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Politico vs NBC News: A Tale of Two Grubers
December 10th, 2014 6:49 PM
NBC Nightly News and Politico presented two views of Jonathan Gruber's appearance before Congress in such sharp contrast that it seems as if they described two different events.
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Williams to Ex-CIA Chief Hayden: 'How Are We Better Than Our Enemies?'
December 10th, 2014 7:17 AM
During an exclusive interview with former NSA and CIA Director Michael Hayden on Tuesday’s NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams felt that it was worth creating a moral equivalency by asking Hayden to explain “how” the United States is “better than our enemies morally” following the release of a report about the CIA’s use of “torture” following the attacks on September 11, 2001.
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NBC Nightly News Ends Silence on Gruber 32 Days After 1st Video Aired
December 9th, 2014 10:19 PM
After a month in which NBC Nightly News gave more prominence to ugly Christmas sweaters, grape salad, Al Roker's 34-hour weather report, and a live broadcast of Peter Pan starring Brian Williams' daughter, Allison, the broadcast finally discovered Jonathan Gruber.
On Tuesday evening, NBC’s evening newscast acknowledged the name Jonathan Gruber for the first time and his insulting comments…
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Ten Stories NBC Nightly News Aired Instead of Covering Gruber Scandal
December 9th, 2014 8:55 AM
It’s been a month since video surfaced of ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber mocking the “stupidity” of voters and boasting about the duplicitous ways liberals pushed through the far-reaching health care law in 2010, and NBC Nightly News remains the only network evening news broadcast to have completely ignored the story. Here are ten stories — some goofy, some self-promotional, but all of which…
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ABC Continues to Omit Role of Dems in Release of ‘Graphic’ CIA Report
December 8th, 2014 11:09 PM
On Monday night, ABC News continued to report on the impending release of a report on the CIA’s post-9/11 interrogation methods as though partisanship had no role when, in fact, Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee are the very reason it was compiled and will be released.
Following a morning in which ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today …
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Nets Note Rolling Stone Retraction -- But Leaped On the Initial Report
December 6th, 2014 1:40 AM
When the now-retracted article by the Rolling Stone magazine was published on November 19 about a brutal gang rape of a first-year student at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia, the major broadcast networks rushed to the story and devoted multiple segments to both the article and reaction on the school’s campus. In doing so, they failed (unlike other outlets) to…
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ABC Still Ignores Former Soap Opera Producer Becoming U.S. Ambassador
December 3rd, 2014 10:03 PM
On Wednesday night, ABC became the only major broadcast network to not have covered the controversy over President Obama’s choice to name former soap opera producer and Obama reelection campaign bundler Colleen Bell the new United States Ambassador to Hungary.
The network’s zero coverage of this story came more than a day after ABC’s own chief White House correspondent, Jonathan Karl, grilled …
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Brian Williams Slow-Jams (Biased) News on Obama Immigration Order
December 3rd, 2014 11:36 AM
Appearing on Tuesday's Tonight Show, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams joined host Jimmy Fallon in "slow-jamming the news" about President Obama's executive order granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. The comedy skit made sure to include the media's liberal spin on the topic – that obstructionist Republicans were just preventing Obama from getting things done in Washington.
Nets Cover Mike Brown Death 23X More than the 130 Killed in Chicago
December 3rd, 2014 10:03 AM
They're fixated on Ferguson, but massive violence in the Windy City doesn’t fit Nets' liberal narrative.
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NBC Promotes Jeb Bush ‘Noting the Missteps’ by Past GOP Candidates
December 2nd, 2014 11:07 PM
On the same evening that MSNBC’s Hardball seemed rather excited about a possible run for President in 2016 by Republican and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, NBC Nightly News was busy doing the same thing during on a news brief on Tuesday.
Anchor Brian Williams opined that Bush was “the latest in the Republican Party to speak truth to power or at least try to” during an event sponsored by The…
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CBS and NBC Skip Police Investigating Comments By Brown's Stepfather
December 2nd, 2014 9:48 PM
Major broadcast networks CBS and NBC failed to cover the news that police in Missouri are looking into inflammatory comments made by Michael Brown’s stepfather in the aftermath of a grand jury’s announcement on November 24 that Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson will not be charged in connection to Brown’s death. Following the announcement of the decision, Louis Head stood surrounded by his…
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The Worst of Brian Williams: Marking His 10 Years as Anchor
December 2nd, 2014 9:05 AM
Brian Williams marks ten years as anchor of NBC Nightly News on December 2 and it’s been a decade full of absurdly softball interviews with Barack Obama and trashing of Republicans and Tea Partiers.
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Nets Continue Hyping GOP Aide's ‘Snarky Posting’ About Obama Daughters
December 1st, 2014 10:29 PM
On Monday night, the “big three” of ABC, CBS and NBC each spent portions of their evening newscasts reporting on the resignation of a House Republican staffer after she criticized Sasha and Malia Obama on her personal Facebook page. This marks the second full day of coverage since the first reports aired on Sunday morning and provides another example of a media double-standard between Democratic…
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CBS, NBC Promote ObamaCare Regulation on Displaying Calories Counts
November 26th, 2014 2:43 AM
During their Tuesday evening newscasts, CBS and NBC squeezed in a few moments each to promote the newest health-related regulation set to affect Americans under ObamaCare next year in the form of additional requirements regarding the listing of calories for food and drinks at public eating establishments, vending machines, and movie theaters.
Both networks pointed out that the move was announced…
