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Nets Punt on News CIA Whistleblower Worked with Joe Biden
October 11th, 2019 8:05 PM
Thursday night, Washington Examiner’s Rob Crilly, Steven Nelson, and David Drucker reported that alleged CIA whistleblower at the center of the congressional inquiry seeking to impeach and remove President Donald Trump “had a ‘professional’ tie” to “Joe Biden, according to intelligence officers and former White House officials.” But on the Friday morning and evening flagship broadcast network…
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Ronan Farrow: NBC ‘Ordered A Hard Stop to Reporting’ About Weinstein
October 11th, 2019 5:14 PM
Appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America on Friday to discuss his new book, Catch and Kill, journalist Ronan Farrow described how NBC News executives ordered him to cease all reporting on allegations against Harvey Weinstein in 2017. That revelation came following another bombshell in the upcoming book that Weinstein may have used knowledge of disgraced Today show host Matt Lauer’s wrongdoings to…
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Nets Horrified By Trump Attacking Dems, Impeachment at Rally
October 11th, 2019 12:22 PM
On Friday, all three network morning shows seemed shocked that President Trump would spend time during a 2020 campaign rally Thursday night attacking Democrats over their impeachment push. Reporters were aghast that Trump would launch “vicious attacks on his Democratic rivals” and describe impeachment “in almost apocalyptic terms.”
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'SVU' Excuses Jussie Smollett: 'False Reporting Extremely Rare'
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October 11th, 2019 1:18 AM
The record-breaking primetime series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit prides itself on its “ripped from the headlines” stories. Lately, however, it’s been more known for its heavily biased stories that take only one political side of the story. The same is true in the NBC show’s take on one of the most infamous recent fake hate crimes: the Jussie Smollett case.
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NBC's 'Sunnyside' Goes Dark on ICE: 'The DMV's Racist Uncle'
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October 11th, 2019 12:43 AM
NBC's newest comedy Sunnyside has started to demonstrate the anti-ICE sentiments that suddenly became so popular on the left once President Trump took office. In the latest episode, "Dr. Potato" which aired Thursday night, the team bands together to find Drazen, one of their fellow immigrants who has been taken by ICE.
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Nets Fail to Call Foul on NBA Exacting Chinese Censorship on Americans
October 10th, 2019 9:48 PM
While failing CBS Evening News anchor Norah O’Donnell suggested the NBA was in a “free speech dispute with China,” the facts of the matter showed the league was perfectly fine with cracking down on free speech targeting the murderous communist state. In back to back nights, the NBA ejected peaceful advocates for democracy and freedom in Hong Kong from games here in the U.S. Despite the NBA…
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Nets Tout Whistleblower Memo Calling Trump Call 'Crazy', 'Frightening'
October 9th, 2019 10:53 PM
During their Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning newscasts, the major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) seized on a newly released anonymous whistleblower memo that described the reaction of one White House official listening to President Trump’s call with the president of Ukraine. The keywords that elevated their intrigue involved the official calling the call “crazy” and “frightening.”
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Nets Excited Joe Biden Called for Impeachment of His Opponent
October 9th, 2019 8:57 PM
Former Vice President Joe Biden got a lot of positive coverage from the liberal media on Wednesday after he called for President Trump’s impeachment while campaigning against him in New Hampshire. The major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) hoisted up Biden’s demands with a combined 4 minutes and 20 seconds of largely enthusiastic coverage.
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FLASHBACK: Lauer Hailed Farrow for Exposing Harvey Weinstein Scandal
October 9th, 2019 4:02 PM
Amidst the horrifying news that, according to Ronan Farrow’s new book Catch and Kill, then-NBC’s Today host Matt Lauer allegedly anally raped colleague Brooke Nevils in 2014, a look through the NewsBusters archives found Wednesday afternoon quite the ironic exchange in 2017 between Farrow and Lauer. On the October 11, 2017 edition of Today, Farrow discussed his piece for The New Yorker that blew…
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Did Weinstein Try to Use Lauer to Blackmail NBC Into Silence?
October 9th, 2019 3:00 PM
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter published early Wednesday morning, journalist Ronan Farrow discussed revelations in his new book, Catch and Kill, that Hollywood mogul and accused sexual predator Harvey Weinstein tried to blackmail NBC News into silence about his alleged crimes by threatening to go public with similar accusations against former Today show anchor Matt Lauer.
Whistleblower Linked to 2020 Dem Candidate, ABC and CBS Spike
October 9th, 2019 1:15 PM
On Tuesday, the Washington Examiner’s Byron York broke the news that the whistleblower that sparked the Trump-Ukraine impeachment push had a “significant tie to one of the Democratic presidential candidates.” Total broadcast news coverage of this stunning revelation: A meager 38 seconds on Wednesday’s edition of NBC’s Today show.
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Matt Lauer Accused of Raping NBC Colleague During Sochi Olympics
October 9th, 2019 10:20 AM
In a new upcoming book by journalist Ronan Farrow, Catch and Kill, former NBC News employee Brooke Nevils reveals that disgraced Today show co-host Matt Lauer anally raped her in a hotel room during the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, while NBC was covering the games. On Wednesday, all three network morning shows, including Today, covered the shocking allegations.
‘Defective’ Hip Provides New Amsterdam’s Latest Anti-Business Plot
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October 9th, 2019 12:04 AM
Smug, unfeeling suits, unconcerned by harm their products have caused — that’s how New Amsterdam portrayed medical device manufacturers in its latest episode. Construction worker Mr. Martinelli is admitted to the hospital with strange symptoms and the doctors eventually realize he is being poisoned by cobalt from his metal hip replacement device, in “Replacement” which aired Oct. 8.
Bozell & Graham Column: Republicans vs. Screaming Anchors
October 8th, 2019 10:52 PM
Politico posted a curious headline the other day. “News anchors fight back against GOP senators’ refusal to condemn Trump.” Is it really news at this point that “news anchors” are fighting the GOP? A better question might be: What took so long? Republicans accomplish nothing by appearing on MSNBC and CNN other than to give them some notion of nonpartisan credibility, something they manifestly don…
