TV News in March: Trump Gets 5x More Airtime than Cruz

Rich Noyes
April 4th, 2016 11:00 AM
In March, the GOP nomination contest winnowed to essentially a two-man race between frontrunner Donald Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz, with Ohio Governor John Kasich trailing far behind. Yet the broadcast networks spent much less time on Cruz and essentially ignored Kasich, giving Donald Trump a whopping 72 percent of the Republican airtime last month. Trump's 267 minutes of coverage was more…
 

Misbehaving Trump Aide Gets 8 Times More Airtime than Huma's Scandal

Rich Noyes
March 30th, 2016 4:10 PM
In just the last three weeks, ABC, CBS and NBC’s evening newscasts have generated nearly 16 minutes of coverage looking at charges of misconduct against Donald Trump’s campaign manager Corey Lewandowski. That’s more than eight times the coverage than they’ve given over the past eight months to serious questions surrounding top Clinton aide Huma Abedin for her role in a variety of Clinton scandals…
 
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Despite Complete Lack of Solid Sources, Networks Push Cruz Smear Again

Scott Whitlock
March 28th, 2016 1:29 PM
Despite the fact that there’s a complete lack of solid sourcing in the sleazy National Enquirer allegations against Ted Cruz, all three networks on Monday morning reported on the story again, offering an additional three minutes and 44 seconds. This is on top of 11 minutes and 43 seconds devoted to the sketchy claims from Friday through Sunday. In total, the ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening…
 
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Supreme Court Nominees Always Too Conservative for the Liberal Media

Geoffrey Dickens
March 15th, 2016 10:25 AM

Whomever Barack Obama selects to fill the vacancy left by the death of Antonin Scalia expect the liberal media to worry the selection isn’t progressive enough. As might be expected, journalists criticize the Supreme Court appointments made by Republican presidents as “hardline” and “very conservative.” But even the nominees elevated by recent Democratic presidents have been challenged as not…

 

Nets Award Trump 84 Percent of Pre-Super Tuesday 3 GOP Coverage

Curtis Houck
March 14th, 2016 11:01 PM
Ahead of the third installment of Super Tuesday on Monday, the broadcast network evening newscasts followed their predictable pattern of focusing almost exclusively on Donald Trump to the tune of a whopping 84 percent of the Republican campaign segments totaling nearly 15 and a half minutes.
 

Clinton Admits She’ll Put ‘Coal Miners’ Out of Work, Morning Shows Mum

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Julia A. Seymour
March 14th, 2016 7:07 PM
Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently admitted her policies would put a certain group of people out of work, which could cost her support if the liberal media reported it. At a CNN/TV One town hall event in Ohio on March 13, Clinton said, “[W]e’re gonna put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business. Right, Tim? And we’re gonna make it clear that we don’t want…
 
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CBS, NBC Skip Ruling on Clinton Aides Testifying About Her E-Mails

Curtis Houck
February 23rd, 2016 8:14 PM
On Tuesday night, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News , Noticiero Telemundo, and Noticiero Univision saw no reason to inform their viewers that a federal judge ruled hours earlier that State Department officials and aides to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can be questioned under oath about their knowledge and role in Clinton’s private e-mail scandal.