ABC & NBC Celebrate Princeton Salutatorian Who’s an Illegal; NBC Hai
June 6th, 2006 10:28 PM
The Tuesday ABC and NBC evening newscasts ran tributes to Princeton University’s salutatorian, illegal immigrant Dan-el Padilla Peralta, and NBC also hailed the efforts of illegals in Queens to defy efforts to crack down on them. At the top of World News Tonight, Charles Gibson fretted, “American dream: A Princeton graduate who rose from homelessness to the top of his class, but could now be…
Gregory Raises Nixon-Like Approval with Bush, Pushes Him to Adopt 'Cen
May 19th, 2006 12:54 AM
All the networks got a few minutes Thursday afternoon with President Bush at an outdoor setting along the Arizona-Mexico border, and while ABC's Martha Raddatz, CBS's Bill Plante, CNN's Suzanne Malveaux and FNC's Carl Cameron all stuck, as least as aired, to immigration questions, NBC's David Gregory compared Bush's approval to Nixon's, suggested the public has reached a “final judgment of…
Media Mantra: Tax Cuts Favor the Wealthy
May 18th, 2006 10:47 AM
Networks fixate on tax cuts ‘for the rich’ while ignoring exploding tax revenues. While Congress hammered out a $70 billion tax-relief bill last week, the media wasted no time spinning it. After the House approved its version on May 10, the “NBC Nightly News” cited “Democratic critics [who said] the overall bill is heavily tilted in favor of the very wealthy.” At roughly the same time, the “CBS…
NBC Promotes as 'New' Murtha's Stale Charge About Marines Killing Iraq
May 17th, 2006 9:46 PM
On the six month anniversary of Democratic Congressman John Murtha's successful publicity stunt call for the U.S. to withdraw from Iraq, Wednesday's NBC Nightly News jumped on the chance to highlight Murtha's charge that last November some Marines deliberately killed more than a dozen innocent Iraqi civilians. But in treating Murtha as some kind of authoritative figure making “new allegations,”…
Newscasts Lead with Phone Database; Unlike CBS, ABC & NBC Note Congres
May 12th, 2006 12:01 AM
Matching the agenda of the morning shows, Thursday's network evening newscasts led with USA Today's front page story, “NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls," with none noting how the New York Times reported the same information back on December 24. Unlike CBS, however, both ABC and NBC at least pointed out how many Members of Congress were aware of how Verizon, AT&T and Bell…
CBS & NBC Paint Tax Cuts Through Liberal Prism of Higher Dollar Saving
May 11th, 2006 12:01 AM
CBS and NBC on Wednesday night painted the tax cut extensions passed by the House through a liberal prism, relaying liberal spin meant to portray the cuts as unfair by citing the dollar amounts of expected cuts for the rich versus those earning lower incomes, without any regard for how an incredible 41 percent pay no income tax and so can't get a tax cut while the wealthier pay huge dollar…
