Kyle Drennen is the Media Research Center's Senior News Analyst and a
Contributing Editor to NewsBusters. He is the co-author of the 2014 Media Reality Check study, TV News Blacks Out This Year’s Bad Election News for Democrats.
His media analysis has been routinely cited by nationally syndicated
radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin, as well as on Fox News and The Wall Street Journal’s
WSJ.com website. He joined the MRC in 2007 after graduating from
Providence College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and
political science.
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5/21/2013 12:00 PM ET
While much of the news coverage Monday evening and Tuesday morning was
dominated by coverage of the tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma,
Tuesday's NBC Today did manage to provide two news ...
5/21/2013 10:11 AM ET
On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory urged
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to condemn fellow Republicans for
drawing parallels between the scandals rocking the Obama ...
5/20/2013 2:08 PM ET
On Sunday's NBC Nightly News, White House correspondent Peter Alexander led off with Obama team spin on the scandals rocking the administration: "...the White House is aggressively responding, ...
5/17/2013 5:12 PM ET
On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, after proclaiming President
Obama to be "on the offensive" amid growing scandals, anchor Brian
Williams hinted at those controversies being only temporary ...
5/17/2013 12:44 PM ET
On Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer described how President Obama was "trying to move past" the scandals
plaguing his administration. In the report that followed, chief White
House ...
5/16/2013 2:33 PM ET
On Thursday's NBC Today, in a desperate attempt to deflect from
the scandals engulfing the Obama administration, co-host Savannah
Guthrie wondered: "I read a headline yesterday that said ...
5/15/2013 5:46 PM ET
With a headline on screen lamenting "Obama's Second-Term Blues" on Wednesday's NBC Today, the worst criticism Meet the Press
moderator David Gregory could muster against the President amid ...
5/15/2013 12:59 PM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Today, regular panelist Donny Deutsch
downplayed the scandals embroiling the Obama administration as merely
the result of the public not having anything else to focus on: "I ...
5/14/2013 5:37 PM ET
In an interview with former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday's NBC Today,
co-host Matt Lauer tried to dismiss the growing Benghazi scandal: "Do
you think that the administration ...
5/14/2013 11:54 AM ET
While Monday's NBC Nightly News was content to accept President
Obama labeling the Benghazi scandal as a "political circus" worthy of
ridicule, on Fox News Channel's Special Report, chief ...
5/13/2013 4:57 PM ET
In an interview with House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa on
Sunday's Meet the Press, host David Gregory attempted to dismiss the
growing Benghazi scandal for the Obama ...
5/13/2013 12:21 PM ET
During a report on Monday's NBC Today about the Benghazi and
IRS scandals wracking the Obama administration, a headline on screen
wondered if they were the result of "Obama's Second Term ...
5/10/2013 12:09 PM ET
Teasing an upcoming story on Thursday's NBC Nightly News,
anchor Brian Williams fretted over "The dramatic changes we've watched
happen to our planet" as shown in "jaw-dropping images from ...
5/9/2013 5:43 PM ET
Wrapping up a fawning interview with Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth on MSNBC's The Last Word
Wednesday night, left-wing host Lawrence O'Donnell couldn't hold back
his glee at ...
5/9/2013 4:18 PM ET
The evening news broadcasts on NBC, ABC, and CBS on Wednesday all
offered full reports on the compelling congressional testimony regarding
the Benghazi terrorist attack, but only after all ...
5/8/2013 6:09 PM ET
Teasing an upcoming panel discussion on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer proclaimed: "Today's Professionals are going to weigh in on what could be a game changer in the gun debate, a ...
5/8/2013 4:15 PM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Today, news reader Natalie Morales touted a "Today
exclusive" with Michelle Obama, playing a clip of a "wide-ranging
conversation" between the First Lady and Kelly Wallace ...
5/8/2013 1:46 PM ET
Appearing on Wednesday's NBC Today, Huffington Post contributor
Abby Huntsman proclaimed that following Mark Sanford's win in Tuesday's
special congressional election in South Carolina, ...
5/7/2013 5:17 PM ET
Appearing on Monday's Tonight Show, NBC Today co-host
Savannah Guthrie told Jay Leno that President Obama was "deeply
disappointed" by gun control legislation being voted down, prompting the
...
5/7/2013 12:39 PM ET
Wrapping up a report on Monday's NBC Nightly News about a fresh
round of congressional hearings on the Benghazi terrorist attack,
correspondent Andrea Mitchell dismissed the development as ...
