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
2/11/2014 10:27 AM ET
Between Monday's network evening newscasts
and Tuesday's morning shows, NBC, ABC and CBS failed to provide a
single full report on President Obama unilaterally issuing another
ObamaCare ...
2/10/2014 11:36 AM ET
After University of Missouri football player and NFL draft prospect
Michael Sam came out as gay in interviews over the weekend, all three
network morning shows on Monday veered into gay rights ...
2/7/2014 4:14 PM ET
On Friday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell gave left-wing environmental
activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a platform to denounce the Keystone
Pipeline. Kennedy ranted: "The people who are promoting ...
2/7/2014 10:50 AM ET
On Friday's The Daily Rundown on MSNBC, host and NBC political
director Chuck Todd proclaimed that the Republican decision to put off
immigration reform until after 2014 "is a long-term ...
2/6/2014 4:26 PM ET
On her 1 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show on Thursday, host Andrea Mitchell saw
immigration reform as a way to save Barack Obama's floundering
presidency: "This would be, you know, the jewel in the ...
2/6/2014 12:42 PM ET
On Thursday's CBS This Morning, co-host Charlie Rose described how most of California was suffering from "extreme or exceptional drought" but fretted that "the crisis is turning into a political ...
2/6/2014 10:02 AM ET
During a panel discussion on Wednesday's Special Report on Fox News, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer denounced the "incredible lack of curiosity of the mainstream media" regarding the ...
2/5/2014 3:45 PM ET
Following White House talking points to the letter on Wednesday's The Daily Rundown
on MSNBC, host Chuck Todd bemoaned how "Republicans immediately seized
on" the Congressional Budget ...
2/5/2014 10:50 AM ET
While both CBS This Morning and ABC's Good Morning America
both managed some air time on Wednesday to cover a new Congressional
Budget Office report showing ObamaCare will cost the American ...
2/4/2014 4:49 PM ET
On Monday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell warned
that President Obama would endanger his reputation with left-wing
environmentalists if he dared to approve the Keystone Pipeline: "It
goes very ...
2/4/2014 2:26 PM ET
During an extended portion of Bill O'Reilly's Super Bowl interview with
President Obama aired on Monday's O'Reilly Factor, the Fox News host
wondered: "Do you think I've been unfair to you?" ...
2/4/2014 11:17 AM ET
On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory fretted
over the "shrinking presidency" of Barack Obama: "A thousand days left
for President Obama. And here was a headline we looked up ...
2/3/2014 2:41 PM ET
Not accustomed to being asked difficult questions about his failures in
office, President Obama attacked Fox News host Bill O'Reilly during a
pre-Super Bowl interview on Sunday for daring to ...
2/3/2014 12:05 PM ET
All three network morning shows on Monday promoted President Obama's
attempts to deflect tough questions on a several administration scandals
during a pre-Super Bowl interview with Fox News ...
1/31/2014 4:32 PM ET
At the top of Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams proclaimed that "the [Republican] governor of Georgia [Nathan Deal] chose to fall on his snow shovel"
over how Tuesday's rare ...
1/31/2014 11:21 AM ET
On her Thursday 1 p.m. ET MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell gushed over
NBC News special anchor Maria Shriver's political activism as "the force
behind the influential Shriver Report about ...
1/30/2014 2:34 PM ET
NBC's Today on Thursday decided to make Republican Congressman
Michael Grimm's verbal attack on a reporter after Tuesday's State of the
Union a two-day story, with fill-in co-host Tamron Hall ...
1/29/2014 4:09 PM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Today, 9 a.m. ET hour co-host Natalie
Morales touted one of the "great moments" from President Obama's Tuesday
night State of the Union: "I think one of the moments that a ...
1/29/2014 1:02 PM ET
During NBC's live State of the Union coverage Tuesday night, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd sneered at Duck Dynasty star Willie Robertson being a Republican guest at the event: ...
1/29/2014 11:15 AM ET
Minutes before the President began his State of the Union address
Tuesday night, hosts on ABC, NBC, and CBS all worried that Obama was not
getting the "credit" he deserved for how well the ...
