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CBS Uses Clinton Attacks to Question Sanders Being ‘Viable’ Candidate

February 3rd, 2016 3:29 PM
On Wednesday, the hosts of CBS This Morning seemed to do Hillary Clinton’s bidding as they used her campaign attack lines to interrogate Senator Bernie Sanders on whether he was a “viable” candidate against the former secretary of state.

Drilling Big Oil: Nets Mentioned Profits 9x More When Prices Were High

Business
February 3rd, 2016 1:45 PM
When gas prices were high, the media pumped their shows with stories about profit. But when prices were low, those stories took a back seat. In 2015, gas prices tumbled from a high of $2.80 in June to a low of $2 in December after a glut in supply flooded the market.  BP and Exxon reportedly lost billions in profit last year, and according to The Telegraph, oil prices crashed into 2016 with…
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Nets Fear Hillary’s ‘Near-Death Experience’ in Iowa

February 2nd, 2016 3:08 PM
On Tuesday, all three network morning shows fretted over Hillary Clinton barely defeating Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucus. NBC’s Today was the most melodramatic, with co-host Matt Lauer declaring: “Hillary Clinton gets to come out of Iowa and say, technically, ‘I'm the winner,’ but this had to be a near-death experience for the once-presumptive nominee.”
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NBC Comedy Suggests Jesus Was Gay -- Would They Say It About Muhammad?

Culture
February 2nd, 2016 1:52 AM
Wow. NBC went there. The freshman comedy Superstore went out of its way to offend Christians by having characters opine on Jesus’ beliefs about gays – including suggesting that Jesus Himself was gay! They wouldn't be so edgy and provocative to suggest that's where Muhammad would be. 
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NBC, ABC Offer Fawning Puff Pieces Hailing Bernie’s ‘Revolution’

February 1st, 2016 5:01 PM
After conducting live softball interviews with Hillary Clinton on Monday, NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America both devoted admiring full reports to the Bernie Sanders campaign as well, both touting his “political revolution.”
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ABC, NBC Skip E-Mails With Hillary; CBS Presses Her on Scandal

February 1st, 2016 11:48 AM
While all three network morning shows conducted live interviews with Hillary Clinton on Monday ahead of the Iowa caucus, only CBS This Morning actually brought up her ongoing e-mail scandal. NBC’s Today and ABC’s Good Morning America both ignored the issue and lobbed softballs to the Democratic frontrunner instead.

Rob Lowe Stars as Rude, Foulmouthed Priest in New NBC Show

Culture
February 1st, 2016 8:00 AM
NBC’s You, Me and the Apocalypse centers around an eclectic cast of characters as they receive the news that a comet will hit the Earth in 34 days, ending all life on the planet. Rob Lowe stars as the chain-smoking, foulmouthed Father Jude, the Vatican’s newly re-empowered “Devil’s Advocate.”

TV Keeps Touting Trump Over His GOP Competitors

February 1st, 2016 7:11 AM
A new analysis by the Media Research Center finds Trump continued to receive the vast majority of TV news coverage throughout the month of January, leading up to tonight’s crucial Iowa caucuses. An examination of all campaign coverage on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts from January 1 through January 31 finds Trump received nearly 157 minutes of airtime, or almost 60 percent of the total…
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ABC Touts Hillary Dismissing E-Mails; NBC Promotes Her Team's App

January 31st, 2016 9:43 PM
Sunday's World News Tonight on ABC and the NBC Nightly News on the eve of the Iowa caucuses (with golf on CBS) previewsed the Democratic race. ABC parroted Hillary Clinton’s dismissal of e-mail scandal as a partisan hit job while NBC touted an “exclusive look” at a smartphone app that will be utilized by the Clinton campaign.
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NBC’s ‘Blacklist’ Turns Ancient Christian Sect into 'Monsters'

Culture
January 30th, 2016 12:21 AM
Killing in the name of religion was the theme of Thursday night’s The Blacklist, titled ‘The Vehm.’ The young men of a religion, bent on the destruction of those it viewed to be sinners, believe they kill in the name of their God, and are willing to die in the process if need be. It was a show about the religion of…well…Christianity of course.
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ABC Blends 'Bombshell' Hillary E-mail Development Into 2016 Coverage

January 29th, 2016 11:56 PM

Friday's World News Tonight set aside the least amount of air time to the State Department's revelation that at least 22 of the e-mails on Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server contained top-secret information. The ABC program devoted a total of one minute and 28 seconds to the development. Jonathan Karl folded his coverage of the story into a segment about the Democratic presidential race…

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‘Shades of Blue’ Takes a Shot at ‘Occupy,’ Tries to Recreate Gay Ideal

Culture
January 29th, 2016 11:07 PM
It’s not too often that funny jokes at the expense of the left get made. At least outside of conservative circles. It’s even less often that it happens on network television. Yet, such a rare occurrence did in fact occur on Thursday night’s episode of NBC’s Shades of Blue, titled ‘Who Is It That Can Tell Me Who I Am?’
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ABC: Hillary Is ‘Above the Fray,’ ‘Cautiously Optimistic’

January 29th, 2016 1:33 PM
The journalists on Good Morning America, Friday, spun Hillary Clinton as staying “above the fray” in her battle with Bernie Sanders, saying the former Secretary of State was cautiously optimistic.” CBS This Morning saw the Democratic fight as almost “affectionate” when compared to the Republicans. On NBC’s Today, Andrea Mitchell playfully boxed with Sanders.

Nets Give Trump Boycott 3 Times More Coverage Than Actual GOP Debate

January 29th, 2016 10:14 AM
After devoting nearly ten minutes of air time to Donald Trump’s boycott of the Republican debate on Thursday’s evening newscasts (rather than preview the debate itself), on Friday morning, the three broadcast networks offered over 21 minutes of political coverage continuing to hype Trump’s absence while only managing 7 minutes for the GOP contenders who participated in the event.