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Hillary ‘Not Taking the Bait’ After Trump's ‘Deeply Personal Attacks'
At the top of NBC’s Today on Tuesday, co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed that Hillary Clinton was “not taking the bait” after Donald Trump “once again brings up her husband's past infidelities.” In the report that followed, correspondent Andrea Mitchell spun hard for the Democratic candidate: “Donald Trump surprising many observers in both political parties by launching deeply personal attacks…
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Nets Censor Latest Hillary E-Mail Bombshell, Instead Hype Wrinkle Gel
All three networks on Tuesday morning censored the bombshell news that all the e-mails from Hillary Clinton’s top IT staffer, the man who set up her private server, are missing. This is despite a combined eight hours of air time on ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today and CBS This Morning. Instead of covering this important development, these same programs devoted eight minutes and 38 seconds…
You’re Hired! How NBC Spent 11 Years Making Trump a Household Name
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Donald Trump’s rise as a presidential candidate has prompted many political observers to blame TV outlets for giving him historic amounts of free air time. While it’s true the media have overwhelmingly focused on Trump in their coverage during the current election cycle, there is another media phenomenon at play. NBC has spent more than a decade building his brand as a successful businessman of…
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Networks Join Lynch in Piling on North Carolina over Bathroom Law
On Monday, all of the network evening newscasts could not wait to join in on US Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s beat down of North Carolina. Only the tornado outbreak in Oklahoma could keep them from jumping in immediately. “In her view, this is the new Jim Crow,” reporter Steve Osunsami said on ABC's World News Tonight of Lynch’s reasoning for taking the state to court. On NBC Nightly News,…
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CBS, NBC Whine about Trump Rehashing Bill Clinton’s Sex Scandals
As predicted, with Hillary Clinton all but confirmed as the Democrat nominee the liberal media has stepped up their game of protect her. On Monday evening CBS and NBC took to whining about Donald Trump’s latest attacks on the former secretary of state and her husband. “She was an unbelievably nasty, mean enabler, and what she did to a lot of those women is disgraceful,” Trump exclaimed at a…
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Obama Acolytes Gush Over His ‘Powerful’ Commencement Address
The networks on Saturday, Sunday and Monday gushed over Barack Obama’s “powerful” commencement address to Howard University, highlighting the President’s self-serving calls for compromise and touting how successful he’s been. CBS This Morning co-host Gayle King unquestioningly cheered, “ I thought one of most important things he said is when he said when you disagree with somebody, you got talk…
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Halperin: 'Only Way A Republican' Wins Is If 'The Press Favors Them'
MSNBC's Mark Halperin trumpeted the apparent power of the media on Monday's Morning Joe during a discussion about Donald Trump attacking the morning show: "The only way a Republican can win for president, I believe, is if the press favors them in coverage." Halperin then oddly claimed that Trump "had a chance to have better press coverage than Hillary Clinton. He's missing that chance. He's…
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NBC Touts Trump’s ‘Flexibility’ as He ‘Moved to the Left’
On Monday’s NBC Today, correspondent Peter Alexander framed Donald Trump’s adoption of various liberal policy positions as evidence of his “flexibility” as a candidate: “Trump showing plenty of flexibility on the issues, now open to a minimum wage increase after opposing it during the primaries. Shifting positions on taxes, too. His plan calls for cuts for everybody, which he contradicted last…
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Networks Excited Over ‘Clinton Crossovers,’ Nabbing GOP Voters
All three networks on Monday appeared excited about the possibility of Hillary Clinton scoring Republican voters against Donald Trump, cheering the potential of “Clinton crossovers.” Former Democratic operative turned Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos hailed the effort to “take advantage of that split in Republican ranks.”
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Now That Trump Leads GOP, NBC Covers ‘Cozy’ Clinton Connection
After largely ignoring Donald Trump’s liberal past throughout the presidential campaign, on Friday, with Trump poised to become the Republican Party’s 2016 nominee, NBC’s Today finally noticed “the once friendly relationship between the Trumps and the Clintons." Co-host Savannah Guthrie teased the segment: “Plus, the Clintons and the Trumps, from friends to political enemies. How the race for the…
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Nothing to See! Despite Four Hours, NBC’s Today Skips Clinton E-Mails
Despite a four hour run time, NBC’s Today on Friday couldn’t be bothered to cover the news that Huma Abedin has been interviewed by the FBI and that Hillary Clinton will soon. CBS This Morning journalists managed a mere 31 seconds and ABC’s Good Morning America produced a scant 17 seconds. Most of CBS’s half minute coverage was devoted to repeating Clinton talking points.
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ABC, CBS Brush Over Huma, NBC Chats with Alleged Clinton Server Hacker
A new development in Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server scandal broke Thursday. Clinton’s longtime aide Huma Abedin was finally questioned by the FBI. Throughout the day most news outlets praised it as a sign that the investigation was coming to a close. ABC's World News Tonight dedicated a quick news brief to the topic, while CBS Evening News only allowed it two sentences. While its competitors…
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Nets Hype Justice Department Accusing NC of Civil Rights Violations
On Thursday, all three network morning shows dutifully promoted the Obama Justice Department threatening to sue North Carolina over its transgender bathroom law and accusing the state of violating the Civil Rights Act. On NBC’s Today, fill-in co-host Natalie Morales breathlessly proclaimed: “New fallout this morning over North Carolina’s controversial transgender law. The Justice Department sent…
Did NBC Sit on Guccifer Claims on Hacking Hillary Server?
A May 5 NBC News online story reported the Romanian hacker revealed “in an exclusive interview” with correspondent Cynthia McFadden that Clinton’s server was “like an open orchid on the Internet.” However, as PowerLine’s Scott Johnson pointed out, “NBC interviewed Guccifer during his pre-extradition detention in Romania. That means the reported interview took place at least a month ago.”…
