On Friday's O'Reilly Factor, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly held ABC and NBC News to account for failing to cover the recent Planned Parenthood video stings conducted by the pro-life organization Live Action.
In an interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl for CBS's Sunday Morning, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin made his latest attack against Sarah Palin, ranting: "I have a big problem with people who glamorize dumbness. And demonize education and intellect."
During coverage of President Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday night, all three broadcast networks, CBS, NBC and ABC, managed to compare the tone of the speech to that of Ronald Reagan. Reporters and pundits uniformly praised the supposed optimism of Obama.
Appearing on ABC's This Week with David Brinkley in October of 1990, reporter Sam Donaldson argued that the Reagan administration gave a "free lunch" to Americans by refusing to raise taxes.
After re-airing the 1982 CBS Reports "People Like Us" on PBS in June of 1989, Bill Moyers announced that at the end of the 1980's, "the United States has the highest rate of poverty in the industrial world."
Appearing on CBS's Face the Nation in March of 1995, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman confessed that Ronald Reagan's foreign policy frightened him and even suggested he was to blame for the Beirut bombing.
In November of 1990, on NBC's Nightly News, former anchor John Chancellor opined that the Reagan administration's efforts to challenge the Soviet Union left the nation "bankrupt."
A 1998 PBS American Experience profile of Ronald Reagan declared that policies of the former president left Americans homeless and "largely ignored" AIDS deaths.
Reporting from the 1992 Democratic National Convention, NBC correspondent Maria Shriver asked AIDS sufferer Elizabeth Glaser if she held Ronald Reagan "responsible" for her daughter's death.
On NBC's Later with Bob Costas in January of 1989, CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl couldn't comprehend why Americans "fell in love" with President Reagan and "followed him the way we did."
