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Media Thrilled ‘Very Talented’ Obamas ‘Got Paid!’ With Netflix Deal
May 22nd, 2018 12:23 PM
On Tuesday, all three network morning shows were gleeful over the news that Barack and Michelle Obama had signed a deal with Netflix to create original content for the online streaming service. Hosts happily touted “a lot of people very excited” about the announcement and cheered that the former president and first lady “got paid,” with the agreement rumored to be worth tens of millions of…
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NBC’s Guthrie Frets: ‘Fewer’ Profiles in Courage in Trump Era
May 16th, 2018 5:27 PM
During an interview on Wednesday’s Today show with President John F. Kennedy’s grandson, Jack Schlossberg, about the JFK Library’s annual Profile in Courage Award, NBC anchor Savannah Guthrie worried that it was becoming difficult to find courageous politicians in the Trump era.
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Palestinian Propagandists: Nets Blame U.S., Israel for Gaza Violence
May 15th, 2018 1:07 PM
Following Monday’s ceremony opening the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem, on Tuesday, all three broadcast networks were eager to denigrate the move and blame the United States and Israel for violence in the Gaza Strip that was encouraged by Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. In a series of dramatically one-sided reports, the NBC, ABC, and CBS morning shows offered propaganda instead of news.
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CBS Frets Over ‘Impotent Anger' at ‘Catastrophe’ of Israel's Existence
May 14th, 2018 1:09 PM
All three networks on Monday hyped the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem with varying degrees of worry, but it was CBS This Morning that fretted over the “impotent anger” directed towards Israel and the high unemployment in Gaza. Holly Williams tried to spin the riots and violence as mostly peaceful: “Most of the Palestinians here today are peaceful, but some are attempting to cross the…
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Nets Hype Yelling at Cabinet Meeting; ABC, NBC Skip ISIS Capture
May 11th, 2018 12:04 PM
All three networks on Friday morning found time for the gossipy, unverified report that Donald Trump yelled at Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. But NBC and ABC are STILL ignoring the news that five top ISIS leaders have been captured in Iraq and 40 more were killed in an air strike.
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As ABC & CBS Focus on Foreign Policy, NBC Presses Pence on Mueller
May 10th, 2018 12:19 PM
When Vice President Mike Pence sat down for interviews with all three broadcast networks early Thursday morning, just moments after greeting three American detainees who had arrived back in the U.S. after being released from North Korea, he was logically peppered with questions about the Korean peace process. However, unlike her ABC and CBS colleagues, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell only asked a couple…
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NBC Clears NBC of Sex Harassment Culture; NBC Greatly Relieved
May 9th, 2018 3:26 PM
In a not-exactly shocking conclusion, NBC has cleared NBC of having a culture that tolerated and excused sexual harassment at the network. Though NBC had no problem exonerating itself, the journalists at the network scoffed when House Republicans found no evidence of collusion for GOP President Donald Trump.
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ABC & CBS Focus More on 3rd Place Loser Than GOP Primary Winners
May 9th, 2018 2:23 PM
Despite controversial West Virginia Senate candidate Don Blankenship only finishing a distance third place in Tuesday’s Republican primary, on Wednesday, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS This Morning devoted much of their election coverage to his defeat while barely mentioning the GOP candidates who won primary contests in numerous states.
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Nets Hype Europeans ‘Desperately’ Trying to Stop Trump's Iran Decision
May 8th, 2018 1:10 PM
Ahead of President Trump’s decision on whether the U.S. would withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal, on Tuesday, all three network morning shows hyped how “European allies have desperately tried” to lobby in favor of the Obama-era agreement. Hosts and correspondents also warned of dire consequences if America left the deal, predicting everything from higher gas prices to Iran getting a nuclear…
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NBC, CBS ‘Baffled’ By NRA’s Choice of 'Controversial’ North
May 8th, 2018 12:21 PM
The news that the National Rifle Association has chosen Oliver North as the organization’s next president left NBC “baffled” on Tuesday. Both the Today show and CBS This Morning focused heavily on the “controversial” figure’s connections to the Iran-Contra scandal from 30 years ago.
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Nets Fret: Trump’s CIA Pick ‘Referendum on Country’s Use of Torture'
May 7th, 2018 11:44 AM
Eager to tear down another one of President Trump’s nominees, on Monday, all three network morning show’s seized on a Washington Post article claiming that the President’s nominee to be CIA Director, Gina Haspel, considered withdrawing over the weekend, before her upcoming Senate confirmation hearing. Hosts and correspondents breathlessly hyped the story and worried about Haspel’s role in the…
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CNN Highlights Police Brutality Video After Ignoring Attacks on Cops
May 5th, 2018 8:56 PM
On Saturday, CNN was true to form in showing more interest in stories that reflect negatively on how police officers do their jobs while ignoring those that show law enforcement work sympathetically. After ignoring two cases of attacks on law enforcement that were covered by other networks, CNN did find time today to run two reports on video showing a Miami cop kicking a suspect in the head after…
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MSNBC Spends Hours on False Story, NBC Gives Seconds to Correction
May 4th, 2018 12:04 PM
After MSNBC spent four hours on Thursday breathlessly promoting what turned out to be a false story that federal investigators had been “wiretapping” President Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen for months, NBC’s Today show on Friday only managed 41 seconds of air time to correct the phony bombshell.
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Nets Dismiss Netanyahu’s Iran Presentation: ‘No Smoking Gun’
May 2nd, 2018 9:44 AM
On Tuesday, all three network morning shows worked to discredit and dismiss Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Monday presentation detailing Iran’s deception about its nuclear weapons program prior to the 2015 international deal to prevent that program’s progress. While secret Iranian files obtained by Israel clearly demonstrated that the authoritarian regime lacked any credibility on…