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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Author Articles
11/1/2012 3:54 PM ET
On Thursday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent Chuck
Todd depicted the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy as a boost for President
Obama and a struggle for Governor Romney. Todd touted ...
11/1/2012 12:15 PM ET
Right on cue following Hurricane Sandy devastating the east coast, correspondent Harry Smith appeared on Thursday's NBC Today to sound the global warming alarm: "First it was Hurricane Irene, then ...
11/1/2012 9:10 AM ET
Hawking a new NBC Publishing ebook on Wednesday's NBC Today
about the network's election night television coverage dating back to
1948, author and TV Guide business editor Steve Battaglio ...
10/31/2012 2:12 PM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Today, political director Chuck Todd seized on the latest CBS News/New York Times
poll showing narrow leads for President Obama in Ohio, Virginia, and
Florida as "evidence, ...
10/31/2012 10:43 AM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Today, correspondent Keir Simmons reported
from the European Weather Center in Britain that projected Hurricane
Sandy's path and touted how "Global warming could make their ...
10/29/2012 5:58 PM ET
Appearing on Monday's NBC Today, MSNBC Morning Joe
co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski asserted that impending
Hurricane Sandy would help Barack Obama in the election, with ...
10/26/2012 4:04 PM ET
On Friday's NBC Today, political director Chuck Todd described
how "both sides are dealing with some unexpected political speed bumps
on the trail" and began by detailing the supposed ...
10/26/2012 10:35 AM ET
During a 20-minute interview with President Obama aired on Thursday's NBC Rock Center, host Brian Williams devoted
a total of 1 minute 36 seconds to the subject of the terrorist attack
in ...
10/25/2012 4:03 PM ET
Continuing to hype Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock's
opposition to abortion as some kind of scandal for Mitt Romney, on
Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Peter Alexander ...
10/25/2012 10:52 AM ET
In an interview with President Obama on Wednesday, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams lobbed this softball:
"How is it that with – what, 13 days to go, you're fighting for your
life in a ...
10/24/2012 3:55 PM ET
In a continued effort to tag Mitt Romney with a flip-flopper label, on Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams proclaimed that Romney's performance in the final presidential debate ...
10/24/2012 12:19 PM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie brought on
liberal MSNBC host Krystal Ball and radio host Michael Smerconish to
discuss campaign strategy in the final two weeks before the ...
10/23/2012 4:33 PM ET
Shortly following the conclusion of the final presidential debate Monday night, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams posed this question to Richard Haas of the Council on Foreign Relations: "I
...
10/23/2012 1:00 PM ET
At the end of an interview with vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie parroted Democratic attacks on Mitt Romney's foreign policy credentials: ...
10/22/2012 3:08 PM ET
Appearing as a panelist on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, Republican strategist Mike Murphy called out journalists for refusing to provide balanced coverage of abortion: "It's
always amazed me how ...
10/22/2012 12:29 PM ET
On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory grilled Florida Senator Marco Rubio on Mitt Romney's "binders full of women" comment: "Can
you understand why some women have that ...
10/19/2012 3:06 PM ET
With Friday's Gallup tracking poll showing Mitt Romney with a 51-45 lead over Barack Obama, the crew at NBC's Today
decided to focus on a much more reliable method of predicting the next ...
10/19/2012 11:45 AM ET
In a rare moment of genuine criticism of President Obama's response to the Libya terrorist attack, on Friday's NBC Today, Meet the Press moderator David Gregory slammed government "confusion" ...
10/18/2012 4:38 PM ET
Near the top of Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie jumped on "a
comment from Mitt Romney's son Tagg that's getting some attention....he
said he wanted to, quote, 'take a swing' at ...
10/18/2012 11:57 AM ET
Between Wednesday's Nightly News and Thursday's Today,
NBC displayed an obsession with the liberal meme of attacking Mitt
Romney's "binders full of women" remark during Tuesday's presidential ...