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
3/28/2014 2:47 PM ET
On Thursday evening and Friday morning, ABC, NBC, and CBS all touted a
"surge" in sign-ups for ObamaCare ahead of Monday's March 31 deadline.
What none of the networks mentioned was that the ...
3/28/2014 9:57 AM ET
All three network evening newscasts on Thursday found time to cheer the JFK Library Foundation announcing former
President George H. W. Bush would the 2014 recipient of its annual
Profile in ...
3/27/2014 4:01 PM ET
On Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer couldn't resist mocking a nice gesture
from House Speaker John Boehner to Democratic House Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi. News reader Tamron Hall ...
3/27/2014 2:55 PM ET
During coverage of President's Obama meeting with Pope Francis on Thursday, both NBC's Today and CBS This Morning hoped the papal visit would boost the commander-in-chief's sinking poll numbers. ...
3/27/2014 2:01 PM ET
Thursday's network morning shows tripped over themselves in their rush
to fawn over President Obama meeting Pope Francis for the first time at
the Vatican. At the top of ABC's Good Morning ...
3/26/2014 2:56 PM ET
Introducing a story on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer touted the Washington Post publishing the resignation letter
of Massachusetts kindergarten teacher Suzi Sluyter, who decided to ...
3/26/2014 9:59 AM ET
On Wednesday, all three network morning shows repeated the White House line that the reason for delaying the March 31 ObamaCare enrollment deadline was due to a last-minute "surge" of people ...
3/25/2014 3:46 PM ET
On her 12 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Tuesday, host Andrea Mitchell
interrogated attorney Mark Rienzi for representing Hobby Lobby in the
Supreme Court case against the ObamaCare contraception ...
3/25/2014 11:21 AM ET
On Tuesday's CBS This Morning, co-host Gayle King adopted liberal spin on the ObamaCare contraception mandate being challenged in the Supreme Court: "It pits the rights of a woman's access to ...
3/24/2014 1:07 PM ET
With one week to go before the March 31 ObamaCare enrollment deadline, Monday's NBC Today completely skipped any reporting on the latest sign-up numbers
still being below administration ...
3/24/2014 9:30 AM ET
In a report for Monday's NBC Today, political director Chuck Todd described how "Democrats
seem comfortable with the idea of a coronation of Hillary Clinton" in
2016, as "many of them are ...
3/21/2014 10:40 AM ET
All three network morning shows on Friday fawned over First Lady
Michelle Obama's visit to China, but the broadcasts refused to mention
that reporters had been banned from accompanying her on ...
3/20/2014 3:58 PM ET
On Thursday, NBC's Today and CBS This Morning
dutifully parroted the White House line that First Lady Michelle Obama's
trip to China was "not political" but ignored the fact that the press ...
3/20/2014 1:35 PM ET
During a report on Thursday's NBC Today about the impact of NCAA March Madness office pools on worker productivity, correspondent Kerry Sanders casually touted: "March Madness, an American ...
3/20/2014 9:41 AM ET
On Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie touted an exclusive preview of Fortune magazine's list of the world's 50 greatest leaders
and wondered about one name that was absent from the ...
3/19/2014 3:29 PM ET
Appearing on NBC's Late Night on Tuesday – aired early Wednesday morning – New Yorker
editor and former Washington Post Moscow correspondent David Remnick
defended Barack Obama's poor handling ...
3/19/2014 11:54 AM ET
Interviewing Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on MSNBC's Daily Rundown
on Wednesday, host and NBC political director Chuck Todd desperately
tried to paint the GOP as ...
3/18/2014 3:01 PM ET
On Monday's MSNBC News Nation, host Tamron Hall teed up Michael
O'Loughlin from The Advocate to promote his screed against the St.
Patrick's Day parade organizers in New York and Boston for ...
3/18/2014 10:43 AM ET
Following the release of new ObamaCare enrollment numbers
on Monday showing five million sign-ups – still two million short of
the original seven million goal set by the administration – ...
3/18/2014 9:24 AM ET
ABC News completely ignored the Monday death of heiress Rachel "Bunny"
Mellon, who used her wealth to help conceal the mistress of former
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. CBS ...
