Column: Presenting Trump's Democrat Prosecutors as Nonpartisans

August 16th, 2023 6:00 AM

The Democrats have unfurled a fourth indictment of former President Donald Trump, this time in Fulton County, Georgia. The number one media-bias complaint on this trend – other than how these indictments “flood the zone” and devolve the Republican presidential primary into a hyperbolic courtroom drama – is that reporters typically fail to identify the prosecutors as Democrats.

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Clockwork: Nets Use 33 Mins of New Trump Charges to Ditch Shady Bidens

August 15th, 2023 11:58 AM

It’s like clockwork with the liberal media and their friends in government as, following more bad news and new allegations of bribery, corruption, and malfeasance from the Biden family, another Trump indictment dropped Monday night with this one emanating out of Fulton County, Georgia and far-left District Attorney Fani Willis. On Tuesday morning, the morning news shows of ABC, CBS, and NBC…

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Biden Special Counsel Fetches 72 Mins as Trump/J6 Case Hits 373 Mins

August 14th, 2023 9:46 PM

What a difference a few days can make. Between Friday night and Monday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC chose to rediscover Hunter Biden’s life of corruption with 72 minutes and 23 seconds on their flagship morning and evening news shows and Sunday morning political programs. Add in the miniscule tally of four minutes and 50 seconds between the evening of August 1 and the…

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CBS Remembers Weiss-IRS Whistleblowers While ABC And NBC Ignore

August 12th, 2023 11:45 AM

The Saturday editions of NBC’s Today, ABC’s Good Morning America, and CBS Saturday Morning all mentioned Republican objections to Friday’s announcement that David Weiss was named special counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation, but only CBS managed to remember the IRS whistleblowers that give GOP accusations that Weiss initially negotiated a “sweetheart deal” an…

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$20M for Big Guy? ABC, CBS, NBC Still Silent on MASSIVE Biden Scandal

August 10th, 2023 3:10 PM

In an update to a story first published by our Kevin Tober, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC were still out to lunch as of Thursday morning on a stunning revelation a day earlier from the House Oversight Committee that $20 million in foreign money have gone out “to the Bidens and their associates,” including ties to oligarchs in China, Kazakhstan, and Russia.

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ABC, NBC Bask in DeSantis Shakeup, Gleefully Hope He Goes Down

August 9th, 2023 3:51 PM

The major broadcast networks have made no secret that, above actual issues such as crime and the economy, they want voters to have Donald Trump’s criminal indictments and January 6 top of mind as they consider what matters for 2024. As such, they’ve spent over 335 minutes on the third indictment alone. On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, ABC and NBC cheered the changes to Governor Ron…

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Nets Heap 342 Mins on Trump Indictment, 71x More Than Biden Scandals

August 8th, 2023 4:30 PM

UPDATE, 08/11, 11:25 a.m. Eastern: Few things were going to eat into the precious airtime on the flagship morning and evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC and time to spend on the third Trump indictment. But something as apocalyptic-looking as the Hawaiian wildfires did just the trick. Between Thursday night and Friday morning, the networks only added 32 seconds to the coverage tally,…

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NBC’s Lyin’ Burns Battles DeSantis with Abortion Lies, 2020 Obsession

August 7th, 2023 2:57 PM

Possibly out for redemption in the eyes of her fellow liberal journalists after her infamous October 2022 interview with now-Senator John Fetterman (D-PA), NBC correspondent Dasha Burns interrupted, lied, and smeared her way through the first portion of her sit-down with 2024 GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis on Monday’s Today.

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Nets Dish Out 162 Mins to Trump Charges, 19x Larger Than Devon Archer

August 4th, 2023 2:54 PM

Through four days and three installments each of the flagship morning and evening news shows on the major broadcast networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC have eagerly doled out astounding 162 minutes and 16 seconds through Friday morning salivating over the third criminal indictment of former President Trump that has the potential to either land him in prison or propel him to the White House in 2024.…

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Network Tally of New Trump Charges Hits 111 Mins; Biden Issues Go Poof

August 3rd, 2023 12:56 PM

On Wednesday afternoon, NewsBusters brought you the tally of broadcast network coverage of the third Trump indictment as having stood at roughly 70 minutes (70:41) on the flagship morning and evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC. Unsurprisingly, the coverage ballooned ahead of Trump’s arraignment Thursday afternoon on charges relating to his conduct on and prior to January 6. The total this…

NB Podcast: Firehose of Trump Indictment Overtakes Biden Scandals

August 2nd, 2023 5:51 PM

Subbing for boss Tim Graham, Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro and dove right in Wednesday with reaction to the unprecedented third Trump indictment, including the astounding totals of coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC. Spoiler alert: This has given the networks the perfect excuse to wave goodbye to any and all Biden scandals for an indefinite period of time.

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Say Goodbye, Biden Scandals! Nets Give 70 Mins to 3rd Trump Indictment

August 2nd, 2023 2:07 PM

With Tuesday’s third indictment of former President Trump, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC had their ticket out of having to acknowledge the scandals surrounding the Biden family, including reasons to continue skipping Burisma bribery claims and no longer probe Monday’s testimony from Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Devon Archer. Between their flagship Tuesday evening (24…

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NBC Finally Covers Archer Hearing; Nets Insist It Was a Nothingburger

August 1st, 2023 2:05 PM

After being no-shows on Monday’s NBC Nightly News, NBC arrived via Tuesday morning’s Today to Devon Archer’s damaging remarks behind closed doors to the House Oversight Committee about what he saw in his time as Hunter Biden’s longtime business partner and confidant, including their stint on the infamous Ukrainian energy company, Burisma.

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NBC Lionizes Joe Biden Taking YEARS to Acknowledge Granddaughter

July 31st, 2023 11:01 AM

NBC News has parlayed being the first of the broadcast networks to report on President Joe Biden finally acknowledging his 4-year-old granddaughter into lionizing him Monday morning for taking that long and withstanding the criticism. Meanwhile, ABC and CBS didn’t want to stick their necks out that far as they spent barely over a minute (64 seconds) of combined time on the story over the…