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Deluge: Arrest of GOP Rep Gets 18 Times the Coverage of Corrupt Dems
Following the arrest of Republican Congressman Chris Collins, the broadcast networks once again showcased their partisan double standard when it comes to corruption allegations against members of Congress. Collins’s arrest on Wednesday on insider trading charges resulted in a deluge of coverage, over 18 minutes in less than 24 hours. But in 2015 and 2016, ABC, CBS and NBC buried the indictment,…
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Kelly Advises Oscars: Stop Political Speeches, Dump Liberal Hosts
Reacting to news that the 2019 Academy Awards ceremony would be undergoing major changes in order to address poor ratings for this year’s show, on Thursday, NBC anchor Megyn Kelly offered some ideas of her own, namely that the Hollywood event drop left-wing politics from its program.
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NBC Airs Ominous Report Hyping Dem Claims of Trump Corruption
During a report for NBC’s Today show on Wednesday, Senior Investigative and Legal Correspondent Cynthia McFadden seized on Democrats accusing President Trump of violating the Constitution, recycling year-old claims about the Trump International Hotel in Washington D.C. flouting a ban on an elected officials receiving foreign payments.
NYT Oozes Over Rosie’s Anti-Trump Broadway Protest, Skips Trutherism
Rosie O’Donnell and a motley troupe of Broadway actors past and present bussed down from New York City for a protest “show” in front of the White House on Monday (Broadway’s traditional day off) and the New York Times decided the silliness was worthy of the lead National section story slot Wednesday. Reporter-intern Alexandria Yoon-Hendricks’ “A Free Broadway Show Starring Putin, Trump and Jean…
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ABC/CBS Refuse to Report Links to Muslim Extremism at New Mexico Camp
The disturbing reports about the mysterious New Mexico compound were 11 starving children and one little boy’s body were found grew even darker on Wednesday, after court documents were released alleging that the kids were being trained to carry out school shootings. Despite those revelations, ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News still refused to report the connection to Muslim…
GOP Rep's Arrest Gets 7x the Coverage of Entire Scandal for Dem
If you’re a politician with “D” at the end of your name, it grants you certain privileges from an all too friendly press. They go easy on you in interviews, give you the benefit of the doubt, and if you’re ever charged or convicted of a serious crime, they’ll mostly ignore it. This double standard was on full display Wednesday when New York GOP Congressman Chris Collins was arrested for alleged…
Repeat DUI Offender Presented as ‘Victim’ on Telemundo
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The arrest of a repeat DUI offender is usually not controversial, except on Telemundo. Of all cases, Telemundo recently picked just such an offender to portray instead as the ‘victim’ of ruthless ICE officers who dared arrest Carlos Urrutia following his appearance in court for his third DUI offense, in which he crashed his car into a 20-year-old woman, causing her a traumatic brain injury.
Womp, Womp: ‘Atlantic’ Writer Goes to Town Against Acosta’s Nonsense
Heading into Jim Acosta’s triumphant appearance on CBS’s The Late Show Wednesday night, CNN’s chief White House correspondent received some surprise criticism from lefty outlet The Atlantic as staff writer Todd S. Purdum called him out Tuesday for living up to the verb closely associated to his name (accost) and making himself the story when it should be reporting the news.
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Summer of 2018 Showcases Sharp Media Bias in Pope Francis Coverage
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Most national and international media display an astounding degree of selective perception when covering remarks and actions by Pope Francis. The latest example is the overwhelmingly celebratory coverage of the Pope’s decision to revise the Catholic catechism to express across-the-board opposition to the death penalty.
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Fox Alerts Viewers to Refugee With Criminal Record Who Shot Cop
On Tuesday night, FNC gave an update on the case of an Iraqi refugee with a criminal history who managed to escape deportation and recently went on to shoot a police officer in Colorado Springs. FNC have covered the story a number of times since Friday, but the other networks have completely ignored the tragic event. Ironically, on the same day that the attempted cop killing story broke, several…
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Nets Claim Ohio Race ‘Too Close to Call,’ See ‘Moral Victory’ for Dems
On Wednesday, the network morning shows all claimed the outcome of Ohio’s 12th Congressional District special election was “too close to call” despite Republican candidate Troy Balderson seeming to have won a narrow victory over Democrat Danny O’Connor. Despite that apparent result, reporters desperately spun the likely Democratic defeat as a “moral victory” and predicted electoral doom for…
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Networks Warn of ‘Hard-Right,’ ‘Incredibly Conservative' Candidate
A danger is looming that journalists want to warn Americans about. ABC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN on Wednesday all fretted about Kansas’s possible new Republican gubernatorial candidate, labeling Kris Kobach a “hard-right,” “staunchly,” “incredibly conservative” choice. This kind of ideological hand-wringing stands in contrast to the warm response socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez received. She earned…
Hypocrisy: Comparing CNN Chyrons on Similar Special Elections
On Wednesday’s edition of New Day, much of the CNN morning show’s coverage revolved around Tuesday’s special congressional election in Ohio, which the cable channel claimed was still too close to call. The chyron read: “OHIO REPUBLICAN LEADS, RACE TOO CLOSE TOO CALL.”
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Don Lemon Thanks Ohio Dems for Watching CNN at Candidate's HQ
Tuesday’s special election for Ohio’s 12th Congressional District was a nail-biter, and as of this blog's publication, Republican candidate Troy Balderson was ahead by 0.9 percent of the vote with 100 percent reporting. And in the midst of the exhausting election night coverage, host Don Lemon took a few seconds of their CNN Tonight analysis to thank the Democrats gathered at candidate Danny O’…
