Savannah Guthrie
It’s Their Super Bowl: Networks Go ALL OUT With 90 Mins on January 6
On Thursday, it was the liberal media’s Super Bowl and on the first anniversary of the January 6, 2021 attack and riot at the U.S. Capitol as, according to a NewsBusters analysis of the major broadcast network morning newscasts, ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS Mornings, and NBC’s Today spent roughly 90 minutes dissecting, obsessing over, and painting the 75 million-…
Wall-to-Wall: Media Plan AVALANCHE of Jan. 6 Anniversary Coverage
In an effort to push the Democratic Party agenda on the federal takeover of elections and hype an anti-Republican campaign narrative ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, leftist media outlets have planned an avalanche of special coverage commemorating the one year anniversary of the January 6th Capitol Hill riot. On Wednesday, network hosts eagerly announced plans to anchor live from…
NBC Hypes Biden DOJ Push to Rig Texas Electoral Map for Dems
On Tuesday, NBC’s Today show seized on the Biden Department of Justice trying to bully Texas into changing its electoral map to benefit Democrats. The heavily slanted segment amounted to a litany of left-wing grievances attacking the Republican-controlled state and accusing it of racist redistricting.
Lyin’ Brian Williams Announces Retirement, NBC Hails Him as ‘Legend’
On MSNBC’s The 11th Hour Tuesday night, left-wing host Brian Williams announced that he would not be renewing his contract with the network and would be leaving in December. On Wednesday morning, the Today show hailed the disgraced former Nightly News anchor as a “legend” and skipped any mention of him being fired from his previous job due to dishonesty.
NBC & CBS Find Abedin ‘Guilty’ for Clinton 2016 Loss
On Monday, both NBC’s Today and CBS Mornings devoted significant air time to promoting the new memoir from longtime Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin while lamenting how the scandals that swirled around her disgraced ex-husband Anthony Weiner may have been what cost Clinton the 2016 election. The CBS coverage even imagined an alternate reality where the Democrat “could be in…
Guthrie to Couric: RBG Cover-Up ‘Violates Cardinal Rule of Journalism’
During a Tuesday interview with former Today show co-host Katie Couric, current NBC morning show host Savannah Guthrie scolded her predecessor for censoring comments made by late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a 2016 Yahoo News interview. Guthrie told Couric that the decision to edit out those remarks “violates a cardinal rule of journalism.”
Big Three Networks THRILLED Judge Blocks ‘Offensive’ Anti-Abortion Law
Overnight, an unelected federal judge blocked Texas’s SB8 law that made abortions illegal after a fetal heartbeat was detected. Thursday morning, all three network morning shows were so overjoyed by the news that it was their lead story.
FLASHBACK: Did This NBC Town Hall Deserve an Emmy? (Spoiler: No)
This week, Today host Savannah Guthrie won an Emmy for an ambush town hall in which she relentlessly hit Donald Trump from the left. On Wednesday, Hoda Kotb gushed, “We have in our presence an Emmy and an Emmy award winner. That Emmy, that was awarded last night to NBC News and Savannah.”
NBC & CBS Hype INSANE Demand to Label Parent Protesters ‘Terrorists’
On Thursday and Friday, CBS Evening News and NBC’s Today show both hyped an outrageous demand from the left-wing National School Boards Association (NSBA) that the Biden administration treat parents protesting at school board meetings across the country as acts of “domestic terrorism.” Rather than call out the extreme overreaction, the networks eagerly touted the wild attempt…
NBC’s Guthrie Gets Emmy for 2020 Trump-Trashing Town Hall
In October of 2020, just weeks before the presidential election, NBC’s Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie conducted what was supposed to be a voter “town hall” event with then-President Trump. Instead, it devolved into a vicious ambush in which the anchor relentlessly attacked Trump from the left. On Tuesday, the NBC host was rewarded for abandoning journalistic standards with an…
Nets Hype Biden’s Climate ‘Code Red’ Alarmism, Push to Waste Trillions
Wednesday’s network morning shows were thrilled that President Biden was trying to exploit a deadly natural disaster in order to sell his radical political agenda that would waste trillions of taxpayer dollars. Rather that challenge any of Biden’s fearmongering rhetoric, the CBS, ABC, and NBC broadcasts all touted it as if it were a statement of fact.
Guthrie and Lewinsky Talk FX Series, ‘Betrayal’ of ‘Treacherous’ Tripp
On Tuesday, NBC’s Today show promoted the upcoming FX series on Bill Clinton’s impeachment following his affair with Monica Lewinsky by painting one of his sexual harassment victims, the late Linda Tripp, as a “treacherous” villain who was guilty of “betrayal.” In addition, the broadcast featured a live exclusive interview with Lewinsky, who was a producer for the mini-series set to…
NewsBusters Podcast: Media Sleep as Biden Bungles Border, Afghanistan
On the latest NewsBusters Podcast: The Monday morning shows were a bad neighborhood for Team Biden. "Saigon on steroids," proclaimed normally supportive George Stephanopoulos on ABC. NBC's Savannah Guthrie pressed Biden national security adviser Jake Sullivan on how Biden insisted there would be no dramatic collapse of the Afghan government. And our latest study showed the networks skipping…
NBC’s Guthrie Hammers Top White House Aide Over Afghanistan ‘Fiasco’
During a testy interview with White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Monday, NBC’s Today show co-host Savannah Guthrie demanded answers on the administration’s catastrophic failure in Afghanistan and how the foreign policy “fiasco” could possibly be salvaged. When the top aide attempted to play word games, the anchor slapped him down.