This Week in Media Bias History: A Little Creepier in Retrospect
August 25th, 2018 12:15 PM
Given what we now know about Matt Lauer and his creepy office with an automatic door lock, this August 21, 2000 Today interview with Al Gore looks weirder in retrospect. Lauer repeatedly obsessed over “the kiss” between the then-Vice President and his then-wife Tipper Gore at the 2000 Democratic National Convention: “This is the ‘The Kiss.’... You really planted one on Mrs. Gore.” Lauer was …
Net Coverage of Hunter Scandal Nearly Quadruples in Past 24 Hours
August 24th, 2018 5:35 PM
After the morning newscasts of ABC and CBS spent a total of 4 minutes and 44 seconds covering the criminal indictment of California Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter in the first 36 hours since the story broke, the number increased four-fold following another news cycle, with the total standing at 17 minutes and 13 seconds as of Friday morning.
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FNC’s Baier Stunned That Media Didn’t Correct False Cohen ‘Bombshell’
August 24th, 2018 1:38 PM
During a panel discussion on Thursday’s Special Report, Fox News anchor Bret Baier was amazed that the same network news organizations that hyped anonymous claims Donald Trump knew in advance about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between campaign aides and a Russian lawyer refused to correct the record when it was revealed on Wednesday that such claims were completely false.
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Nets Punt on Davis Blowing Huge Hole in CNN’s Trump Tower Bombshell
August 23rd, 2018 11:55 PM
On Thursday, the “big three” morning and evening network newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC failed to inform their viewers that Michael Cohen did not actually know whether then-candidate Donald Trump had a heads-up on the infamous Trump Tower when media reports starting on July 26 originally claimed otherwise. This massive correction by Cohen lawyer Lanny Davis was ignored on the networks despite the…
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NBC Waves Goodbye to Mollie Tibbetts; Only CBS Gives Full Update
August 23rd, 2018 9:59 PM
On Thursday night, NBC Nightly News became the first broadcast network newscast to bid farewell to murdered University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts despite new developments, including results of the preliminary autopsy report. ABC’s World News Tonight wasn’t much better, relegating Tibbetts to a news brief in the show’s third block which ran for one second less than the three teases for the…
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NBC Cheers End of Catholic Church’s ‘Ironclad Grip on Irish Society’
August 23rd, 2018 12:33 PM
Ahead of Pope Francis visiting Ireland in the coming days, NBC’s Today show offered a nasty hit piece on the Catholic Church that cheered the nation moving left on issues like gay marriage and abortion. The segment also highlighted liberal critics of the Church rooting for the religious institution’s demise.
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CBS, NBC Tout Impeachment, Cohen/Manafort Hurting SCOTUS Hearings
August 22nd, 2018 9:42 PM
On Wednesday night, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News remained aboard the proverbial liberal media party bus pushing Congress to impeach President Trump and delay or thwart Brett Kavanaugh from reaching the Supreme Court following Tuesday’s bad Trump headlines involving Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort.
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Nets Agree: Trump Impeachment Now ‘Front and Center’ in Midterms
August 22nd, 2018 11:15 AM
Following the conviction of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and guilty pleas from former Trump attorney Michael Cohen on various federal charges on Tuesday, all three network morning shows on Wednesday declared the president’s impeachment to now be the main focus of the upcoming midterm elections.
After Years of Praising Chavez, Nets Avoid Venezuela’s Economic Demise
August 21st, 2018 5:26 PM
Socialist Venezuela is in the midst of an historic economic collapse, but you’d never know it if you relied on the three network evening broadcasts for your news. On Monday, the country’s government issued a new currency to counter a record rate of 1,000,000 percent inflation, and none of the networks said a word. This followed the July 30 concession by President Nicolas Maduro that his…
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ABC, NBC Skip ‘Significant’ Killing of a Terrorist, ‘Big Win’
August 21st, 2018 4:48 PM
One would think that the “most significant” killing of a terrorist “since [Osama] bin Laden” would warrant some attention. But ABC and NBC on Monday and Tuesday morning ignored the drone strike attack that likely wiped out Ibrahim Al Asiri. The killing was done in 2017, but is only being revealed now. Unlike the other two networks, CBS offered full reports both Monday and Tuesday on al-Asiri’s…
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NBC Frets Kavanaugh Wanted to Ask Clinton Tough Scandal Questions
August 21st, 2018 11:30 AM
On Tuesday, NBC’s Today show devoted a full report to hand wringing over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, while serving as one of Independent Counsel Ken Starr’s lead investigators in the 1990s, wanting to ask then-President Bill Clinton accurate, detailed questions about the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The supposed “journalists” were aghast at the prospect of Clinton being held accountable.
TV News: Obsessed by Russia, But No Time for Mueller’s Controversies
August 21st, 2018 8:55 AM
By far, the biggest news story of the Trump presidency has been the Russia investigation. As of August 15, the three broadcast network evening newscasts have devoted a combined 1,854 minutes to the probe, or nearly one-fifth (19.6%) of all of their Trump news. Yet virtually none of that airtime (just 62 minutes, or 3.3%) has been spent scrutinizing Robert Mueller’s investigation — a big shift…
Media Silent as South Africa Seizes Land from White Farmers
August 20th, 2018 9:41 PM
The South African government has begun seizing land from white farmers, following an August 1 ruling which amended that nation’s constitution to legalize the practice. Despite the disturbing ramifications of this human rights abuse at the hands of a foreign government, both cable and network news have remained stubbornly silent on the issue.
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ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/MSNBC Ignore Democrat’s Sick Joke About Trump Dying
August 20th, 2018 1:36 PM
Hey, did you hear the one about President Donald Trump dying in a river? Yeah, not exactly funny material is it? Well at a political rally, on Sunday, liberal Democratic Congressman Alcee Hastings made a sick joke at President Trump’s expense: “I will tell you one joke. Do you know the difference between a crisis and a catastrophe? A crisis is if Donald Trump falls into the Potomac River and can’…