Nicholas Fondacaro
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Nicholas Fondacaro | February 20, 2020
***To read the full blog, please check out the complete post on NewsBusters*** As of Thursday, there were two sets of respected pollster results that showed President Trump pulling head his Democratic rivals nationally and in at least one key swing state. But conveniently leaked information to The New York Times provided excellent cover to ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News as it…
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 20, 2020
***To read the full blog, please check out the complete post on NewsBusters*** The first three words of CNN’s analysis after Wednesday’s Nevada Democratic presidential debate, provided by chief political analyst Gloria Borger, summed up the panel’s consensus: “Bloomberg was awful.” Whether it was comparisons to the Titanic or getting punched in the face, the criticism only got worse as the…
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 19, 2020
***To read the full blog, please check out the complete post on NewsBusters*** After arguably muted coverage of President Trump’s pardons Tuesday evening, ABC and NBC took to whining about former-Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich for showing “no remorse for his crimes” during a press conference outside his Chicago home on Wednesday. But while they were huffing about Blago’s attitude, none of…
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 18, 2020
***To read the full blog, please check out the complete post on NewsBusters*** While ABC and CBS were largely putting aside the many controversies of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to tout his rapid rise in the polls Tuesday, Leta Hong Fincher, the wife of a former award-winning Bloomberg News reporter was busy reminding the public of how Bloomberg censors his reporters who cover China…
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 18, 2020
***To read the full blog, please check out the complete post on NewsBusters*** Seemingly finished with reporting on the alleged racism and sexism controversies of former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg Tuesday, ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News took to touting his rise in the polls and subsequent qualification for the Democratic debate in Nevada. It had CBS anchor Norah O’…
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 17, 2020
***To read the full blog, please check out the complete post on NewsBusters*** The liberal broadcast networks did all they could to smear gun rights advocates who gathered in Virginia’s capital last month. They framed the advocates as terrorists, white supremacists, and generally violent. When they were proven wrong, they still invoked images of violence and lied about violence occurring. But on…
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 17, 2020
***To read the full blog, please check out the complete post on NewsBusters*** In their self-righteous letter calling on Attorney General Bill Barr to reign Monday, over 2,000 former Justice Department officials claimed he interfered with “the fair administration of justice,” by recommending a reduced prison sentence for Roger Stone. But there was no such letter when the DOJ inspector general…
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 16, 2020
***To read the full blog, please check out the complete post on NewsBusters*** Well, it may have taken a while, but CNN host Brian Stelter finally admitted that praising lawyer Michael Avenatti (A.K.A creepy porn lawyer) as a “serious” contender for 2020 wasn’t a smart move. The admission came during the latest Reliable Sources as he was speaking with writers form the left-wing Daily Beast,…
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 16, 2020
***To read the full blog, please check out the complete post on NewsBusters*** As NewsBusters media editor and research analyst Bill D’Agostino documented last year, NBC News and MSNBC gifted lawyer Michael Avenatti with 113 TV appearances, with Today giving him his first as he pursued cases against President Trump. On Friday, the so-called “creepy porn lawyer” was convicted of trying to extort…
Nicholas Fondacaro | February 16, 2020
***To read the full blog, please check out the complete post on NewsBusters*** In a possible attempt to give flailing Democrats some positive spin after a couple of difficult weeks, NBC political director and Meet the Press moderator, Chuck Todd appeared on Sunday Today to insist President Trump was “sabotaging” his own reelection efforts. On top of that, Todd argued that the President was…