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ABC Again Ditches East Palestine, Gives Half the Time of CBS, NBC

February 17th, 2023 4:38 PM

On Tuesday, NewsBusters released a study on the broadcast network coverage of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment that showed, since officials lifted an evacuation order on the evening of February 8 through the morning of February 14, ABC had ignored it on their flagship morning and evening newscasts while CBS and NBC had spent only one minute and 42 seconds on what’s become an…

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Obsessed: NBC’s Melvin Uses Interview to Pester Haley About Trump

February 16th, 2023 4:57 PM

2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley gave her first network interview to NBC’s Today co-host Craig Melvin for Thursday’s show and Melvin predictably made Donald Trump the focus, constantly pressing her on why she’d run against him, his role in January 6, his outlook on the 2020 election, his penchant for insults, and his views on foreign policy.

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TOXIC: Networks Run Cover for ESG Giants Tied to Ohio Train Disaster

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February 16th, 2023 1:41 PM

ABC’s, CBS’s and NBC’s premature abandonment of coverage of the environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio may have been a gambit to protect the leftist pro-environmental, social, governance (ESG) standard giants tied to the incident. 

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CBS, NBC Refuse to Update Viewers on New Twist in Biden Docs Scandal

February 16th, 2023 12:49 PM

Late Wednesday, CNN’s Paula Reid revealed the FBI had conducted multiple searches of President Biden’s records at the University of Delaware from his Senate tenure (and “documents...sent...in recent years) that have been held in secret since their donation in 2012. While they reportedly didn’t find any classified documents, it was worth sharing as it marked another chapter in his classified…

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Channeling Buttigieg, Meyers Blames Trump, GOP For Train Derailment

February 16th, 2023 10:16 AM

NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers has a theory on Wednesday as to why the train carrying toxic chemicals in East Palestine, Ohio, derailed: Donald Trump. This theory was basically a retelling of the talking points being spouted off by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

NewsBusters Podcast: Ohio Toxic Train Story Trailed Off Into Silence

February 15th, 2023 9:19 PM

A study by NewsBusters found that after an original burst of coverage, ABC, CBS and NBC stopped covering the derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals near Youngstown, Ohio around February 8, once the EPA and railroad officials said it was safe. In the last 24 hours, the networks have returned the story.

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Nets Shamed into Rediscovering Train Derailment After MRC Study

February 15th, 2023 3:23 PM

On Tuesday, NewsBusters reported that the broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC had abandoned the environmental fallout from the February 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio on their flagship morning and evening shows with zero seconds on ABC and only a minute and 42 seconds on CBS and NBC after an evacuation order was lifted on February 8.

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The Worst of Yamiche! Alcindor Brings Her Venom to NBC Full-Time

February 15th, 2023 10:34 AM

The following are just some of the worst outbursts from Yamiche Alcindor via the NewsBusters archive. 

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Bozell Pans ‘Shameless’ Nets for Refusing to Blame Biden for Inflation

February 15th, 2023 10:08 AM

Media Research Center Founder and President Brent Bozell made his latest Fox News Channel appearance early Wednesday/late Tuesday on Fox News @ Night and slammed the liberal broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC for refusing “to pin any blame on the donkey when it comes to” inflation “under Joe Biden,” adding this pro-Biden bias has been the case “since the moment he arrived on the…

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Networks Abandoned Ohio Train Disaster Despite Continued Fallout

February 14th, 2023 11:58 AM

The data of network coverage from the East Palestine, Ohio trail derailment tells the story of an incurious media who were too eager to declare the issue resolved.

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FLASHBACK: The Many Fractured Fairy Tales of Brian Williams

February 11th, 2023 9:20 AM

Eight years ago this week, the highest-rated news anchor in America — NBC’s Brian Williams — was taken off the air for the wild exaggerations and outright falsehoods he’d been telling for at least a decade.

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Meyers Claims Nobody 'Gives A ****' About Twitter-Hunter Hearing

February 10th, 2023 10:15 AM

NBC Late Night was not happy with Republicans on Thursday for holding hearings into Twitter’s suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story, claiming “no one actually gives a [bleep]” and trying to pretend that Republicans are greatly upset Twitter took down tweets containing nude photographs of Hunter Biden.

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Meyers Defends Biden's SOTU Social Security Falsehood About GOP

February 9th, 2023 9:47 AM

Despite all the proclamations from Republican leaders saying cuts to Social Security and Medicare are not on the table, NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers reacted to President Biden’s State of the Union address on Wednesday by defending him against allegations he lied about GOP intentions to do just that.

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Nets Ignore Gallup Poll Showing ‘Half' in U.S. ‘Worse Off’ Under Biden

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February 9th, 2023 9:22 AM

The ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows ignored a devastating new survey that completely upended the media gaslighting on how precarious President Joe Biden’s economy really is for Americans.