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ABC Again Ditches East Palestine, Gives Half the Time of CBS, NBC

Curtis Houck
February 17th, 2023 4:38 PM

On Tuesday, NewsBusters released a study on the broadcast network coverage of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment that showed, since officials lifted an evacuation order on the evening of February 8 through the morning of February 14, ABC had ignored it on their flagship morning and evening newscasts while CBS and NBC had spent only one minute and 42 seconds on what’s become an…

 
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Nets Shamed into Rediscovering Train Derailment After MRC Study

Curtis Houck
February 15th, 2023 3:23 PM

On Tuesday, NewsBusters reported that the broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC had abandoned the environmental fallout from the February 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio on their flagship morning and evening shows with zero seconds on ABC and only a minute and 42 seconds on CBS and NBC after an evacuation order was lifted on February 8.

 
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NBC Doubles Down on ‘Racist’ Smear for Teens, Ignores Death Threats

Nicholas Fondacaro
January 21st, 2019 8:46 PM
After refusing to retract a story labeling innocent Catholic high school kids harassed at the Lincoln Memorial “racist”, NBC Nightly News doubled down on the incendiary charge on Monday. In a report by correspondent Ron Allen, the network sided with instigator Nathan Phillips despite more video vindicating the teenagers. Telemundo also decided to smear the teens with no mention of the death…
 
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ABC Skips Criminal Justice Bill Signing; Hypes Corker Attacking Rush

Curtis Houck
December 21st, 2018 8:27 PM
On Friday, some Americans might have missed news that President Donald Trump signed into the law the bipartisan, landmark First Step Act. If you were watching ABC’s World News Tonight, you might have been one such person as the newscast ignored this example of a positive legislative breakthrough, instead choosing to insinuate Rush Limbaugh is to blame for an impending government shutdown.
 
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Double Standard: Net Cover Bomb at Soros’ House, Ignore Attacks on GOP

Nicholas Fondacaro
October 23rd, 2018 10:04 PM
Federal investigators are looking into who left a pipe bomb in the mailbox of shady liberal billionaire George Soros’ New York mansion Tuesday. In the wake of the bomb attack, the liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, and Spanish-language networks Telemundo and Univision) rushed to cover the attack and parrot Soros’ condemnation of the “politics of hate”. But their concern for Soros came…
 
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Meltdown! MSNBC Loses It Over Trump’s ‘Delusional,’ ‘Orwellian' Speech

Curtis Houck
December 6th, 2017 5:13 PM
MSNBC suffered a meltdown for the ages on Wednesday afternoon following President Trump’s speech recognizing of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital, unleashing guest after guest condemning the “delusional” and “Orwellian” speech that will cause people to die now that America’s credibility has been “shot.”
 
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MSNBC: Dems ‘Desperate’ for ‘Hero’ Obama to Trash Trump

Kyle Drennen
April 24th, 2017 1:11 PM
During MSNBC’s 11 a.m. ET hour on Monday, minutes before Barack Obama began his first public appearance since leaving office, correspondent Ron Allen channeled left-wing hopes that the former president would emerge as the “opposition leader” to President Trump.
 
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NBC Fans the Flames of Racial Tensions Ahead of Trump Presidency

Nicholas Fondacaro
November 10th, 2016 1:02 AM
NBC apparently assumed the role of sore loser Wednesday on NBC Nightly News, as they pulled out all the stops in an attempt to smear President-Elect Donald Trump. First, they stoked the liberal anxiety that Trump would join the ranks of the world’s most deplorable despots, before moving on to assert that the America that elected Trump was not welcoming to minorities. “While Donald Trump's many…
 
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NBC’s Allen Thinks Climate Deal Is ‘Designed to Stop’ Hurricanes

Curtis Houck
October 5th, 2016 6:56 PM
President Barack Obama spoke to reporters on Wednesday afternoon on the Paris climate change agreement and, almost on cue, NBC’s Ron Allen connected global warming to Hurricane Matthew set to bear down on the Bahamas, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. It was "what the president was talking about as the threat that the planet faces and this is what this whole climate agreement signed by 190…
 
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NBC Touts Obama Demanding Media Trash Trump

Kyle Drennen
September 8th, 2016 4:55 PM
On Thursday’s NBC Today, correspondent Ron Allen promoted President Obama blasting Donald Trump in the wake of NBC’s Commander-in-Chief Forum: “It didn't take much for President Obama to weigh in. At a closing news conference he was asked about those comments that Donald Trump made about our generals being reduced to rubble and about Vladimir Putin being a better leader than President Obama.”
 
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NBC Devotes Full Report to Iran Ransom Revelation; Secs on ABC, CBS

Kyle Drennen
September 7th, 2016 3:57 PM
After news broke late Tuesday that the Obama administration actually paid $1.7 billion in cash ransom to Iran to secure the release of American hostages – a sum much larger than the initially reported $400 million – only NBC’s Today bothered to devote a full two-minute segment to the shocking development. CBS This Morning and ABC’s Good Morning America could only manage seconds of air time for…
 
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Nets Hail ‘History’ in Hiroshima, Obama Call to End Nuclear Weapons

Kyle Drennen
May 27th, 2016 1:36 PM

The network morning shows on Friday all praised President Obama’s “historic visit” to Hiroshima, Japan – site of the first nuclear bombing – and him using the occasion to push his foreign policy agenda. Leading off NBC’s Today, announced: “Historic visit. President Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. President to travel to Hiroshima, site of the devastating atomic bombing.”

 
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NBC Skips ‘Communist’ Label, Horrid Human Rights Record for Vietnam

Curtis Houck
May 23rd, 2016 1:12 PM
On Monday morning, NBC’s Today and correspondent Ron Allen omitted any mention to viewers that Vietnam remains a authoritarian, communist regime as it welcomed President Barack Obama on the first stop of his week-long Asia tour. 
 
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MSNBC Worries That ‘White Male’ Nominee Won’t ‘Fire Up’ Dem Base

Scott Whitlock
March 16th, 2016 12:54 PM
As soon as Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court, the hosts at MSNBC immediately began to wonder if the choice of a “white male” was a mistake. Though making the predictable assertion that Garland was definitely a reasonable “moderate,” journalist Ron Allen worried, “But, there's going to be a lot of concern about this choice by many people who are…