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Nets Praise Oklahoma Criminal Justice Reform, Ignore Large Role of GOP
November 4th, 2019 9:10 PM
Oklahoma held the title for the highest lockup rate in the country (1 in every 100 residents), but that began to change on Monday after some 500 non-violent offenders had their sentences commuted by sweeping criminal justice reform. ABC, CBS, and NBC celebrated the move during their evening newscasts but ignored the role of the heavily Republican-control legislature and the Republican governor…
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ABC Gave Smollett a Platform as His Claims Seemed to Fall Apart
February 14th, 2019 11:11 PM
In roughly 24 hours, ABC News had spent over 24 minutes (24 minutes 19 seconds) between their flagship morning and evening broadcasts gushing over Empire star Jussie Smollett and the alleged hate crime he claimed to be a victim of. But recent reporting from ABC7, their local affiliate in Chicago, suggested that Smollett may have collaborated with others to stage the attack because he allegedly…
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NBC Runs Story on Gay Pride Flag Stolen From Lesbian Couple
December 26th, 2018 8:29 PM
On Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, the show devoted a full report to the story of a lesbian couple in Illinois whose gay pride flag was stolen from outside their home. Ironically, a couple of weeks ago when an apparently Muslim man on a Brooklyn subway train violently attacked a woman whom he mistook to be a lesbian, the same show did not find it newsworthy.
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CBS, NBC Ignore Hamas Launching Hundreds of Missiles at Israel
November 12th, 2018 11:16 PM
In a true act of anti-Semitism, the Hamas terrorist organization launched hundreds of Qassam rockets and other projectiles into southern Israel on Monday. While the Iron Dome defense system intercepted most of the weapons, a few managed to get through, striking homes and businesses. This attack, which many say was the largest since the 2014 war, didn’t get airtime on CBS Evening News and NBC…
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NBC Touts 'Controversy' at Aretha's Funeral -- But NOT Farrakhan!
September 3rd, 2018 6:18 PM
Monday's Today show displayed the latest example of how the journalistic definition of "controversy" is when liberal activists are offended. In the aftermath of singing legend Aretha Franklin's funeral. the Today show aired a full report highlighting complaints against two of the event's pastors that came from the left, but the show still ignored the more offensive on-stage presence of Nation of…
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Nets ID Fall of GOP ‘Rising Star,’ Hid Weiner’s Party Status
May 30th, 2018 12:57 PM
“Rising star in the Republican Party.” “Up and coming star in Republican politics.” Once again, the networks are hyping the fall of a GOP politician, making sure to highlight the party status of Missouri Governor Eric Greitens. This is a habit not usually followed when the offending politician is a Democrat.
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ABC Ignores Trump Pardoning Black Boxer Put Away on Racist Charges
May 25th, 2018 12:14 AM
On Thursday, President Trump corrected that heinous injustice by issuing a pardon for Johnson after actor Sylvester Stallone shared the story with him. That’s right, the president the liberal media love to portray as a staunch racist actually pardoned a man who was a victim of true racism. But, of course, not all of the media thought it was noteworthy during their evening broadcasts. Both ABC and…
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NBC Hopes for NFL ‘Compromise’ on ‘Thorny Topic’ of National Anthem
October 17th, 2017 12:37 PM
After downplaying NFL commissioner Roger Goodell calling for an end to National Anthem protests one week earlier, on Tuesday, NBC’s Today lobbied hard for team owners to reach a “compromise” with players at an upcoming League meeting over the “thorny, touchy topic” of showing respect for the Anthem.
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Nets Downplay Criticism of Obama from Father of North Korea Hostage
June 15th, 2017 9:43 PM
Americans were appalled Thursday to learn the medical condition North Korea left American Otto Warmbier in while he was in their custody. In a press conference, his father, Fred Warmbier, had stark criticism for the Obama administration. “Do I think the past administration could have done more? I think the results speak for themselves,” he said. And during their evening broadcasts, ABC and CBS…
NBC Focuses on Job Losses 8x More Than Good Jobs Report
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May 9th, 2017 11:13 AM
April marked the lowest unemployment rate in a decade, but that didn’t stop one NBC news show from spending far more time covering jobs being lost to Mexico.
“Hiring picked up,” that month according to CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley. All three broadcast network evening shows reported the “positive” jobs report which the Bureau of Labor Statistics released May 5. But the evening shows spent…
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NBC Asks America for Meaning of Christmas: 'Jesus' Didn't Make the Cut
December 26th, 2014 1:01 PM
NBC Nightly News offered two stories on Christmas in their December 25 newscast, including a show-ender about “what Christmas means to me.”
Somehow, this perfectly pleasant three-minute segment included lot of talk about family time and presents, and even someone saying “Happy Hanukkah,” but included no one uttering the name “Jesus.” No one defined Christmas as about Christ, NBC?
NBC Pushes Redskins Name Change: ‘More Difficult...To Hang On To The
August 19th, 2014 9:07 PM
On Tuesday, August 19, NBC continued the liberal media’s obsession with bullying the NFL’s Washington Redskins into changing its name. Nightly News anchor Brian Williams insisted that the team is having difficulty defending its name because “some consider it a slur.” Williams introduced the segment by proclaiming “it might have just gotten more difficult for the Washington Redskins to hang on…
NBC: Brooklyn Bridge 'Embarrassment' Occurred While NYC Mayor Was on E
July 23rd, 2014 3:23 PM
While all three network morning shows on Wednesday covered the American flags on top of the Brooklyn Bridge being bleached white by unknown vandals, only NBC's Today mentioned that the incident occurred while left-wing New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was on vacation: "This embarrassment for the city comes while its mayor, Bill de Blasio, vacations in Europe, which itself has brought…
NBC Blames Bush for 'Broken System' of Education, No Mention of Obama
March 26th, 2014 3:41 PM
Introducing a story on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer touted the Washington Post publishing the resignation letter of Massachusetts kindergarten teacher Suzi Sluyter, who decided to quit her job after being "frustrated by what she says is too much emphasis on test scores and testing instead of the kids themselves." [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]
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