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CBS Defends Facebook: ‘They Didn’t Have to Meet’ With Conservatives
May 18th, 2016 2:06 PM
CBS and ABC on Wednesday highlighted a meeting with influential conservatives and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over allegations that the social media site is censoring right-leaning news stories. Yet, ABC’s Good Morning America allowed a mere 14 seconds on the story and CBS This Morning’s Gayle King defended the company. Co-host Gayle King spun, “They didn't have to meet at all. So, call it PR or…
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CBS, NBC Spin Nevada Convention Controversy for Hillary
May 18th, 2016 1:36 AM
It took most of the networks three days to finally cover the controversial Nevada Democrat Convention, where Sanders supporters tried to stand up to the Clinton election machine. But instead of documenting the arguably shady actions of the state party officials, the networks chose to smear Hillary Clinton’s rival. “Penchant for actual violence,” read both CBS and NBC reporters from a Democrat…
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Networks Ignore Bill Clinton’s Connections to Pedophile Epstein
May 17th, 2016 10:38 PM
During their Tuesday evening newscasts, all of the “big three” networks ignored explosive new details about former President Bill Clinton’s relationship with convicted pedophile Jeffery Epstein. “It’s no secret that former President Bill Clinton had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein,” reported Fox News’ Shannon Bream on Special Report, “A prominent businessman who went to jail as part of a plea…
Nets Love Talking About Flint...Until Dem Mayor Accused of Corruption
May 17th, 2016 2:42 PM
The broadcast news networks couldn’t get enough of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan – until a leading Democrat in town became the target of a corruption lawsuit. Despite spending 1 hour and 42 minutes discussing the Flint since the story broke onto the national stage in December, 2015, the evening news shows of ABC, CBS and NBC have completely ignored reports that Flint’s Democrat mayor…
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Networks Yawn At Pastor Admitting to Whole Foods Cake Hoax; CNN Covers
May 17th, 2016 2:20 PM
ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts punted on covering an openly-homosexual pastor dropping his lawsuit against Whole Foods on Monday, after accusing the grocery chain of including the word "fag" on a cake he ordered from a location in Austin, Texas in April 2016. Jordan Brown disclosed that "the company did nothing wrong" in a statement, and apologized to the "LGBT community for…
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CBS Worries About ‘Risks’ of Trump’s ‘Aggression’; ‘Smart or Stupid?’
May 17th, 2016 12:32 PM
The journalists at CBS This Morning on Tuesday worried about the “risks” of Trump’s “aggressive” attitude towards Hillary Clinton. Charlie Rose pondered as to whether it was “smart or stupid.” Journalists don’t often worry about the fate of Republican candidates. Yet, Face the Nation host John Dickerson appeared on the show and fretted over journalists being manipulated: “So what [Trump] does is…
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ABC Takes NYT's Bait: Network Reports on Trump Hit Piece
May 16th, 2016 10:22 PM
In the Sunday edition of The New York Times the paper ran a cover story about Donald Trump that is now being called a “hit piece” by one of the women interviewed. Rowanne Brewer Lane claims the Times twisted her story in order paint Trump negatively. During their evening newscasts both CBS and NBC ignored the story and instead chose to cover other topics such as the opioid epidemic America and…
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Religious Freedom a ‘License to Discriminate’ for ‘Extreme’ Christians
May 16th, 2016 5:41 PM
In a slanted hit piece against religious freedom laws for CBS Sunday Morning, correspondent Mark Strassmann proclaimed: “North Carolina's public bathrooms are the new frontier in American civil rights law....Just since the beginning of this year, lawmakers in 34 states have proposed so-called ‘bathroom’ bills and ‘religious freedom’ laws that, critics say, target gay, lesbian and transgender…
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Tapper, FactCheck Skewer Hillary's 'Absolutely Permitted' Server Claim
May 16th, 2016 1:47 PM
Consider this one small step in what should be a long series of such exposures of dishonest political posturing with media acquiescence by leftist politicians.
A week ago Sunday, John Dickerson, CBS News's brazenly biased Face the Nation host, who has among other things contended that Hillary Clinton’s email scandal is "a stupid issue," allowed the Democratic presidential frontrunner to go to…
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Nets Giddy Over Obama Bashing Trump in Commencement Speech
May 16th, 2016 12:36 PM
On Monday, all three network morning shows reveled in President Obama blasting Donald Trump during a college commencement address over the weekend. At the top of NBC’s Today, co-host Matt Lauer touted: “President Obama takes a not-so-veiled shot at Donald Trump in a commencement address...” A soundbite played of Obama ranting: “It's not cool to not know what you're talking about.”
MRC's Notable Quotables: Media Glee Over Demise of the GOP
May 16th, 2016 8:57 AM
This issue: Journalists laugh about the supposed death of the Republican Party, now that Donald Trump will be the presidential nominee, while the New York Times wishes Jon Stewart were still on TV to bash the GOP during this year's campaign. Plus, the media insist Hillary Clinton is honest, and her scandals are nothing more than “garbage” and “crud,” while Newsweek tweets: “Has there been any…
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Network Sunday Talk Shows Refuse to Cover Facebook Censoring Scandal
May 15th, 2016 11:39 PM
On the first Sunday morning political talk shows since the Facebook trending topics scandal broke, the major network Sunday shows and CNN's State of the Union (with NBC's Meet the Press preempted for a Barclay's Premiere League game) failed to cover or debate this reported suppression of conservative stories by the social media behemoth.
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NBC Hypes 'Historic' Obama Admin. Move on Transgender Students
May 13th, 2016 11:39 PM
The Big Three networks' evening newscasts on Friday devoted full reports to the Obama administration's controversial letter to every public school district in the nation directing them to allow transgender students to use bathroom and locker rooms according to their chosen sexual identity. However, NBC Nightly News's segment on the issue touted the "Obama administration's historic new directive…
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NBC Skips as ABC, CBS Trumpet Facebook Pushback on Censorship Scandal
May 13th, 2016 1:40 PM
On Friday morning, NBC’s Today completely ignored a statement published late Thursday night by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg denying claims that his site has censored conservative news stories and promoted some topics as trending even though they weren’t. CBS This Morning and ABC’s Good Morning America devoted full stories to defending Zuckerberg and thus furthering the narrative from the past…