BRUTAL: NBC’s Guthrie Absolutely Grills Mayorkas on the Border Crisis

May 12th, 2023 5:45 PM

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas made the rounds Friday on all three broadcast network morning news shows as Title 42 ended Thursday night and, while those on ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings were taped and fairly pedestrian, NBC’s Today had co-host Savannah Guthrie bringing the heat over the crisis at the southern border.

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She Should Take KJP’s Job: ABC’s Bruce Spins for Biden on Border, Debt

May 9th, 2023 3:00 PM

Being a frequent NewsBusters reader and/or a trip to our taxonomy term for ABC chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce would give one the impression that Bruce is little more than a doormat for the Biden administration and loyally delivering the day’s preferred spin. Such was the case on Tuesday’s Good Morning America as she enthusiastically spun for President Biden on the border…

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Pour One Out: NBC Breaks ‘Big Three’ Silence on Bud Light Hubbub

May 5th, 2023 4:02 PM

After over a month of silence as corporate liberalism suffered a massive blow as ordinary Americans rose up against Anheuser-Busch InBev and dumped Bud Light (and the company’s sales) for worshiping at the alter of transgenderism and Dylan Mulvaney, NBC’s Today broke the ice Friday with the first story on a broadcast network morning or evening news show about the fallout.

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Nets Play Lapdog for Biden on Border Crisis; CBS Plays Massive KJP Lie

May 3rd, 2023 3:56 PM

After first rediscovering the border crisis Tuesday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC used their flagship Wednesday morning news shows to spin on behalf of President Biden and his administration, insisting they’re “bracing for” the surge, “taking this seriously,” or paint them as not responsible for the unfettered surge of illegal immigration. ABC’s Good Morning America…

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Wow: ABC, NBC Arrive After CBS Covered Alleged Meddling in Hunter Case

April 20th, 2023 3:27 PM

After ignoring news Wednesday night of an IRS whistleblower coming forward to allege improper meddling in the federal investigation of Hunter Biden, ABC and NBC emerged Thursday morning and inform their audiences about a concerning development originally reported by the CBS Evening News and The Wall Street Journal. Unfortunately, in the case of NBC’s Today, they saw it fit to…

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Deaf to Hearings: CBS/NBC Skip COVID Origin, ABC Avoids Afghanistan

March 9th, 2023 5:32 PM

On Wednesday, House Republicans held two critical hearings on behalf of the American people: the first was to find the origin of the COVID pandemic, and the other was to hold officials accountable for the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan. Despite COVID killing over 1.1 million Americans, the Wednesday evening and Thursday morning newscasts of CBS and NBC completely ignored the hearing.…

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CBS Refuses to Cover ‘Coordinated,’ Far-Left Riot on Atlanta Police

March 6th, 2023 2:28 PM

On Sunday night, far-left activists (including an SPLC attorney) stormed the site of an Atlanta Police Department training facility and fired off fireworks and Molotov cocktails in the latest attempt by the so-called “Stop Cop City” movement to physically attack and threaten law enforcement. But on the Monday morning flagship morning shows, CBS Mornings couldn’t be bothered with zero…

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ABC Again Ditches East Palestine, Gives Half the Time of CBS, NBC

February 17th, 2023 4:38 PM

On Tuesday, NewsBusters released a study on the broadcast network coverage of the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment that showed, since officials lifted an evacuation order on the evening of February 8 through the morning of February 14, ABC had ignored it on their flagship morning and evening newscasts while CBS and NBC had spent only one minute and 42 seconds on what’s become an…

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NBC Hails ‘Spirited’ Biden Pleading for ‘Unity’ to ‘Unserious’ GOP

February 8th, 2023 1:20 PM

While ABC’s Good Morning America was swooning over a “fired up and fiery” President Biden’s “message of hope” in his State of the Union address, NBC’s Today was similarly at a fever pitch of enthusiasm Wednesday as they proclaimed the “spirited” Biden “[made] an appeal for...unity” to an “angry” and “unserious” Republican Party that created a “spicy” atmosphere inside the…

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Nets Cheer WH ‘Pushing Back Hard’ on Chinese Spy Balloon Concerns

February 6th, 2023 2:14 PM

The fallout over the Biden administration allowing a Chinese spy balloon to fly unmolested over the United States and sensitive military installations continued Monday morning, so it fell on the “big three” broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC to hail the White House for “strenuously” “pushing back hard” against such concerns. As such, they fretted Republicans made this a “political…

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Looking Back at Last 10 Marches for Life & the Media's Collective Yawn

January 20th, 2023 3:37 PM

Friday marked the 2023 March for Life on the National Mall on Washington D.C. with hundreds of thousands of pro-lifers to coincide with Sunday’s 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade being argued before the Supreme Court. And, with zero preview coverage Friday morning on the broadcast network news shows, it appears as though this will mark the eighth March for Life in the past 10 years with…

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Nets Mourn ‘Empathetic,’ ‘Trailblazing’ New Zealand PM Stepping Down

January 19th, 2023 7:48 PM

The “big three” broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC grew embarrassingly weak in the knees Thursday over far-left New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s sudden resignation, swooning over her as an “empathetic” “inspiration” and “pioneer” who achieved “global stardom” as “one of the world’s most influential national leaders” who enacted mass gun confiscation with “no pushback.”

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Back to the Mat: Nets Leave Biden Docs Behind to Hit GOP on Debt Limit

January 19th, 2023 4:58 PM

CBS dropped the Biden documents scandal on Wednesday morning and was followed that night by NBC, so it was only a matter of time before ABC did the same. Sure enough, Thursday’s Good Morning America put it out to pasture. Instead, the three networks resumed spinning for the Biden administration as they slammed House Republicans for refusing to lift the debt ceiling, creating a “…

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CBS Waves Goodbye to Biden Docs to Screech About MTG Being on Panels

January 18th, 2023 2:44 PM

Wednesday’s CBS Mornings was the first broadcast network flagship morning or evening show to bid farewell to President Biden’s classified documents scandal with zero formal coverage (aside from a tag in the show’s Eye Opener from two late-night comedy shows). Instead, their political segment huffed about House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) restoring two House Republicans to committees…