Byron Pitts
ABC: ‘Hero’ Jeff Flake ‘Soothed the Nation’ With ‘Stunning Act of Bipartisanship’
The move to nominate Jeff Flake for sainthood has commenced in the liberal media. His decision last Friday to delay a final vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination brought fawning coverage...
ABC Loses It Post-Obama ‘Sermon on Democracy’; ‘Song of Hope' Showing ‘What’s Possible’
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. My friends, it’s happened. Following President Obama’s farewell address on Tuesday night, ABC poured out warm fuzzes for the President as...
ABC Spotlights Conviction of Pennsylvania's 'Rising Star' Democrat
ABC became the first Big Three network to cover the felony conviction of the Democratic attorney general of Pennsylvania, Kathleen Kane, on the early 17 August 2016 edition of Nightline. Byron Pitts spotlighted...
ABC’s Nightline Spends Half of Roughly Seven Minute 2016 Report on Trump, GOP Debate Boycott
See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog. By virtue of its late-night time slot, ABC’s Nightline received the first crack among the major broadcast networks at reacting to Thursday’s...
ABC Hypes Obama on Guns: ‘America’s Parent-in-Chief’
According to Nightline co-anchor Byron Pitts, Barack Obama is “America’s parent-in-chief” when it comes to guns. The ABC journalist on Tuesday night hyped the President’s White...
Nightline Touts Wisdom of Vegetable-Growing Hippie Commune
ABC's Nightline, a program that can barely be bothered to cover the 2016 presidential election, on Wednesday night devoted over seven minutes to a hippie commune in Virginia where residents are given...
Networks: American Sniper 'Igniting Debate' as it 'Glorifies Killing?'
All three network morning shows on Tuesday spun American Sniper as controversial and possibly as a movie that "glorifies killing." ABC, CBS and NBC played up attacks by Michael Moore, but they...
ABC Spotlights Sex Offender Past of Satanic Ritual Organizer
On the late 21 October 2014/early 22 October 2014 edition of Nightline, ABC's Byron Pitts zeroed in on how the organizer of a Satanic ritual in Oklahoma City in September 2014 has a criminal record...
ABC Hypes Potential Gitmo Closing: ‘Allegations of Waterboarding...Have Turned This Place Into A Terrorist Recruiters Dream’
With the exchange of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl for the release of five Taliban detainees held at Guantanamo Bay complete, ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos used the opportunity to promote the possibility...