Bill D'Agostino
Bill D'Agostino | January 9, 2020
To read the full article, visit Newsbusters. According to a recent MRC study, the three major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) aired 45 reports about “outrage” at alleged police misconduct in 2019 — more than any topic except politics. However, only one report throughout last year described outrage at a police officer coming to harm.
Bill D'Agostino | January 7, 2020
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. For days now, leftwing TV news networks have expressed horror over the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian General Qasem Soleimani. While their reasons varied, nearly every cable and broadcast journalist agreed that President Trump had caused an international disaster — and, perhaps, a war.
Bill D'Agostino | January 3, 2020
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. Even a casual watcher of broadcast news these days knows that journalists are using increasingly emotional language in their reports. Case in point: the word "outrage," which MRC analysts found was used 229 times in ABC, CBS and NBC's evening news reports in 2019. But our examination shows network reporters used that term far more frequently in…
Bill D'Agostino | December 30, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. New York Times political reporter Jeremy Peters has a fun theory that conservative media and President Trump are somehow a fault for the recent machete attack at a Hanukkah party in Monsey, New York.
Bill D'Agostino | December 26, 2019
Read the full article on NewsBusters. Apparently CNN’s stance is that illegal immigration is good, and that the correct way to refer to illegal immigrants is, “Latinos.” That’s according to a report about ICE raids that ran on Monday’s CNN Newsroom during the 9 a.m. ET hour, in which the network failed to use the term “undocumented” even a single time.
Bill D'Agostino | December 23, 2019
Liberal cable hosts have found an unlikely new cudgel with which to attack President Trump: former National Security Adviser John Bolton, who recently panned the President’s North Korea policy as having “failed.” TV journalists on Monday treated this critique from Bolton as lucid and credible — yet these same networks back in 2018 described Bolton as a “dangerous” advocate for “war with North…
Bill D'Agostino | December 12, 2019
[See NewsBusters for more.] Liberals in the media will often say that bias is in the eye of the beholder. But each week, the cover of Time magazine portrays Donald Trump as an apocalyptic, nightmarish figure. Democrats, in contrast, are routinely featured as smiling, happy, reassuring figures. And while less and less Americans actually buy the weekly publication, the magazine still impacts the…
Bill D'Agostino | November 27, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. On Wednesday, CNN Newsroom co-host Jim Sciutto was visibly frustrated that Americans were not “moved” by the vague quid pro quo allegation against President Trump. To spice things up, Sciutto enlisted the help of CNN analyst Paul Callan, who conjured up a fanciful hypothetical world where President Trump had been caught planning a bank robbery.
Bill D'Agostino | November 20, 2019
Hosts on CNN and MSNBC sneered at a letter Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) sent to the House Intelligence Committee on Monday, in which Johnson spelled out a timeline of his efforts to convince President Trump to restore aid to Ukraine.
Bill D'Agostino | November 19, 2019
To read the full article, visit NewsBusters. For the past several weeks, anxious journalists have coached Democratic politicians from the sidelines with unsolicited advice on how best to convince the majority of Americans to support impeaching President Trump.