Matthew Balan | October 17, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] The Big Three's morning newscasts on 17 October 2016 all offered coverage of the latest Wikileaks release of John Podesta e-mails, but only CBS This Morning pointed out the New York Times report on how "Hillary Clinton's inner circle built a web of private and public interest in Haiti and Africa when she was secretary of state. Clinton's…
Matthew Balan | October 15, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] ABC's Good Morning America on 15 October 2016 stood out as the only Big Three newscast so far to cover Hillary Clinton's new denials about her e-mail scandal. Devin Dwyer reported that Clinton was "asked about details of her decision to use private e-mail...[and] answered 20 different times with a variation of 'do not recall.'" The morning…
Matthew Balan | October 12, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] From the 11 October 2016 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360: JOSEPH BORELLI, NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL MEMBER: There was a story that just broke while we were on the air today about a new leak about John Podesta and Jen Palmieri bashing Catholics — saying that Rupert Murdoch — couldn't believe that Rupert Murdoch baptized his children as…
Matthew Balan | October 12, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] As of the morning of 12 October 2016, the Big Three networks' morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the Tuesday revelation that the Clinton campaign's communications director — along with a close associate of the campaign's chairman, John Podesta — bashed Catholicism and evangelical Christianity in an e-mail conversation in 2011.…
Matthew Balan | October 11, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] CNN's Brian Stelter went into full denial mode on the 11 October 2016 edition of At This Hour regarding the media's clear slant for Hillary Clinton. Stelter highlighted Trump's reaction to the possibility that more vulgar comments of his from the past will surface — that if "they release more tapes, I'll talk more about Bill Clinton's past…
Matthew Balan | October 10, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] The 10 October 2016 edition of CBS This Morning hounded Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway over the second presidential debate. Norah O'Donnell wondered "what was the point" of spotlighting several of Bill Clinton's sexual abuse accusers just before the debate. Gayle King played up how the billionaire "seemed to throw...[Mike] Pence…
Matthew Balan | October 8, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] ABC's morning and evening newscasts, as of the morning of 8 October 2016, have yet to report on the 7 October 2016 release of purported excerpts from some of Hillary Clinton's speeches to corporate audiences. The same programs on the evening of 7 October 2016 and the morning of 8 October 2016. hyped the vulgar Donald Trump audio from 2005.…
Matthew Balan | October 5, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] As of the morning of 5 October 2016, ABC's morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover Bill Clinton's Monday slam of ObamaCare as a "crazy system." By contrast, ABC's Good Morning America, along with CBS This Morning, aired news briefs on 5 October 2016 about a study of the hibernation habits of squirrels in the Arctic. NBC and CBS's…
Matthew Balan | October 4, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] Charlie Rose repeatedly promoted Hillary Clinton's latest attack on Donald Trump during an interview of Kellyanne Conway on 4 October 2016 edition of CBS This Morning. Rose wondered, "Secretary Clinton said yesterday, what kind of a genius loses a billion dollars in the first place, so they get this kind of tax carryforward?" When Conway…
Matthew Balan | September 12, 2016
[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.] On the 12 September 2016 edition of CBS This Morning, Norah O'Donnell gave Attorney General Loretta Lynch a platform to condemn voter I.D. initiatives in many states. O'Donnell raised the controversial issue during a special edition of the morning newscast that promoted the new National Museum of African American History and Culture in…