September TV Coverage: Bashing Trump on NFL, DACA and Cabinet Flights

Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella
October 5th, 2017 1:15 PM
With September’s news coverage now in the record books, the latest Media Research Center analysis finds TV’s hostility to the Trump presidency continues unabated. According to our analysts, the President received 92% bad press, vs. just 8% good press on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening news shows last month.
 
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FLASHBACK: Journalists Disrespected the Flag Long Before Kaepernick

Geoffrey Dickens
September 26th, 2017 8:00 AM
Journalists are falling over themselves to praise NFL players taking a knee in protest during the National Anthem, but this isn’t the first time members of the liberal media have shown disrespect towards a symbol of national unity. Even as this country was recovering from the wounds of 9/11 some leftists in the press were agonizing over the proliferation of flag-waving. The following are some of…
 

FACT: The News Media Did NOT Tip the Election to Trump

Rich Noyes
September 15th, 2017 7:35 AM
One theme of Hillary Clinton’s book tour is that news media bias helped tip the election in favor of Donald Trump, but no reasonable person could suggest that political reporters created a landscape more favorable to Trump than to her. And it’s silly of her to say the news media were one of the causes of her defeat.
 
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FLASHBACK: Media Roll Over For Hillary on Her Book Tours

Geoffrey Dickens
September 12th, 2017 5:30 PM
It’s already started: CBS’s Jane Pauley rolled out the red carpet for Hillary Clinton, in her first book tour stop promoting What Happened. The CBS Sunday Morning host treated the 2016 loser with kid gloves as she tenderly laid up softball after softball, feeling Hillary’s pain. Of course, this is the kind of book tour treatment Clinton has grown accustomed to, whether she was hawking a book as…
 

The Liberal Media’s Summer of Pummeling Trump

Rich Noyes and Mike Ciandella
September 12th, 2017 7:51 AM
Since Inauguration Day (January 20), Media Research Center analysts have reviewed every mention of President Trump and top administration officials on ABC’s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News, including weekends. As of August 31, coverage of the administration has totaled nearly 74 hours (4,418 minutes) of airtime, or about 39 percent of all evening news coverage.…
 
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A Tale of Two Scandals: Whitewater vs. Russia

Geoffrey Dickens
July 26th, 2017 10:35 AM
The liberal media’s message to Donald Trump is clear. Don’t even dare think about removing Robert Mueller from his position as Special Prosecutor. Such a decision would be considered a “radical” and “dangerous” move against a man “even Republicans” have a deep respect for.  However, this was hardly the stance the liberal media took when Ken Starr was first appointed to look into Bill Clinton’s…
 

Big News Stories Hidden Behind Nets' Iron Curtain of Russia News

Nicholas Fondacaro and Rich Noyes
July 19th, 2017 5:22 PM
The broadcast networks' obsession with all things Russia continues: Over the last ten days (July 9 to July 18, including weekends), the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts have devoted nearly two hours (114 minutes) to the ongoing probe of potential 2016 collusion -- far more airtime than they devoted to any other political topic.
 

Insane: CNN Covers Trump Dinner Three Times More Than Obama’s Hot Mic

John Hirschauer
July 19th, 2017 5:01 PM
As the White House becomes further entrenched in the throes of media claims of Russian collusion, it seemed only natural that the news media would have a fit of spasmodic rage when President Trump had an undisclosed meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit of world leaders.
 
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Trump Triggers the Press with His Foreign Trips and Wrestling Tweet

Geoffrey Dickens
July 18th, 2017 10:34 AM
President Donald Trump has a knack for getting under the liberal media’s skin and driving them into hyperbolic criticisms of just about everything he does. Whether it was tweeting out a goofy .gif of him wrestling CNN to the ground, or delivering a patriotic speech overseas the press couldn’t contain their overreactions. The following is a collection of worst media and celebrity outbursts from…
 

Nets Covered Donald Jr’s Russia Meeting 20x More Than Clinton Uranium

Geoffrey Dickens
July 13th, 2017 1:52 PM
The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) evening news shows have been dominated by Donald J. Trump Jr.’s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower – a meeting in which apparently no favors, money or meaningful information was exchanged – but those same shows all but ignored Hillary Clinton’s Russia-Uranium scandal back in 2015. At the time, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was considered the…
 
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Morning Nets Devote 52X More Coverage to Trump Tweet Than Kate's Law

Kyle Drennen
June 30th, 2017 11:50 AM
After Thursday’s network evening newscasts devoted 28 times more coverage to Donald Trump’s offensive tweets than to important immigration reform legislation, on Friday, the morning shows on ABC, NBC, and CBS offered even more lopsided reporting. Combined, ABC’s Good Morning America, NBC’s Today, and CBS This Morning devoted a staggering 52 times the amount of coverage to the President’s social…
 

Study: TV News Is Obsessed With Trump-Russia Probe

Rich Noyes
June 27th, 2017 8:50 AM

A Media Research Center study of every broadcast network evening newscast in the five weeks since the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller on May 17 found a whopping 353 minutes of airtime devoted to the Russia probe, or 55 percent of all coverage of the Trump presidency during those weeks. The study also found one-third (34%) of the networks’ Russia coverage was based on anonymous…

 
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Joy Reid’s Crass Career of Attacking Conservatives

Geoffrey Dickens
June 20th, 2017 4:14 PM

With Congressman Steve Scalise still recovering from an attack by a crazed leftist, MSNBC’s Joy Reid couldn’t keep from politicizing the tragedy as she took a cheap shot at the congressman’s record. On June 17 the host of AM Joy tweeted “Rep. #Scalise was shot by a white man with a violent background, and saved by a black lesbian police officer, and yet...” Sadly, Reid’s inability to put her…

 
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CNN: Decades of ‘Fake News’

Geoffrey Dickens
June 14th, 2017 8:03 AM
Donald Trump’s repeated branding of CNN as “fake news” may have been born in its biased 2016 campaign coverage, but the truth is CNN has peddled inaccurate reporting with an agenda for at least three decades. From former CNN correspondent Peter Arnett, in 1991, passing along Iraqi war propaganda of allied forces bombing a “baby milk” factory to CNN executive Eason Jordan, in 2005, accusing U.S.…