Evening News Shows Ignore Record 10-Year Economic Expansion

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Joseph Valle
July 2nd, 2019 5:24 PM
The U.S. officially entered its longest economic expansion ever July 1, boasting 121 straight months without a recession beginning in June 2009. This broke the previous record stretching from March 1991 to March 2001. MarketWatch reporter Jeffry Bartash noted that the S&P 500 Index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the Nasdaq Composite Index have all gained by more than 200 percent “…
 
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CBS Touts Blue States Passing New Taxes, Plastic Bag/Straw Bans

Nicholas Fondacaro
July 1st, 2019 9:10 PM
There’s nothing liberal politicians love more than increasing the size of government, enacting overbearing regulations, and limiting the choices of consumers. Those policies seemed to be fine with CBS News because Evening News fill-in anchor, David Begnaud spent some time during Monday’s newscast touting blue state and city laws that were ready to take effect.
 
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UGLY: CBS, NBC, MSNBC, NYT Ignore Antifa Violence, Beating of Andy Ngo

Curtis Houck
July 1st, 2019 7:28 PM
In an update to the coverage totals posted by NewsBusters’s Nick Fondacaro here and here, the flagship major broadcast networks CBS and NBC still have yet to acknowledge the Antifa violence committed on Saturday in Portland, Oregon, which included the brutal beating and milkshaking of Quillette’s Andy Ngo, which left him badly injured with a brain bleed. Along with CBS and NBC, MSNBC and The New…
 
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CBS Upset Mother Charged in Death of Unborn Child After Starting Fight

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 27th, 2019 9:16 PM

An Alabama mother was indicted by a grand jury on manslaughter charges Wednesday after allegedly starting a fight that led to her getting shot and having a miscarriage. “In Alabama, a ‘person’ includes unborn children in any stage of development,” reported The Washington Post. But on Thursday’s CBS Evening News, the network parroted “abortion rights activists” who called it “a new attack on…

 
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Double Standard: CBS Scolds Oregon GOP Senators for Fleeing State

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 25th, 2019 8:57 PM

The CBS Evening News targeted GOP state Senators in Oregon for ridicule and scorn Tuesday night, after some went into hiding and others fled the state in order to block a vote on a controversial climate change bill. In a video call with one Senator, CBS correspondent Carter Evan wondered: “What are you afraid of? Are you afraid of democracy?”

 

OF COURSE: Nets Ignore New Bombshells About Omar’s Marital History

Curtis Houck
June 24th, 2019 4:04 PM
Not surprisingly, the major broadcast network newscasts were out to lunch between Sunday morning and Monday morning about not one but three new stories detailing what the Minneapolis Star Tribune stated as “[n]ew investigative documents” that provide “fresh life to lingering questions about the marital history of Rep. Ilhan Omar and whether she once married a man — possibly her own brother — to…
 

Nets Ignore Ilhan Omar Blaming America for Iran Drone Attack

Kristine Marsh
June 21st, 2019 10:59 AM
When a sitting congresswoman sides with our enemy over our own country, is that not newsworthy? Apparently the networks didn’t think so. They ignored a tweet sent Thursday by Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar, where she blamed America for Iran shooting down one of our military’s drones. The networks, even cable news, were nowhere to be found Thursday evening or Friday morning.
 

What Dem Criminal? Nets Ignore Ex-Staffer Sentenced After Doxing

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 20th, 2019 10:42 PM
Now-ex-staffer Jackson Cosko was sentenced to four years in prison on Wednesday on five felony counts. And in over 24-hours since the sentencing, none of the major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) covered it on their flagship morning and evening newscasts.
 
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CBS First Ignores, Then Finally Discovers, Biden Segregation Furor

Scott Whitlock
June 20th, 2019 1:05 PM
Democratic presidential contenders lashed out at frontrunner Joe Biden on Wednesday after he bragged about the ability to work with segregationists in the Senate, saying he could get things done with anyone. While all three networks covered this Democrat-on-Democrat fight Wednesday night and Thursday morning, CBS allowed the least amount of coverage: A scant 2 minutes and 34 minutes out of a…
 
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CBS Fears for Future of Abortion Clinic that Did Illegal Operation

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 19th, 2019 10:48 PM

During her Wednesday report on CBS Evening News, correspondent Meg Oliver admitted a state investigation found that the Planned Parenthood facility in St. Louis, Missouri performed an abortion that violated state law. The clinic also vowed to break even more of the state’s laws. But she and the network still feared for the future of the facility, which could be shut down on Friday.

 
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Networks Champion Far-Left Push for Federal Reparation Payments

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 19th, 2019 9:05 PM

House Democrats held a raucous hearing on Wednesday, where they hosted a radical leftist writer and other supposed luminaries to make the case for the federal government to pay African-Americans reparations as an apology for slavery. Despite the ridiculousness of having the people of today pay the price of something they had no hand in some 150 years ago, the liberal broadcast networks seemed…

 
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CBS Discovers China's Trade Manipulation, Damage to U.S. Business

Joseph Chalfant
June 18th, 2019 3:15 PM
On Saturday night, CBS Evening News ran one of the only segments on network news that spoke of the benefits President Trump taking on China with an aggressive trade policy. Janet Shamlian, a reporter for CBS News Los Angeles, visited Christopher Farms in Gilroy, California. According to the report, Ken Christopher, the operator of Christopher Farms, has actually benefited from the implementation…
 
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Study: TV News Hides Radicalism of 2020 Democratic Candidates

Rich Noyes
June 18th, 2019 7:50 AM
Even though the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have championed some of the most radical policy proposals ever seen in American politics, the vast majority of this year’s coverage (202 stories, or 92%) has failed to include any ideological label. Instead, reporters have eagerly touted adjectives describing the candidates’ race, gender, ethnicity and sexual identity, applauding the group…
 
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CBS Boasts of Poll That Shows Five Dems Beating Trump in 2020

Nicholas Fondacaro
June 17th, 2019 11:24 PM

Apparently, the liberal media didn’t learn their lesson about too much trust in polls after President Trump’s major 2016 upset, because they’re still touting some (less than a year and a half out from the 2020 election) that show him down against Democrats.