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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4/8/2013 10:18 AM ET
As news broke of the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Monday morning, Today co-host Matt Lauer turned to correspondent Michelle Kosinski in London, who proclaimed Thatcher ...
4/5/2013 9:51 AM ET
On Thursday, MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell celebrated five years of her 1 p.m. ET hour show, Andrea Mitchell Reports,
with highlight reels and congratulatory messages from her NBC
colleagues. The ...
4/4/2013 11:03 AM ET
On Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie heralded
that Connecticut had "approved some of the tightest gun control
legislation in the country as President Obama is pushing for tougher ...
3/26/2013 5:10 PM ET
During a panel discussion on Tuesday's NBC Today, guest panelist Carson Daly, host of The Voice, ranted over the Supreme Court's upcoming ruling on gay marriage: "The
more conservative the Court ...
3/26/2013 3:10 PM ET
At the top of Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie
seemed to get swept up in the network's own one-sided reporting on the
gay marriage cases before the Supreme Court, proclaiming: ...
3/26/2013 10:15 AM ET
In an interview with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his two brothers,
Hollywood agent Ari and bioethicist Zeke, on Friday's NBC Rock Center, anchor Brian Williams sounded like an adoring fan ...
3/25/2013 4:05 PM ET
In an interview with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory invited the anti-gun advocate to issue a political threat to gun rights ...
3/25/2013 10:42 AM ET
At the top of Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, chief foreign
correspondent Richard Engel forwarded anti-Israel sentiment during a
segment about President Obama's trip to the Middle East: "I ...
3/22/2013 2:27 PM ET
Previewing a fawning Brian Williams interview with Chicago Mayor Rahm
Emanuel and his brothers, Ari and Zeke, set to air on Friday's NBC Rock Center, Today co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed ...
3/22/2013 9:51 AM ET
In a report for Thursday's NBC Today, investigative
correspondent Michael Isikoff reported on plans for a $150 million
renovation of the Guantanamo Bay prison still housing 166 terror ...
3/21/2013 2:50 PM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel described Israel's precarious position in the Middle East: "Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.
...
3/21/2013 10:32 AM ET
After President Obama scolded NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd as "incorrigible" for asking too many tough questions during a Wednesday press conference, Nightly News anchor Brian ...
3/20/2013 5:23 PM ET
During a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu on Wednesday, President Obama lectured NBC chief White House
correspondent Chuck Todd for asking too many ...
3/20/2013 10:32 AM ET
Appearing on Tuesday's NBC Today as part of its Vatican
coverage of Pope Francis's installation mass, former correspondent Maria
Shriver offered a report that urged the Catholic Church to ...
3/19/2013 1:19 PM ET
In a report on the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War for Tuesday's NBC Today, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel was unable to conceal his contempt for the conflict: "Iraq's oil money was ...
3/19/2013 10:17 AM ET
On Tuesday's NBC Today, news reader Natalie Morales warned
viewers: "With a potential government shutdown looming later on this
month, the White House may have to cancel its annual Easter Egg ...
3/18/2013 4:24 PM ET
In an interview with Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren for NBC's online Meet the Press: Press Pass, which is also aired by some NBC-owned stations following Meet the Press on Sundays, moderator ...
3/18/2013 2:53 PM ET
Appearing on Monday's NBC Today as part of the Today's Professionals
panel discussion, the network's chief medical editor Nancy Snyderman
urged the Catholic Church to abandon its opposition to ...
3/18/2013 11:51 AM ET
Wrapping up a panel discussion on Monday's NBC Today about Ohio
Republican Senator Rob Portman coming out in support of gay marriage,
co-host Matt Lauer voiced suspicion about the timing of ...
3/18/2013 10:05 AM ET
On Monday's NBC Today, news reader Natalie Morales hyped how "Republican infighting broke out this weekend at
the annual Conservative Political Action Conference." In the report
that followed, ...
