Networks Silent as Obama Gives Up on Closing Guantanamo, Previously Pr

January 29th, 2013 3:42 PM
Barack Obama's State Department on Monday announced that it will close the office dedicated to shutting down Guantanamo Bay. According to the New York Times, this means that the President "does not currently see the closing of the prison as a realistic priority, despite repeated statements that [the administration] still intends to do so." Yet, all three network newscasts on Monday night and…

Networks Praise 'Historic' Move By Boy Scouts, ABC Compares Gay Strugg

January 29th, 2013 12:06 PM
The three networks on Monday night and Tuesday morning hailed a "historic" potential change by the Boy Scouts that would lift the ban on gays in their organization. ABC compared the move to a famous Norman Rockwell painting. NBC featured voices complaining that the decision doesn't go far enough. On Monday's World News, Diane Sawyer trumpted that change is "afoot in an iconic American…

Virtual Reality! Networks Cover Manti Te’o 521 Times More than March

January 29th, 2013 10:27 AM
Fact usually triumphs over fiction – except on TV news. The major networks have been obsessed with Manti Te’o’s fantasy football story of a fictional girlfriend. But when 500,000 people showed up in Washington to speak out for the unborn, it was barely a footnote. ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted close to two-and-a-half hours (147 minutes and 43 seconds) to the Te’o fiasco and just 17 seconds to the…

CBS's Kroft on Why Obama Does 60 Minutes: 'He Knows We're Not Going To

January 28th, 2013 11:56 PM
CBS's Steve Kroft made a statement Monday that totally epitomizes liberal media bias in the modern era. Speaking to CNN's Piers Morgan about his interview with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the previous evening's 60 Minutes, Kroft said the President likes doing his show because "he knows that we're not going to play gotcha with him" (video follows with transcript and commentary):

AP's Bauder Gives CBS's Kroft an Excuse Platform for Softball Obama-Cl

January 28th, 2013 7:13 PM
Steve Kroft at CBS News is apparently feeling the heat over his powder-puff interview of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It has fallen to television writer David Bauder at the Associated Press, aka the Administration's Press (HT Dylan Byers at the Politico) to try and help put out the fire. You see, according to Kroft (my paraphrase), "This whole interview thing…

Brit Hume: Theme of Obama-Clinton 60 Minutes Interview - 'Just How Gre

January 28th, 2013 7:06 PM
Brit Hume on Monday made some strong comments about Barack Obama's recent attacks on Fox News as well as the gooey interview CBS's 60 Minutes did with the President and Hillary Clinton the previous evening. Of the latter, he said the theme was “Just How Great Is the Relationship Between You Two?” (video follows with transcript and absolutely no need for additional commentary):

Kirsten Powers on Obama-Clinton 60 Minutes Interview: 'Something You'd

January 28th, 2013 5:49 PM
As NewsBusters has been reporting all day, CBS's 60 Minutes on Sunday gave a gushing and fawning interview to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that should be an embarrassment to the network. On Fox News's America's Newsroom Monday, left-leaning contributor Kirsten Powers said of this fiasco, "It really was something you would expect from like the state-run media...60…

TIME’s Jeffrey Kluger: Doubting Global Warming is Like Believing the

January 28th, 2013 5:43 PM
If you deny global warming, you are on par with those who believe the Earth is flat or the moon landing never happened, at least, according to Jeffrey Kluger, TIME Magazine senior editor for science and technology. Kluger appeared on Saturday’s CBS This Morning to discuss the recent trend toward warmer weather. Co-host Jim Axelrod asked Kluger if the record-setting temperatures of the past…

CBS: 60 Minutes Interview 'Much Better Image' for Hillary Than 'Bruisi

January 28th, 2013 5:05 PM
On Monday's CBS This Morning, Norah O'Donnell gushed over Steve Kroft's interview of President Obama and Hillary Clinton, twice emphasizing the supposed "warmness" between the two Democrats. O'Donnell asserted that the interview was "a long way from where they were in 2008 in that bitter primary battle....This time, they were leaning into each other. There was clearly a warmness between them…

NBC Gushes Over Obama and Clinton 'Chuckling Together' and 'Finishing

January 28th, 2013 11:51 AM
Following the friendly chat President Obama and outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had with CBS's Steve Kroft on Sunday's 60 Minutes, NBC's reporters could barely contain their glee over the duo getting along so well, with correspondent Peter Alexander proclaiming on Monday's Today: "There they were, side-by-side, at times chuckling together, it seemed even finishing one another's…

CBS's Charles Osgood: 'Is Constitution Truly Worthy of Reverence in Wh

January 27th, 2013 7:35 PM
Imagine you're getting ready to head to church one fine Sunday morning and on your television you hear a man say, "Let's give up on the Constitution." Such actually happened when CBS News Sunday Morning aired a rather inflammatory commentary by a Georgetown University law professor teased by host Charles Osgood asking, "Is the U.S. Constitution truly worthy of the reverence in which most…

NBC and CBS Eagerly Promote New Assault Weapons Ban

January 25th, 2013 3:27 PM
On their evening and morning news shows on Thursday and Friday, NBC and CBS were quick to tout Democratic efforts to reimpose an assault weapons ban, with NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams proclaiming the move to be "the latest step in the ongoing response to the Newtown, Connecticut school shootings." On CBS Evening News, correspondent Nancy Cordes described the scene as the…

Marching for Life in the Face of a Pro-Abortion Media

January 25th, 2013 6:56 AM
Today is the 40th annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., a day that is likely to pass with limited, if any, notice from a national news media which is hostile to the pro-life cause. While the abortion issue has divided Americans for the past four decades, journalists have consistently come down on the pro-abortion side of this debate. It’s a bias some reporters freely admit. “I think…

Gore to Appear on CBS Late Show Tuesday, Same Day New Book Comes Out

January 24th, 2013 5:37 PM
Climate alarmist-in-chief Al Gore is going to appear on the CBS Late Show next Tuesday coincidentally on the same day his new book comes out. TVByTheNumbers.com posted the following press release moments ago: