ABC Ignores House Voting for Special Investigation of Benghazi; CBS Fo

Matt Hadro
May 8th, 2014 8:22 PM
Soon after the House voted to create a special select committe to investigate the Benghazi attacks, ABC ignored the story on Thursday evening. NBC spent just 27 seconds on the development, and CBS focused its report on Democratic disgust with the "partisan" move. ABC's World News instead spent over two minutes reporting on former teen star Jason Patric's custody battle and another two…
 

NBC Finally Covers Veterans Health Care Scandal, Still Ignores Obama

Scott Whitlock
May 8th, 2014 6:07 PM
After ignoring a massive health care scandal at Barack Obama's Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), NBC finally offered substantial coverage on Wednesday night. But the network failed to make any mention of how this controversy would impact the President or his handling of health care. Nightly News anchor Brian Williams announced that VA Secretary Eric Shinseki is "trying to fix this and hang…
 

Nets Spend 27 Minutes on Climate Change, Just 15 Seconds on Lois Lerne

Geoffrey Dickens
May 8th, 2014 12:19 PM

Not even a full vote by the House of Representatives to hold Lois Lerner in contempt can shake the networks out of their slumber in covering the IRS scandal. On Wednesday the House voted 231-178 (all Republicans voted yes with six Democrats) to hold Lerner in contempt for refusing to testify about the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups. Total coverage by ABC, CBS and NBC? Just a 15-second…

 

Vermont Maple Syrup Producer Complains: NBC Edited My Remarks to Suppo

Sean Long
May 8th, 2014 11:49 AM
Sometimes the truth is much sweeter than the syrupy environmentalism of the national media. While hyping the alleged effects on climate change, NBC’s May 6 “Nightly News” tried to localize the impact by citing a different problem in each region. The broadcast played a clip of Burr Morse, a seventh-generation maple syrup producer from Montpelier, Vermont, stating that this season’s weather had…
 

MSNBC Host on 'Today': 'Every Time Lewinsky is Mentioned, It is Good f

Kyle Drennen
May 8th, 2014 11:08 AM
During a report on Thursday's NBC Today about Monic Lewinsky's article in Vanity Fair magazine, correspondent Peter Alexander touted liberal spin that the former Bill Clinton mistress speaking out would actually help Hillary Clinton's political prospects: "Clinton watcher Ruth Marcus argues Lewinsky has done Hillary a big favor." A soundbite followed of the Washington Post columnist proclaiming…
 

Networks Give Obama Megaphone to Push Climate Change Alarmism, Dismiss

Kyle Drennen
May 7th, 2014 12:15 PM

After enthusiastically promoting an upcoming White House climate change report on Tuesday, all three network morning shows on Wednesday happily touted interviews with President Obama on the subject and continued to hype the "dire" and "alarming" findings. Meanwhile, critics were dismissed as an anti-science minority. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump]   At the top of NBC's…

 

After Big Promotional Push By Networks, Democrat Clay Aiken Leads By

Scott Whitlock
May 7th, 2014 11:58 AM
After a big promotional push by ABC and NBC, Democratic House candidate Clay Aiken leads his primary opponent by 372 votes out of 28,000 cast on Tuesday. According to Good Morning America on Wednesday, the "American Idol congressional candidate" may pull out a razor thin victory.  Co-host Lara Spencer enthused, "Clay Aiken in the public eye for almost a decade,  making headlines for his songs,…
 

The Burying of a Scandal: TV News Hides the Facts on the IRS’s Targe

Rich Noyes
May 7th, 2014 11:14 AM

Summary: After a partisan report last June absurdly suggested that progressive groups were just as likely to be scrutinized as conservative ones, ABC, CBS and NBC essentially abandoned their coverage of the IRS targeting scandal which broke one year ago this week. After producing 136 stories on their morning and evening news show during the first seven weeks of the scandal, broadcast news…

 

Networks Tout White House Report on Global Warming; Hype the Perils of

Matt Hadro
May 6th, 2014 9:48 PM

The broadcast networks all took a climate change study released by the White House and ran with it on Tuesday evening, advancing the administration's narrative by hyping the threats of climate change while barely quoting any critics. ABC's coverage was so soft that correspondent Ginger Zee bragged like a groupie that President Obama asked a question of her: "And then something interesting…

 

Larry King Rips CNN: 'How Many Times Can You Cover A Plane?' It's 'Emb

Kyle Drennen
May 6th, 2014 1:06 PM
Appearing on Tuesday's NBC Today, former CNN talk show host Larry King ridiculed his former employer when asked if he would ever return to the cable channel: "The tough time I would have at CNN now, I think, would be doing this airplane story. Because I think I'd crack up laughing. I think I would have – you know, how many times can you cover a plane? Six weeks and all we know is it made a left…
 

Censorship: NBC Continues to Hide Obama's Scandal Impacting Veterans

Scott Whitlock
May 6th, 2014 12:25 PM
In another example of censoring a Barack Obama scandal, NBC has ignored the brewing controversy impacting American veterans and a shocking lack of access to hospital care. Though the news of up to 40 patients dying in Arizona has been going on for months, ABC finally covered the story on Tuesday's Good Morning America, offering a scant 29 seconds. Reporter Amy Robach informed that the President…
 

Networks Eagerly Push White House Climate Change Agenda Ahead of Obama

Kyle Drennen
May 6th, 2014 11:46 AM

On Tuesday, the NBC, ABC, and CBS morning shows all seized on a new climate change report being released by the White House ahead of a slate of interviews with President Obama conducted by network meteorologists. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] On NBC's Today, weatherman Al Roker stood in front of the White House holding up a draft copy of the report and proclaimed: "…

 

Networks Give 15 Times More Coverage to Correspondents' Dinner Than Be

Kyle Drennen
May 5th, 2014 11:57 AM
On Monday, the three network morning shows provided 12 minutes 24 seconds to Saturday night's White House Correspondents' Dinner but only CBS This Morning reported House Speaker John Boehner on Friday announcing a new investigation into Benghazi – a news brief that totaled a mere 47 seconds. [Listen to the audio or watch the video after the jump] This Morning co-host Charlie Rose noted: "…
 

NBC Continues to Fear Monger on Climate Change: ‘A Sobering Forecast

Jeffrey Meyer
May 5th, 2014 9:11 AM
Once again, NBC was out to scare its viewers about the threat of man-made climate change. Appearing on the Sunday, May 4 NBC Nightly News, Ann Curry narrated a 2 minute 30 second piece that attempted to instill panic in its viewers about the supposed dire state of the world’s climate.  Curry began her report by showing video of cars falling off of a street in Baltimore, Maryland after a heavy…