NBC Backs Chicago Teachers' Union on Closures, Kids Could Die
Late Tuesday night the Chicago teachers union voted to cancel all in-person classes for all public schools. This decision left parents to scramble to find babysitters and other accommodations for their children during the school day. Wednesday night’s edition of NBC Nightly News decided to take the side of the teachers’ unions.
Nets Silent on New York City DA Vowing to Let Violent Criminals Walk
While the broadcast networks were busy spending Wednesday hyping the anniversary of January 6 for political gain in the midterms, they were intentionally overlooking the violent chaos in their own backyard in New York City. There, newly minted District Attorney Alvin Bragg promised to allow violent criminals to walk free as part of his progressive Democratic criminal justice reform plan; at a…
NewsBusters Podcast: Press Resolute, Everything a Threat to Democracy
NewsBusters rings in 2022 with Nick “Night Train” Fondacaro filling in for Tim Graham and discussing the media New Year resolution to make every day, this midterm year, about January 6 in an attempt to swing the election for Democrats. I’m also joined by research director Scott Whitlock to talk about the media’s refusal to better themselves as they stoke hatred against the right.
Wall-to-Wall: Media Plan AVALANCHE of Jan. 6 Anniversary Coverage
In an effort to push the Democratic Party agenda on the federal takeover of elections and hype an anti-Republican campaign narrative ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, leftist media outlets have planned an avalanche of special coverage commemorating the one year anniversary of the January 6th Capitol Hill riot. On Wednesday, network hosts eagerly announced plans to anchor live from…
Economic Dunce Ruhle Spins Millions Leaving Jobs As 'Sign of Strength'
On the heels of a new jobs report out on Tuesday morning which showed a record 4.5 million workers quit their jobs in November, NBC Nightly News went into damage control mode Tuesday evening by trying to spin for the Biden Administration.
Nets Skip News Opioids Have Killed More Young Adults Than Covid
Back on December 15, the organization Families Against Fentanyl exposed how Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data showed deadly drug overdoses from fentanyl have become the leading cause of death among people between the ages of 18 and 45 and not the coronavirus. While still taking Covid seriously, one could have expected the major broadcast networks to acknowledge it. Since…
Meyers Rips 'Haunted Ventriloquist's Dummy' Rubio on COVID
The degeneration of NBC's Late Night host Seth Meyers' comedic skill continued apace on Tuesday as the host ripped into Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, labeling him a "Haunted Ventriloquist's Dummy," for not buying into his own hysteria about COVID.
Libs Blame ‘Governor’ Youngkin for Highway Mess, Nets Skip Actual Gov
As a winter storm slammed Virginia on Monday, a disaster developed on the busy I-95 highway. Thousands of motorists, including babies, were trapped in freezing temperatures for 12 hours or more, low on gas and food. All of this with no help seemingly coming from the state’s governor. Liberals on Twitter took to blasting new Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin. Except... he’s not governor and…
Abortion-Backing Nets Ignore NYT Report Gene Tests Wrong Up to 93%
In a heartbreaking report out on Saturday, The New York Times detailed how prenatal blood tests for genetic defects used in some cases to justify an abortion were wrong between 81 and 93 percent of the time, as the companies boast near-perfect results. But the pro-abortion advocates in the liberal broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) didn’t want their viewers to know that terrible…
'NBC Nightly News' SMEARS Conservative Activists As White Supremacists
On Monday night’s edition of NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt decided to run a news package by the leftist internet gossip reporter Brandy Zadrozny maligning conservatives who care about local political and cultural issues as violent rioters in the mold of those who stormed the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
The Media’s Most Outrageous Lies of 2021
The media made their fair share of nasty comments and skewed remarks in 2021, but there were also instances where reporters (or entire networks) deliberately misled their audiences.
Did Gallup End 74-Year Polling Tradition to Avoid Trump Placing First?
Frequent consumers of political news may be aware of Gallup's annual poll measuring the "most admired man" in America which is typically announced a few days before New Year's. The poll was done yearly from 1946 through 2020, with 1976 the only year that was skipped. This year, a Google search shows no sign that Gallup did a poll for 2021.
We’ve Survived 2021! Here’s the Most-Read NewsBusters Blogs From 2021
Continuing what’s become a staple of our year-end packages, NewsBusters used our Google Analytics to compile our ten most-read stories from 2021, which saw four writers from our News Analysis Division seeing stories crack the top ten along with one from MRC Culture and two from MRC’s Free Speech America.
NBC Bemoans Harry Reid's Decision to Change Senate Filibuster Rule
As was reported here on Wednesday afternoon, ABC, NBC, and CBS had nothing but gushing praise for former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. This was also true on Wednesday evening as the liberal networks drooled all over Reid and his legacy as the longtime leader of the Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate. However, NBC Nightly News did change their tune slightly from this morning.
