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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9/17/2013 12:21 PM ET
In an interview on Tuesday's NBC Today with Dr. Janis Orlowski, chief medical officer for Medstar Washington Hospital Center, co-host Matt Lauer seized on her call for an end to gun violence ...
9/16/2013 5:30 PM ET
Talking to NBC's chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd on Sunday's Meet the Press,
moderator David Gregory noted "Benghazi back as a political focus this
week" following the one-year ...
9/13/2013 3:31 PM ET
A Friday article in Politico described a "GOP on the Rise" while citing the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, noting that "Republicans are now leading Democrats on handling several key ...
9/13/2013 10:34 AM ET
At the start of an interview with Senator Bob Corker on Thursday's MSNBC Daily Rundown, host Chuck Todd demanded the Tennessee Republican justify criticism of President Obama's poor handling of ...
9/12/2013 3:28 PM ET
NBC's Today behaved like the White House press office on Thursday as co-host Matt Lauer announced: "By
the way, the White House is coming out with a brand new initiative
today and the First ...
9/11/2013 3:10 PM ET
In news briefs on Tuesday and Wednesday, NBC Today anchor
Natalie Morales touted: "Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will
be given the National Constitution Center's Liberty Medal for ...
9/10/2013 8:40 AM ET
At the end of Monday's Andrea Mitchell Reports, fill-in host
Kristen Welker teed up a taped congratulatory message of Mitchell
marking the fifth anniversary of Rachel Maddow's left-wing MSNBC ...
9/9/2013 1:06 PM ET
On Monday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer and chief White House
correspondent Chuck Todd engaged in a strategy session over how
President Obama could minimize any political damage from ...
9/6/2013 5:59 PM ET
In back-to-back interviews with members on Congress on Friday's MSNBC Daily Rundown,
fill-in host Luke Russert desperately tried to sell Democrats and
Republicans on the importance of ...
9/5/2013 5:45 PM ET
In an interview with former Bush national security advisor Stephen
Hadley on her Thursday MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell pinned all of
President Obama's problems selling military action in ...
9/5/2013 3:14 PM ET
On Wednesday's MSNBC Daily Rundown, minutes after President
Obama denied setting a "red line" on Syria's use of chemical weapons,
chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd excused the obvious ...
9/4/2013 3:39 PM ET
On Tuesday, just days before the one-year anniversary of the September 11, 2012 Benghazi terrorist attack, NBC Nightly News
anchor Brian Williams conducted an exclusive interview with White ...
9/4/2013 12:40 PM ET
In an exclusive interview with former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday's NBC Today,
co-host Savannah Guthrie attempted to blame the Bush administration for
President Obama's ...
9/3/2013 5:08 PM ET
On Tuesday's MSNBC Daily Rundown, NBC senior political editor
Mark Murray dismissed the notion that if Democrat Terry McAuliffe lost
the closely contested Virginia governor's race, it would ...
8/30/2013 4:53 PM ET
On her Friday MSNBC program, host Andrea Mitchell tried to ease the
concerns of Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee and other members of
Congress calling for a congressional vote on military ...
8/29/2013 4:58 PM ET
On Thursday's MSNBC Daily Rundown, host Chuck Todd laid blame
for Republicans not speaking at Wednesday's anniversary of the 1963
march on Washington on the GOP, rather than event organizers: ...
8/29/2013 10:19 AM ET
In an interview with California attorney general Kamala Harris during
live MSNBC coverage of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I
have a dream" speech, host Andrea Mitchell fretted: ...
8/28/2013 3:49 PM ET
In a puff piece on Wednesday's NBC Today, White House
correspondent Kristen Welker heralded President Obama's upcoming speech
marking the anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" ...
8/28/2013 12:18 PM ET
On Monday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie conducted a
cooking segment with White House chef Sam Kass to promote First Lady
Michelle Obama's Let's Move campaign and wondered: "So do you ...
8/27/2013 3:34 PM ET
On Tuesday's MSNBC Daily Rundown, host Chuck Todd invited
liberal historian Taylor Branch to blast modern-day conservatism as
nothing more than racism in disguise: "You talked about how ...
