Nets Cover GOP Congressman Resigning, Ignored When It Was a Dem

Mike Ciandella
October 6th, 2017 12:17 PM
When Republican Congressman Tim Murphy from Pennsylvania resigned in disgrace on October 5, all three broadcast evening shows ran reports on it. NBC’s Today also covered this story the following morning. But just last year when another Pennsylvania Congressman, Democrat Chaka Fattah, was forced to step down amid a corruption trial that eventually ended in his conviction, not one of the morning or…
 

September TV Coverage: Bashing Trump on NFL, DACA and Cabinet Flights

Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella
October 5th, 2017 1:15 PM
With September’s news coverage now in the record books, the latest Media Research Center analysis finds TV’s hostility to the Trump presidency continues unabated. According to our analysts, the President received 92% bad press, vs. just 8% good press on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows last month.
 

CNN: Zilch on Menendez Trial Bombshell, 2 Hours on Price Plane

Mike Ciandella
September 29th, 2017 4:35 PM
The double standard at CNN is stark. The cable news network can’t seem to find much time for the three-week long unfolding drama of the corruption trial of sitting Democratic Senator Robert Menendez from NJ. But it found nearly 2 hours in just one day to cover HHS Secretary Tom Price’s flights on private jets.
 

CNN Ignores Menendez Trial, Barely Skipped a Day for Ted Stevens

Mike Ciandella
September 27th, 2017 8:00 AM
CNN has barely covered the corruption trial of Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, but the network didn’t always have an aversion to the corruption trials of sitting U.S. senators. Back in 2008, Republican Senator Ted Stevens got plenty of attention from CNN for his own corruption trial. When it came to reporting on Stevens, CNN rarely missed a day, and often updated viewers on the status of the…
 

CNN Once Called Menendez Trial ‘Big Deal,’ So Where’s the Coverage?

Mike Ciandella
September 20th, 2017 11:30 AM
Since it began more than two weeks ago, CNN has provided a paltry 14 minutes and 11 seconds of coverage to the corruption trial of Democratic Senator Robert Menendez. In fact, the 24-hour cable news network has mentioned the trial only once since September 7. For contrast, on just one day (September 18), CNN spent more than 45 minutes analyzing former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s 60-…
 

FACT: The News Media Did NOT Tip the Election to Trump

Rich Noyes
September 15th, 2017 7:35 AM
One theme of Hillary Clinton’s book tour is that news media bias helped tip the election in favor of Donald Trump, but no reasonable person could suggest that political reporters created a landscape more favorable to Trump than to her. And it’s silly of her to say the news media were one of the causes of her defeat.
 

86 Percent Negative: Media Scold Trump on Climate

Mike Ciandella
September 13th, 2017 10:15 AM

The twin disasters of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma showcased once again the media's reflex to use such tragedies to push for liberal climate change policies. In their pursuit of this agenda, the broadcast networks' have heavily criticized the Trump administration's policies on the environment. From January 20 through August 31, MRC analysts tallied 75 stories discussing the President and climate…

 

NBC’s Today: Still No Coverage of Venezuelan Distress

Mike Ciandella
August 1st, 2017 12:06 PM
In the past 48 hours, the socialist President of Venezuela has installed a new national assembly in order to bypass his political opposition, and has begun rounding up jailing opposition leaders. In response, the United States has imposed a new round of sanctions against Maduro himself. Yet in all of 2017, NBC's Today has yet to utter a single word about the misery wrought by Venezuela's…
 

Nets Barely Notice Venezuela’s Vote for Dictatorship

Mike Ciandella
July 31st, 2017 5:17 PM
Venezuela’s president held a sham election on July 30 that created an assembly out of his own supporters, to bypass that country’s elected representatives and rewrite the constitution. But, inexcusably, the broadcast networks seem to be going out of their way to avoid reporting on this glaring example of how socialism inevitably turns out, if it’s allowed to continue unchecked.
 

Nets Love Trump Drama – Largely Ignore Jobs, Record High Dow Jones

Mike Ciandella
July 27th, 2017 11:54 AM
During the past six months, the broadcast networks have provided massive coverage of the Trump presidency, but last Wednesday they had almost no time to let viewers know about an actual success of his administration. The President's announcement of a $10 billion investment in a U.S.-based manufacturing plant in Wisconsin drew a scant 40 seconds of news coverage on the CBS Evening News (15 seconds…
 

Venezuela Descends Into Dictatorship, But Networks Can’t Be Bothered

Mike Ciandella
July 25th, 2017 10:47 AM
Venezuela’s oppressive, socialist president hopes to seize even more power, yet the broadcast networks continue to largely ignore his country’s violent descent into dictatorship. With over 100 Venezuelans dead from the rapidly escalating violence between the government and protesters, a special vote will take place on July 30 to give authoritarian president Nicolas Maduro the power to rewrite the…
 

Insane: CNN Covers Trump Dinner Three Times More Than Obama’s Hot Mic

John Hirschauer
July 19th, 2017 5:01 PM
As the White House becomes further entrenched in the throes of media claims of Russian collusion, it seemed only natural that the news media would have a fit of spasmodic rage when President Trump had an undisclosed meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit of world leaders.
 

Nets Covered Donald Jr’s Russia Meeting 20x More Than Clinton Uranium

Geoffrey Dickens
July 13th, 2017 1:52 PM
The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) evening news shows have been dominated by Donald J. Trump Jr.’s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower – a meeting in which apparently no favors, money or meaningful information was exchanged – but those same shows all but ignored Hillary Clinton’s Russia-Uranium scandal back in 2015. At the time, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was considered the…
 

Study: TV News Is Obsessed With Trump-Russia Probe

Rich Noyes
June 27th, 2017 8:50 AM

A Media Research Center study of every broadcast network evening newscast in the five weeks since the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller on May 17 found a whopping 353 minutes of airtime devoted to the Russia probe, or 55 percent of all coverage of the Trump presidency during those weeks. The study also found one-third (34%) of the networks’ Russia coverage was based on anonymous…