Matthew Balan | September 9, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] CBS This Morning's hosts badgered Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway on 9 September 2016 over the billionaire's recent praise for Vladmir Putin, the Iraq War, his appearance on Larry King's show on Russia's state-run RT network, and North Korea's nuclear program. By contrast, the anchors went much easier on Democratic V.P. nominee Tim…
Matthew Balan | September 8, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] On the 8 September 2016 edition of Legal View, two CNN journalists played up Hillary Clinton's first press conference in many months. Ashleigh Banfield trumpeted how "Republicans can no longer say, 270-some-odd days since Hillary held a news conference. There is some real strategy to this." Nia-Malika Henderson touted that the presser was a…
Matthew Balan | September 7, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] On 6 September 2016, the owners of the Empire State Building honored ABC's The View by lighting the famed skyscraper "in light blue, teal and orange in celebration of 20 years" of the daytime program. However, the same company rejected a tribute in lights for the 100th birthday of Mother Teresa in 2010, which was requested by the Catholic…
Matthew Balan | September 6, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] Three panelists on ABC's This Week on 5 September 2016 all agreed that the latest development in Hillary Clinton's e-mail scandal will impact her campaign negatively. Matthew Dowd asserted that the FBI's release of their interview notes was "really damaging...the majority of the country doesn't trust her; and this only adds to that problem…
Matthew Balan | September 2, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] The Big Three's evening newscasts all devoted full reports on 2 September 2016 to the FBI's release of its notes on their interview of Hillary Clinton over her e-mail scandal. However, ABC's Cecilia Vega stood out for spotlighting how "careless," as FBI Director James Comey put it, Mrs. Clinton was in her handling of classified material on…
Matthew Balan | September 1, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] MSNBC's Thomas Roberts has repeatedly flaunted his liberal bias over the years, but he took it to a new level in a recent ad that not only marked his network's 20th anniversary, but also celebrated the Supreme Court's 2015 decision legalizing same-sex "marriage." Roberts held up his hand with a ring on it, and gushed, "It's a victory — I've…
Matthew Balan | August 31, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] The 30 August 2016 edition of PBS NewsHour stood out for their six-minute-long segment on the Associated Press's revelation of at least 72 mass graves in former or current ISIS territory in Syria and Iraq. Gwen Ifill interviewed correspondent Lori Hinnant, one of the author's of the early Tuesday report that detailed the genocidal terrorist…
Matthew Balan | August 31, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] On the 31 August 2016 edition of GMA, ABC finally covered the latest development on Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal. Paula Faris gave a 23-second news brief noting that "the Justice Department now says that up to 30 deleted e-mails from her private server could be related to the Benghazi attack." Almost an hour earlier, CBS This Morning…
Matthew Balan | August 30, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] The Big Three networks' morning newscasts on 30 August 2016; along with those of CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News; all failed to cover the Associated Press's early Tuesday morning report that revealed the 72 mass graves inside current or former ISIS territory in Iraq and Syria. Correspondents Lori Hinnant and Desmond Butler zeroed on such site that…
Matthew Balan | August 30, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] On the 29 August 2016 edition of MSNBC Live, Steve Kornacki refreshingly spotlighted Hillary Clinton's utter lack of press conferences in 2016. Kornacki used a "Most Important Number of the Day" segment to point out that Mrs. Clinton's last presser was "268 days ago [as of Monday]...on December Fourth of last year — December Fourth of 2015…