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STUDY: How TV News Helped Joe Biden Sell $1.9 Trillion Spending Spree

March 11th, 2021 8:55 AM

A Democratic Congress and a Democratic President just combined to pass a massive $1.9 trillion spending bill sold as a solution to the economic woes caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Thanks to a compliant media, they had an easy job of it: Instead of scrutinizing the bill’s spending choices, the broadcast networks built their coverage around its most popular provision as well as sympathetic…

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ABC Done With Cuomo’s Deaths and Harassment, All-In on Royals Drama

March 8th, 2021 8:55 PM

With two new accusers speaking out and accusing New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) of sexually harassing them over the weekend, ABC’s World News Tonight refused to give the story any consideration Monday evening as they spent almost five minutes (4:52) on the British royal family’s drama dished to Oprah Winfrey.

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STUDY: TV Smothers Cuomo Nursing Home Deaths With Harassment Charges

March 8th, 2021 9:40 AM

Literally thousands of New Yorkers died in the state’s nursing homes during the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, but a new Media Research Center study shows the national media are much less interested in covering that horrifying scandal than the harassment accusations against Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo.

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ABC Boosts Cuomo's 'Apology' With 7x the Airtime Vs His Accusers

March 3rd, 2021 9:11 PM

ABC spent a lot of time and effort during Wednesday’s World News Tonight desperately peddling New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s so-called “apology,” after he was accused by three young women of sexual harassment including unwanted touching. In contrast, CBS Evening News gave more time to sharing the reaction of his accusers, even speaking with the lawyer representing the third…

New MRC Poll PROVES Media’s Cuomo Cover-Up Distorted Public’s View

March 3rd, 2021 8:30 AM

Due to the liberal media's failure to properly cover the scandal surrounding New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's mistreatment of nursing home patients, one quarter of all voters have been left in the dark about this important story, a new MRC/McLaughlin & Associates poll discovered. Once informed, those voters swung from a plurality (45%) having a favorable view of Cuomo’s handling of the…

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Welcoming ‘Refreshing’ Biden, Cursing ‘Horrible’ Republicans

March 2nd, 2021 8:55 AM

Journalists still have the warm and fuzzies when it comes to Joe Biden. They spent February welcoming the “refreshing” Biden White House by tossing softballs to him in interviews and penning adoring essays about the new president “playing MarioKart with his family.” In stark contrast, the likes of CNN anchor Don Lemon crushed conservatives as being “horrible” since Reagan. The following are…

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The Media’s Shameful Cover-Up of Andrew Cuomo’s Nursing Home Scandal

March 1st, 2021 8:00 AM

The scandal surrounding New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s mishandling of nursing home patients during the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic was never a secret. Yet in their zeal last year to promote Cuomo as a counter to President Trump, broadcast news, cable news, daytime talk shows and late night comics all preferred to tout Cuomo as a pandemic hero, instead of telling the truth about…

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Absurd: 'View' Spends More Time on Cuomo Scandal Than ABC News

February 19th, 2021 2:27 PM

While ABC's World News Tonight spent less than a minute on Thursday covering the federal probe into Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home scandal, the network’s daytime political talk show, The View, gave the new developments seven minutes and twenty seven seconds on Friday. The hosts spoke with Queens Democrat Assemblyman Ron Kim, who revealed this week that the governor had called…

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FLASHBACK: Rush Was a Threat to Them, So They Tried to Destroy Him

February 19th, 2021 9:30 AM

The following are just a few of the most hate-filled attacks on Rush Limbaugh over the years (as culled from the MRC’s archives)

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ABC Spent Less than a Minute on Federal Cuomo Probe, 4x on Cruz Optics

February 18th, 2021 8:59 PM

Having not touched New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home scandal story since Monday and despite two days of continuously unfolding revelations, the Thursday edition of ABC’s World News Tonight spent just 54 seconds telling viewers about the federal investigation into his deadly corruption. And ignoring the moves by state Democrats to remove his emergency powers and…

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CNN Conceals Corrupt Cuomo Cover-Up of Nursing Home Deaths from DOJ

February 11th, 2021 11:14 PM

Just as CNN’s prime time line up was kicking off their Thursday night hate-fest against Senate Republicans with former President Trump’s second impeachment trial as the backdrop, the New York Post published a bombshell report featuring a recorded phone call of a New York State official admitting Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo’s administration intentionally tried to cover-up nursing…

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Toxic Baby Food Ignored as ABC, NBC Spend 12 Minutes on MTG

February 4th, 2021 8:55 PM

The liberal media were making a full-court press in an effort to try to make freshman Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and her loony conspiracy theories the face of the entire Republican Party. ABC and NBC were so focused on that mission Thursday that they put aside the health and safety of the families that relied on them for information. Specifically, they ignored a new government…

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Operation ‘Deprogram’: Time for a ‘Cleansing’ of Conservatives

February 2nd, 2021 9:30 AM

It didn’t matter that most Republicans and conservatives decried the horrible January 6 Capitol Hill riots. Liberal journalists nevertheless exploited the event to target them as “cultists” who needed to be “deprogrammed.” The following are some of the worst (non-Inauguration) outbursts from liberal journos (and celebrities) over the last month. 

 

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Devout Catholic? The Media vs. Biden’s Real Record

February 1st, 2021 8:00 AM

President Biden is a “devout Catholic,” the liberal media say. But there’s consternation among some U.S. Catholic leaders about how Biden’s policies directly contradict Church teachings.