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ABC, NBC Play Up Trump's 'Sexist' Dog Whistle About Hillary
April 27th, 2016 9:23 PM
Between Donald Trump’s foreign policy speech and Senator Ted Cruz announcing Carly Fiorina as his running mate Wednesday was a crazy day in American politics. Even so, ABC and NBC spent precious time during their evening news programs defending Hillary Clinton from Trump’s comments about her playing the “woman card.” “You don't have to be a Hillary Clinton supporter to think there's a sexist…
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CBS, NBC Ignore Dem Governor's Move for Felons; ABC Barely Covers
April 22nd, 2016 11:46 PM
CBS and NBC's evening newscasts on Friday were too busy covering the sudden death of pop musician Prince to set aside any air time to the Democratic governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe, taking executive action to restore the voting rights of over 200,000 felons inside the commonwealth. Both CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News led with the Prince story. Together, they devoted nearly 11 and a…
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ABC, NBC Rush to Paint Trump as a ‘Moderate,’ ‘Trump 2.0’
April 21st, 2016 8:57 PM
With the recent firing of Curt Schilling from ESPN and the fight over North Carolina’s transgender bathroom ban still looming, many were shocked to hear Donald Trump’s liberal position on the issue that a person who considers themselves transgendered can use any bathroom they wish, not just the one corresponding with what is on their birth certificate. they rushed to label him a moderate. “Trump'…
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Nets Mute on Teens Killed by Illegal Immigrants
April 20th, 2016 9:12 PM
In a week where the networks have reported sympathetically towards illegal immigrants benefiting from President Obama’s immigration policies, they ignored a significant House hearing that revealed the terrible effects of these policies. Two mothers of teenagers murdered by illegal immigrants pleaded with Congress to step up enforcement of immigration policies and protect innocent Americans from…
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ABC Spends Final Hours of NY Primary Attacking Cruz
April 19th, 2016 8:33 PM
ABC decided to spend the final hours of the New York primary by continuing to hammer Senator Ted Cruz with his “New York Values” comment. “Far from the empire state today, Senator Ted Cruz, whose attack on New York values worked with Iowans, but tanked with New Yorkers,” stated Tom Llamas Tuesday evening just hours before New York primary polls closed.
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Nets Hype Supreme Court 'Showdown' Over ‘Fate of Millions'
April 19th, 2016 12:51 PM
On Monday, all three network evening newscasts touted liberal protesters flooding into the streets around the Supreme Court to demand that the justices uphold President Obama’s unilateral executive action granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants. Leading off NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt proclaimed: “Immigration furor: The fate of millions now hanging in the balance. What…
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ABC Only Network to Report Alleged Death Threats Against Delegates
April 13th, 2016 9:50 PM
On Wednesday’s evening news broadcasts, ABC was the only network to report on new threats delegates were allegedly facing from Trump supporters. Delegates from Colorado and Indiana complained to the media that they had been receiving death threats aimed at themselves and their families.While NBC did a full report on the GOP race and Trump’s complaints about the system, CBS did a short brief on…
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ABC: Christians 'Cheer' Keeping LGBT from 'Using Bathrooms They Need'
April 11th, 2016 9:26 PM
On Moday's ABC World News Tonight, anchor David Muir opened with “the law that’s become a flashpoint,” talking about North Carolina’s transgender bathroom law. Muir highlighted that Bruce Springsteen had cancelled concerts in the state to protest the law, before leaving the rest of the report to correspondent Steve Osunsami who claimed Christians were "cheering" over the law that discriminates…
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ABC Boosts 'Fast and Furious' Car Chase, Omits Gunrunning Scandal News
April 8th, 2016 11:00 PM
On Friday, the Big Three networks' evening newscasts gave a collective yawn at the latest development in the Obama administration's Fast and Furious scandal: the White House "turning over to lawmakers thousands of pages of records" related to the gunrunning debacle to a committee. ABC's World News Tonight actually used the "Fast and Furious" phrase at the top of the program, but not in…
English, Spanish Nets Yawn at Report VA Is Still Fudging Wait Times
April 7th, 2016 11:26 PM
On Thursday evening, the major English and Spanish broadcast networks failed to cover an explosive, new investigation released early Thursday afternoon by USA Today revealing that Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in seven states have been falsifying wait times, marking yet another piece in the multi-year VA scandal.
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ABC Piles on Cruz Over ‘NY Values,’ Cheer Trump ‘Relishing’ Home Rally
April 7th, 2016 8:21 PM
While the networks piled on Bernie Sanders over his comments about Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton being unqualified for president, ABC’s World News Tonight jumped on the same bandwagon Thursday night to criticize Republican Senator Ted Cruz for his three-month-old comments about “New York values” held by Donald Trump.
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ABC Continues Obsessively Bashing ‘Religious Freedom’ Bill
April 6th, 2016 8:07 PM
Like CBS and NBC did in their morning shows, and all three networks did in the evening news the night before, Wednesday’s World News Tonight on ABC obsessively harped on Mississippi’s “controversial” “religious freedom law,” complete with scare quotes. Correspondent Steve Osunsami highlighted how critics called the law “state-sanctioned bigotry.”
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ABC’s WNT Promotes Trump Ally’s Threat to Anti-Trump RNC Delegates
April 5th, 2016 7:40 PM
Instead of focusing on the latest developments in Wisconsin concerning the Republican presidential primary, ABC’s World News Tonight used 25 seconds to eagerly promote Donald Trump supporter/former adviser Roger Stone’s threat to expose the hotel room numbers and locations of delegates to the Republican National Convention that won’t be supporting the billionaire candidate.
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ABC Spends Day Before WI Vote Resurrecting Tabloid Smear of Cruz
April 4th, 2016 8:23 PM
On the night before voters in Wisconsin go to the polls for the presidential primary, ABC’s World News Tonight found it worthwhile to spend nearly its entire time allotted for Ted Cruz rehashing the unsubstantiated smears from the National Enquirer tabloid about extramarital affairs.
