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Nets Dish Out 162 Mins to Trump Charges, 19x Larger Than Devon Archer

August 4th, 2023 2:54 PM

Through four days and three installments each of the flagship morning and evening news shows on the major broadcast networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC have eagerly doled out astounding 162 minutes and 16 seconds through Friday morning salivating over the third criminal indictment of former President Trump that has the potential to either land him in prison or propel him to the White House in 2024.…

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Networks Pound Their Chests Over 'Historic' Third Trump Arraignment

August 3rd, 2023 8:57 PM

All day long Thursday, as reported extensively by NewsBusters, the big three evening news broadcasts were beside themselves with glee over the third arraignment of President Joe Biden's political opponent Donald Trump. Between the live motorcade chases broadcast live, and breathless coverage of every detail large and small, it's clear this was seen by the networks as a ratings-grabbing…

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Network Tally of New Trump Charges Hits 111 Mins; Biden Issues Go Poof

August 3rd, 2023 12:56 PM

On Wednesday afternoon, NewsBusters brought you the tally of broadcast network coverage of the third Trump indictment as having stood at roughly 70 minutes (70:41) on the flagship morning and evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC. Unsurprisingly, the coverage ballooned ahead of Trump’s arraignment Thursday afternoon on charges relating to his conduct on and prior to January 6. The total this…

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Networks Ignore DOJ Investigation of Corrupt NJ Senator Bob Menendez

August 2nd, 2023 11:34 PM

On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that the corrupt New Jersey Democrat Senator Bob Menendez is once again under investigation by the Department of Justice for violation of Congressional ethics rules. This is the second time in less than a decade that Menendez has been investigated for corruption and ethics violations. Despite this troubling pattern, the leftist networks seem…

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CBS Joins ABC in NYC Immigrant Sob Story, Omits NYC Is Sanctuary City

August 2nd, 2023 9:12 PM

CBS Evening News joined its evening counterpart in picking up where ABC’s Good Morning America left off from earlier in the day in selling a sob story about how illegal immigrants flooding across the border made their way up to New York City and are now sleeping in the street and living in poor conditions. They failed to mention that New York is a sanctuary city. 

NB Podcast: Firehose of Trump Indictment Overtakes Biden Scandals

August 2nd, 2023 5:51 PM

Subbing for boss Tim Graham, Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and dove right in Wednesday with reaction to the unprecedented third Trump indictment, including the astounding totals of coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC. Spoiler alert: This has given the networks the perfect excuse to wave goodbye to any and all Biden scandals for an indefinite period of time.

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ABC & CBS PM Shows Skip US Credit Rating Downgrade Due to Biden Policy

August 1st, 2023 11:19 PM

On Tuesday, the credit rating agency Fitch Ratings downgraded the United States' credit score for the first time since 2011 due to the mounting debt and federal government disfunction that has occurred during the first two years of the Biden administration. Of the "big three" evening news broadcasts, only NBC Nightly News bothered to cover the credit downgrade. 

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NBC Ignores Archer Testimony In Favor of Interview with Megan Rapinoe

July 31st, 2023 9:09 PM

On Monday, Hunter Biden’s business partner Devon Archer testified behind closed doors before the House Oversight Committee regarding the Biden family’s corrupt business dealings including a bombshell revelation that Hunter put his father Joe Biden on the phone with his business associates over twenty times. This at the very least proves President Biden’s repeated claims that he was unaware of…

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NBC Lionizes Joe Biden Taking YEARS to Acknowledge Granddaughter

July 31st, 2023 11:01 AM

NBC News has parlayed being the first of the broadcast networks to report on President Joe Biden finally acknowledging his 4-year-old granddaughter into lionizing him Monday morning for taking that long and withstanding the criticism. Meanwhile, ABC and CBS didn’t want to stick their necks out that far as they spent barely over a minute (64 seconds) of combined time on the story over the…

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ABC, CBS Ignore Hunter's Daughter as Joe Finally Admits to 7 Grandkids

July 28th, 2023 7:56 PM

President Joe Biden, who the liberal media told us was a man of decency fighting for the soul of America, finally admitted that he had seven and not six grandkids after he had to be (figuratively) dragged kicking and screaming to acknowledge his 4-year-old granddaughter Navy Joan Roberts, who his son Hunter Biden fathered out of wedlock. When it came to the broadcast networks covering this…

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CBS & NBC Move on From Hunter, ABC Highlights Corrupt Business Deals

July 27th, 2023 8:05 PM

It didn’t take long for CBS & NBC to move on from the collapse of President Joe Biden’s criminal son Hunter’s plea deal. In fact, just 24 hours after all three networks led their respective evening newscasts with the news, only ABC’s World News Tonight stuck with the story and kept their viewers in the loop about the new revelations. Including what was actually in the plea…

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Poor Hunter! Networks SAD About Hunter's Plea Deal Falling Apart

July 26th, 2023 8:58 PM

To paraphrase the Soup Nazi in Seinfeld: No plea deal for you! Sorry, Hunter! That was the end result of a tumultuous day in a Wilmington courtroom Wednesday where President Joe Biden’s criminal drug addict son Hunter Biden was stripped of his plea deal and forced to plead not guilty to tax fraud charges. On Wednesday evening, the big three evening news broadcasts had the sads over Hunter’s…

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Nets Ignore FOUR New Biden Scandals on Hunter’s Life of Corruption

July 25th, 2023 10:07 PM

Between Monday and Tuesday, four new Biden family scandals emerged, ranging from Hunter Biden’s artwork to business dealings inside Delaware to conflicts of interest in his tax probe to a former ally finally agreeing to spill the beans to a House committee about the Biden family’s ties to Burisma. If course, none of these scandals made it on the flagship morning and evening newscasts of ABC,…

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NBC Ignores Federal Judge Blocking Biden's Asylum Policy

July 25th, 2023 8:45 PM

The Biden administration faced yet another defeat in the courts Tuesday when a federal judge blocked a major piece of Biden’s immigration policy. After two-plus years of his refusal to secure the U.S./Mexico border, Biden’s bandaid has been yanked off by a U.S. District Court judge. To their credit, ABC’s World News Tonight, and CBS Evening News both covered the latest court…