Fox: 'Saturday Night Live' Mocks Trump More Than Biden in 2021-2022
Fox News media reporter Joseph Wulfsohn found another metric for how late-night comedy is going soft on President Biden – the “cold open” skit on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Even during the Biden presidency, they’ve had ten cold opens on Trump, and only seven on Biden. In the current season, there are four Trump skits, and only one Biden sketch.
NBC Shock Report: Feds Could've Stopped Jan. 6 Riots From Happening
During a Tuesday night segment on NBC Nightly News, justice and intelligence correspondent Ken Dilanian had an exclusive sitdown interview with the former federal prosecutor and chief investigator of the January 6 Committee, Tim Heaphy who told Dilanian that the federal government could've prevented the January 6 riot at the Capitol if they took the intelligence they received…
CBS, NBC Blame Israel for Having ‘Triggered’ ‘Cycle of Violence’
On Tuesday, the broadcast networks used their flagship morning news shows to continue emphasizing their disdain for Israel and the Israeli people, blaming them and the “hardest right government in [their] history” for having “triggered” the latest “cycle of violence” with a “massive...raid” on the “occupied West Bank”.
NewsBusters Podcast: Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan School Sunday Hosts
Tom Jones, a liberal analyst at the Poynter Institute, praised CBS's Margaret Brennan and NBC's Chuck Todd for aggressively taking on (respectively) Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Rep. Jim Jordan. But McCarthy and Jordan gave as good as they got, exposing the Sunday hosts as the Democrats that they are.
NBC's Todd Dismisses FBI Targeting of Parents, Jim Jordan Educates Him
On NBC's Meet the Press, moderator Chuck Todd spent much of his interview Sunday with Ohio Republican Congressman Jim Jordan by arguing with him over whether the FBI was justified in targeting concerned parents who attended school board meetings. Todd even accused Jordan of "trying to create a controversy out of the FBI following up on a tip."
Pelosi Bodycam Footage Vindicates Suspended NBC Reporter
The network claimed the report “did not meet NBC News reporting standards.”
Late Night, Daily Show Decry 'Orwellian' GOP Education Laws
MSNBC’s Alex Wagner joined NBC Late Night host Seth Meyers on Thursday to decry Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s “Orwellian” and “white Christian nationalist” education policies while over on Comedy Central, Wanda Sykes wrapped up her time as The Daily Show’s temporary host by bringing on correspondent Roy Wood Jr. to provide a caricatured explanation of Missouri’s new anti-…
Kirby Embarrasses KJP by Not Ducking Questions on Biden Docs Scandal
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre brought in National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby Wednesday afternoon to serve as a crutch amid weeks of hardballs on the Biden classified documents scandal and, sure enough, Kirby ended up exposing Jean-Pierre’s repetitive, tiresome answers by actually providing general explanations for why handling…
Nets Push Deceptive Mass Shooting Stat, Ignore Defensive Uses
Since the mass shooting in Monterey Park, California on Saturday, viewers of English and Spanish broadcast networks have seen the reported number of mass shootings in the United States jump from 33 to 39 in just three days. And as CBS Morning’s co-host Nate Burleson put it on Tuesday, “my logic says that has to be wrong, those numbers have to be exaggerated, and they are not.” But…
Coverup: Networks Silent as Top Dem's Kid Arrested for Assaulting Cop
Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC have been silent about the arrest of Jared Dowell, the adult child of Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D-MA), for allegedly assaulting a police officer during a riot. Since the arrest late on Saturday, January 21, none have spent even a second of airtime on the incident, despite Clark being the House Minority Whip.
NewsBusters Podcast: Tweaking Pro-Abort Killjoys at the March for Life
Friday's annual March for Life drew some assorted news stories (not from ABC). MRCTV's Tierin-Rose Mandelburg joins the show to discuss her video from the protest scene, and how pro-abortion people struggled with her questions. Also: NBC's Chuck Todd mangles facts in his memory of the Monica Lewinsky affair 25 years ago.
Top CBS Morning, Evening Shows Ignore Anti-Cop Riot in Atlanta
Late Saturday night, Atlanta, Georgia was beset by the latest riot by Antifa and far-left thugs as they set a police car on fire, shot explosives at a police building, and caused property destruction. All told, six have been arrested so far and charged with domestic terrorism. And despite nearly four minutes of coverage on Sunday’s Face the Nation, CBS’s flagship morning and evening…
ABC Skips Historic March for Life as CBS, NBC Offer Nearly 7 Minutes
On Friday, NewsBusters looked at the past decade of broadcast network coverage of the March for Life and found 25 minutes and 50 seconds from 2013 to 2022 (with over half coming from 2017). For 2023, the total clocked out at six minutes and 52 seconds on their flagship Friday night and Saturday morning news programs, but it all came from CBS and NBC. ABC’s World News Tonight and…
