Networks Notice 4.1% GDP, But CBS Sees ‘Mirage’ in the Numbers

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July 31st, 2018 9:42 AM
After ignoring all three estimates of first quarter GDP growth, ABC, CBS and NBC found the second quarter estimate too good to overlook. The Bureau of Economic Analysis announced on July 27, that the economy grew by 4.1 percent in the second quarter, the highest quarterly growth in nearly four years. It was a strong number, but the networks were quick to look for problems with it — especially CBS…
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FNC Highlights Cop Murdered By Illegal Immigrant as Other Nets Ignore

July 31st, 2018 7:11 AM
After Fort Myers police officer Adam Jobbers-Miller passed away over the weekend because of injuries sustained when he was shot on duty a week earlier, FNC's Fox and Friends ran updates on the sad news on both Sunday and Monday morning as the other networks ignored the story. FNC also informed viewers that the killer, Wisner Desmaret, is an illegal immigrant with a previous criminal record who…
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CBS Skips Own Reporter’s Scoop: McAllen Robbery Suspects Are Illegals

July 30th, 2018 9:09 PM
McAllen, Texas public officials appeared to be caught lying by omission on Monday after CBS correspondent David Begnaud reported via Twitter that they were failing to disclose the legal status of seven suspects involved in a jewelry store robbery. It was a scoop backed up by two federal law enforcement sources familiar with the case but during that night’s CBS Evening News, the network completely…
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CBS Wrongly Links Stand Your Ground to Unsolved Murders of Blacks

July 30th, 2018 6:57 PM
On Monday's CBS This Morning, during a sympathetic interview with the makers of a film on the killing of Trayvon Martin and the impact of Stand Your Ground laws on blacks, co-host Alex Wagner at one point misleadingly tied in a recent Washington Post report finding that over 70 percent of unsolved murders over the past decade have involved a victim who was black.
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Media Relieved Ginsburg Plans to Stay on Court ‘Five More Years’

July 30th, 2018 4:42 PM
On Monday, the liberal media breathed a collective sigh of relief over 85-year-old Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s announcement over the weekend that she plans to stay on the high court for at least another five years. The coverage demonstrated how even the thought of Donald Trump naming the liberal justice’s replacement strikes terror into the hearts of reporters.
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NYT Head: Trump’s ‘Harmful’ Media Criticism Will Get Journalists Hurt

July 30th, 2018 1:27 PM
Responding to a tweet from President Trump about his meeting with New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger, the liberal newspaper released a lengthy statement Sunday afternoon in which Sulzberger explained that he confronted Trump over his “deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric” that he warned will cause journalists to be physically harmed.
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CBS Sees Corporate Conspiracy Behind Moonves Allegations

July 30th, 2018 1:15 PM
Since news broke on Friday of sexual harassment claims against both CBS CEO Les Moonves and longtime 60 Minutes executive producer Jeff Fager, the broadcast network has been in damage control. While CBS News provided full coverage of scandal, reporter Anna Werner made sure to tout the company line that the accusations may just be a case of “corporate hardball” as CBS fights off an attempt to re-…
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CNN Barely Touches Cop Killings, But Notices Cop Who Caused Crash

July 28th, 2018 1:17 PM
Over the past week, there have been three police officers attacked and killed in the line of duty in separate incidents -- all of which were covered by Fox and Friends. But CNN's flagship morning show, New Day, only spent 11 seconds total on just one of the killings. By contrast, on Saturday morning, the weekend edition of the show managed to devote more time to an embarrassing incident in which…

Morning Shows Spend 16x More on Cohen Claim Than N.K. Remains Transfer

July 27th, 2018 5:20 PM
If you were watching one of the Friday morning cable or broadcast networks, chances were you didn’t hear about news late Thursday into Friday that the North Koreans handed over what purported to be remains of U.S. soldiers who went Missing In Action (MIA) during the Korean War. A NewsBusters analysis found that 16 times more coverage was dedicated to former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s unverified…
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CNN's Tapper: Critics of Russia Investigation Are 'Unpatriotic'

July 27th, 2018 3:07 PM
The liberal media has decided that any opposition to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is “unpatriotic.” Appearing on Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show Thursday night, CNN anchor Jake Tapper claimed anyone who criticizes the investigation might as well have criticized an investigation into the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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CBS Credits Tax Cuts for Booming Economy; ABC Skips

July 27th, 2018 12:35 PM
Only CBS This Morning on Friday previewed America's surging gross domestic product. The network even credited the tax cuts for the booming economy. ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today both ignored the news, despite a combined six hours of available air time. 
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ABC, NBC Ignore Trump Fighting for American Pastor Captive in Turkey

July 27th, 2018 12:12 AM
On Thursday, President Trump tweeted out a threat og levying “large sanctions” against Turkey for their arrest of American pastor Andrew Brunson on trumped up charges of espionage related to the failed 2016 military coup. Both ABC and NBC omitted the President’s efforts from their evening broadcasts and CBS seemed shocked that he would threaten a NATO ally in that sort of way.
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Nets Uninterested in Twitter ‘Shadow Banning’ Conservatives [UPDATED]

July 26th, 2018 9:18 PM
The liberal media love to pretend that their news cycles are dictated entirely by President Trump’s Twitter feed. It’s their number one excuse when average Americans complain they’re not covering other and arguably more important topics. But oh how quickly their fascination with his account fades when he mentions something they rather keep hidden. For Thursday’s evening broadcasts on ABC, CBS,…
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Nets Mostly Ignore Good Guys With Guns, But Hype One Bad Case

July 26th, 2018 3:45 PM
Over the past several days, the broadcast networks and CNN have shown a blatant double standard in showing more interest in a concealed carry holder who may have abused his right to self-defense by picking a fight with a man before shooting him, in contrast with several other cases from recent weeks in which gun owners more sympathetically used their weapons to defend themselves against…