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
3/17/2014 12:32 PM ET
On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory touted
the United Nations slamming the "human rights record" of the U.S. as it
condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine: "You know, when ...
3/14/2014 2:56 PM ET
NBC, ABC, and CBS marked the one-year anniversary of Pope Francis being
elected leader of the Catholic Church with positive stories about the
Pontiff's personal style while impatiently ...
3/13/2014 3:26 PM ET
Reacting to Idaho passing a law to allow teachers and students to carry guns on college campuses, Thursday's NBC Today promoted a Boise State University professor opposed to the legislation who ...
3/13/2014 10:50 AM ET
Talking to Donald Trump on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer complained about the Celebrity Apprentice
host and CPAC speaker criticizing President Obama's poor handling of
the Ukranian ...
3/12/2014 2:37 PM ET
On Wednesday, the network morning shows gave a combined 53 seconds of
air time to Democrats losing a bellwether congressional election in
Florida and just 37 seconds to bad poll numbers for ...
3/12/2014 8:38 AM ET
In fawning puff piece aired on Tuesday's NBC Today,
correspondent Craig Melvin was delighted by three Democratic
congresswoman – including left-wing bomb-thrower and DNC chair Debbie ...
3/11/2014 11:43 AM ET
On Tuesday, all three network morning shows dutifully touted a fake
interview President Obama conducted with comedian Zach Galifianakis
designed to help the commander-in-chief hock ObamaCare ...
3/10/2014 2:29 PM ET
While NBC eagerly touted Colorado legalizing marijuana at the start of
the year, even promoting one Denver store that hoped to become the "Costco of weed," on Monday's Today, correspondent ...
3/10/2014 10:28 AM ET
On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, host David Gregory wondered if
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's 2016 presidential chances were
"done" following the bridgegate scandal. In response, ...
3/7/2014 5:19 PM ET
Appearing on Thursday's CBS Late Show aired early Friday morning, former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw discussed the Russian invasion of Ukraine with host David Letterman and observed: ...
3/7/2014 1:23 PM ET
Introducing a gushing interview with HBO Girls star Lena Dunham aired on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie eagerly proclaimed: "You know, to call her the voice of her generation might ...
3/7/2014 11:40 AM ET
On MSNBC's Daily Rundown on Friday, NBC political director and
host Chuck Todd used low attendance at a Conservative Political Action
Conference panel discussion to take a cheap shot at ...
3/6/2014 5:35 PM ET
Both NBC's Today and CBS This Morning on Thursday saw
the beginning of the end of an investigation into the Obama
administration's IRS scandal following tirade by Democratic Congressman ...
3/6/2014 1:24 PM ET
Talking to MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough on Thursday's NBC Today about the Ukranian crisis, co-host Matt Lauer saw the Republican Party, not Russia, as President Obama's fiercest ...
3/5/2014 3:53 PM ET
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, NBC has been the only Big Three broadcast network to look back to President Obama ridiculing Mitt Romney for calling Russia a U.S. "geopolitical foe" in ...
3/4/2014 5:43 PM ET
The three network morning shows combined gave less than two minutes of
air time to President Obama's proposed 2015 budget on Tuesday, though
they all managed to highlight how the plan "will ...
3/4/2014 12:47 PM ET
On Tuesday morning, only NBC's Today marked the beginning of
the 2014 midterm primary season and explained the dire situation for
Democrats ahead on the November election. Co-host Savannah ...
3/3/2014 2:21 PM ET
On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory
appeared to caution President Obama against aggressively confronting
Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Teeing up left-wing Daily ...
3/3/2014 10:56 AM ET
Appearing on NBC's Today on Monday, New Yorker
magazine editor and former Washington Post Moscow correspondent David
Remnick fretted that the United States lacked the moral authority to ...
2/28/2014 4:41 PM ET
On Friday, the NBC, ABC, and CBS morning shows all happily touted a White-House-produced video
of President Obama and Vice President Biden jogging through the
executive mansion to promote the ...
