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
11/14/2012 12:21 PM ET
In attempt to deflect the growing scandal surrounding former CIA
director David Petreaus away from President Obama, on Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd ...
11/14/2012 10:07 AM ET
Eager to draw a comparison between Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln during a report for Saturday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Kevin Tibbles observed of the new film about the nation's 16th ...
11/13/2012 4:49 PM ET
During an exchange on NBC's Press Pass on Sunday, Meet the Press
moderator David Gregory and BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith wrung
their hands over political divisiveness on social media ...
11/13/2012 12:35 PM ET
In a report for Monday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Anne Thompson seized on Hurricane Sandy to continue pushing the argument for man-made global warming: "Now
some politicians are ...
11/13/2012 10:59 AM ET
Appearing on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, liberal historian
Doris Kearns-Goodwin pleaded for the American people to excuse
extramarital affairs of public figures like David Petraeus: "What
...
11/12/2012 3:48 PM ET
Sounding more like a Democratic strategist on Sunday's Meet the Press
than NBC's political director, Chuck Todd urged President Obama to
force congressional Republicans into a corner on the ...
11/12/2012 12:12 PM ET
During a discussion on Monday, NBC's Today show crew could
barely contain their enthusiasm at the prospect of Hillary Clinton
running for president again in 2016, with new third-hour co-host ...
11/9/2012 6:22 PM ET
At the end of a Friday interview with Mark Kelly, former astronaut and husband of former Congresswoman Gabrille Giffords, Today co-host Savannah Guthrie made sure to bring up the favorite liberal ...
11/9/2012 4:44 PM ET
Appearing on Friday's NBC Today to promote his new book, Thomas
Jefferson: The Art of Power, author and former Newsweek editor Jon
Meacham made a comparison between the founding father and the ...
11/9/2012 1:02 PM ET
Throughout Friday's NBC Today, hosts and reporters gushed over a
video released by the Obama campaign of the President tearing up as he
talked to supporters at a Chicago campaign office. At ...
11/8/2012 12:46 PM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Today, correspondent Andrea Mitchell provided a gushing profile of the First Family winning four more years in the White House: "Obama's
family is key to his success....Like ...
11/8/2012 11:47 AM ET
After NBC News spent a week hyping President Obama's response to
Hurricane Sandy as a major boon for his re-election campaign, on
Thursday's Today, political director Chuck Todd completely ...
11/7/2012 3:47 PM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Today, political director Chuck Todd cited Florida as evidence of "this demographic time bomb went off and caught the Republicans off guard,"
referring to the Hispanic vote in ...
11/7/2012 12:14 PM ET
In a fawning report on Wednesday's NBC Today on President Obama
winning re-election, correspondent Kristen Welker provided gauzy
commentary: "...the Chicago crowd was electrified as the ...
11/7/2012 10:05 AM ET
On Tuesday's NBC Today, correspondent Kristen Welker described
an Obama campaign "filled with anticipation and nostalgia" and the
President giving his final stump speech in Iowa "With an eye ...
11/6/2012 4:47 PM ET
During a panel discussion on Tuesday's NBC Today, former McCain
campaign advisor Steve Schmidt and PBS host Tavis Smiley began writing
the Republican Party's obituary before any votes had been ...
11/6/2012 1:41 PM ET
In an interview with senior Romney advisor Ed Gillespie on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer ripped into an ads run by the Governor's campaign in Ohio about the auto industry:
"The ...
11/5/2012 1:24 PM ET
On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory urged
both Obama campaign advisor David Plouffe and Republican House Majority
Leader Eric Cantor to agree that Hurricane Sandy provided ...
11/2/2012 5:23 PM ET
Reporting for Thursday's NBC Rock Center, chief foreign affairs
correspondent Richard Engel ranted over the lack of infrastructure
spending to protect against Hurricane Sandy and tried to ...
11/2/2012 11:28 AM ET
Appearing on Friday's NBC Today, special correspondent Tom Brokaw strained to explain why New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg endorsing President Obama would be helpful: "[It]
may not move the ...
