Craig Melvin

Networks Blame Trump for Riots, ‘Escalating’ ‘Tensions’ in Los Angeles
Following a weekend of far-left riots laid waste to parts of Los Angeles and shutdown vital thoroughfares, ABC, CBS, and NBC used their lead Monday morning news shows to show sympathy with the “anti-ICE” “demonstrators” and “protesters” grappling with President Trump’s “remarkable and unprecedented escalation” by sending in the California National Guard to restore order over Democrat Governor…

Networks Downplay ‘Anti-Semitism,’ Basic Facts in Boulder Coverage
On Monday, the major broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC predictably used their flagship morning newscasts to lead with the anti-Semitic terror attack in Boulder, Colorado on a gathering of Jews and supporters calling on Hamas to release the remaining hostages taken on October 7, 2023. However, other than appropriately leading with the attack, the networks collectively failed to cover the…

NBC’s Today Bids Farewell to Lester Holt, Omits Aversion to Fairness
Ahead of anchor Lester Holt’s final sign off from NBC Nightly News later that evening, NBC’s Today put on a special segment to bid their friend farewell as he left to host Dateline full time. But amid all their gooey praise and tribute video showing highlights of his career from presidential debates to mass shooting to the COVID pandemic, Holt’s more infamous moments…

ABC Skips Comey’s Post Allegedly Threatening a Trump Assassination
Late Thursday, former FBI Director and cringe, lefty D.C. Boomer James Comey posted and deleted seashells shaped into “8647” while walking on the beach that he claimed to have found interesting while not aware until later it translated to call for President Donald Trump’s assassination. But on the Friday morning network news shows, ABC’s Good Morning America was nowhere to be seen and…

ABC, CBS Morning Shows Skip Trump EO to Defund Far-Left Pals NPR, PBS
Late Thursday night, President Trump moved via executive order to defund far-left networks National Public Radio (NPR) and PBS on the TV side, ordering the Corporation for Public Broadcasting cease direct and indirect taxpayer funding in addition to government agencies ceasing federal grants. A move decades in the making, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings were…

NBC Visits Vietnam for Parade Marking 50 Years Since Fall of Saigon
Days after its sister newscast NBC Nightly News bemoaned tariffs hitting Chinese slave labor-linked shopping apps Temu and Shein, NBC’s Today sent Beijing-based correspondent Janis Mackey Frayer to gallivant around Vietnam for the communist regime’s propaganda parade marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, a shameful scar on the country that’d be repeated…

NBC: Pro-Gay Pope Francis Moved Catholics ‘Away from the Culture Wars’
Between a Special Report, Today, and the 3rd Hour of Today, NBC pulled out all the stops Monday in its coverage on the death of Pope Francis, unsurprisingly heralding him as a man of the people in the left’s sense of the term for being pro-LGBTQ, “brought the Catholic Church...away from the culture wars and back to Christ’s basic message,” and waged “clashes...with...…

Whitford on NBC: ‘Christian Faith’ Is Being Weaponized’ for ‘Fascism’
Actor and far-left pundit Bradley Whitford appeared Tuesday on NBC’s Today to promote the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale — beloved by the left in a sadistic sense for its anti-Christian, far-right authoritarian rule over women — and told co-host Craig Melvin the show has often been too real with the world no longer being “more exclusive” and America having fallen victim…

Networks Compare ‘Controversial Deportations’ to Japanese Internment
On Monday, the “Big Three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC used their flagship morning news shows to side with dangerous illegal immigrants and Tren de Aragua members over the well-being of American citizens, denouncing their “controversial deportations” to a notorious jail in El Salvador and comparing President Trump’s decision to the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II.

Before Caving, ABC Was Set to Blame GOP for Possible Gov’t Shutdown
In desperate need of air cover, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today (to a lesser extent) rush to the side of Democrats as they remain strongly opposed to a Republican-crafted continuing resolution to keep the government open. Before Senate Democrats caved to a cloture vote, they looked to pin a possible government shutdown Friday night on the GOP for refusing to write…

ABC, NBC Skip Record Trump Approval to Warn of ‘Constitution Crisis’
On Monday, ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today saw no reason amid their latest hyperventilating about President Trump fulfilling a campaign promise of shrinking the size of government — and that doing so has triggered “a constitutional crisis” — to note a CBS poll showing his approval at a record 53 percent.

ABC, NBC Join CBS in Desperate New Smear Against Pete Hegseth
With Wednesday’s Today (and ABC’s Good Morning America), an NBC flagship newscast covered a smear perpetuated by its own website that Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee have a sworn affidavit from secretary of defense pick Pete Hegseth’s former sister-in-law alleging he abused his second wife. The problem? Said ex-wife denied it.

Networks Go All Out to Paint Trump as Admitting He Can’t Fix Groceries
Between Thursday night and Friday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC used their flagship morning and evening newscasts to promote a disinformation campaign first launched by The Bulwark’s Sam Stein to use President-Elect Trump’s comments about grocery prices to argue he can’t and won’t improve the lives of struggling Americans.

Deranged Networks Still Obsessed With Kelly’s Tales of ‘Fascist’ Trump
On Thursday morning, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC remained enthralled with the tales spun by former White House chief of staff John Kelly about former President Trump as an alleged fascist and supposed Adolf Hitler enthusiast. ABC’s Good Morning America still led the way with over six minutes (6:08), including a lead-off report from Disney’s in-house North Korean news lady for…