Deaf to Hearings: CBS/NBC Skip COVID Origin, ABC Avoids Afghanistan
On Wednesday, House Republicans held two critical hearings on behalf of the American people: the first was to find the origin of the COVID pandemic, and the other was to hold officials accountable for the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Despite COVID killing over 1.1 million Americans, the Wednesday evening and Thursday morning newscasts of CBS and NBC completely ignored the hearing.…
CBS Refuses to Cover ‘Coordinated,’ Far-Left Riot on Atlanta Police
On Sunday night, far-left activists (including an SPLC attorney) stormed the site of an Atlanta Police Department training facility and fired off fireworks and Molotov cocktails in the latest attempt by the so-called “Stop Cop City” movement to physically attack and threaten law enforcement. But on the Monday morning flagship morning shows, CBS Mornings couldn’t be bothered with zero seconds…
Evening Nets Ignore Mayor Lightfoot Losing Reelection Bid
On Tuesday night, Lori Lightfoot was the first mayor of Chicago to lose a reelection bid in over 40 years. This was mostly due to her disastrous tenure as mayor which saw crime skyrocket in the windy city by historic margins. Despite the historic nature of her loss in Tuesday’s election, ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News apparently had no interest in reporting…
Disney-Owned ABC Avoids Angering China, Skips House Hearing on CCP
The House Select Committee on China held its first hearing Tuesday night on the rising threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party as its seeks to grow its foreign influence and reach global supremacy. The hearing was extremely bipartisan, but despite that rare example of Congress working together, Disney-owned ABC’s Good Morning America chose to stay in the good graces of the dictatorial and…
NewsBusters Podcast: Biden WH Forces Press to Consider Lab Leak Theory
Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and I were back behind the microphones to kick off a new week, which began with a bombshell that the Biden Department of Energy believes it’s likely the COVID-19 pandemic was borne out of a lab leak. We also discussed the initial media coverage as well as one new tidbit about the Asbury revival, the latest silliness from The View, and ABC becoming a Spiderman…
Nets Ignore AZ Officials Charging Rancher With Murder of Illegal Alien
This week, Arizona rancher George Allen Kelly was hit with additional charges of aggravated assault in addition to first degree murder for allegedly killing an illegal immigrant on January 30 who may have been part of a drug-running operation and was trespassing on his property only 150 feet from the porous U.S.-Mexico border. He was released Wednesday after posting the $1 million bond. Not…
Ash Wednesday Special: Mark Wahlberg Speaks Candidly About Faith on TV
It’s rare for a Hollywood celebrity to talk about his faith. It's almost unimaginable for a legacy media outlet to give him the platform to do it.
Pete to the Rescue! ABC, NBC Tout Buttigieg as Train Derailment Hero
The East Palestine, Ohio train derailment entered a new phase this week as the liberal media blamed Donald Trump for the toxic dump of hazardous chemicals into the air and water supply and painted the semi-present Biden administration and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg as heroes for this working class town who’ll crack down on the train operator, Norfolk Southern, for any mishandling…
ABC Again Ditches East Palestine, Gives Half the Time of CBS, NBC
On Tuesday, NewsBusters released a study on the broadcast network coverage of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment that showed, since officials lifted an evacuation order on the evening of February 8 through the morning of February 14, ABC had ignored it on their flagship morning and evening newscasts while CBS and NBC had spent only one minute and 42 seconds on what’s become an…
Obsessed: NBC’s Melvin Uses Interview to Pester Haley About Trump
2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley gave her first network interview to NBC’s Today co-host Craig Melvin for Thursday’s show and Melvin predictably made Donald Trump the focus, constantly pressing her on why she’d run against him, his role in January 6, his outlook on the 2020 election, his penchant for insults, and his views on foreign policy.
TOXIC: Networks Run Cover for ESG Giants Tied to Ohio Train Disaster
ABC’s, CBS’s and NBC’s premature abandonment of coverage of the environmental disaster in East Palestine, Ohio may have been a gambit to protect the leftist pro-environmental, social, governance (ESG) standard giants tied to the incident.
CBS, NBC Refuse to Update Viewers on New Twist in Biden Docs Scandal
Late Wednesday, CNN’s Paula Reid revealed the FBI had conducted multiple searches of President Biden’s records at the University of Delaware from his Senate tenure (and “documents...sent...in recent years) that have been held in secret since their donation in 2012. While they reportedly didn’t find any classified documents, it was worth sharing as it marked another chapter in his classified…
Nets Shamed into Rediscovering Train Derailment After MRC Study
On Tuesday, NewsBusters reported that the broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC had abandoned the environmental fallout from the February 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio on their flagship morning and evening shows with zero seconds on ABC and only a minute and 42 seconds on CBS and NBC after an evacuation order was lifted on February 8.
