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Sharyl Attkisson Highlights Widespread Failure of ObamaCare Co-Ops

November 2nd, 2015 11:42 AM
On Sunday, veteran investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson’s new show Full Measure examined the growing number of ObamaCare co-ops that are “falling like dominoes” despite substantial financial support from the federal government. Reporter Scott Thuman traveled to Nevada which “is now one of 23 co-ops created by the Affordable Care Act known to most as ObamaCare. It is also one that is failing…
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ABC, NBC Ignore Latest Problem Facing ObamaCare

November 2nd, 2015 9:42 AM
On Monday, CBS This Morning was the only network morning show to cover the latest problem for ObamaCare and the program’s sagging enrollment numbers caused by increased premiums. Co-host Charlie Rose noted that there are “potential strains with the Affordable Care Act open enrollment for 2016...The administration needs more people to sign up but premiums are likely to increase.” ABC’s Good…
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‘Madam Secretary’ Informs Hollywood of Propaganda 'Patriotic Duty'

Culture
November 1st, 2015 11:48 PM
CBS’ Madam Secretary took to the airwaves on Sunday night, apparently with the expressed intent of letting Hollywood know that a Hillary presidency would be a very, very Hollywood-friendly presidency.

CBS Skips Email Dump...Except Hillary's 'Quirky' Notes on Lady Gaga

November 1st, 2015 4:41 PM
CBS had no time on Friday night for the latest dump of Hillary Clinton e-mails, but they played cute on their website with a slide show about “7 quirky emails on Hillary Clinton's server.” In the introduction, they reported: “The latest release contained over 7,000 pages of emails with about 200 to 300 of those emails marked as classified.” CBS didn't find it worth mentioning Hillary told the…

Obama-Clinton Emails Make His Related Kroft Interview Statements False

October 31st, 2015 11:58 PM
A Friday evening story at the New York Times covered the Obama administration's decision to "try to block the release of a handful of emails between President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton." In it, reporters Michael D. Shear and Michael S. Schmidt demonstrated that President Obama undoubtedly did not tell the truth in his interview with CBS News's Steve Kroft in a 60…
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CBS's 'Blue Bloods' Confronts Black Lives Matter

Culture
October 31st, 2015 8:45 AM
Okay, so this is pretty much going to boil your blood. On Friday night’s edition of Blue Bloods, an episode titled “Rush to Judgment,” Black Lives Matter, or the made-for-TV equivalent thereof, take center stage as Jamie Reagan (Will Estes) son of police commissioner Frank Reagan (Tom Selleck) confronts an angry mob of protestors who are…well…angry. What else would they be?
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NBC Minimizes Covering RNC Suspending Future GOP Presidential Debate

October 30th, 2015 10:13 PM
Friday's NBC Nightly News set aside just 34 seconds of air time to the Republican National Committee suspending its planned February 2016 debate with NBC. The evening newscast surrounded this coverage with over two minutes of reporting on other 2016 presidential campaign developments, focusing on the spat between Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush. By contrast, ABC's World News Tonight and CBS Evening News…
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Nets Censor Hillary E-Mail Dump to Instead Hype Giant Flying Pumpkin

October 30th, 2015 8:17 PM
On Friday evening, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC all ignored the latest dump of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails from the State Department that included the retroactive classification of 268 e-mails that now makes for one out of every 16 e-mails that have been “released” to the public since her private e-mail server scandal was unearthed in March.
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Oliver: ‘American Democracy Looks Like a Four-Year-Old’s Birthday'

October 30th, 2015 11:54 AM
The journalists at CBS This Morning fawned over liberal comedian John Oliver, Friday. Co-host Gayle King enthused that “I love watching your take on politics.” Co-host Norah O’Donnell offered him a softball on American politics: “You’re a Brit. What do you think about this process we have?” 
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CBS’s Charlie Rose Desperately Tries to Lecture Rubio on Benghazi

October 29th, 2015 9:29 AM
Following Wednesday night’s CNBC Republican presidential debate, on Thursday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Charlie Rose repeatedly tried to lecture Senator Marco Rubio over Hillary Clinton’s role in the 2012 Benghazi attack. After Rubio stated that he had not engaged in personal attacks throughout this campaign, Rose immediately rushed to defend Clinton and proclaimed that on the issue of Benghazi…
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CNN's Cuomo Touts Hillary Clinton 'Giving Her Best' on Colbert

October 28th, 2015 5:11 PM
Wednesday's New Day on CNN spotlighted the late night shows' latest shots at the Republican presidential candidates. Michaela Pereira spotlighted how "Hillary Clinton got her own dig in. Stephen Colbert asked her about going up against Donald Trump or Ben Carson." The morning newscast also featured one-liners from NBC's Seth Meyers and TBS's Conan O'Brien, who targeted three of the GOP contenders…

Networks Exaggerate WHO Statement On Risk of Bacon and Hot Dogs

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October 28th, 2015 10:43 AM
After an international agency made an announcement about risk of eating processed meats, many media outlets went hog wild. That included the broadcast networks which hyped the “troubling new warning” and ordered people to “cut down on that red meat.” ABC and NBC evening news programming hyped the “unprecedented “warning,” and the decision to put them in the “same category” of carcinogens as…
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Colbert Tees Up Clinton to Promote Paul Krugman’s Endorsement of Her

October 28th, 2015 10:42 AM
On Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton sat down with Late Show host Stephen Colbert for a friendly interview which saw the CBS host eagerly tee up Hillary Clinton to promote liberal economist Paul Krugman’s endorsement of the Democrat’s anti-Wall Street proposal. 
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Journalists vs. 'Far Right,' 'Hardline' and 'Ultra-Conservative' GOP

October 28th, 2015 10:05 AM

Over the past four weeks, as the broadcast networks have covered the House leadership contest, reporters have gone out of their way to relentlessly paint House Republicans, especially the Freedom Caucus, as ideologues who are outside the American political mainstream. From September 25 to October 23, MRC analysts reviewed all 82 ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news stories about John…