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‘Massacre’: Nets Decry ‘Drama’ of Trump Firing Obama AG

Kyle Drennen
January 31st, 2017 1:16 PM
On Tuesday, all three network morning shows hyperventilated over President Trump lawfully firing acting Attorney General Sally Yates, an Obama political appointee, after she refused to do her job and enforce his executive order on immigration. Co-host Matt Lauer began NBC’s Today by proclaiming: “You're fired! President Trump gives the acting attorney general the boot for refusing to defend his…
 

Media Yawn Over Dem Filibuster, Scolded GOP Blocking of Obama Pick

Rich Noyes
January 31st, 2017 11:30 AM
Network reporters have barely noticed the brass knuckles threat from Senate Democrats to filibuster whoever President Trump nominates for the Supreme Court, regardless of the nominee’s qualifications or ideology. But that’s not the approach they took when Republicans blocked President Obama, then a lame duck, from picking a Justice during his final months in office.
 
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CBS Mocks Netanyahu's 'Manufactured Anger' Over Obama UN Snub

Kristine Marsh
December 27th, 2016 12:04 PM
On Tuesday’s CBS This Morning, the panel completely downplayed President Obama’s actions to withdraw support for Israel during a recent United Nations vote. On top of that, CBS went out of their way to bash Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and report uncritically on President Obama’s controversial decision.
 
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CBS Freaks Out: Trump Asked for Lists of Federal Programs and Workers

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 22nd, 2016 9:32 PM

In yet another report on CBS Evening News about seemingly nothing, the network tried to stoke fear of President-Elect Donald Trump’s upcoming administration Thursday night. The cause of their concern? He did the unthinkable and asked for a list of federal programs he would be overseeing. “The Trump transition team has been sending questionnaires to cabinet departments, not at all unusual, but…

 
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Nets Hit Tillerson for 'No Experience,' Predict ‘Tough Confirmation'

Kyle Drennen
December 13th, 2016 3:29 PM
As news broke on Tuesday that Donald Trump had officially tapped ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to serve as Secretary of State, the network morning shows all decried the business executive’s lack of “government experience” and warned of a “tough” confirmation “battle” in the Senate.
 
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CBS: ‘Forever Prisoners’ at Gitmo Saw Trump Win as ‘End of the World’

Scott Whitlock
December 1st, 2016 12:03 PM
The journalists at CBS This Morning on Thursday were very concerned about the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, but not so much about the threat they pose. Instead, reporter Margaret Brennan reported live from Cuba and let the world know that the men saw the election of Donald Trump as “the end of the world.” As a network graphic fretted over the “forever prisoners,” Brennan worried, “Donald Trump's…
 
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CBS Pushes Attack on Wonder Woman: ‘Large-Breasted, White' 'American'

Scott Whitlock
October 21st, 2016 4:40 PM
The journalists at CBS This Morning on Friday promoted a petition by “concerned” United Nations staffers against the honoring of Wonder Woman, a “large-breasted white woman” who wears an “American flag motif.” The fictional DC comics character is being hailed as an “Ambassador for the Empowerment of Women and Girls.” 
 
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ABC, NBC Yawn at Clinton Warning Her State Department on Cyber Dangers

Scott Whitlock
October 21st, 2016 11:56 AM
Network newscasts like to catch politicians being hypocritical, at least when they’re Republicans. But ABC and NBC, so far, haven’t show any interest in grainy 2010 video of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lecturing her subordinates on the “special duty” to protect against hacking and vulnerabilities. CBS This Morning, however, did. 
 
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ABC Censors 'Embarrassing' Leaks of Hillary Clinton Speeches

Matthew Balan
October 8th, 2016 9:13 PM
ABC's morning and evening newscasts, as of Saturday morning, have yet to report on the Friday release of purported excerpts from some of Hillary Clinton's speeches to corporate audiences. The same programs on Friday evening and Saturday morning hyped the vulgar Donald Trump audio from 2005. By contrast, Friday's CBS Evening News mentioned how the website Wikileaks "published...some embarrassing…
 
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Nets Give Lying Swimmers 6 Times the Coverage of Iran Cash Handoff

Nicholas Fondacaro
August 19th, 2016 12:38 AM
Shocking news broke Thursday that the handoff of the $400 million cash payment to Iran was a highly coordinated endeavor and did not occur until the American hostages were safe. These new details lend farther evidence to the argument that the cash was a ransom payment. But when it came to reporting this development the “Big Three” networks barely gave it anytime at all.
 
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Nets Compare Louisiana Flood to Katrina But Ignore Obama Vacation

Kyle Drennen
August 18th, 2016 3:28 PM

Between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the broadcast networks of NBC, ABC, and CBS presented several reports on the “massive” and “historic” flooding devastating Louisiana, even comparing storm damage to that suffered during Superstorm Sandy and Hurricane Katrina. However, the one thing missing from the coverage was a single mention of the President of the United States, Barack Obama.…

 
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Networks Gave Trump Controversies Over 2X the Coverage of Iran Payment

Nicholas Fondacaro
August 4th, 2016 12:13 AM
When it comes to deciding between covering the many controversies of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and the Obama administration’s secret $400 million cash payment to Iran, all of the “big three” networks devoted vastly more total time to the former, Wednesday evening. Between ABC, CBS, and NBC they contributed a whopping 13 minutes and 46 seconds to Trump, while only giving the…
 
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ABC Only Offers Seconds on Obama’s Cash to Ayatollahs Scandal

Kyle Drennen
August 3rd, 2016 12:36 PM
While both NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning devoted full reports to The Wall Street Journal exposing the Obama administration secretly paying a $400 million ransom in cash to Iran to secure the release of American hostages, ABC’s Good Morning America only managed two news briefs on the topic that amounted to less than a minute of air time.
 
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CBS: Obama Climate Change Summit ‘Overshadowed by Terrorism’

Kyle Drennen
June 29th, 2016 12:35 PM
During a report on Wednesday’s CBS This Morning about White House reaction to the terrorist attack in Istanbul, correspondent Margaret Brennan lamented the violence was taking attention away from President Obama’s effort to push his left-wing agenda at an international summit: “...this is the third time in the past year that a major summit is being overshadowed by terrorism.”