Network Media Usually Love Political Dramas – But Not 'Chappaquiddick'
April 6th, 2018 11:18 AM
Traditionally, the news media have demonstrated great interest in movies with social or political themes, but so far Chappaquiddick has been completely ignored by CBS This Morning, while NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America have each featured only a single segment about the film.
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ABC Uses Clip of Woman Slamming Cops: 'I Feel Like I Could Kill Them'
April 6th, 2018 11:08 AM
On Thursday's World News Tonight, ABC correspondent Linsey Davis actually included a clip of a woman declaring that she felt like "killing" the police in a report about a mentally ill man who was tragically killed by police after he pointed a metal pipe at them while pretending that it was a gun.
Networks Obsessed With Russia, Except for Its Energy/Eco Meddling
Business
April 4th, 2018 10:20 AM
The broadcast news shows have been obsessed with all things Russia — well, almost all things. Russian social media agitation and propagandizing over energy sources, pipeline projects and climate change was ignored.
Shonda Rhimes Has Greedy CEO Poisoning Children in SJW Legal Drama
Culture
April 4th, 2018 1:12 AM
ABC’s new drama For The People is back once again to teach us how to practice law SJW-style. We’ve seen them tackle racism not once but twice, so now they’re taking on a new opponent: evil corporations.
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CNN's Acosta Shouts Out DACA Questions — At WH Easter Egg Roll
April 3rd, 2018 6:44 PM
As Scott Whitlock noted Tuesday afternoon, CNN's perpetually aggrieved Jim Acosta was at it again, hinting at a conspiracy behind a lost broadcast connection: "I won’t read into why we lost connection just a few moments ago." Acosta's Tuesday whining shouldn't cause us to forget or ignore what he did on Monday, when he set a new low for journalistic rudeness by shouting questions at President…
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CBS: ‘Firestorm of Criticism’ After EPA Dumps ‘Signature’ Obama Policy
April 3rd, 2018 12:40 PM
CBS This Morning on Tuesday freaked out over the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to dump higher fuel economy standards. Or as co-host Gayle King put it: “The Trump administration is set to roll back one of President Obama's signature policies on the environment.”
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Nets Ignore Dem Lawmaker Not Running After Shielding Abusive Staffer
April 2nd, 2018 8:55 PM
Recently, Connecticut Congresswoman Elizabeth Esty was exposed for shielding and supporting her former chief of staff, Tony Baker after he was accused of sexual harassment and threatening the life of another staffer. This story was first published online late last Thursday and appeared on the front page of The Washington Post the following day. The liberal major network news outlets (ABC, CBS,…
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Rob Reiner: Pro-Trump Roseanne Barr Is ‘Lunatic Fringe Invading Us’
Culture
April 2nd, 2018 5:13 PM
Conservative representation in entertainment merits mudslinging, according to the liberal media.
At least, that’s the impression an AM Joy panel gave. In a discussion on April 1 over the new ABC reboot of Roseanne, three guests – including actor and director Rob Reiner – and host Joy Reid levied harsh judgment of the show. The actor and director more commonly known as “Meathead” decided that the…
Sensitive Actresses Intimidated By Roseanne's High Ratings
Culture
April 2nd, 2018 3:21 PM
Some celebrities are treating the Roseanne reboot’s high ratings as a sign of the impending apocalypse, proving that the only acceptable way to address the Trump presidency is with unrelenting hostility.
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Nets Freak at Trump’s ‘Tirade’: ‘Closing the Door’ on Dreamers
April 2nd, 2018 12:56 PM
All three networks on Monday bashed Donald Trump’s “twitter tirade” on Easter, lamenting that it “closes the door” on “unauthorized immigrants” in America. An irritated Jon Karl complained on Good Morning America about the President’s tweets: “He's still at it. Continuing an Easter tirade, he attacked both Democrats, Mexico, and the DACA deal as the President is declaring there will be no deal to…
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ABC’s ‘This Week’ Obsesses Over the Supposed ‘Blue Wave’
April 1st, 2018 5:27 PM
On Sunday, ABC’s This Week With George Stephanopoulos served up a heavy dose of “blue wave” rhetoric, featuring a segment dedicated to the purported Democratic surge, an interview with a Democratic Senator from a red state, and a Republican strategist who had already decided that the GOP would be losing the House in 2018 “by 40 or 50 seats.”
Flashback: Hillary and Media Scoffed at ‘Sleek, Sexy’ Accuser’s Payday
March 30th, 2018 1:45 PM
Given how much coverage the networks have devoted to Stormy Daniels’s claims of an affair with Donald Trump, it might be worth remembering what Hillary Clinton and ABC journalists reacted to Bill Clinton accuser Gennifer Flowers in 1992. Stormy Daniels received $130,000 from Trump’s lawyer before the 2016 election. Speaking of $130,000, here’s Hillary Clinton on the January 30, 1992 edition of…
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Nets Hail Hogg’s Ingraham Boycott, Skip Teen Activists’ Nasty Attacks
March 30th, 2018 1:23 PM
On Friday, all three network morning shows touted Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student and gun control activist David Hogg demanding that advertisers pull their sponsorship of Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show after she mocked him on Twitter – for which she has apologized. However, missing from all the hand-wringing about civility was any acknowledgment that Hogg and several other student…
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'Scandal' Hypes 'Most Progressive' GOP President...Except for Guns
Culture
March 30th, 2018 12:45 AM
Man, ABC’s Scandal really does not like guns, or "semiautomatic killing machines," as they're called. It also really does not understand guns, gun owners or the Republican Party, but none of that is really news at this point. The latest episode just reinforces that fact with this one critique of the "most progressive Republican" in the White House: The woman just loves her guns too much.