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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10/11/2013 5:14 PM ET
After NBC spent weeks painting congressional Republicans as the villains who caused the government shutdown, on Thursday's NBC Nightly News,
anchor Brian Williams opened the broadcast by smugly ...
10/11/2013 11:20 AM ET
In an interview with Senator John McCain for The Daily Beast's annual Hero Summit
on Thursday, the blog's editor-in-chief Tina Brown launched into an
unhinged rant blaming conservatives for ...
10/10/2013 4:00 PM ET
Wrapping up a report on the government shutdown for Thursday's NBC Today,
White House correspondent Peter Alexander eagerly promoted negative
political fallout for Republicans: "Both parties ...
10/9/2013 1:04 PM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer wrung his hands
over Congress, particularly Republicans, not yet reaching a budget deal
to end the government shutdown: "...the Tea Party seems ...
10/8/2013 5:36 PM ET
Appearing on Andrea Mitchell's MSNBC 1 p.m. ET hour show on Tuesday,
Wisconsin Congressman Sean Duffy slammed the press for not doing its job
in pointing out the hypocrisy of ObamaCare being ...
10/7/2013 3:57 PM ET
On Monday, the hosts of NBC's Today eagerly played clips of
Saturday Night Live bashing Republicans over the government shutdown. In
the morning show's 7 a.m. ET half hour, fill-in co-host ...
10/7/2013 12:43 PM ET
In a dramatically one-sided report on Monday's NBC Today about the
government shutdown, White House correspondent Peter Alexander declared:
"President Obama is sticking to his guns, demanding ...
10/4/2013 6:05 PM ET
On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams
introduced a full report on cancer research at the National Institutes
of Health being stopped under the government shutdown: "And there ...
10/4/2013 12:36 PM ET
Appearing on CBS's Late Show on Thursday, NBC Nightly News
anchor Brian Williams ranted to liberal host David Letterman about
Republicans in Congress being to blame for the government ...
10/3/2013 4:45 PM ET
In an effort to insulate President Obama from criticism during the
government shutdown and focus all blame on members of Congress, NBC's Today created the Twitter topic #DearCongress to provide ...
10/2/2013 6:12 PM ET
In an exclusive interview with President Obama on Wednesday, CNBC chief
Washington correspondent John Harwood lobbed this softball on the
political fallout of the government shutdown: "Before ...
10/2/2013 3:10 PM ET
On Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams sneered that the government shutdown was "being driven
by a committed core of Republican members of Congress who are all but
assured of ...
10/1/2013 6:03 PM ET
On Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Carson Daly turned to a woman on the Today show
plaza for her reaction to the government shutdown. "Judy from Chicago"
proceeded to bash Republicans and praise ...
10/1/2013 4:27 PM ET
Appearing on Tuesday's NBC Today, MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews dismissed Republican attempts to delay ObamaCare as a futile effort: "The President was elected – reelected again. He won this ...
9/30/2013 6:14 PM ET
On Monday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie acknowledged
the liberal spin that congressional Republicans were punished
electorally after the 1995 government shutdown was more a ...
9/30/2013 12:01 PM ET
In an interview with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly on Monday's NBC Today,
co-host Matt Lauer urged Republicans to abandon their opposition to
ObamaCare in order to avoid a government shutdown: ...
9/27/2013 4:05 PM ET
At the top of Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian
Williams issued a dire warning to viewers about the possibility of a
government shutdown: "Time running out until a big deadline, now ...
9/26/2013 2:37 PM ET
Appearing on Thursday's NBC Today, Meet the Press
moderator David Gregory was already predicting the GOP would get the
blame for a government shutdown: "Washington loves to engage in the ...
9/25/2013 5:23 PM ET
While ObamaCare remains widely unpopular with the American people, on Tuesday's ABC World News, anchor Diane Sawyer touted how "the President is bringing out the big gun
to argue it will lead to ...
9/17/2013 3:04 PM ET
On Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie noted an
offensive tweet by one Russian lawmaker reacting to Monday's Navy Yard
shooting in Washington D.C.: "After those terrible shootings in ...
