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NewsBusters Forces NBC to Correct Deceptive Police Shooting Report

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 22nd, 2021 8:56 PM

After NewsBusters blew the lid off of how NBC Nightly News deceptively edited the 911 call and police body camera footage from the police shooting of Ma’Khia Bryant, the network silently made the corrections Thursday evening. In both instances, they included the omitted elements without any acknowledgment of wrongdoing on their part. But they couldn’t fix it and leave it alone.…

 
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NBC Deceptively Edits 911 Call, Casts Doubt on Cop’s Need to Protect

Nicholas Fondacaro
April 21st, 2021 9:00 PM

On the same day former police offer Derek Chauvin was convicted of murdering George Floyd, a Columbus, Ohio officer shot and killed a 16-year-old black teen, Ma’khia Bryant. Though the left would like to conflate the two incidents, the latter commanded a huge difference: the teen was about to plunge a knife into another girl. But NBC Nightly News didn’t want to clearly show that part…

 
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ABC, NBC Shell Out 3x More Time For Hatchimals Than National Debt

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Sam Dorman
January 11th, 2017 1:36 PM
Broadcast networks barely covered the skyrocketing national debt in the past year, but spent far more time on toy animals called Hatchimals. ABC and NBC gave the toy sensation three times more coverage than the debt. As of Jan. 9, the United States’ national debt was nearly $20 trillion ($19,955,343,885,377.73), according to the Treasury Department. The rising debt, according to multiple sources…
 
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NBC Spotlights Extravagant Anti-Trump Halloween Decorations

Nicholas Fondacaro
October 28th, 2016 12:09 AM
With Halloween just a few short days away, and Election Day 12 days away, NBC Nightly News thought it would be fun to show off of a series of “spooky” house decorations. They weren’t any old Halloween decorations, “Many neighbors are decorating their homes this year to make a political statement. And it is giving a whole new meaning to election scare tactics,” joked NBC Anchor Lester Holt. But…
 
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NBC Praises Late-Night Comedy Shows, Ignores Gun Control Rants

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 15th, 2016 11:29 PM
Not only did NBC champion Democratic Senators for filibustering for gun control during Wednesday’s Nightly News, they also praise the late-night comedy shows for helping viewers. But what were the hosts really saying? “They're the funny men and women we turn to when we need to laugh, but there's been little to laugh about in the last few days,” stated host Lester Holt, “And now late-night hosts…
 
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NBC NN Touts OH Pot Measure Before Vote; Ignores It After It Fails

Curtis Houck
November 5th, 2015 1:17 AM
After heavily promoting on Tuesday the Ohio ballot initiative to legalize marijuana before the polls closed, NBC Nightly News offered an about-face of sorts on Wednesday and refused to acknowledge the fact that measure was soundly defeated. Hailing it as “high stakes” in the Buckeye State, anchor Lester Holt hyped in a tease on Tuesday’s newscast: “Legalized pot on the ballot tonight in the…
 
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Networks Blame Guns for Violent Fourth of July Weekend in Chicago

Curtis Houck
July 7th, 2015 12:36 AM
While it may have been surprising that all three broadcast networks covered on Monday evening the deadly violence in Chicago over the Fourth of July weekend, what wasn’t surprising was that they looked to blame guns for the violence and advanced the cause of more gun control (as opposed to gang violence or the need for better policing).
 

NBC Touts Vermonters Pining for Single-Payer Health Care Like Canadian

Kyle Drennen
July 28th, 2014 4:40 PM
In a report for Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, correspondent Kevin Tibbles highlighted Vermont's effort "to push into unchartered waters and go further than ObamaCare." He explained the left-wing proposal: "Vermont's Democratic state government says it can deliver health care more efficiently and for less to every one of its 600,000 residents equally. All paid for with tax dollars to the tune of…
 

NBC: Time to End Gerrymandering So 'Ridiculous' Republicans Stop Getti

Kyle Drennen
October 15th, 2013 5:14 PM
On Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams continued to blame Republicans for the government shutdown, asserting that the budget impasse "traces its history back to a determined core of GOP House members who are vehemently against ObamaCare and were willing to shut down the government because of it." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] However, he took it a step…
 

MSNBC’s 'NewsNation' Uses Chicago Gang Violence To Again Push For Gu

Paul Bremmer
September 20th, 2013 5:45 PM
There was another horrific gang-related shooting last night in Chicago, the gun control capital of the United States. Despite that city’s already-strict limits on firearms, MSNBC’s News Nation used the tragedy to push yet again for gun control. It’s not as if they didn’t understand the nature of the shooting. Anchor Tamron Hall played a clip in which Chicago Police Superintendent Gary…
 

NBC: Chicago Gun Restrictions Ineffective Because of Gun Rights Elsewh

Kyle Drennen
February 1st, 2013 3:26 PM
In a report at the top of Thursday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Kevin Tibbles fretted that "Despite bylaws that prohibit gun shops within city limits...Chicago appears to be awash in guns." A sentiment that echoed ABC World News anchor Diane Sawyer, who on Wednesday announced to viewers that the whole nation was "awash in guns." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]…
 

NBC: 'No Coincidence' Lincoln Film Debuts After Obama Re-Election

Kyle Drennen
November 13th, 2012 6:00 PM
Eager to draw a comparison between Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln during a report for Saturday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Kevin Tibbles observed of the new film about the nation's 16th president: "No coincidence, perhaps, the film opens the week America's 21st century President won re-election in difficult times fraught with partisan bickering. Times in which many ask, what would…
 

Day Two of Chicago Teacher Strike: NBC's Kevin Tibbles Ignores 35 Perc

Ken Shepherd
September 11th, 2012 4:22 PM
Reporting from Chicago this afternoon on MSNBC, NBC News reporter Kevin Tibbles described yesterday's teachers union picket lines as "festive" occasions but worried that the mood may sour if an accord is not reached soon. Yet while other media outlets have reported and confirmed that the Chicago teachers union had requested a 35 percent pay hike, Tibbles completely ignored the issue of pay,…
 

NBC's Kevin Tibbles Seems More Concerned About Political Repercussions

Ken Shepherd
September 10th, 2012 5:43 PM
Throughout its morning and afternoon news coverage today, MSNBC has dealt with the hours-old teachers strike in Chicago. NBC reporter Kevin Tibbles did a few standups next to a picket line "outside the Ray Elementary School in Chicago." During his 11:40 a.m. Eastern live report, Tibbles interviewed a union teacher, John Cusick, who said he'd heard from parents, "mostly" who "support us" because…