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Only ‘What Matters’ to Dems: NBC Pushes for Strengthening Unions
November 6th, 2019 8:46 PM
As part of their new “What Matters” series, the segment they admitted was only meant to gauge the interests of Democratic voters, Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News sat down with Senator and 2020 hopeful Amy Klobuchar (MN) and asked her how she would help to strengthen unions in America.
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Super Woke ‘Superstore’ Fights ICE and Corporations
September 26th, 2019 10:11 PM
Last season, the NBC comedy Superstore ended with a dramatic ICE arrest. During last season’s finale, the audience was supposed to feel sympathy for Mateo (Nico Santos), the illegal immigrant who stole a woman’s identification to get his job. The season premiere, “Cloud 9.0,” on September 26 began with a vigil by the Cloud 9 store’s employees to protest their illegal co-worker's detainment.
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Blind Spot: ABC/NBC Skip Raids, Corruption Probe of Auto Union Bosses
August 28th, 2019 8:28 PM
Credit where it’s due: During Wednesday’s evening newscasts, CBS Evening News was the only network news program to report on the FBI’s expansive raids of current and former leaders of the United Auto Workers union. The corruption probe had been going on for four years and netted numerous convictions. Despite all of that, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News completely ignored the story.
Reality Check: Pro-Abortion 'Rewire News' Under Fire for Union Layoffs
July 31st, 2019 8:28 AM
For everybody enjoying Vox Media and Bernie Sanders Campaign union workers revolting over their liberal overlords’ hypocrisy, here’s a new one for you: The pro-abortion site Rewire.News is getting hit from the left for laying off union members.
MSNBC Hails Teacher Union, Warns Betsy DeVos Is 'Hyper-Extreme'
July 5th, 2019 10:02 PM
Education and charges of de facto segregation have been causing quite the conversation in the Democratic Party since Kamala Harris and Joe Biden's on-stage fight over busing at the recent Democratic debate. They have argued that it is just horrible that minority students are trapped in failing schools. On Friday's edition of MSNBC Live host Yasmin Vossoughian welcomed Heidi Przybyla and NPR…
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NBC Promotes Kamala Harris’s ‘Big Idea’ to Jack Up the Death Tax
June 11th, 2019 11:51 PM
As NewsBusters reported Monday night, NBC News has launched a new report series dedicated to promoting the “big ideas” put forward solely by Democratic 2020 candidates ahead of the debates in a few weeks. Tuesday’s edition followed California Senator Kamala Harris as she campaigned in South Carolina to jack up the death tax to pay for an increase in teacher salaries.
NiemanLab Spots Part-Time Hiring Shift at Vox Media
May 31st, 2019 4:33 PM
Even liberal newsrooms have to grapple with economic realities, as Vox Media may be learning.
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ABC Hypes Biden’s First Campaign Rally, Getting Under Trump's Skin
April 29th, 2019 8:48 PM
Former Vice President Joe Biden was in western Pennsylvania on Monday visiting union workers for his campaign’s first rally. The liberal media that had stopped running President Trump’s campaign rallies live did the opposite for Uncle Joe. During Monday’s World News Tonight, ABC News hyped the event and bragged about how Biden was “getting under the President's skin.”
Journalists’ Union Part of Coalition to Break Up Facebook
November 29th, 2018 11:42 AM
As Facebook finds itself in the midst of another controversy, coming under fire from the left this time, it turns out a coalition attacking Facebook includes a prominent press union.
Facebook is in the midst of what Vox called a “liberal apology tour” after hiring an opposition research firm which sought to shed light on connections and funding of the Freedom From Facebook (FFF) coalition and…
AEI Study: Newspaper Reports on Teacher Strikes Were Pro-Strike 4 to 1
August 28th, 2018 8:08 AM
Alex Griswold at the Washington Free Beacon reports that two scholars at the American Enterprise Institute studied newspaper coverage of last spring's teacher strikes and found that of the quotes included in the articles, 60 percent supported the strikes, 26 percent were neutral, and only 14 percent opposed the walkouts -- a tilt of more than four to one.
NYT: Scary ‘Extreme Makeover’ in Wisconsin From Walker's Union Reforms
July 12th, 2018 8:32 PM
The New York Times will never forgive conservative Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for taming his state's public unions and then surviving the vengeance of a union-funded recall election. It found another line of attack in Thursday’s Arts section: Book critic Jennifer Szalai’s laudatory look at The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American…
SCOTUS Decision on Unions Rankles MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Other Libs
June 27th, 2018 12:58 PM
It’s clear from MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes’s twitter feed, he was unhappy with the Supreme Court decision that limited the power of public sector unions.
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of Mark Janus, a public employee who took his union to court, in the Janus v. AFSCME case. Janus claimed being required to pay fees amounted to “compelled speech” because public sector unions are inherently…
Not News: Planned Parenthood Runs to Trump's NLRB to Stop Union Effort
June 19th, 2018 8:06 PM
The establishment press, which never seems to miss a chance to highlight conflict among Republicans and conservatives, is ignoring a major dispute involving two of the left's most prominent organizations: The SEIU and Planned Parenthood. The union has tried to organize workers at the Rocky Mountains affiliate of the nation's largest abortion provider. Planned Parenthood is not pleased with the…
U.S. Media Mostly Ignore May Day Celebrations of Communism and Fascism
May 3rd, 2018 9:03 AM
Protests by workers and activists and, in some cases, violence by anarchists marked the far-left holiday May Day this year.
But most American news consumers would not have known that some London demonstrators carried communist flags and banners of brutal Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. They weren’t told that communists marched in Athens, Greece, or that anti-capitalist anarchists destroyed…