Jill Stein Recount Effort Gets 12X Coverage of Her Entire Campaign
November 28th, 2016 11:58 AM
When Jill Stein was the Green Party’s candidate for U.S. president, the networks only gave her 36 seconds of coverage. However, as soon as she launched a campaign to contest the presidential election and demand a recount of ballots in several key states, the evening news shows on ABC, CBS and NBC managed to find 7 minutes and 26 seconds of coverage for her in just four days.
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ABC, NBC Stoke Fear Trump, Not Castro Regime, Will Worsen Cuban Lives
November 28th, 2016 10:50 AM
On Sunday night, ABC and NBC had teams assembled in Cuba to shamefully mourn the death of murderous authoritarian leader Fidel Castro with both newscasts turned to fear-mongering in touting claims the President-elect Donald Trump and not current Cuban leader Raul Castro’s communist regime could harm Cuban lives going forward if he goes back on President Barack Obama’s move to resume ties between…
Nets Ignore Business Attacks on Trump, Supporters After Election
Business
November 23rd, 2016 10:20 AM
After Donald Trump’s victory Nov. 8, several business leaders freaked. The post-election response even included a CEO’s threat on Trump’s life, but none of the major broadcast evening news shows picked up the hysteria. Business leaders despaired, told employees to resign for disagreeing with their virulently anti-Trump views and warned of “extremely dangerous times.” But threatening violence and…
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ABC Harps on Trump’s Conflicts of Interest, Not for Clinton’s
November 22nd, 2016 10:52 PM
ABC’s World News Tonight went to town Tuesday evening, as they fanned the flames of fear over potential conflicts of interest between President-Elect Donald Trump’s businesses and his presidential duties. “With growing concerns tonight, about how he continues to push his business ventures, Donald Trump told The New York Times, ‘The law is on my side. The president can't have a conflict of…
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ABC, CBS Cover for Pelosi, Ignore Embarrassing Challenge to Leadership
November 17th, 2016 9:03 PM
Embarrassing news broke on Capitol Hill Thursday that House Minority Leader, and former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi was being challenged for leadership. NBC Nightly News was the only network evening news program to report the development, with Andrea Mitchell stating, “And in another sign of democratic disarray after their losses, longtime House Leader Nancy Pelosi is now being challenged for the…
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Nets Drill Pipeline Supporters, Quote Opponents 7 Times More
Business
November 17th, 2016 9:20 AM
Peaceful protest is a protected right in America. Trespassing on private property, tire slashing, damaging equipment, arson, Molotov cocktail-throwing and shooting at police are not acts of protest. They are crimes. Even eco-terrorism. Yet, the network news media sympathetically covered the “activists,” “protesters” and “demonstrators” in North Dakota opposing completion of the Dakota Access oil…
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ABC Still Mourning for Hillary Defeat, She’s ‘Acknowledging the Pain’
November 14th, 2016 11:04 PM
Almost a week since the 2016 election and ABC’s World News Tonight spent an over three minute segment Monday night seemingly mourning for Hillary Clinton’s defeat at the hands of Donald Trump. “Acknowledging the pain and placing a good deal of the blame, she says, on the FBI director,” reported ABC Anchor David Muir of Clinton’s weekend call to supporters and donors, “[James Comey] brought the e-…
Nets Prefer 'Protesters' to 'Rioters' for Election Violence
Culture
November 14th, 2016 4:31 PM
Protests have taken place in multiple American cities every night since the election. But the media refuse to call the violent perpetrators for what they are: rioters. Since Donald Trump’s win, thousands have taken to the streets in cities including Los Angeles, New York and Portland to protest the election. Some of the protests turned violent, such as in. Portland, where police declared Thursday…
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ABC, CBS Spotlight Assaults on Trump Supporters; NBC Censors
November 12th, 2016 1:31 AM
ABC, CBS, and NBC's evening newscasts all devoted air time to racially-charged incidents in schools in the wake of the election. However, NBC Nightly News stood out from its competitors for failing to mention the violence against Donald Trump supporters in recent days. ABC's World News Tonight featured cell phone video of a California high school student being punched for supporting Trump. CBS…
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Evening News Nets Marvel at Tears for Hillary, Glass Ceiling Breaking
November 8th, 2016 7:37 PM
The “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC were all live at 6:30 p.m. Eastern leading into their Election Night coverage and predictably, they were already giddy at scenes of Hillary supporters crying and the Clinton campaign’s election night event featuring a glass ceiling.
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ABC Spends 2X More Time on Elderly Cheerleader Than Economy in Oct
Business
November 4th, 2016 9:17 AM
The month before the hotly contested presidential election, ABC World News Tonight spent so little time on the U.S. economy — it devoted more time “cheering for” a 101 year-old cheerleader. Polls in October once again showed Americans ranked the economy as their top concern. The economy has led those rankings since July. Yet, the Tennessee State University cheerleader was took priority on ABC’s…
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ABC Still Clueless on Clinton Investigation, CBS and NBC Dismiss It
November 3rd, 2016 11:45 PM
A solid 24 hours after Fox News reported the massive bombshell that the FBI was pursuing a criminal investigation into the Clinton Foundation, the liberal “Big Three” networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) were scrambling to defend Clinton Thursday evening. While failing to report the news at all that same morning, CBS and NBC claimed that it was a crazy lie Donald Trump was telling his supporters, while…
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ABC, NBC Lead Evening News Programs Touting Clinton Surrogates
November 2nd, 2016 11:45 PM
With the advent of many polls showing a tightening race in key battleground states as Election Day comes into view, ABC and NBC both started of their evening news casts Wednesday by glorifying Hillary Clinton’s surrogates on the campaign trail. “Clinton boarding that cross-country flight, knowing her squad of surrogates is swarming the battlegrounds,” hyped ABC’s Cecilia Vega on World News…
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Networks Aid Clinton’s Bashing of Comey, Calm Worried Supporters
November 1st, 2016 12:28 AM
In the wake of the FBI’s announcement on Friday, that they discovered new e-mails possibly pertaining to Hillary Clinton’s private server, the liberal networks have taken every opportunity to slam FBI Director James Comey and cast doubt on his investigation. It was the exact same thing on Monday as ABC, CBS, and NBC joined the “chorus” of Democrats criticizing the FBI Director.