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Nets Do Obama’s Bidding, Pressure GOP on Court Nominee

Kyle Drennen
March 17th, 2016 12:08 PM
On Thursday, the broadcast networks wasted no time advancing President Obama’s political strategy to force Republicans to confirm his Supreme Court nominee. The NBC, ABC, and CBS morning newscasts were eager to tout “pressure” being brought to bear on GOP senators to make them “pay a price” for opposing Merrick Garland for the high court.
 

By 15:1 Margin, Nets Blame Trump, Not Lefties, for Campaign Violence

Rich Noyes
March 14th, 2016 4:37 PM

Since Friday night’s mayhem in Chicago, all three broadcast networks have made the violence surrounding Donald Trump’s rallies the near-exclusive focus of their campaign coverage. But an MRC analysis of ABC, CBS and NBC news coverage found that the left-wing protesters who forced the cancellation of a presidential campaign event escaped nearly all blame, as reporters dumped 94% of the blame on…

 
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CBS, NBC: Obama ‘Plans to Follow the Constitution’ vs. GOP ‘Roadblock'

Curtis Houck
February 16th, 2016 9:08 PM
The “big three” networks ABC, CBS, and NBC all made sure to weigh in Tuesday night on President Barack Obama’s comments hours earlier about his desire to fill the Supreme Court vacancy left by the late Justice Antonin Scalia and spun them as Obama “plan[ning] to follow the Constitution” against “the Republican roadblock” in the Senate. 
 
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ABC Boosts Hillary Giving Volunteers Donuts, Stopping for Coffee

Curtis Houck
February 1st, 2016 8:28 PM
ABC’s World News Tonight and their fellow newscasts on CBS and NBC went all out on Monday just before the Iowa caucuses, but it was ABC that found it important for viewers to know that Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton began her day by giving volunteers donuts and stopping for coffee at a local coffee shop. In Democratic correspondent and Saturday anchor Cecilia Vega’s report, she began by…
 
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ABC Blends 'Bombshell' Hillary E-mail Development Into 2016 Coverage

Matthew Balan
January 29th, 2016 11:56 PM

Friday's World News Tonight set aside the least amount of air time to the State Department's revelation that at least 22 of the e-mails on Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server contained top-secret information. The ABC program devoted a total of one minute and 28 seconds to the development. Jonathan Karl folded his coverage of the story into a segment about the Democratic presidential race…

 

Nets Give Trump Boycott 3 Times More Coverage Than Actual GOP Debate

Kyle Drennen
January 29th, 2016 10:14 AM
After devoting nearly ten minutes of air time to Donald Trump’s boycott of the Republican debate on Thursday’s evening newscasts (rather than preview the debate itself), on Friday morning, the three broadcast networks offered over 21 minutes of political coverage continuing to hype Trump’s absence while only managing 7 minutes for the GOP contenders who participated in the event. 
 

TV Touts Trump Controversies But Avoids His Past Liberalism

Rich Noyes
January 28th, 2016 9:30 AM
As of Friday, Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s seven-month-old candidacy has been the focus of an incredible 684 minutes of coverage on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts, far more than any of his GOP rivals. But amid that sea of Trump news, the networks have spent only about nine minutes (1.3% of Trump’s overall coverage) discussing the candidate’s clearly documented past support for…
 
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CBS Maintains Blackout on Bloomberg's Gun Control Stance; ABC Covers

Matthew Balan
January 26th, 2016 12:27 AM
Monday's CBS Evening News followed the example of CBS This Morning earlier in the day in failing to mention Michael Bloomberg's outspoken gun control stance in their coverage of the former New York City mayor's potential presidential run. By contrast, Jonathan Karl gave ABC's first mention of this liberal political position on Monday's World News Tonight: "He [Bloomberg] is a socially-liberal New…
 
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Nets Tout Possible Bloomberg Run, Only NBC Notes His Anti-Gun Crusade

Kyle Drennen
January 25th, 2016 12:07 PM
On Monday, all three network morning shows hyped the possibility of former New York City mayor and liberal activist Michael Bloomberg entering the 2016 presidential race. However, only NBC’s Today made any mention of Bloomberg’s nationwide anti-gun crusade as a stumbling block for him.
 
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Nets Seize on Dole Blasting Cruz as ‘Extremist’ Who ‘Nobody Likes'

Kyle Drennen
January 21st, 2016 12:42 PM
On Thursday, all three network morning shows were eager to hype former senator and Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole viciously attacking Texas Senator Ted Cruz. On ABC’s Good Morning America, correspondent Tom Llamas proclaimed: “This morning, more and more prominent Republicans turning their backs on Senator Ted Cruz. First Iowa's governor, and now, former Republican presidential nominee…
 
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Nets Cheer Obama’s ‘Return to Hope and Change’ in State of the Union

Kyle Drennen
January 13th, 2016 1:05 PM
On Wednesday, all three network morning shows offered rave reviews of President Obama’s final State of the Union address, applauding the “passionate defense of his record” and his repeated attacks on Republicans. Leading off NBC’s Today, co-host Matt Lauer announced: “Return to hope and change....President Obama uses his last State of the Union address to tout his accomplishments, set some lofty…
 
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ABC, NBC Skip Bad Obama Polls Before SOTU; Need to 'Recapture' Magic

Curtis Houck
January 12th, 2016 8:49 PM
In the Tuesday evening newscasts before President Obama’s final State of the Union address, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News failed to mention any of the poor polling numbers for President Obama on a variety of issues but instead hailed the President’s “big themes” in a speech “trying to recapture the hope and change of when he first took office, despite the setbacks and gridlock…
 
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Kelly Obliterates Lib Media, WH for Moving on from ISIS Attack on Cop

Curtis Houck
January 12th, 2016 2:26 AM
Leading off Monday’s Kelly File on the Fox News Channel (FNC), host Megyn Kelly took the liberal media and the Obama administration to task for having all but moved on from the January 7 attack by an ISIS-inspired Muslim on a Philadelphia police officer with White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest downplaying the event hours earlier to ABC’s Jonathan Karl.
 

'CBS Evening News' Downplays Ash Carter's Private E-Mail Scandal

Ken Shepherd
December 17th, 2015 8:53 PM

The Big Three broadcast network evening newscasts all touched on the revelation that Secretary of Defense Ash Carter used private e-mails for government business and this well after former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came under fire for exclusively conducting her official email correspondence that way. That said, only CBS's Evening News downplayed the significance of the story by…