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MTP: NYT’s Helene Cooper Praises Castro, Scolds ‘American View’

November 27th, 2016 1:47 PM
In the wake of the death of Cuba’s brutal dictator, Fidel Castro, President Barack Obama released a statement that failed to condemn him for his crimes. The statement left NBC’s Meet The Press moderator Chuck Todd perplexed on Sunday, asking The New York Times’ Helene Cooper “Why was it so positive?” Cooper blamed Todd’s confusion on “a very Americano-centric view of Cuba,” and argued that Obama…
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NBC's Mitchell Glows About Castro, Reminisces About Past Meetings

November 27th, 2016 10:03 AM
Following the death of communist butcher Fidel Castro on Black Friday, the Cuban exiles and their descendants took to the streets of Little Havana in Miami, Florida to celebrate the turning point for Cuba. But on NBC’s Sunday Today, reporter Andrea Mitchell glowed about the communist leader and shared her memories of him. “[Castro] was a voracious reader … And very, very aware of everything that…
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Flashback: The Media’s Decades of Cheering Castro’s Communism

November 26th, 2016 9:10 AM
Fidel Castro’s communist regime executed hundreds of political opponents and drove tens of thousands more into exile; hundreds of dissidents today languish in Cuban prisons. Yet liberals in the U.S. media — who rightly condemned such abuses when perpetrated by dictators such as Chile’s Augusto Pinochet — inexplicably remain enchanted with Castro and his socialist revolution. For almost 30 years,…

Nets Ignore Business Attacks on Trump, Supporters After Election

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November 23rd, 2016 10:20 AM
After Donald Trump’s victory Nov. 8, several business leaders freaked. The post-election response even included a CEO’s threat on Trump’s life, but none of the major broadcast evening news shows picked up the hysteria. Business leaders despaired, told employees to resign for disagreeing with their virulently anti-Trump views and warned of “extremely dangerous times.” But threatening violence and…

Trump-Trashing Journalists Oozed Over Obama’s ’08 Transition

November 23rd, 2016 10:15 AM
During the campaign, the liberal news media did everything they could to prevent Donald Trump’s election, but he won anyway. Now, journalists are trashing the way Trump is handling his transition, as well as his early Cabinet picks. But eight years ago, viewers heard a very different tone coming from the media, as journalists celebrated the election of Barack Obama, cheered the “brain power” of…
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Nets Give 3X More Airtime to Neo-Nazis Than Past Four Marches for Life

November 22nd, 2016 12:09 PM
The media have been promoting neo-Nazis and white nationalists in hopes to (admirably) discredit them and falsely insinuate that they were far-right conservatives who propelled Donald Trump to the White House. This trend manifested itself with five minutes and 17 seconds Tuesday morning on CBS and NBC that attempted to label the neo-Nazi conference as one featuring “conservative extremist[s]” and…
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MRC's Dan Gainor: The Media Is 'Giving Us Fake News'

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November 22nd, 2016 11:11 AM
As the media continue to target president-elect Donald Trump, MRC Vice President for Business and Culture Dan Gainor urged the media to “start being professional and do their jobs right.” On Fox Business Network’s After the Bell on November 21, Gainor talked with host Melissa Francis about the media’s perpetuation of “fake news” to make Trump look bad.
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ABC Boasts of AMAs Mocking Melania, Hollywood's 'Concerns' for Trump

November 21st, 2016 12:28 PM
On Monday morning, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC dedicated varying amounts of time to Sunday’s American Music Awards (AMAs) but only footnoted supermodel Gigi Hadid pretending to mock First Lady-to-be Melania Trump’s plagiarism of a Michelle Obama speech using Mrs. Trump’s Eastern European accent.
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ABC, NBC Smear Trump’s Cabinet Picks as ‘Really Old White Group’

November 20th, 2016 10:24 AM
As President-Elect Donald Trump’s cabinet selection process continued move along Sunday morning, the liberal media’s claims of chaos behind the scenes seemed to give way to cries of racism on the network morning shows. “So, there's a concern about lack of diversity so far in the hiring,” bemoaned ABC’s Paula Faris on Good Morning America, “We saw that he brought in Michelle Rhee and Nikki Haley,…
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RIP ‘Saturday Night Live’ 1975-2016

November 19th, 2016 12:05 PM
One of the hackiest recurring headlines in modern journalism is "Saturday Night Dead." One of the hackiest recurring headlines in modern journalism is "Saturday Night Dead."Critics have been using that for years whenever Saturday Night Live, NBC’s signature sketch series, slipped a notch. Or three, as the case often was. Then the show would come roaring back, and the headlines were forgotten. Not…
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Nets Slam ‘Divisive,’ ‘Controversial’ Flynn's 'Infamous’ Statements

November 18th, 2016 12:40 PM
The network morning shows on Friday pounced on the announcement that Michael Flynn is Donald Trump’s choice for National Security Adviser, immediately branding the Army Lieutenant General  “divisive,” “controversial,” fiery” and known for his “infamous” appearance at the 2016 Republican National Convention. In contrast, ABC and NBC saw Barack Obama’s National Security Adviser Susan Rice as “hard-…
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Obama Joins Media in Blaming ‘Fake News’ for Trump Win

November 18th, 2016 11:58 AM
On the heels of network coverage hyping liberal fears that fake news stories shared on Facebook and across social media fueled Donald Trump’s election victory, on Friday, NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning touted President Obama pushing the issue during a Thursday press conference overseas.
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ABC, CBS Cover for Pelosi, Ignore Embarrassing Challenge to Leadership

November 17th, 2016 9:03 PM
Embarrassing news broke on Capitol Hill Thursday that House Minority Leader, and former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi was being challenged for leadership. NBC Nightly News was the only network evening news program to report the development, with Andrea Mitchell stating, “And in another sign of democratic disarray after their losses, longtime House Leader Nancy Pelosi is now being challenged for the…
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Nets Hail ‘Unbroken’ Hillary Delivering ‘Emotional Speech’

November 17th, 2016 3:48 PM
Thursday’s network morning shows applauded a “downhearted but unbroken” Hillary Clinton addressing supporters at a Washington gala Wednesday night with her first “emotional speech” since losing to Donald Trump in the presidential race. On ABC’s Good Morning America, co-host Robin Roberts touted Clinton “opening up about that defeat” and sympathetically declared: “Her disappointment and…