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
5/20/2014 12:09 PM ET
On Tuesday's NBC Today, chief White House correspondent and
political director Chuck Todd proclaimed that a series of congressional
primary races were evidence "the ongoing family feud between ...
5/19/2014 3:14 PM ET
In an interview with The Economist's John Micklethwait for the web-based Meet the Press feature Press Pass,
host David Gregory fretted over the hard left faction of the Democratic
Party ...
5/19/2014 11:55 AM ET
Opening Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory proclaimed: "Republican
attempts to take down Hillary Clinton are in full swing after a
headline-grabbing attack from Karl Rove. So ...
5/16/2014 3:54 PM ET
In the 9 a.m. ET hour on Friday, NBC's Today provided only 26
seconds to another major change to ObamaCare that news anchor Natalie
Morales acknowledged "may end up costing you thousands of ...
5/16/2014 2:40 PM ET
While a Thursday article posted on MSNBC.com celebrated college commencement speakers who "drop like flies" due to to "feisty campus dissent," on Friday's NBC Today, correspondent Peter Alexander ...
5/16/2014 10:48 AM ET
Returning from a trip to Iran for an upcoming 60 Minutes story on the authoritarian regime, correspondent Steve Kroft appeared on Friday's CBS This Morning to preview the piece and made an ...
5/15/2014 4:23 PM ET
During a four-minute interview with Athena Health CEO Jonathan Bush on Thursday's CBS This Morning about his new book, Where Does It Hurt?, suggesting reforms to the health care system, none of ...
5/15/2014 11:36 AM ET
With over two years to go until the 2016 presidential election, the
media are already trying to ban unflattering topics about Hillary
Clinton. From Tuesday morning through Thursday morning, ...
5/14/2014 11:56 AM ET
On her Tuesday 12 p.m. MSNBC show, host and NBC chief foreign affairs
correspondent Andrea Mitchell was more concerned with protecting Hillary
Clinton than holding the potential 2016 ...
5/14/2014 11:05 AM ET
Amid the U.S. major media focus on hundreds of Nigerian school girls being kidnapped by the radical Islamic group Boko Haram, The Daily Beast's Josh Rogan
first reported a week ago that former ...
5/13/2014 12:30 PM ET
On Tuesday, the cast of NBC's Today felt it necessary to spend a
minute of air time defending Hillary Clinton from Karl Rove raising
questions about her health, with co-host Savannah Guthrie ...
5/13/2014 8:46 AM ET
In an effort to promote Hillary Clinton's upcoming memoir, Hard Choices, on Monday's CBS This Morning,
co-host Gayle King proclaimed: "Former Secretary of State, that would
be Hillary Clinton, ...
5/12/2014 2:27 PM ET
Despite the overwhelmingly positive reaction to Michael Sam being
drafted by the St. Louis Rams as the first openly gay player in the NFL,
the Big Three network morning shows on Monday all ...
5/12/2014 10:04 AM ET
Talking to NBC sportscaster Bob Costas on Monday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer reacted to openly gay football player Michael Sam being drafted by the St. Louis Rams on Saturday: "The
big ...
5/9/2014 2:31 PM ET
Appearing on Friday's CBS This Morning, Sirius XM radio and CNN
host Michael Smerconish hocked his new fictional novel about the talk
radio business entitled Talk, and denounced the industry: ...
5/9/2014 10:14 AM ET
During an interview with Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on
Thursday's MSNBC Daily Rundown, NBC political director Chuck Todd
challenged Reid's suggestion that Republicans were ...
5/8/2014 11:13 AM ET
During a report on Thursday's NBC Today about Monic Lewinsky's article in Vanity Fair magazine,
correspondent Peter Alexander touted liberal spin that the former Bill
Clinton mistress speaking ...
5/7/2014 2:56 PM ET
During her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Tuesday, host Andrea Mitchell
teed up Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy to
promote a new White House report on climate change ...
5/7/2014 12:18 PM ET
After enthusiastically promoting
an upcoming White House climate change report on Tuesday, all three
network morning shows on Wednesday happily touted interviews with
President Obama on the ...
5/6/2014 2:17 PM ET
Appearing on Tuesday's NBC Today, former CNN talk show host Larry King
ridiculed his former employer when asked if he would ever return to the
cable channel: "The tough time I would have at ...
