Crunching the Numbers: What to Watch For at the Next GOP Debate

Rich Noyes
December 14th, 2015 8:15 AM
After a five-week hiatus, the Republican presidential candidates meet tomorrow night for their next prime time debate, moderated by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. Based on how the various networks handled the first four debates, viewers of Tuesday's CNN debate should expect: 1) the questions will be aimed at getting the candidates to fight with one another; 2) Donald Trump will take more airtime than any of…
 
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Mauled in the Morning: GOP Candidates Hit from the Left

Geoffrey Dickens
December 10th, 2015 9:30 AM
An MRC analysis of interviews from January 1 to December 4 finds the broadcast networks have pounded the candidates with a blizzard of hostile and left-wing questions.
 

Networks Spend 105 Minutes in 2 Days Bashing Trump Comments

Mike Ciandella
December 9th, 2015 3:45 PM
The networks are never willing to let a good Trump controversy go to waste. The morning and evening news broadcasts on ABC, CBS and NBC have dedicated a whopping 105 minutes (1 hour and 45 minutes) to criticism of Trump’s comments about restricting Muslim immigration, since Trump made the comments on December 7.
 
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CBS Debate Co-Moderator Nancy Cordes’ Worst Liberal Outbursts

Geoffrey Dickens
November 14th, 2015 1:00 PM
It’s hard to imagine CBS Democratic debate co-moderator Nancy Cordes drilling Hillary Clinton with hardball questions when she’s already dubbed her the “undisputed frontrunner.” 
 
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CBS Debate Moderator John Dickerson’s Most Liberal Outbursts

Geoffrey Dickens
November 13th, 2015 12:01 PM
Viewers of Saturday night’s Democratic debate probably shouldn’t expect any tough questions, at least from the right, coming from debate moderator John Dickerson.
 
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MRC Study: TV News Is Trying to Winnow the Field of GOP Candidates

Rich Noyes
November 9th, 2015 9:16 AM

During the past three months, the big broadcast networks have essentially stopped covering most of the GOP presidential candidates, a lack of national news attention that presumably affects the national poll ratings used to determine which candidates are included in televised debates. Instead of covering the top 10 Republican candidates, or the entire current field of 15 candidates, the…

 

World Series Loses to Women's World Cup in Network Nightly News

Mike Ciandella
November 3rd, 2015 12:25 PM
The Kansas City Royals may have won Major League Baseball’s World Series, but the World Series lost when it came to network news coverage of professional sports championships. MRC’s analysis of the three evening news broadcasts shows that in 2015, ABC, CBS and NBC overwhelmingly favored coverage of the NFL Super Bowl, with 59 minutes of coverage.
 
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Journalists vs. 'Far Right,' 'Hardline' and 'Ultra-Conservative' GOP

Rich Noyes
October 28th, 2015 10:05 AM

Over the past four weeks, as the broadcast networks have covered the House leadership contest, reporters have gone out of their way to relentlessly paint House Republicans, especially the Freedom Caucus, as ideologues who are outside the American political mainstream. From September 25 to October 23, MRC analysts reviewed all 82 ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news stories about John…

 
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Watch Out for Shenanigans! CNBC Debate Moderator's Most Biased Moments

Geoffrey Dickens
October 27th, 2015 1:46 PM
The RNC may regret its approval of John Harwood as lead moderator for Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate on CNBC if recent history is any guide. The CNBC anchor and New York Times columnist admitted he and a producer helped make Rick Perry’s infamous “oops” moment even worse.
 
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Media Hand a 'Lifeline' to Hillary on Benghazi

Geoffrey Dickens
October 20th, 2015 4:00 PM
Hillary Clinton is set to testify before the Benghazi committee on Thursday but the liberal media have spent weeks laying the groundwork for her. Instead of putting the onus on Clinton, her now-discredited story of the attacks being spurred by an anti-Muslim video, and her shady scheme to bypass the State Department e-mail system, the media have led up to the hearings by touting the supposed…
 
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Debate Sneak Peek? Moderators Love 'Queen' Hillary, Hate Teabaggers

Geoffrey Dickens
October 13th, 2015 2:49 PM
The lead moderator for tonight’s Democratic debate, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, has already announced he will not pit candidates against each other and a look at his past statements perhaps reveals the reason why – he caters to liberal candidates while discussing conservatives in the ugliest terms. 
 
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Will CNN Treat the Democrats the Same Way They Treated GOP? No!

Geoffrey Dickens
October 12th, 2015 2:52 PM
If CNN wants to be balanced in how it moderates the upcoming Democratic debate on Tuesday, it will ask questions that prompt the candidates on stage to fight with one another, because that’s exactly how they handled the GOP debate back on September 16. Of the 74 total questions asked by CNN’s debate moderators at the GOP debate, 55 of them (74 percent) were framed to get Republican candidates to…
 

Hillary Gets the Most Press; Bernie and Biden Get the Best Press

Rich Noyes
October 6th, 2015 9:30 AM
According to the latest statistics from the MRC’s ongoing tracking of ABC, CBS and NBC’s evening news coverage of the campaign, frontrunner Hillary Clinton has garnered 80 percent of the Democratic airtime since January 1. Her closest announced rival, the socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, has received just six percent of the airtime, or about 24 minutes vs. 337 minutes for Clinton. Unlike…
 
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Just Like Newtown, Aurora, Columbine Before, Media Exploit OR Shooting

Geoffrey Dickens
October 2nd, 2015 4:37 PM
Like prior high profile mass shootings (Aurora, Newtown, Columbine) the liberal media wasted no time in exploiting the latest tragedy in Oregon to call for more gun control. On Thursday, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley hyped that “each mass shooting brings new calls for tougher gun laws” before correspondent Nancy Cordes declared that “sympathy and best wishes are all about the victims’…