Congressman Cites Bozell, MRC in Calling Out Media on Gosnell

April 12th, 2013 1:58 PM
The networks continue to censor the horrors revealed in abortionist doctor Kermit Gosnell’s trial, but some members of the House of Representatives haven’t kept silent – and they cited the Media Research Center. On April 11, Representative Chris Smith, R-NJ, demanded accountability from the national media. He began his speech on the floor, asking, “Mr. Speaker, will the decades-long major…

Four Reasons Why Media Isn't Covering Gosnell Mass Murder Trial

April 11th, 2013 5:31 PM
Living in Chicago, I've observed press coverage up close on three of the most notorious mass murderers ever apprehended: Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and Richard Speck. Speck tortured, raped, and murdered eight student nurses in Chicago in 1966. Dahmer murdered 17 boys and men in the Milwaukee/Chicago area between 1978-1991, keeping and eating some of their body parts. Gacy raped and…

ABC Hypes 'Startling Secret Tape' of Mitch McConnell and Aides 'Schemi

April 10th, 2013 6:54 PM
On Tuesday's World News and Wednesday's Good Morning Ameica, ABC's George Stephanopoulos and Jim Avila ballyhooed far-left magazine Mother Jones's secretly-recorded audio recording of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's strategy meeting with political advisers about potential opponent Ashley Judd. Stephanopoulos touted the "startling secret tape revealing how the Senate's top Republican…

Scott Pelley: CBS Evening News 'An Island of Calm in a Sea of Absurdit

April 10th, 2013 3:59 PM
CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley comes across as a very serious, stoic person. This seemed hardly the case in his Wednesday interview with the Hollywood Reporter when he uttered this howler concerning his program's coverage of last year's presidential campaign: "I think the viewer saw us as an island of calm in a sea of absurdity."

ABC Insists Gun Bill Is a 'Significant' 'Major Breakthrough,' But NBC

April 10th, 2013 12:19 PM
The journalists at Good Morning America on Wednesday could barely contain themselves, hailing the compromise over gun control legislation as a "major," "big, significant breakthrough." Guest host Elizabeth Vargas marveled, "Boy, is that big news." Yet, the reporters on NBC offered less effusive coverage. Today's Kristen Welker conceded, "Democrats had been hoping for background checks to be…

Lindsay Lohan Drinks From Letterman’s Coffee Mug: ‘I Thought This

April 10th, 2013 11:11 AM
Lindsay Lohan appeared on the CBS Late Show Tuesday and besides being rather contrite was also willing to joke about her problems as well as her next stint in rehab. At one point she took a drink out of host David Letterman’s coffee mug and said, “I thought this was going to be vodka.”

Five States to Tax Guns, Three Networks Silent

April 10th, 2013 10:16 AM
On April 8, President Obama spoke yet again on the issue of gun violence in Connecticut, only an hour away from the Newtown massacre. NBC, ABC, and CBS all ran stories on this speech. While the media have continually attacked the gun industry and promoted stricter gun control than even the administration, they conveniently ignored new tax plans being implemented and proposed in five different…

CBS Channels Obama: GOP 'Owes the Families of These Newtown Victims A

April 9th, 2013 4:48 PM
Norah O'Donnell shamelessly forwarded President Obama's gun control talking points on Tuesday's CBS This Morning as she interviewed Republican Senator Johnny Isakson: "Do you think your fellow Republicans owe the families of these Newtown victims a vote?" Mere hours earlier, at a pro-gun control rally in Connecticut, the President pointed out, "I said in my State of the Union address...that…

Nets Give Rutgers Basketball Scandal 41 Mins., Gosnell Baby Murder Tri

April 9th, 2013 11:18 AM
The Rutgers basketball story continues to transfix the media, and why shouldn’t it? Mike Rice, the disgraced former Rutgers basketball coach allegedly killed a woman and at least seven viable, born-alive babies “by plunging scissors into their spinal cords” in his filthy, macabre “house of horrors” abortion clinic. Oh wait, my mistake. Rice was fired last week from Rutgers over video of him…

ABC, CBS and NBC Turn a Blind Eye to ObamaCare Setbacks

April 9th, 2013 9:56 AM

For the past couple of weeks there has been a steady drip of bad news for ObamaCare, but you wouldn't know it if you only get your news from the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks. From a Society of Actuaries report that determined premium costs will shoot up thanks to a thirty-three percent average increase in claims; to thirty-three Senate Democrats joining Republicans in voting to repeal an…

CBS’s Dickerson Flogs White House Narrative That Republicans Must A

April 8th, 2013 4:51 PM
Sometimes the media will engage in selective amnesia, pretending to forget about a past occurrence because the memory of it would hurt the liberal narrative they are trying to advance. That was clearly the case on this Saturday’s CBS This Morning. The network’s political director, John Dickerson, was on to discuss President Obama’s forthcoming budget proposal, which is expected to include…

CBS on 'Plunder-Woman' Margaret Thatcher: 'Contentious'; 'Reviled and

April 8th, 2013 1:22 PM
Monday's CBS This Morning played up the domestic critics of Margaret Thatcher as they covered the breaking news of her death. Mark Phillips, reporting from London, spotlighted how Thatcher was once called "Plunder-woman" by a British union leader, and how she was "contentious here, famous for breaking the back of the very strong labor movement in Britain." Phillips also noted how the former…

'Face the Nation' Completely Ignores Friday's Lousy Jobs Report

April 7th, 2013 3:58 PM
As NewsBusters has been reporting, the Sunday political talk shows didn't seem very interested in the lousy jobs numbers that were released by the Labor Department last Friday. By far the worst performance in this regard was turned in by CBS's Face the Nation which didn't utter one single word about the issue throughout the course of the entire one hour broadcast.

Networks Ignore Obama's False Claim About 'Fully-Automatic Weapon' Use

April 6th, 2013 1:40 PM
The Big Three networks' Friday morning newscasts all highlighted the "backlash" over President Obama's "best-looking attorney general in the country" compliment of California's Kamala Harris. But in addition to ignoring First Lady Michelle Obama's recent "single mother" gaffe, as of Saturday morning, ABC, CBS, and NBC have yet to report on the President's erroneous claim about the use of an…