, 2009 6:15 PM | Mike Sargent
By this time, the NewsBusters connoisseur will have surely heard about yesterday’s unofficial celebration in the White House press briefing. Like many parties, it was somewhat louder than normal, a…
June 17th, 2009 9:45 PM | Brent Baker
“The honeymoon is coming to an end for President Obama,” NBC's Chuck Todd fretted Wednesday night in summarizing a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. “But,” Todd rebounded, “it's not personal. It…
June 5th, 2009 8:23 AM | Brad Wilmouth
The network evening newscasts on Thursday gave positive reviews to President Obama's speech in Cairo, with the NBC Nightly News the most glowingly positive, and ABC giving the most attention to…
May 30th, 2009 9:15 AM | Rich Noyes
Thursday night, as my colleague Brent Baker noted, ABC and NBC fretted that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor might not adhere to a strict liberal orthodoxy on abortion. NBC reporter Pete…
May 27th, 2009 12:24 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
NBC's Matt Lauer, on Wednesday's "Today" show greeted viewers with the following teaser: "Good morning, Supreme showdown. Republicans gear up for a fight over President Obama's nomination of Sonia…
May 26th, 2009 4:18 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
While NBC's Matt Lauer, Pete Williams and Chuck Todd all appropriately applied the liberal label to Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, on Tuesday's "Today" show, Lauer did try to sell the…
May 21st, 2009 9:38 PM | Brent Baker
Thursday's NBC Nightly News featured Andrea Mitchell chastising and correcting former Vice President Dick Cheney for his speech on fighting terrorism, but the network saw no need to correct anything…
May 21st, 2009 12:17 PM | Scott Whitlock
"Today" reporter Chuck Todd on Thursday spun the dueling speeches of President Barack Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney as not "a fair fight." Speaking of the two May 21 addresses on the…
May 7th, 2009 2:32 AM | Brent Baker
The leaders of nations who quarreled when George Bush was President now hug each other, thanks to President Barack Obama deigning to take time from his busy schedule to hold a meeting which displayed…
April 30th, 2009 2:30 PM | Colleen Raezler
CNN's White House Correspondent Ed Henry broke the laudatory ranks of the mainstream media and even with those from his own network during Wednesday night's primetime White House press conference…
April 30th, 2009 12:00 AM | Colleen Raezler
CNN's White House Correspondent Ed Henry broke the laudatory ranks of the mainstream media and even with those from his own network during Wednesday night's primetime White House press conference…
April 29th, 2009 12:00 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
On Wednesday's "Today" show, NBC's Chuck Todd called the decision of Arlen Specter – a Republican senator who has such a liberal voting record and has been such a constant-thorn-in-the-side of his…
April 23rd, 2009 11:25 AM | Jeff Poor
“NBC Nightly News” has found another populist cause for President Barack Obama to champion – banks passing along higher costs to issue credit to borrowers instead of bearing the brunt themselves…
April 22nd, 2009 4:20 PM | Seton Motley
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Lamestream Media The media coverage of the more than 800 Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Party protests that took place in all fifty states on April 15 ranged from…
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April 17th, 2009 3:05 PM | Kyle Drennen
While reporting on the ongoing drug war in Mexico, CBS, NBC, and ABC have all cited a dubious statistic that claims that 90% of the guns being used in the violence are from the United States. On…
April 16th, 2009 1:09 PM | Julia A. Seymour
Silent no more, by tax day the networks, CNN and the major papers finally acknowledged the story of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. And while they covered them, they found many ways to discredit…
April 16th, 2009 3:22 AM | Brent Baker
The broadcast network evening newscasts on Wednesday provided prominent coverage of the “Tea Party” rallies across the nation with time for the views of participants, but they tried to discredit…
April 15th, 2009 2:41 PM | Colleen Raezler
On February 7, 2008, MSNBC's David Shuster claimed Chelsea Clinton was being "pimped out" by her mother Hillary Clinton's, presidential campaign.
Retribution quickly followed. News broke the…
April 15th, 2009 11:13 AM | Julia A. Seymour
Maybe he just doesn't know that there are people who disagree with his massive tax and spend agenda. That would explain a lot. Perhaps the network media's near silence on the "tea party"…
April 15th, 2009 10:42 AM | Julia A. Seymour
Maybe he just doesn’t know that there are people who disagree with his massive tax and spend agenda. That would explain a lot. Perhaps the network media’s near silence on the “tea party”…
April 15th, 2009 9:17 AM | Julia A. Seymour
NBC – one of the networks that have virtually ignored the Tax Day Tea Party protests against taxation and government spending – finally mentioned them on “Today” April 15.
The network’s…
April 15th, 2009 9:13 AM | Julia A. Seymour
NBC - one of the networks that has virtually ignored the Tax Day Tea Party protests against taxation and government spending - finally mentioned it on "Today" April 15.
The network's…
April 15th, 2009 9:05 AM | Julia A. Seymour
NBC – one of the networks that has virtually ignored the Tax Day Tea Party protests against taxation and government spending – finally mentioned it on “Today” April 15.
The network’…
April 15th, 2009 12:00 AM | Jeff Poor
On February 7, 2008, MSNBC's David Shuster claimed Chelsea Clinton was being “pimped out” by her mother Hillary Clinton's, presidential campaign.
Retribution quickly followed. News broke…
April 13th, 2009 4:59 PM | Mike Sargent
Well, Bubbles has blown it again.Joe Scarborough noted near the beginning of this morning’s “Morning Joe” that Mika Brzezinski had, on the “Joe Scarborough” radio program, expressed sympathy for the…