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After Aiding His Hoaxes, NBC Downplays Avenatti’s Extortion Conviction

February 16th, 2020 12:04 PM

As NewsBusters media editor and research analyst Bill D’Agostino documented last year, NBC News and MSNBC gifted lawyer Michael Avenatti with 113 TV appearances, with Today giving him his first as he pursued cases against President Trump. On Friday, the so-called “creepy porn lawyer” was convicted of trying to extort shoemaker Nike for $25 million dollars. Despite their intertwined history,…

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NBC Features Sympathetic Story on Trans Boy Who Transitioned at Age 2

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February 13th, 2020 6:33 PM
You would think that in the 30 minute limit that NBC Nightly News has each evening they’d focus on the most important topics of the day. Does the endearing story of a transgender 9-year-old qualify? On Wednesday, anchor Lester Holt and co. figured that dredging up the story of a transgender child would be primetime network gold. Well, it would certainly be the progressive virtue signal of the…
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Nervous NBC Hopes ‘Centrist’ Dems Unite to Stop Bernie

February 12th, 2020 11:57 AM
As the results of the Democratic New Hampshire primary rolled in Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, NBC claimed that the supposed “moderate lane” of the liberal field was getting “a little wider,” while wondering how voters could “coalesce” around alleged “centrist” candidates and prevent socialist Senator Bernie Sanders from getting the Democratic nomination.
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NBC: Trump ‘Diatribe’ ‘Exceedingly Difficult for Democrats to Watch'

February 6th, 2020 3:53 PM
Immediately following President Trump’s White House address on Thursday in which he took a victory lap over his acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial, NBC went to work slamming the “diatribe” as a “greatest hits of grievances” and an event that “had to be exceedingly difficult for Democrats to watch.”
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NBC RAGES at ‘Partisan’ Trump SOTU Creating ‘Poisonous...Atmosphere’

February 4th, 2020 11:31 PM
NBC News reacted Tuesday night with disdain, disgust, and arguably venom toward President Donald Trump’s 2020 State of the Union address, kvetching that it was “campaign-like,” “confrontation,” “extraordinarily political,” “incredibly raucous,” “partisan,” and responsible for having created a “poisonous...atmosphere” in the House chamber. And of course, there was plenty of invective hurled at…
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NBC Fears Trump Team ‘Legalizing Watergate,’ Pushing ‘Absolute Power’

January 30th, 2020 12:52 PM
As the Senate impeachment trial went to a break during the 3:00 p.m. ET hour Wednesday afternoon, anchors of NBC News special coverage immediately went to work blasting the arguments from President Trump’s defense team as “dubious,” “legalizing Watergate,” and asserting “absolute power.” 
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Lefty Seth Meyers Decries 'Smoking Gun' On Bolton

January 29th, 2020 1:30 PM
“Smoking gun” has become a buzz phrase in the liberal lexicon throughout the Trump presidency. The term is utilized by the lefty media on a continuous loop whenever there is a “revelation” brought forth that has the potential to damage President Trump. Seth Meyers on Tuesday's Late Night, aired early Wednesday morning, invoked the oft-repeated phrase during an interview with NBC Nightly News…
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CBS, NBC Suggest Middle East Peace Plan a Ploy to Hedge Impeachment

January 28th, 2020 10:13 PM
On Tuesday, President Trump along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his challenger Benny Gantz, together announced a new peace plan to settle the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was a plan that guaranteed a two-state solution, but during their evening newscasts, CBS and NBC chastised the plan and suggested it was just a ploy to save Trump from impeachment and…
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28 Seconds: Nets Snub Historic March for Life, Trump Speech [UPDATED]

January 24th, 2020 8:17 PM
The big three networks gave just 28 seconds Friday night and Saturday morning to the largest pro-life annual march in the nation’s capital, this year. While it’s not out of the ordinary for the media to ignore this mammoth event that flies in the face of their liberal narrative on abortion, it is notable that they would hold a near blackout of the event even when President Trump became the first…
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CBS, NBC Tout Dems Painting a ‘Damning Portrait’ of Trump in Trial

January 23rd, 2020 9:23 PM
In their Thursday evening reports on the Senate impeachment trial, both CBS and NBC marveled and touted the work of Democratic prosecutors. Together they declared it a “dramatic day” where a “damning portrait” was painted by Democratic prosecutors, and quipped that the time for President Trump’s legal team to speak “can't come soon enough.” Anchor Norah O’Donnell kicked off CBS Evening News with…
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NBC & ABC Urge Klobuchar to Pressure GOP on Impeachment

January 23rd, 2020 5:11 PM
During a mid-afternoon break in the Senate impeachment trial on Thursday, both NBC and ABC brought on 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar for softball interviews. Anchors urged the Minnesota Senator to put pressure on her GOP colleagues to vote for witnesses and drag out the proceedings.  
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ABC, NBC Invoke Charlottesville Violence for Peaceful Gun Protest

January 20th, 2020 11:24 PM
In spite of the fact that the gun rights rally in Richmond, Virginia on Monday saw absolutely zero violent incidents, both ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News saw fit to taint their reports on the event with images from the Charlottesville, Virginia violence where white nationalists and left-wing protesters clashed.
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News Company? NBC News Shills for Their New Streaming Service

January 16th, 2020 11:15 PM
In a segment normally reserved for looking out for consumers, NBC Nightly News used their Price You Pay series to promote NBCUniversal’s new internet streaming service, Peacock. “Next up for us, the TV streaming wars are heating up as NBCUniversal, our parent company, unveiled its new service late today,” cheered anchor Lester Holt.
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Nets Glorify Dem Impeachment Managers, Gush About Walking

January 15th, 2020 9:02 PM
After Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s master plan to delay the Senate impeachment trial ended in failure after a month, House Democrats finally got up and walked the articles of impeachment against President Trump over to the Senate for trial. It was that transfer of documents that had the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) all giddy with anticipation during their Wednesday evening newscasts.