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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12/3/2012 1:49 PM ET
Appearing on Monday's MSNBC Morning Joe, NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd shared some inside information:
"So I threw the Lincoln analogy at a close aide to the President last ...
11/30/2012 3:38 PM ET
In an attempt to dismiss Republican criticism of U.N. Ambassador Susan
Rice's misleading September 14 Sunday show statements about Benghazi, on
Thursday's MSNBC Andrea Mitchell Reports, ...
11/29/2012 3:17 PM ET
Striking a sympathetic tone toward the U.N. ambassador on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams lamented: "It was another one of those days for Susan Rice....who
again found ...
11/29/2012 12:44 PM ET
Following the lead of NBC political director Chuck Todd lamenting House Republican committee chairs being "all white men," on Wednesday's Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams similarly declared: ...
11/28/2012 5:29 PM ET
In an exchange with MSNBC Harball host Chris Matthews on Wednesday's NBC Today,
co-host Savannah Guthrie pondered the possibility that U.N. Ambassador
Susan Rice lied about Benghazi: ...
11/28/2012 12:30 PM ET
Taking a gratuitous shot at Republicans at the end of his Wednesday MSNBC show, The Daily Rundown, NBC political director Chuck Todd insisted on making this declaration: "By
the way, though, all ...
11/27/2012 3:49 PM ET
In yet another example of climate change fearmongering following Hurricane Sandy, on Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams hyped a fantasy illustration from the New York Times: "...an
...
11/27/2012 1:00 PM ET
In an interview with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer was puzzled by GOP opposition to the billionaire investor's call for higher taxes: "One
of ...
11/26/2012 5:54 PM ET
During a discussion of the new film Lincoln on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press,
PBS documentary film maker Ken Burns ranted about one of the supposed
lessons he took away from the movie: "Race is ...
11/26/2012 1:26 PM ET
Talking to chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd on Monday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie enthusiastically touted: "...we've
seen a few Republicans peeling off from a pledge they ...
11/20/2012 6:04 PM ET
Leading off Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams wrung his hands over Israel suffering fewer casualties than Gaza in the ongoing Mideast conflict: "It is a lop-sided fight right now, ...
11/20/2012 12:08 PM ET
Appearing on Saturday's NBC Today, CNBC chief Washington correspondent John Harwood completely dismissed the scandal surrounding the Benghazi terrorist attack as merely leftover campaign politics: ...
11/19/2012 6:30 PM ET
In an interview with liberal historian Doris Kearns-Goodwin for NBC's Press Pass, Meet the Press
moderator David Gregory invited her to draw parallels between President
Obama and Abraham ...
11/19/2012 3:16 PM ET
Appearing on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Tom Friedman worked to downplay the terrorist attack in Libya: "There
are diplomats that go to dangerous ...
11/19/2012 12:11 PM ET
Last week it was Republican strategist Steve Schmidt blaming Mitt Romney's loss on conservative "loons and wackos," this week on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, fellow Republican strategist Mike ...
11/16/2012 6:03 PM ET
On Friday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie interviewed
Jordan's Queen Noor and former CIA operative Valerie Plame about their
effort to rid the world of all nuclear weapons: "...two women ...
11/16/2012 1:54 PM ET
At the end of an interview with Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer wondered: "I think it was 1999, you were named Time magazine's Person of the Year, alright? So I ...
11/16/2012 10:31 AM ET
In a series of reports following President Obama's Wednesday afternoon press conference, NBC News repeatedly portrayed Obama as a magnanimous victor "reaching out" to his opponents, while ...
11/15/2012 9:53 AM ET
Following President Obama's Wednesday afternoon press conference, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams continued his longtime obsession with the liberal fantasy film The American President and ...
11/14/2012 5:01 PM ET
In a transparent effort to yet again applaud the left-wing Occupy Wall Street movement on Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams introduced the broadcast's Making a Difference segment ...
