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Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, appeared in live PBS/NPR convention coverage on the night of 20 July 2016 and walked into a barrage of liberal questions designed to shame him and separate him from Donald Trump, who they implied was a terrible Christian. "Conservative" PBS David Brooks not only suggested Trump has no…
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CBS Evening News on 20 July 2016 used the recent heat wave in the United States to hype climate change. Mireya Villarreal featured a National Weather Service meteorologist who contended that "this is such a massive problem — and even if we were to completely stop all carbon emissions right now, we would still have a very serious situation.…
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NBC Nightly News on 20 July 2016 followed the example of CBS the previous evening in spotlighting the latest Republican presidential candidate to get in trouble with a liberal musician for using their music at a campaign event. Peter Alexander zeroed in on how "just hours after [Donald] Trump tried to cast himself as a winner, Queen…
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On 19 and 20 July 2016, CBS Evening News failed to cover the ISIS-inspired knife and ax attack by an Afghan refugee on train passengers in Germany. Instead, the newscast ended on Tuesday with a full report on the celebrities who condemned Donald Trump for walking out to Queen's "We Are The Champions" at the Republican National Convention…
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PBS covered the Republican convention for three hours of prime time on the night of 18 July 2016, in association with its pubcasting buddies at NPR. But they were allergic to showing any Hillary-scandal films that were offered on the convention floor. As a mini-documentary ran about Benghazi, PBS anchors Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff…
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The Big Three networks' evening newscasts on 17 July 2016 all spotlighted Hillary Clinton's speech to the NAACP's annual convention in Cincinnati. ABC's Cecilia Vega touted the Democrat's "political trolling" of Donald Trump, and played up how "Clinton's supporters waging a counter-convention of their own — a pro-Clinton super PAC...linking…
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During the second segment of Don Lemon's interview of Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke on the 17 July 2016 edition of CNN Tonight, the anchor repeated contended that all he wanted to do was have a "conversation" with his guest. He disclosed, "I don't disagree with you about that there's a narrative across the country that could be harming…
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Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke confronted CNN's Don Lemon from the very beginning of his interview on the 17 June 2016 edition of CNN Tonight. Clarke wondered if there were "any protests over the deaths of these cops today in Baton Rouge?...Any riots or protests over the police officers in Dallas?" When Lemon asked the Wisconsin sheriff to…
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On the 15 July 2016 edition of New Day, CNN analyst and former FBI Assistant Director Tom Fuentes played up the possibility of fatal gun violence at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland due to Ohio's open carry law: "[The] law means that you're going to see people — and some of the websites have already said for their protest…
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CNN's Kate Bolduan badgered the RNC's Sean Spicer on the 14 July 2016 edition of At This Hour over Donald Trump passing on speaking at the NAACP's convention. Spicer called out the media for not "reporting when folks don't go meet with conservative groups." Bolduan underlined, "Trump is polling at zero percent with African-American voters…