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
1/10/2014 6:46 PM ET
Introducing her interrogation of former CIA attorney John Rizzo about his new memoir, aired on Friday's NBC Today, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell proclaimed: "...this is an ...
1/10/2014 11:25 AM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, chief environmental affairs
correspondent Anne Thompson dismissed global warming skeptics pointing
to record-low temperatures across the country: "As America ...
1/9/2014 4:36 PM ET
On Thursday's NBC Today, political director Chuck Todd reveled in the wall-to-wall media coverage of the bridge closing controversy surrounding New Jersey Governor Chris Christie: "Welcome
to ...
1/8/2014 5:05 PM ET
At the top of Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer portrayed former Defense Secretary Robert Gates as an ungrateful and disgruntled ex-employee: "Blindsided.
President Obama's former ...
1/7/2014 6:26 PM ET
In a fawning report on Tuesday's NBC Today, national
investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff touted the exploits of two
left-wing activists who stole a thousand FBI documents in 1971 and ...
1/7/2014 4:29 PM ET
In an outrageous ad aired on the local Washington D.C. NBC affiliate WRC-4, Virginia Democratic state senate candidate Jennifer Wexton
– running to replace newly elected Virginia attorney ...
1/7/2014 1:08 PM ET
Introducing a report on Monday's NBC Nightly News about
Al-Qaeda forces seizing control of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, anchor
Brian Williams went out of his way to blame the President George ...
1/6/2014 3:21 PM ET
In a report for Sunday's NBC Nightly News, White House
correspondent Kristen Welker eagerly promoted efforts by President Obama
to use class warfare against Republicans leading up to the 2014 ...
1/3/2014 3:39 PM ET
In a taped interview with former Maryland Republican Governor Bob Ehrlich aired on Friday's MSNBC Daily Rundown,
host Chuck Todd scolded the GOP for supposedly not making "any
progress" in ...
1/2/2014 2:01 PM ET
Appearing on Wednesday's NBC Today to provide his New Year
political predictions for 2014, chief White House correspondent Chuck
Todd assured co-host Savannah Guthrie that despite the ...
12/20/2013 12:24 PM ET
While interviewing openly gay U.S. women's hockey team player Caitlin Cahow on Thursday's NBC Today,
co-host Matt Lauer hoped for controversy during the games over Russia's
"anti-gay laws": ...
12/19/2013 2:03 PM ET
Talking to NBC's David Gregory for the Meet the Press web-based feature Press Pass
on Sunday, Israeli journalist Ari Shavit launched into a rant against
the strong bond between conservatives ...
12/18/2013 6:06 PM ET
Interviewing West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin during her 1 p.m. ET hour
MSNBC show on Wednesday, host Andrea Mitchell praised his efforts to
create a "bipartisan coalition for background ...
12/18/2013 1:54 PM ET
On Wednesday, only NBC's Today devoted a full segment to the
upcoming sentencing of top Environmental Protection Agency official John
Beale for "bilking the government out of nearly $1 million ...
12/17/2013 6:39 PM ET
Getting a glimpse of the kind of real reporting that can occur on NBC Nightly News
when Brian Williams isn't in the anchor chair, on Sunday's edition of
the program, weekend anchor Lester Holt ...
12/16/2013 7:11 PM ET
Teasing an upcoming story on Monday's NBC Today, co-host Matt
Lauer fretted over "the emotional debate ignited by a Fox News anchor
over Santa's true race," referring to FNC host Megyn Kelly ...
12/16/2013 3:49 PM ET
In an attempt to stir tensions within the Republican Party over the recent budget deal, on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, host David Gregory falsely claimed that Florida Senator Marco Rubio had ...
12/16/2013 11:39 AM ET
Leading off Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams declared: "It's
war. A private battle blows wide open in public as the most powerful
Republican in Washington says he's had ...
12/12/2013 6:26 PM ET
On Tuesday's Nightly News, after news broke of a budget deal in
Congress, Capitol Hill correspondent Kelly O'Donnell announced: "...the
usual Washington dysfunction is on hold tonight." She ...
12/12/2013 11:46 AM ET
All three networks on Wednesday engaged in damage control for the White
House following criticism of President Obama's selfie during Tuesday's
Mandela memorial service. On CBS This Morning, ...
