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
2/28/2013 10:36 AM ET
Keeping up
NBC's barrage of attacks against the Catholic Church in the days
leading up to Pope Benedict XVI's abdication, on Wednesday's Today, correspondent Anne Thompson made this nasty ...
2/27/2013 1:19 PM ET
In a report on Tuesday's NBC Today that only briefly mentioned
criticism of First Lady Michelle Obama's appearance during Sunday's
Academy Awards, White House correspondent Kristen Welker ...
2/27/2013 12:29 PM ET
Reacting to Chris Christie not being invited to speak at the
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer melodramatically announced: ...
2/26/2013 4:00 PM ET
At the top of Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams made this hyperbolic declaration: "A moment of crisis for the Catholic Church hit by a wave of scandals, just as the leaders must ...
2/26/2013 12:27 PM ET
During a panel discussion on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer urged the liberal Today's Professionals
pundits to assign blame for the upcoming budget sequester: "I want you
to complete ...
2/25/2013 5:34 PM ET
In an effort to hype controversy days before Pope Benedict XVI steps down as the leader of the Catholic Church, on Monday's NBC Today, correspondent Anne Thompson proclaimed: "Even in his final ...
2/25/2013 1:34 PM ET
Acting like an extension of the White House press office on Monday's NBC Today, correspondent Peter Alexander promoted Obama administration talking points on the upcoming budget sequester: "This ...
2/22/2013 6:16 PM ET
Appearing on Friday's Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC to discuss the upcoming budget sequestration, Bloomberg View columnist Margaret Carlson touted
President Obama's ability "to manipulate ...
2/22/2013 1:28 PM ET
After dismissing the argument that President Obama was to blame for the sequester as "dumb" on Thursday's MSNBC Daily Rundown, NBC political director Chuck Todd further mocked the notion on ...
2/21/2013 6:28 PM ET
On her 1 pm ET hour MSNBC show on Thursday, host Andrea Mitchell
mounted her high horse in condemning Republican Senators who questioned Defense Secretary nominee Chuck Hagel about his ...
2/21/2013 12:33 PM ET
Wednesday's NBC Today featured a full report on Tiger Woods praising President Obama's golf game, with White House correspondent Peter
Alexander cheering the weekend outing as the "most talked ...
2/20/2013 3:14 PM ET
The NBC, ABC, and CBS evening newscasts on Tuesday all recited the same
White House talking points as anchors and correspondents wrung their
hands over the upcoming sequester budget cuts set ...
2/19/2013 6:12 PM ET
On Tuesday's MSNBC Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough blamed conservative media outlets for recent Republican electoral defeats: "...for conservatives that think they have to stay in their own ...
2/19/2013 2:17 PM ET
Amid all of the news breaking in Washington, from the upcoming sequester cuts to President Obama's second term agenda, NBC's Today
decided to focus its Tuesday political coverage on a scandal ...
2/18/2013 1:27 PM ET
While new White House chief of staff Denis McDonough was grilled about the Benghazi terrorist attack on CBS's Face the Nation on Sunday, NBC Meet the Press
moderator David Gregory only lobbed a ...
2/15/2013 6:14 PM ET
Following the failure of former Senator Chuck Hagel to receive enough
votes in the Senate on Thursday to be confirmed as defense secretary,
NBC, ABC, and CBS all immediately turned their ire ...
2/14/2013 1:58 PM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams
proclaimed that Florida Senator Marco Rubio taking a sip of water during
his response to the State of the Union was "the televised moment ...
2/13/2013 2:18 PM ET
In the first part of an interview aired on Wednesday's NBC Today,
co-host Matt Lauer interrogated House Speaker John Boehner over saying
President Obama lacked the courage to stand up to his ...
2/13/2013 12:00 PM ET
In an interview with House Speaker John Boehner aired on Wednesday's NBC
Today, co-host Matt Lauer highlighted the Speaker inviting two girls
from a Washington D.C. inner city school to the ...
2/12/2013 6:22 PM ET
At the top of Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie suggested ulterior motives behind Pope Benedict XIV's abdication: "Vatican intrigue. Is there more to Pope Benedict's sudden decision to ...
