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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8/29/2012 7:16 AM ET
In a Tuesday 10 a.m. et NBC News special report on President Obama
declaring a state of emergency for Gulf Coast states in the path of
Hurricane Isaac, Today co-host Matt Lauer gushed: ...
8/28/2012 10:18 AM ET
In an interview with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on Tuesday's NBC Today,
co-host Matt Lauer was aghast at an off-the-cuff joke by Mitt Romney on
Friday: "...he said, 'No one's ever ...
8/27/2012 11:59 AM ET
In a report for Monday's NBC Today, chief White House
correspondent Chuck Todd was eager to paint a picture of Republicans in
disarray prior to the GOP convention: "The specter of New ...
8/24/2012 4:57 PM ET
Opening an hour-long special on the Mormon Church for Thursday's NBC Rock Center,
anchor Brian Williams proclaimed to viewers: "Most Americans say they
know next to nothing about the Mormon ...
8/23/2012 10:47 AM ET
Eager to keep the Todd Akin controversy alive on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams declared the Missouri Republican's comments were "inflicting unforeseen and great damage on the ...
8/23/2012 7:45 AM ET
On Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams brought on
political director Chuck Todd to give a "damage assessment" for
Republicans in the wake of the Todd Akin controversy. Todd ...
8/22/2012 9:03 AM ET
In what co-host Matt Lauer billed as a campaign ad "reality check" on Tuesday's NBC Today,
a Romney ad criticizing the Obama administration for gutting Welfare
reform was dismissed as ...
8/21/2012 2:05 PM ET
During the Today's Professionals panel segment on Tuesday's NBC Today,
attorney Star Jones predicted that if Todd Akin continues his Senate
run in Missouri, the entire Republican Party will be ...
8/21/2012 12:08 PM ET
At the top of Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams proclaimed: "Firestorm. A Congressman's words about rape rocket across the country...women's issues are front and center again."
...
8/20/2012 3:48 PM ET
Appearing on Monday's NBC Today, political director and chief White
House correspondent Chuck Todd used reports of a Republican congressman
skinny dipping during a 2011 trip to Israel to slam ...
8/20/2012 2:03 PM ET
At the top of Monday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie seized on controversies involving Republican members of Congress and proclaimed: "Hot water....Two distractions for the GOP with the ...
8/17/2012 2:18 PM ET
On Thursday and Friday, NBC launched an all out assault on Mitt Romney,
urging him to release more tax returns. Opening Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams scrambled to resurrect ...
8/16/2012 4:03 PM ET
In what was billed as a profile of Ann Romney set to air on Thursday's
NBC Rock Center, a portion of the interview played on Thursday's Today
featured news anchor Natalie Morales grilling the ...
8/16/2012 11:13 AM ET
Reporting for Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, White House
correspondent Kristen Welker discussed the "remarkably ugly political
week so far" in the presidential campaign following ...
8/15/2012 2:12 PM ET
In an interview with Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus
on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie slammed Paul Ryan's
proposed budget: "And the Ryan budget makes some ...
8/15/2012 10:48 AM ET
Teeing up Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
to bash Paul Ryan on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer lobbed
this softball: "Do you think that Paul Ryan's ...
8/15/2012 8:00 AM ET
Leading off Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams struck a
patronizing tone as he noted "things get rough for the new guy on the
trail" Paul Ryan, with "incoming fire on his own ...
8/14/2012 10:41 AM ET
In an interview with former House speaker Newt Gingrich on Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer worried about vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan's commitment to conservative principles: ...
8/13/2012 2:02 PM ET
On Monday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer actually used the President's
own past statements about Republican vice presidential candidate Paul
Ryan to grill deputy Obama campaign manager ...
8/13/2012 10:51 AM ET
Hoping to define vice presidential pick Paul Ryan early with liberal
talking points, on Monday's NBC Today, correspondent Peter Alexander
painted the Wisconsin congressman as "the architect of ...
