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ABC/CBS/NBC Spend 0 Seconds on Biden FBI Spying on Patel and Wiles

February 27th, 2026 11:45 AM

On Wednesday, bombshell news broke that former President Joe Biden’s FBI had obtained phone records on current FBI Director Kash Patel and former White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles in 2022 and 2023 when they were private citizens. That led to the FBI firing 10 employees. So how much time did ABC, CBS, NBC devote to these developments in the lawfare case waged against President Donald Trump…

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ABC Cues Up Women Hockey’s Player to Bash Trump, CBS/NBC Hype Callgate

February 26th, 2026 3:27 PM

On Thursday morning, the “Big Three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC continued to throw more chum in the shark-infested waters they’ve helped manufacture against the U.S. men’s hockey team for associating with President Trump this past week. This time, ABC cued up women’s hockey team captain Hilary Knight to attack Trump while the others kept the storyline alive the men’s team has a lot to atone…

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Meyers Attacks Trump For Calling Dems 'Crazy' at SOTU

February 26th, 2026 9:42 AM

NBC’s Seth Meyers reacted on Late Night to President Trump’s State of the Union address on Wednesday by attacking him for condemning Democrats for not standing up and applauding and for allegedly trying to “co-opt” Team USA's men's hockey gold medal for himself. In both cases, Meyers left out some crucial context.

8-0: Google News Rages, Pushing Leftist Media Undercutting Trump SOTU

February 25th, 2026 4:23 PM

Google News promoted only left-leaning outlets’ coverage of President Trump’s State of the Union, according to an MRC review. Eight of nine featured articles were from liberal sources, with none from right-leaning media. The selection highlighted negative or critical takes on Trump, raising concerns over bias and lack of ideological diversity in Google’s news curation.

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NBC’s ‘Today’ Show Offers Surprisingly Balanced SOTU Wrap-Up

February 25th, 2026 2:42 PM

As we’ve documented recently at NewsBusters, CBS’s flagship newscasts have shown little wholesale changes under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss that we both initially saw and as had been reported. Instead, it’s been more of the same liberal drivel. But ironically, there have been a few moments at NBC where it’s come across as this was the network she actually leads and such was the case on…

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ABC, NBC Try to Trap Hughes Family Over Trump Inviting Team to SOTU

February 24th, 2026 6:07 PM

Early Tuesday, America’s new leading family — as in the Hughes klan, including USA Hockey star and gold-medal-winning goal scorer Jack Hughes  — wadded into network morning newscasts and were sadly met on ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today with attempts to sully their reputations and maim both their character and the entire men’s team for taking a phone call Sunday…

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ABC Hurls Trump Hate Before SOTU, CBS Hits GOP But Goes Soft on Dems

February 24th, 2026 4:05 PM

On Tuesday, ABC’s Good Morning America (GMA) and CBS Mornings combined to offer widely negative rhetoric in previewing President Trump’s State of the Union, painting it as an almost hapless endeavor amid “his lowest numbers yet” to change the minds of voters poised to trigger a blue tsuanmi in November. Unsurprisingly, GMA was the most negative. In short,…

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Oliver Mourns How Musk Has Made X 'Much Darker'

February 24th, 2026 3:01 PM

For some reason, HBO’s John Oliver decided that Elon Musk and his transformation of Twitter/X would make for golden comedic material for his main topic on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight. As Oliver tells it, the site has gotten “much darker” since Musk took over, but any reference to the prior problems or his native Britain’s creepy solutions was left unmentioned.

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Trump Praised At White House Black History Month Event, Networks SKIP

February 20th, 2026 4:13 PM

February is Black History Month, so it shouldn't be considered unreasonable for one to expect to see media coverage of President Trump's  White House event on Wednesday. But the Wednesday evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS all skipped it. Fox's Special Report With Bret Baier did mention it and Laura Ingraham made it the focus of her opening 'Angle' on The Ingraham Angle…

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ABC Trumpets ‘Devastating’ Blow to Trump in SCOTUS Case on Tariffs

February 20th, 2026 1:26 PM

All the major broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, and NBC — broke in Friday morning with special reports on the Supreme Court’s 6-to-3 ruling declaring most of President Trump’s landmark tariffs unconstitutional. Unsurprisingly, ABC was almost ebullient in touting the ruling as “devastating,” “huge,” and “monumental” in hampering Trump’s presidency.

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Poo Omission Over? NBC Breaks Dam on Potomac Sewage, ABC/CBS Still Out

February 18th, 2026 3:03 PM

On Tuesday night, we saw the first crack in the figurative dam of bias by omission on the literal mountains of poop flowing into the Potomac River — which is now the largest sewage spill in U.S. history — with a full story on NBC Nightly News and then a news brief on Wednesday’s Today for a combined two minutes and 11 seconds, marking the first time any of the broadcast…

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ABC Downplays, CBS Barely Covers Rhode Island Shooting by Trans Psycho

February 17th, 2026 3:45 PM

On Monday afternoon in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, there was sadly the latest case of trangender violence inflicted on innocents refusing to celebrate their deranged life choices and rejection of basic biology as a man pretending to be a woman stormed his son’s high school hockey game and killed two, injuring three, and dying by suicide. By Tuesday morning when these facts had come to light, ABC’…

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Late Night Hosts Haven't Interviewed a GOP Candidate Since 2016

February 17th, 2026 2:44 PM

On Monday, CBS’s host of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert, denounced FCC chairman Brendan Carr for threatening to use the agency’s equal time rule against the late night comedy shows, which he claimed led CBS to force him to put his interview with State Rep. James Talarico on YouTube. With the equal time rule now in the news, NewsBusters analysts dug into the archive to find out when…

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After Melting Down over Vance, Sunday Shows OMIT Rubio's Munich Speech

February 15th, 2026 4:45 PM

Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered an address before the Munich Security Conference that was warmly received and met with rapturous applause. And if you were waiting for the Elitist Media’s Sunday shows’ analyses, you might think the speech never happened at all.