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Ron Fournier: Forget All My Clinton Criticism, Hillary for President!

August 31st, 2016 5:02 PM
On her MSNBC show on Tuesday, anchor Andrea Mitchell teed up The Atlantic's senior political columnist Ron Fournier to promote his latest op/ed declaring Donald Trump “unfit” to be president compared to the “very experienced” Hillary Clinton: “...you've got a provocative column up today....you said there is ‘no equivalency’ between Clinton and Trump. That, ‘Hillary has her problems, but Donald…
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Hillary Scandals & Tighter Polls Cause Morning Joe Gloom

August 31st, 2016 4:53 PM
You didn't need to have the sound working while viewing MSNBC's Morning Joe today to know things were not going well for Hillary Clinton. The sad looks on the faces of hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough pretty much revealed the story. A sense of gloom had descended upon the set of Morning Joe as Mika led off detailing the latest drip, drip, dripping of Hillary scandals. Then Joe joined…
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ABC Notices Hillary's Deleted Benghazi E-Mails, NBC Still Censoring

August 31st, 2016 3:10 PM
On Wednesday's GMA, ABC finally covered the latest development on Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal. Paula Faris gave a news brief noting that "the Justice Department now says that up to 30 deleted e-mails from her private server could be related to the Benghazi attack." CBS This Morning mentioned the new revelation on the Clinton scandal during the lead-in for a report on the former senator's lack…
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Finally a Backlash? CBS Derides Clinton as ‘No Questions’ Hillary

August 31st, 2016 12:22 PM
Though many journalists and networks are still not complaining about Hillary Clinton’s media blackout, the silent treatment seems to be irritating the reporters at CBS. A network graphic on Wednesday pointedly complained, “No Questions, Please: Clinton Criticized for Having Few News Conferences.” 
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93% of Network Stories Ignore Fed Role in EpiPen Crisis

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August 31st, 2016 10:45 AM

Networks vilified a drug company and its CEO for the high price of life-saving allergy medicine, all while ignoring government actions which enabled the company’s monopoly, contributed to rising costs and increased demand. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton blasted Mylan Pharmaceuticals on Aug. 24, for raising the price of a life-saving medical device called EpiPen by 480 percent…

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Ramos Promotes Anti-Trump Crusade on CNN, Little Pushback from Cooper

August 31st, 2016 1:27 AM
Jorge Ramos appeared on Anderson Cooper 360 Tuesday night to discuss his favorite person to hate, Donald Trump. While on the program he promoted his anti-Trump crusade and called for journalists to put objectivity aside. Ramos argued, “I think for journalists our social responsibility, I think, is to question those who are in power and when we're confronted with racism, discrimination, corruption…

'Doonesbury' Creator: Bleah, Mocking Hillary 'Feels Like Homework'

August 30th, 2016 11:36 PM
The Washington Post interviewed Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau for Tuesday's Style section and highlighted how he said if Trump wins, "I'll miss civilization as we know it." But Trudeau's take on mocking Hillary Clinton offered a potential summary of the media's feeling about this campaign. When asked what he as a satirist found interesting and worth mocking, he said "Nothing. When you’re…
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Nets Cover for Clinton, Ignore Discovery of 30 Benghazi E-mails

August 30th, 2016 10:44 PM
Hillary Clinton was caught in yet another lie about her e-mails Tuesday, following an announcement from the State Department that they discovered still more e-mails she failed to turn over. “And tonight, we have confirmation that at least some of the thousands of e-mails deleted and not turned over to the State Department dealt with the issue of Benghazi, Libya, clearly not falling into the…

Daily Kos Writer: Media ‘Skewing Their Agenda to Undermine’ Hillary

August 30th, 2016 5:59 PM
The mainstream media’s campaign coverage is perverse, believes Laurence Lewis. The MSM should be explaining that Donald Trump is “the least fit nominee for president in living memory, if not all of American history,” but instead they’re attacking Hillary Clinton. In a piece pegged to the uproar over the Clinton Foundation pay-for-play story, Lewis complained, "The Clinton critics just can't…

¿De cuándo acá fue la neutralidad una opción para Jorge Ramos?

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August 30th, 2016 3:43 PM
Si estos artículos tipo "cosas que dice Jorge Ramos" parecen repetitivos, es porque no hay precedente de un presentador nacional de noticias que publique sus opiniones (en plataforma multinacional) sobre un candidato presidencial, porque la prensa estáblishment ha colaborado con esta rotura con tradición de años, y porque es importante crear y preservar -conforme a la misión de MRC Latino- una…
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Nets Fret Over Weiner Sexting Going From ‘Personal’ to Political

August 30th, 2016 1:00 PM
All three networks on Tuesday fretted over the sordid details of Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal, worrying that the “personal” is now becoming political. A CBS This Morning analyst dismissed Donald Trump’s contention that the wife of the unrestrained Weiner may be a security risk. 
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Surprise: MSNBC Touts Hillary's Lack of Press Conferences in 2016

August 30th, 2016 12:15 PM
On Monday's MSNBC Live, Steve Kornacki refreshingly spotlighted Hillary Clinton's utter lack of press conferences in 2016. Kornacki used a "Most Important Number of the Day" segment to point out that Mrs. Clinton's last presser was "268 days ago [as of Monday]...on December Fourth of last year — December Fourth of 2015." The anchor also noted that there were "17 news conferences, so far, for…
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Mitchell Awkwardly Notes Clinton Sex Scandals During Weiner Story

August 30th, 2016 11:37 AM
Discussing the latest sexting scandal for Anthony Weiner on Tuesday’s NBC Today, correspondent Andrea Mitchell commented on top Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin separating from the disgraced ex-congressman: “...despite their long-troubled marriage and that friends say that this was coming for a long time....they were trying to continue with this facade of a marriage....it worked for them for now…
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Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski: I Can't Be Objective About Trump

August 30th, 2016 6:22 AM
In what must be at least the twentieth media installment of "I can't be objective about this," MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski brought out her death stare as she reacted on Friday's Morning Joe show to Donald Trump's characterization of Hillary Clinton as a bigot — after several months during which Mrs. Clinton, her campaign and the press (but I repeat myself) have routinely called Trump or his rhetoric…