Curtis Houck

News Analyst

Curtis Houck is a news analyst for the Media Research Center's News Analysis Division. He is returning full-time to the MRC after serving last summer as an intern with CNS News. Curtis is a 2014 graduate of Penn State University with Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and Political Science. He also previous interned with The Heritage Foundation in fall 2013.

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CBS Uses Ferguson to Lament Burdens on Obama Regarding Race Relations

The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley used the conclusion of its Tuesday night broadcast to lament and highlight the instances in which President Barack Obama has commented on the issue of race ...
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Obama Awards Medal of Freedom to Supporter and Former NBC Anchor Tom Brokaw

President Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 18 individuals on Monday afternoon with one of them being former NBC Nightly News anchor and reliably liberal supporter Tom ...
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ABC, NBC, Telemundo, Univison Ignore News 30K Lost Lois Lerner Emails Have Been Recovered

On Friday afternoon, it became known that as many as 30,000 emails belonging to former IRS official Lois Lerner that were thought to be lost have been recovered. When it came to reporting this ...
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CBS, NBC: ‘Campaign-Style Fervor’ for ‘Combative’ President ‘Chastising’ GOP on Immigration

The evening following President Barack Obama’s announcement of his executive action on illegal immigration, major broadcast networks CBS and NBC sought to carry water for the President on Friday ...
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Charlie Rose, PBS Show Guests: GOP Reaction to Obama ‘a Bit Extreme,’ ‘Ludicrous’

In a segment on his PBS show Thursday night, Charlie Rose and his guests discussed President Obama’s executive order on illegal immigration and described the responses from those in the Republican ...
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On CNN, Gingrich Blasts Obama’s Speech: ‘This Was a Gruber Speech’; ‘Simply Not Telling the Country the Truth’

Following President Barack Obama’s speech announcing his executive order on illegal immigration, CNN political commentator and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich unloaded on the President, ...
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Networks Push Illegal Immigrants, Pro-Amnesty Group Ahead of Obama’s Speech

Ahead of President Obama’s speech on immigration on Thursday night, the major broadcast networks all did their parts to push the arguments in favor of his executive amnesty ranging from a whole ...
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CBS and NBC Parrot WH Argument on Previous Presidential Immigration Policies as Grounds for Amnesty

On Wednesday night, CBS and NBC promoted the White House talking point that previous presidential actions on immigration gives President Barack Obama the proper legal authority to enact executive ...
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ABC, NBC Omit Mention of Vulnerable Democrat Landrieu in Failed Keystone Senate Vote

While all three major broadcast networks covered the failed vote in the U.S. Senate to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline on Tuesday night, ABC and NBC neglected to mention that political ...
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NBC Nightly News Keeps Quiet on Gruber as ABC’s World News Tonight Finally Covers Story

On Tuesday night, NBC Nightly News continued its streak of ignoring comments made by ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber into an 11th day while ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir finally ...
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MSNBC's Chris Hayes Compares ObamaCare Passage to Rosetta Probe That Landed on a Comet

During his MSNBC show All In on Monday night, Chris Hayes unleashed a nine-minute monologue in light of the Jonathan Gruber videos to defend what he saw as an assault on ObamaCare by Republicans ...
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ABC’s World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News Remain Silent on Gruber

On Monday, ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir and NBC Nightly News continued to ignore the news surrounding videos unearthed of ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber praising “lack of ...
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ABC, NBC, LAT Continue Censoring Gruber Videos Eight Days After First Surfaced

As of Saturday afternoon and a full eight days after the first video of ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber surfaced, major broadcast networks ABC and NBC and the Los Angeles Times have persisted ...
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FBN’s Melissa Francis: ‘I Was Silenced’ When at CNBC for Criticizing ObamaCare

During her Fox Business Network (FBN) show on Friday afternoon, Melissa Francis told viewers that she “was silenced” by executives at CNBC when worked there after she criticized ObamaCare on-air ...
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Secret Hillary Campaign Emails: ‘Smite’ GOP ‘Mafia-Style,’ ‘Punish Those Voters’; Will Media Cover?

Early Friday morning, ABCNews.com published an exclusive article that unearthed a secret email listserv maintained by two of Hillary Clinton’s possible 2016 presidential campaign advisers that, ...
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ABC and NBC Continue to Blackout Gruber Video; CBS Ignores Clip of Pelosi Praising Gruber in 2009

As ABC and NBC continued to censor any mention of the disparaging comments made by ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber from their Thursday night newscasts, CBS aired second story on Gruber with ...
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NBC Finally Acknowledges GOP Taking 53rd Senate Seat With Win in Alaska

Major broadcast network NBC broke its silence and joined fellow networks ABC and CBS on Wednesday night in covering the news that the Alaska Senate race has been called with Republican challenger ...
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NBC’s Anne Thompson Gushes Over U.S.-China Climate Deal; Frets GOP ‘Already Setting Up Roadblocks’

During Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News, NBC’s chief environmental affairs correspondent Anne Thompson enthusiastically promoted the global warming agreement between the United States and China that ...
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ABC Continues to Hype Book With ‘Astonishing’ Claim That Jesus Married and Had Children

On Wednesday night, ABC News continued to promote a new book with the “astonishing” claim that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene and had two children together with a flattering one-and-a-half ...
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NYT Writer Defends Gruber on MSNBC; Voter Expectations on Health Care Are ‘Completely Incoherent’

During a discussion on MSNBC’s The Cycle about the disparaging comments ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber made about the law’s passage and the “stupidity” of voters, New York Times writer and ...