Brad Wilmouth
Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog
In their first show after the Santa Clarita school shooting, the CNN morning team on New Day handled the story in their typical fashion of only having guests who support more gun control and who falsely portray Republicans as having no proposals for how to lessen mass shootings.
The show also included the bizarre recurring theme of beginning the…
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On Thursday afternoon, within a couple of hours of covering the school shooting in Santa Clarita, California, MSNBC journalists were predictably suggesting Republicans were to blame for the deaths as analysts and several Democratic guests pined for more gun control.
At one point, host Katy Tur invited MSNBC law enforcement analyst Jim Cavanaugh to…
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On Thursday morning, FNC's Fox and Friends gave attention to misguided efforts to restrict gun sales in Tacoma, Washington, by charging people a tax for gun sales, as if making lawful gun purchases more expensive would somehow harm criminals.
At about 7:45 a.m. Eastern, the show allowed two pro-gun activists from the Tacoma Rifle and Revolver Club to…
video from late January/early February 2019
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Over the past couple of months, the dominant media have again been fixated on deadly police shootings, but only those in which black victims are killed even though only about 25 percent of police shooting victims are black.
Such misleading reporting which makes it look like police violence is nearly all…
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On Friday's Fox and Friends, and again on Fox and Friends Saturday, Fox News Channel gave coverage to a story ignored by the other networks as the show recalled for viewers that two illegal immigrants have been charged with murdering a El Dorado County, California, police officer, Brian Ishmael, who was shot to death on October 23 while responding to…
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On Tuesday's PBS NewsHour, the show gave a forum to former Barack Obama administration official Todd Stern of the Brookings Institution to complain about President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Accord on climate change. Stern called the decision "crazy" and suggested the country needs a "new President," all without any balance offered…