Stocks Reach 16 Records, Nets Only Credit Trump 6 Times

Business
December 19th, 2016 11:14 AM
As the Dow Jones Industrial Average neared the 20,000 mark for the first time in history, the index set 16 closing-day record highs since Donald Trump’s election. Even some liberal media outlets have drawn a direct connection between the soaring stock market and Trump’s election, going so far as to label it a “Trump stock market rally.” But the broadcast networks often ignored any connection,…

Patient Diagnosed as Islamophobic on CBS’s 'Pure Genius'

Culture
December 16th, 2016 2:59 PM
Well, it seems Pure Genius is continuing to follow the Hollywood script by adding a patient with a case of “Islamophobia.”
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CBS Channels Watergate: ‘What Did Donald Know? When Did He Know It?'

December 15th, 2016 5:02 PM
Rampant speculation abounded on Thursday’s CBS This Morning. Co-host Charlie Rose on Thursday channeled Watergate with a question about Russian hacking.  Talking to John Heilemann of Bloomberg Politics, Rose wondered, “What did Donald [Trump] know and when did he know it?” This, of course, was meant to echo Senator Howard Baker’s 1973 question during the Watergate hearings: “What did the…
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Actress Mourns Obama Leaving: 'Greatest President' of 'Our Lifetime!'

December 15th, 2016 9:52 AM
Hollywood has certainly not been shy about their love for President Obama or their hatred for Donald Trump. But since the election, the Obama fawning and Trump loathing seems to have gotten worse. Wednesday night’s The Late Show on CBS was a prime example of this, when comedic actress Megan Mullally had a meltdown over Obama leaving office.
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Fake News? 55+ Journalists Turn Actor to Report Fictional Events

Culture
December 14th, 2016 2:44 PM
Hillary Clinton called it a troubling “epidemic.” CNN’s Brian Stelter questioned whether its spread aided the rise of Donald Trump. And by the time the fictional Pizzagate scandal had led to an actual shooting, it – “fake news” – had become very real news. But is fake news more than the circulation of false articles across the web? What do we call it when respected journalists report fictional…
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NBC Devotes Full Story to GOP Corruption Case, Skips Dem Sentencing

December 14th, 2016 12:58 PM
On Tuesday, NBC’s Today featured a nearly two-minute long report on former Republican Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock being arraigned on corruption charges in federal court. However, the morning show completely ignored the 10-year prison sentence handed down against former Democratic Pennsylvania Congressman Chaka Fattah for racketeering.
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NBC, ABC Skip Obama Blame: U.S. ‘Powerless to Stop’ Aleppo Slaughter

December 14th, 2016 12:55 PM
As Aleppo descends into chaos and death, the journalists at NBC and ABC on Wednesday avoided singling out Barack Obama’s foreign policy. Instead, NBC focused on the present and said America is “powerless” to do anything.  It was only CBS This Morning that hosted a discussion on culpability of Barack Obama’s inaction. Talking to Republican strategist Dan Senor, co-host Charlie Rose wondered if the…

Top 10 Ways the Liberal Agenda Dominated 2016 Economic News

Business
December 14th, 2016 8:05 AM
2016 was a crazy year. Americans had ringside seats to the presidential boxing match between Apprentice star Donald Trump, R, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, D. Trump won the prize fight in spite of the liberal media acting more like Clinton’s boxing promoter than the referee. Throughout the tumult, the liberal agenda dominated economic and business news from media spin of the…
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Nets Hit Tillerson for 'No Experience,' Predict ‘Tough Confirmation'

December 13th, 2016 3:29 PM
As news broke on Tuesday that Donald Trump had officially tapped ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to serve as Secretary of State, the network morning shows all decried the business executive’s lack of “government experience” and warned of a “tough” confirmation “battle” in the Senate.
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Journalist on CBS: ‘Racialized’ GOP Opposed Obama From the Start

December 13th, 2016 2:27 PM
The hosts at CBS This morning on Tuesday brought on a fawning, pro-Barack Obama journalist to cement the legacy of the President. Atlantic national correspondent Ta-Nehisi Coates identified racism as a key reason for Republican resistance to Obama. 
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ABC, CBS Resurrect 2011 Gaffe to Portray Perry as Buffoon

December 13th, 2016 11:14 AM
On Tuesday’s morning news shows, ABC and CBS dredged up a five-year-old gaffe from former Governor of Texas Rick Perry in an effort to delegitimize Trump’s pick for head of the Department of Energy. ABC in particular seemed to go out of it’s way to make Perry appear ridiculous, playing an especially embarrassing clip from Perry’s time on Dancing With the Stars. The malicious reporting was just…
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ABC, NBC Punt on Stein’s Recount Failures in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin

December 12th, 2016 11:44 PM
On Monday, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News saw no reason to keep their viewers abreast of two embarrassing failures in Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s recount efforts to alter the presidential election results as the recount ended in Wisconsin while a judge blocked it in Pennsylvania.  With ABC and NBC missing in action, the CBS Evening News covered the recount news…
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NBC, CBS, CNN's Morning Shows Yawn At Church Bombing in Egypt

December 12th, 2016 1:12 PM
As of Monday morning, NBC's Today and CNN's New Day have yet to cover the deadly terrorist attack on a Coptic Christian church in Cairo, Egypt on Sunday. The NBC morning newscast's omission is particularly conspicuous, as Sunday's NBC Nightly News devoted a full report to the bombing. CBS's Sunday Morning gave the attack a one-sentence mention on December 11, 2016. However, CBS This Morning didn'…
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CBS to Schumer: Will Tillerson Have a ‘Problem’ Being Confirmed?

December 12th, 2016 12:34 PM
All three morning newscasts on Monday speculated about issues in confirming potential Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson, but only CBS This Morning’s Charlie Rose put the question directly to incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Rose prompted the partisan Democrat on the possible high profile pick by Donald Trump: “If Rex Tillerson is the nominee for the Secretary of State, will…