Debate Moderators Named; Fox News Gets First Nod In Its History
September 2nd, 2016 11:47 AM
Politico reports the Commission on Presidential Debates announced their moderator lineup on Friday morning: NBC anchor Lester Holt, CNN host Anderson Cooper, ABC anchor Martha Raddatz, CBS anchor Elaine Quijano, and the first nod to Fox News, Chris Wallace of Fox News Sunday. Since Fox News began in 1996, eleven of the 19 moderators slots have been held by PBS. Jim Lehrer has moderated nine…
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Nets Ignore 'Politico' Report Exposing Clinton Abuse of Fed Program
September 1st, 2016 10:25 PM
A huge story broke by Politico early Thursday morning exposes how Bill Clinton exploited a federal program for former president to grease the wheels of the Clinton Foundation. “Bill Clinton's staff used a decades-old federal government program … to subsidize his family’s foundation and an associated business, and to support his wife’s private email server,” Politico reported. As shocking as the…
Liberal Pundit: Right-Wing Media Corrupted the GOP, Then Took It Over
August 31st, 2016 11:05 PM
During the early years of the Iraq war, the so-called Pottery Barn rule -- “you break it, you buy it” -- became a common expression inside the Beltway. Talking Points Memo’s Josh Marshall suggested on Monday that something like the Pottery Barn rule describes what’s happened to the Republican party: conservative media wrecked it and now, along with Donald Trump, control what’s left of it. “The…
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Nets Censor How Hillary Sent Classified E-mails After Leaving Office
August 31st, 2016 10:46 PM
In a major story broke by the New York Post Wednesday, it came to light that Hillary Clinton had sent an e-mail from her private server containing classified material months after she left office. According to the Post the message contained information about the “123 Deal” with the United Arab Emirates but, “was heavily redacted upon its release by the State Department because it contains…
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Shep Smith Knocks Voter ID as ‘Designed to Keep Some Minorities' Away
August 31st, 2016 5:53 PM
As he’s been known to do from time-to-time, Fox News Channel (FNC) anchor Shepard Smith flashed his liberal tilt on Wednesday afternoon in reading a simple news brief about the Supreme Court putting a stay on North Carolina’s voter I.D. law by lamenting that, in his book, such laws are intended to discourage minorities from voting. The 33-second news brief started off fairly innocent with Smith…
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AP's Lee Fails to Cite Kerry's Plea For Less Media Terrorism Coverage
August 31st, 2016 2:06 PM
In Bangladesh on Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry had a concern about media coverage of terrorism he felt he needed to communicate, namely that "the media would do us all a service if they didn’t cover it quite as much." That would be a great thing, apparently, because then "People wouldn’t know what’s going on." You can't make this stuff up.
The dateline location at Diplomatic Writer Matt…
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Nets Cover for Clinton, Ignore Discovery of 30 Benghazi E-mails
August 30th, 2016 10:44 PM
Hillary Clinton was caught in yet another lie about her e-mails Tuesday, following an announcement from the State Department that they discovered still more e-mails she failed to turn over. “And tonight, we have confirmation that at least some of the thousands of e-mails deleted and not turned over to the State Department dealt with the issue of Benghazi, Libya, clearly not falling into the…
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MRC’s Bozell Urges: ‘Take a Deep Breath’ Before Bashing Rush on 2016
August 30th, 2016 10:40 PM
On Tuesday night, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell joined FNC’s The Kelly File and spoke with host Megyn Kelly to urge caution on the part of conservatives and Republicans in blaming conservative media figures like Rush Limbaugh for Donald Trump’s candidacy by pointing out that, no matter what individuals him say, they face scrutiny from the liberal media or anyone who didn’t back the…
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Kerry Says Media Should Report Less on Terrorism, Nets Skip
August 30th, 2016 9:05 PM
It’s been quite the Tuesday on the bias by omission front for the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC as along with ignoring an Associated Press story on over 70 mass graves in ISIS territory being discovered, the same broadcast network morning and evening newscasts also punted on Secretary of State John Kerry lecturing the media to not cover terrorism as frequently.
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Fox's Kilmeade: Obamacare Implosion 'Most Underreported Story' in U.S.
August 30th, 2016 8:11 PM
Tuesday morning, Fox Business's Stuart Varney appeared on Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends program to discuss what he called the "terminal decline" in the financial viability and even availability of health plans being provided under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.
Brian Kilmeade called it "the most under-reported major story in the country by far." A Friday Investors Business Daily…
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Networks Yawn at AP Scoop on Dozens of Mass Graves in ISIS Territory
August 30th, 2016 5:41 PM
The Big Three networks' morning newscasts on Tuesday all failed to cover the Associated Press's early Tuesday report that revealed the 72 mass graves inside current or former ISIS territory. Instead of spotlighting ISIS's mass murder, ABC's GMA aired a 50-second news brief on a unicyclist's stunt on top of a 840-foot tower in Romania. CBS This Morning set aside 43 seconds of air time to a race…
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Nets Cover for Failing ObamaCare, Silent on Missed Enrollment Forecast
August 29th, 2016 10:59 PM
The news broke Monday that ObamaCare has again missed enrollment forecasts from the Congressional Budget Office, resulting in grossly limited options and high prices for consumers. “Enrollment is simply nowhere near what the congressional budget office thought it would be,” reported Fox News correspondent Kevin Corke, “Now what that means is higher costs for those of you who that take part, and…
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Kelly Confronts Ramos on Trump Disdain, Not Branding Hillary a 'Liar'
August 25th, 2016 11:00 PM
On Thursday night, Fusion/Univision anchor Jorge Ramos met his match in Fox News Channel’s Kelly File host Megyn Kelly, who proceeded call out Ramos on his claim that journalists shouldn’t be neutral in their coverage of Donald Trump and wondered if he’d do the same for Hillary Clinton since many consider her to be a liar like some Latinos consider Trump a racist.
Networks Censor 'Suspicious' Donations to Hillary Clinton Super PAC
August 24th, 2016 7:35 PM
ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts on Wednesday all punted on mentioning USA Today's above-the-fold scoop about how an "Istanbul-based college professor...accused by the Turkish government of coordinating last month's failed coup attempt, is at the center of a group of suspicious 2014 contributions to a super PAC supporting...Hillary Clinton."