NBC's Williams Hypes Airport 'Traffic Jams,' Hopes Americans 'Take Fur

April 23rd, 2013 1:07 PM
At the top of Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams eagerly parroted Obama administration talking points when it came to blaming the sequester for sporadic flight delays: "The traffic jam starting to build up at our airports. Flight delays just beginning to emerge today as those budget cuts in Washington begin to hit home." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]…

Networks: All Quiet on the Gosnell Front

April 23rd, 2013 8:58 AM
Well that didn’t last long. In fact, it barely happened at all. After a month of ignoring the trial of Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist accused of murdering one woman and seven infants, it looked like the media had been shamed into covering the story.  Barely. Even after the most gruesome detail in a trial full of them came out – a baby who survived an abortion “swimming” in a…

Correction: NBC Nightly News Didn't Ignore Boston Bombers Ties To Isla

April 20th, 2013 10:52 AM
Please see correction at end of post. After the media spent the week praying the Boston Marathon bombers wouldn't have ties to radical Islam, it's now going to be interesting to see how they report the religious beliefs of the Tsarnaev brothers. Failing miserably Friday was NBC's Nightly News which despite airing a 90 minute special broadcast on the ensuing manhunt in Watertown,…

NBC's Williams Hypes: 'Sequester in Washington is Going to Affect All

April 19th, 2013 11:41 AM
Weeks after White House hype over the budget sequester fizzled as the policy went into effect, on Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams signaled a new media push to scare viewers about the modest reductions in government spending: "On the subject of air travel, sooner or later the so-called sequester in Washington is going to affect all Americans." [Listen to the audio or watch the…

NBC Touts 'Cries of Shame' and 'Obama's Outrage' Over Gun Control Defe

April 18th, 2013 4:31 PM
Following gun background check legislation being voted down in the Senate on Wednesday, anchor Brian Williams led off NBC Nightly News that evening by proclaiming: "There are cries of 'shame' from victims of gun violence watching from the Senate gallery and the President reacts with anger." Williams later touted how Obama "called it 'a pretty shameful day for Washington'" when ranting about the…

As Britain Says Goodbye, Networks Tout Ugly Attacks on 'Polarizing

April 17th, 2013 12:24 PM
In the days leading up to Margaret Thatcher's funeral on Wednesday, the three networks repeatedly hyped hateful, ugly attacks on the former Prime Minister of Britain, describing her as a "polarizing," "divisive" figure. On Rock Center, his low-rated Friday night show, Brian Williams explained that it was "sad, but necessary to report" that, while Americans may like Thatcher, "It's been a harsh…

Pity the Fool: Celebrate April 1st with 8 Anti-Capitalist Journalists

April 1st, 2013 10:14 AM
Sometimes liberal bias goes so far it actually becomes absurd, like Roseanne Barr saying that she would bring back the guillotine in order to behead any rich people who wanted to keep more than $100 million of their own money. She set the bar (or the guillotine) higher than her $80 million net worth. But it wasn’t just extreme left-wing celebs like Roseanne and Michael Moore, news anchors and…

Letterman Asks NBC's Brian Williams: 'Are There Gay Justices on the Su

March 27th, 2013 1:44 AM
CBS Late Show host David Letterman asked NBC Night News anchor Brian Williams what some might consider a bizarre question Tuesday evening. "Are there gay justices on the Supreme Court?" (video follows with transcribed highlights and commentary):

NBC's Williams Fawns: Emanuel Brothers 'May Be America's Jewish Kenned

March 26th, 2013 11:09 AM
In an interview with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his two brothers, Hollywood agent Ari and bioethicist Zeke, on Friday's NBC Rock Center, anchor Brian Williams sounded like an adoring fan as he described the prominent family: "Theirs is, after all, a unique American story....It was an unusual family, intellectually rigorous, boisterous, physical, hyper-successful, they may be America's…

Brian Williams Helped Bring David Axelrod to MSNBC

March 25th, 2013 5:00 PM
As NewsBusters reported last month, Barack Obama senior adviser David Axelrod is now working for MSNBC. According to a lengthy article about network president Phil Griffin published at the New Republic Monday, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams helped recruit Axelrod:

'American Success Story Times Three': NBC Gushes Over Rahm Emanuel and

March 22nd, 2013 3:16 PM
Previewing a fawning Brian Williams interview with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his brothers, Ari and Zeke, set to air on Friday's NBC Rock Center, Today co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed the siblings to be "an American success story times three." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] In the clip that followed, Williams enthused: "The Emanuel brothers, three super…

NBC Anchor Sides With Obama in Spanking Chuck Todd: 'He Is Incorrigibl

March 21st, 2013 11:24 AM
After President Obama scolded NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd as "incorrigible" for asking too many tough questions during a Wednesday press conference, Nightly News anchor Brian Williams mocked Todd's grilling and agreed with the President: "He is incorrigible, come to think of it. Our own Chuck Todd called out today in Jerusalem, and guilty as charged, truth be told." [Listen…

Lawrence O'Donnell 'Desperately Misses' Show Business, Still 'Doesn't

March 20th, 2013 9:50 AM
In a recent interview with Salon, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell candidly revealed just how much he dislikes his current job as the host of MSNBC's prime-time commentary show The Last Word. In fact, the former actor who just so happens to have a cameo in the new movie Olympus Has Fallen as a news anchor admitted that he still has no idea what he's doing. O'Donnell had recurring roles in the past…

ABC Allows a Mere 20 Seconds to 'Outrage' Over Cyprus Tax Scheme to Fu

March 19th, 2013 4:20 PM
Just how superficial is ABC? On Monday and Tuesday, the network allowed a mere 20 seconds to "outrage" over a plan by the European Union that would have seized ten percent of the money Cyprus residents had in their bank accounts. ABC's World News skipped the story entirely, as did Monday's Nightline. Good Morning America on Tuesday offered 20 seconds. In contrast, the program devoted over five…