Evening News Spin: 100% Negative on Trump Defense, 95% Positive Dems
January 29th, 2020 7:05 PM
A Media Research Center study of broadcast evening news coverage of the opening arguments of both sides, found ABC, CBS, and NBC did not live up to the standard they demanded of Republicans. They gave Democrats double the airtime and showered their arguments with mostly praise, while expressing only criticism of the President’s legal team.
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CBS, NBC Suggest Middle East Peace Plan a Ploy to Hedge Impeachment
January 28th, 2020 10:13 PM
On Tuesday, President Trump along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his challenger Benny Gantz, together announced a new peace plan to settle the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was a plan that guaranteed a two-state solution, but during their evening newscasts, CBS and NBC chastised the plan and suggested it was just a ploy to save Trump from impeachment and…
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CBS’s O’Donnell Gets Combative Over Impeachment, Gets SCHOOLED
January 28th, 2020 12:44 AM
In stark contrast to her interview with Democratic impeachment managers last week, where she teed them up and gave them free rein to make their case and throw out new accusation without evidence, CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell got combative with a group of House Republicans (North Carolina's Mark Meadows, New York's Elise Stefanik, Georgia's Doug Collins, and Arizona's Debbie Lesko).…
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Nets All But Ignore Second Day of Trump Defense, Gush for Bolton Book
January 27th, 2020 9:58 PM
Monday was day two for President Trump’s defense in the Senate impeachment trial and it was the first full day for his legal team to layout their fact-based arguments for acquittal. Yet, the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC chose not to air their arguments, as they did with House Democrats. Instead, they chose to disregard the defense in favor of pouncing on reported allegations made in the…
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IMPEACHMENT MANIA: ‘Dazzling’ Democrats vs. ‘Shameless’ Republicans
January 27th, 2020 5:03 PM
Liberal reporters and hosts lionized lead Democratic House Manager Adam Schiff for his “dazzling” “impassioned” “brilliant” performance as he was compared to rock stars like Prince and Bruce Springsteen. However, Donald Trump’s Republican defenders were slimed as “shameless,” lazy cowards who live in “terror” of the President.
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Take Cover! Desperate Nets Hype Bolton ‘Bombshell’
January 27th, 2020 12:54 PM
In an effort to aid Democrats in prolonging the Senate impeachment trial, on Monday, all three networks seized on a supposed “bombshell” – though unverified – claim in former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s upcoming memoir. All the sensational coverage clearly designed to turn up the pressure on Republican senators to call witnesses.
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Alicia Keys at Grammys: Trump 'Get Out,' Bring in Cardi B
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January 27th, 2020 12:21 AM
The 62nd Annual Grammy Award Show on CBS Sunday night was surprisingly mostly non-political. However, there was one mention of Trump’s impeachment by host Alicia Keys in her opening monologue song and Gary Clark Jr. sang his controversial song This Land.
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Nets Decry Trump’s Legal Team ‘Discrediting’ Days of Dem ‘Evidence’
January 26th, 2020 8:45 AM
Saturday’s abbreviated impeachment hearing was the first time President Trump’s legal team was able to have the Senate floor all to themselves during opening arguments, and the liberal media were not happy about it. All three of the broadcast networks used their evening newscasts to decry and whine about the arguments Trump’s legal team were making.
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CBS’s O’Donnell Frets: Can Dems ‘Object' to 'Untruthful' Trump Team?
January 25th, 2020 11:39 AM
During a special report just before President Trump’s defense team began making their opening statement in the Senate impeachment trial on Saturday morning, CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell seemed to assume that they would lie and hoped Democrats could find a way to “object” throughout the proceeding.
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Nets Hype Alleged Trump Audio Only ABC Has Heard, Refuses to Air
January 24th, 2020 10:17 PM
Without providing any evidence, ABC News made headlines on Friday when they claimed they had heard an audio recording of President Trump ordering the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine to be fired, something that would supposedly aid Democrats with impeachment. Both CBS News and NBC News pounced on the reporting during their evening newscasts despite the fact ABC had not released the audio or…
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28 Seconds: Nets Snub Historic March for Life, Trump Speech [UPDATED]
January 24th, 2020 8:17 PM
The big three networks gave just 28 seconds Friday night and Saturday morning to the largest pro-life annual march in the nation’s capital, this year. While it’s not out of the ordinary for the media to ignore this mammoth event that flies in the face of their liberal narrative on abortion, it is notable that they would hold a near blackout of the event even when President Trump became the first…
UPDATED: 3 Million Viewers Flee Big Three's Impeachment Coverage
January 24th, 2020 9:51 AM
The ratings are in for the first day of the Democratic House Managers impeachment arguments in front of the Senate, and the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) collectively lost about three million viewers who would have been expected to watch their normal fare of daytime soap operas.
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From Teen Abortions to Feeling Powerful: TV Normalized Abortion in '19
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January 24th, 2020 8:00 AM
While television networks largely celebrate abortion, it’s worth noting that a celebration of life is taking place, with the annual March for Life on January 24. Whether networks will finally give these peaceful pro-lifers their due in media coverage, after for years neglecting them, remains to be seen. Meanwhile, liberal television networks, from news shows, to actress spokespersons, to…
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CBS, NBC Tout Dems Painting a ‘Damning Portrait’ of Trump in Trial
January 23rd, 2020 9:23 PM
In their Thursday evening reports on the Senate impeachment trial, both CBS and NBC marveled and touted the work of Democratic prosecutors. Together they declared it a “dramatic day” where a “damning portrait” was painted by Democratic prosecutors, and quipped that the time for President Trump’s legal team to speak “can't come soon enough.” Anchor Norah O’Donnell kicked off CBS Evening News with…
