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
6/5/2012 4:22 PM ET
Seated atop a high horse on Monday's NBC Nightly News,
correspondent Peter Alexander lamented the tone of the Wisconsin recall
election of Republican Governor Scott Walker: "It is a fiery ...
6/5/2012 11:54 AM ET
As part of NBC's wall-to-wall Today show coverage of Britain's Queen
Elizabeth II celebrating her Diamond Jubilee on Tuesday, chief foreign
affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell listed ways in ...
6/4/2012 4:02 PM ET
As Republican strategist Alex Castellanos described the split in the
Democratic Party over Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital on Sunday's
NBC Meet the Press, host David Gregory defensively ...
6/4/2012 10:31 AM ET
At the top of Monday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer warned
Mitt Romney against going after President Obama too hard on the stagnant
economy: "Romney's campaign using the rise in unemployment ...
6/1/2012 4:22 PM ET
In a challenging interview with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on
Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer questioned whether a plan to ban
large sodas in the city was hypocritical: "You ...
5/31/2012 3:44 PM ET
Discussing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposal to ban large
soft drinks with liberal panelists on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host
Matt Lauer skeptically wondered: "Do we want local ...
5/31/2012 10:51 AM ET
While the networks largely ignored
43 Catholic institutions suing the Obama administration over the
ObamaCare contraception mandate, since news broke on May 25 of the
Pope's butler leaking ...
5/30/2012 12:05 PM ET
At the top of Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer worked to tarnish Mitt Romney officially becoming the GOP Nominee: "Mitt
Romney secures the Republican presidential nomination....But will ...
5/29/2012 3:26 PM ET
In an astonishing display of hypocrisy, NBC News repeatedly decried Mitt
Romney using celebrity businessman Donald Trump to fundraise for his
campaign. This is the same Donald Trump who hosts ...
5/29/2012 10:02 AM ET
During a panel on Tuesday's NBC Today, liberal pundits Star Jones, Donny Deutsch and Nancy Snyderman condemned left-wing MSNBC host Chris Hayes for suggesting fallen U.S. troops are not heroes. ...
5/25/2012 11:59 AM ET
On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams
announced: "Los Angeles is about to become the third big city in
California to ban plastic grocery bags." He then framed the government ...
5/25/2012 11:03 AM ET
After a Wednesday New York Times story gushed over the "indelible image" of a boy touching President Obama's hair in 2009, Friday's NBC Today dutifully promoted the pro-Obama fluff as co-host ...
5/24/2012 3:12 PM ET
Following a report on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News about the
dropping value of Facebook's initial public stock offering and possible
investigations into what went wrong, anchor Brian Williams ...
5/23/2012 3:45 PM ET
In an interview she conducted with left-wing actor Sean Penn at the
Cannes Film Festival that aired on Tuesday, Today co-host Ann Curry
behaved like an adoring fan rather than a journalist: ...
5/23/2012 10:30 AM ET
During a panel discussion on Tuesday's NBC Today about new French
President Francois Hollande having a girlfriend, advertising executive
Donny Deutsch insisted Americans would soon accept the ...
5/22/2012 3:31 PM ET
Appearing on Tuesday's NBC Today, Late Night host Jimmy Fallon could barely contain his glee over a recent appearance by President Obama on his show: "It's the craziest thing ever, to ever happen ...
5/22/2012 11:59 AM ET
On Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer invited CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer to elaborate on calling Mitt Romney a "job destroyer"
as the head of Bain Capital on Sunday's Meet the Press: ...
5/22/2012 10:43 AM ET
On Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer pleaded with former Secretary
of State Colin Powell to again endorse Barack Obama for president:
"...it sounds like you're on his [Obama's] team ...
5/21/2012 11:35 AM ET
On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer followed
Obama campaign talking points perfectly as he decried Mitt Romney's
business record at Bain Capital: "Romney's known as ...
5/18/2012 3:38 PM ET
In the midst of fill-in host Craig Melvin hyping accusations that black
lawmakers were "being unfairly targeted for ethics investigations" by
the Republican-led House Ethics Committee during ...
