Kyle Drennen

Senior News Analyst

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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NBC Parrots Iranian Propaganda: New 'Moderate' President 'Promising Sweeping Change'

On Monday's NBC Today, correspondent Ann Curry reported from Tehran on the installation of new Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, touting how the cleric "promises to change virtually everything ...
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Santorum Rips 'Media Fascination' With GOP Division

As moderator David Gregory hyped a "feud" over national security between Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, former Senator Rick ...
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As Terrorist Threats Force Shutdown of U.S. Embassies, Networks Barely Mention Benghazi

Late Thursday, news broke of the State Department ordering numerous U.S. embassies across the Middle East closed on Sunday, August 4 due to terror threats from Al Qaeda. While the Big Three ...
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'Today' Panel Proclaims 'Watershed Moment' for Gay Catholics, Demands Women Priests

During a panel discussion on Thursday's NBC Today about comments from Pope Francis on homosexuality, co-host Matt Lauer asked the group of usual liberal pundits if the Pontiff's remarks were a ...
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NBC Asks: 'If I Answer the Wrong Question, Is My Teacher Going to Shoot Me?'

During a panel discussion on Thursday's NBC Today about some school districts arming teachers to defend against mass shootings, fill-in co-host Carson Daly teed up New Jersey American ...
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NBC: 'Republican Family Feud' Between Christie and Paul 'Exposed Deep Divisions' in GOP

After a tease of upcoming coverage of the Anthony Weiner sex scandal, on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer tried to make the news of political controversy bipartisan:  "Republicans ...
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NBC Touts Hillary Keeping 'Safe Distance' from Weiner at Obama Lunch

On Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams declared that Hillary Clinton's lunch with President Obama put the possible 2016 Democratic contender "a safe distance from the scandal in New ...
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NBC Hype: Pope's 'Revolutionary' Gay Comments 'Stunned the Catholic World'

At the top of Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams seized on Pope Francis expressing compassion toward gay people of faith and framed the comments as a major shift for the Catholic ...
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'Today' Show Promotes NBC's Upcoming Hillary Clinton Biopic

On Monday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie seized on Hillary Clinton having lunch with President Obama to promote NBC's upcoming four-part miniseries on the former Secretary of State and ...
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NBC: Weiner Scandal 'Terribly Painful'...for Hillary Clinton

On Monday's NBC Today, following a report on the latest fallout from the Anthony Weiner sexting scandal, Hillary Clinton sycophant Andrea Mitchell fretted over the impact of the controversy on ...
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NBC's Mitchell Swoons: Caroline Kennedy 'Born to Be an Ambassador'

On Thursday's NBC Today, chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell couldn't contain her glee over Carolina Kennedy being appointed U.S. ambassador to Japan: "Caroline Kennedy was ...
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NBC: Huma Abedin Learned from 'Master' Hillary Clinton, Her 'Political Role Model'

Throughout the coverage of the latest Anthony Weiner sex scandal on Wednesday's NBC Today, hosts and correspondents repeatedly made comparisons between Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin, and her ...
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Joe Scarborough: Anthony Weiner is 'Chuck Yeager of Sex Scandals'

Appearing on Wednesday's NBC Today, MSNBC Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough made a strange analogy while discussing the latest Anthony Weiner sex scandal: "You know, let's just say he is the ...
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Groupie Andrea Mitchell Hopes Julian Castro Brings 'Democratic Revival' in Texas

In an adoring softball interview with San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro on her Monday MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell eagerly wondered if the Democrat was leading the way in turning the solidly ...
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NBC Reporter Uses Al Qaeda Jailbreak in Iraq to Bash U.S. Over 'Notorious' Abu Ghraib

On Tuesday's NBC Today, during a report on a attack against Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison that freed hundreds of Al Qaeda terrorists, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel couldn't resist ...
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NBC's Mitchell Glosses Over Anti-Israel Rant from Liberal 'Legend' Helen Thomas

While eulogizing left-wing White House correspondent Helen Thomas on Saturday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Andrea Mitchell conveniently minimized the controversial end to Thomas's ...
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NBC Cheers 'Firebrand for Science' Bill Nye Pushing Climate Change

On Monday's NBC Today, correspondent Mara Schiavocampo offered a fawning report on the 20th anniversary of the popular children's show, Bill Nye, The Science Guy, describing its host as "Part ...
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NYT Columnist: Rolling Stone 'Committed An Act of Journalism' With Tsarnaev Cover

During a report on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News on the widely panned cover of Rolling Stone magazine featuring Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a soundbite was included of New York Times media ...
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NBC's Lauer to Martin Parents: 'Do You Think the Legal System Failed Trayvon?'

In a live interview with Trayvon Martin's parents, Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton, on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer urged them to condemn the justice system for the acquittal of ...
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NBC Touts 'National Discourse' on Trayvon Martin Case...With Liberals Doing All the Talking

On Wednesday's NBC Today, a report by correspondent Kerry Sanders featured a series of sound bites of public figures, all of them liberal, reacting to the acquittal of Trayvon Martin shooter ...