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ABC, CBS Tout Clinton Election Machine in Time for the General

May 4th, 2016 9:15 PM
With conventional wisdom pointing to both the Democrats and the Republicans having presumptive nominees the media is hyping a major fight brewing between the parties. ABC spent their Wednesday evening newscast touting how prepared the Clinton election machine was for a general election bout. “Tonight, Hillary Clinton launching her first general election attack … Backing it up with a new video,”…
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NBC Reporter Races to Cuba Before Americans Destroy It

May 3rd, 2016 1:53 PM
NBC Nightly News is still worried about the evils of capitalism destroying the pristine communist utopia of Cuba. “Do you feel you’ve gotten here before it changes?” NBC correspondent Kerry Sanders asked an excited American tourist, camera in hand. “I hope so,” she replied, cheerily. This continues a trend of the media fretting about American influence ruining Cuba, including when rival news…

TV News Touts Trump, Crushes Cruz and Gives Bernie a Shot at Hillary

May 3rd, 2016 8:45 AM
A look at the past four months of news coverage shows Donald Trump received three times as much TV news coverage as his closest rival, Ted Cruz, and a whopping 15 times as much as John Kasich. On the Democratic side, however, the gap was much narrower, with Bernie Sanders getting more than two minutes of TV news coverage for every three minutes given to Hillary Clinton. In other words, the…
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Nets Warn Cruz, 'Likely’ to Lose Indiana in ‘Cruz-Crushing Sweep'

May 2nd, 2016 9:45 PM
The evening news broadcasts set the negative tone for Ted Cruz Monday night, all virtually predicting that Cruz would lose to Trump and his chances at the nomination were slim to none.

Broadcast Networks, Hispanic Media Bypass Weak Economic Growth

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May 2nd, 2016 5:27 PM
The U.S. economy slowed down so much last quarter that even Europe’s economy grew faster. But if you just watched the broadcast networks’ and Hispanic media’s evening news programs, you wouldn’t have known that. The U.S.’s real gross domestic product (GDP) only rose at a 0.5 percent annualized rate in the first quarter of 2016, marking the lowest rate since the first quarter of 2014. Even in the…
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CBS Hypes Muslim Scouts 'Helping Others Erase Their Prejudices'

May 2nd, 2016 1:25 PM
Jim Axelrod touted a Muslim Cub Scout den "dedicated to the idea of helping others erase their prejudices" on Saturday's CBS Evening News. Axelrod spotlighted the unit's adult leader, who contended that "there is a natural overlap between Scouting and Islam." The journalist also featured two clips from President Obama's February 2016 visit to a mosque in Baltimore, Maryland, where he "met a group…
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Priorities: ABC, CBS Hype 'Royal Mic Drop;' Ignore Russian Aggression

April 29th, 2016 11:29 PM
ABC and CBS's evening newscasts on Friday spotlighted the friendly transatlantic trash-talking between the British and American heads of state. However, the programs failed to cover the latest too-close intercept of American military assets by Russian aircraft. On World News Tonight, ABC's David Muir touted "the royal mic drop — the Queen and Prince Harry responding to the First Family's…

ABC, NBC Evening News Shows Ignore Baltimore Riots Anniversary

April 29th, 2016 5:31 PM
On the one-year anniversary of the riots and systematic failures of Democrat-run Baltimore in Democrat-run Maryland, only CBS Evening News managed to acknowledge that anything even happened. ABC's World News Tonight’s only mention of Baltimore or Freddie Gray was a throwaway line in an April 22 obituary for the pop singer Prince, where correspondent Byron Pitts noted that “Prince was an artist…
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CBS Hails Obama Meeting Trans Person; Touts UK Travel Warning to NC

April 23rd, 2016 9:27 PM
In lieu of a story on the 2016 election, Saturday's CBS Evening News featured a full report promoting the United Kingdom's travel advisory for Mississippi and North Carolina in light of religious liberty laws and gushing over President Barack Obama's town hall in London that featured "an emotional statement of personal identity" from a transgender person.
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CBS, NBC Ignore Dem Governor's Move for Felons; ABC Barely Covers

April 22nd, 2016 11:46 PM
CBS and NBC's evening newscasts on Friday were too busy covering the sudden death of pop musician Prince to set aside any air time to the Democratic governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, taking executive action to restore the voting rights of over 200,000 felons inside the commonwealth. Both CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News led with the Prince story. Together, they devoted nearly 11 and a…
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Nets Mute on Teens Killed by Illegal Immigrants

April 20th, 2016 9:12 PM
In a week where the networks have reported sympathetically towards illegal immigrants benefiting from President Obama’s immigration policies, they ignored a significant House hearing that revealed the terrible effects of these policies. Two mothers of teenagers murdered by illegal immigrants pleaded with Congress to step up enforcement of immigration policies and protect innocent Americans from…
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Nets Hype Supreme Court 'Showdown' Over ‘Fate of Millions'

April 19th, 2016 12:51 PM

On Monday, all three network evening newscasts touted liberal protesters flooding into the streets around the Supreme Court to demand that the justices uphold President Obama’s unilateral executive action granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Leading off NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt proclaimed: “Immigration furor: The fate of millions now hanging in the balance. What…

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CBS Teams with WH, Pelosi to Bash GOP for Not Creating $1.9B for Zika

April 14th, 2016 8:19 PM
Thursday’s CBS Evening News featured a segment in which chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook tag-teamed with the White House and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to attack Republicans for not going along with demands to create $1.9 billion (that could be passed through Congress) to allow the CDC and NIH to fight the Zika virus.
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Pelley Frets to Kasich He’ll ‘Tear Out ObamaCare,’ Send U.S. ‘to War'

April 12th, 2016 8:31 PM
As part of an interview with GOP presidential candidate John Kasich that aired on Tuesday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Scott Pelley fretted that Kasich might “tear out ObamaCare, root and branch, start all over again” and signal to the American people that they will be “going to war” to defeat ISIS.