Rich Noyes | March 3, 2017
A new American President is always a big story, but TV news is obsessed with the Trump administration — and not in a good way. In the first 30 days (January 20 to February 18), our analysts determined that the President and his team were the subject of 16 hours of coverage on just the Big Three evening newscasts. This equates to more than half (54%) of all of the news coverage during this period…
Rich Noyes | February 20, 2017
After a mere 30 days in office, many in the media seem eager to declare the Trump presidency a lost cause. Filling in for George Stephanopoulos on ABC's This Week, White House correspondent Jon Karl asked if Trump's presidncy was "careening out of control." JON KARL: We've never seen anything like it. We're used to watching new presidents take office with choreographed policy plans, rolled out…
Rich Noyes | February 13, 2017
While liberal journalists in 2009 greeted the Tea Party with disdainful coverage and filthy double-entendrees, the disruptive demonstrations staged by the Left at town hall events for GOP Congressman is being celebrated as a "rising rebellion" and perhaps "the birthing of the Left's version of the Tea Party."
Rich Noyes | January 26, 2017
In contrast to the way reporters are indulging the Democratic Left's attempt to de-legitimize new President Donald Trump, liberal journalists freaked out after Rush Limbaugh said of incoming President Barack Obama and his ardently liberal agenda: “I hope he fails.” CNN political analyst Bill Schneider said Limbaugh’s CPAC speech had “sinister” tones and had “crossed a line.” During a CNBC…
Rich Noyes | January 19, 2017
When Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign on June 16, 2015, the savants in the news media weren’t just skeptical — they were openly disdainful of the man who will be sworn in as America’s 45th President at noon tomorrow. On their June 16 and June 17, 2015 shows, reporters sniffed that Trump’s campaign was a “carnival show” which threatened to turn the GOP primary race into “a joke.”…
Rich Noyes | January 19, 2017
When Donald Trump announced his presidential campaign on June 16, 2015, the savants in the news media weren’t just skeptical — they were openly disdainful of the man who will be sworn in as America’s 45th President at noon tomorrow. Reporters sniffed that Trump’s campaign was a “carnival show” which threatened to turn the GOP primary race into “a joke.” CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin called Trump a “fool…
Rich Noyes | January 14, 2017
On CBS This Morning: Saturday, Slate editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg saluted BuzzFeed's decision to disseminatea 35-page dossier of smarmy allegations against Donald Trump. Weisberg admitted that the document was composed of "gossip" including some which is "not true," but nevertheless "I'm glad BuzzFeed published it because I got to read it." Establishing a lowest common denominator standard for…
Rich Noyes | January 9, 2017
From the moment then-state senator Barack Obama showed up on the national stage to address the Democratic convention in 2004, the news media were in love. As a candidate, the Associated Press celebrated Obama as “something special,” while as President-elect, the Washington Post drooled over his “chiseled pectorals,” on display during a vacation in Hawaii. As President, reporters touted his “…
Rich Noyes | December 19, 2016
On the October 6, 2016 edition of his GQ.com video diary, The Closer, ex-MSNBC host Keith Olbermann went on a rant against GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump: “I would sooner and happily vote for a third term of George W. Bush, rather than five minutes of President Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the scum of the Earth. And the only way I would not believe that Donald Trump is not the scum of…
Rich Noyes | December 11, 2016
Last year, ABC's George Stephanopoulos used his perch as anchor of This Week to trash author Peter Schweizer for his book "Clinton Cash," which alleged serious conflicts of interest between the Clinton Foundation and Hillary Clinton's State Department. But now that Schweizer is questioning the conflicts of interest that may surround Donald Trump's presidency, ABC's This Week finds Schweizer…