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
5/7/2012 8:49 AM ET
In a complete violation of journalistic ethics, Friday's NBC Today aired
an invented hidden camera scenario in which two teen girls were
portrayed as participating in racial discrimination as ...
5/4/2012 11:03 AM ET
In a fawning interview with liberal comedian Stephen Colbert on Friday's
NBC Today, fill-in co-host David Gregory gushed over the Comedy Central
host being a factor in the 2012 presidential ...
5/4/2012 8:07 AM ET
Interviewing President Obama about the killing of Osama Bin Laden on Wednesday's NBC Rock Center, Nightly News anchor Brian Williams couldn't resist gushing over the level-headed ...
5/3/2012 11:34 AM ET
Talking to Meet the Press host David Gregory on the NBC Sunday show's
web-based feature Press Pass, Saturday Night Live cast member and Obama
impersonator Fred Armisen confessed: "I've grown ...
5/2/2012 3:22 PM ET
Talking to NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams about President
Obama's surprise trip to Afghanistan on Wednesday's Today, co-host Ann
Curry hoped the move would quiet Republicans: ...
5/2/2012 11:25 AM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Today, panelist and attorney Star Jones fretted over a recent campaign ad mocking President Obama's celebrity status and implied racial overtones in the criticism: "...what ...
5/1/2012 1:37 PM ET
In an interview with senior Mitt Romney campaign adviser Ed Gillespie on
Sunday's Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory noted how President
Obama was "certainly using" the one-year ...
5/1/2012 9:48 AM ET
Despite Wisconsin's unemployment rate being well below the national rate
and steadily falling, on Saturday's NBC Nightly News correspondent Ron
Allen selectively hyped job losses: "With the ...
4/30/2012 12:01 PM ET
In a fawning interview with Barack Obama's half-sister Auma Obama on
Monday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry lobbed softballs about the
President: "...you describe an almost instantaneous ...
4/30/2012 9:58 AM ET
On Monday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry could barely contain her glee
over President Obama's comedic performance at Saturday's White House
Correspondents' Dinner: "I mean, he is Shecky, ...
4/27/2012 10:43 AM ET
At the top of Thursday's NBC Nightly News, fill-in anchor Savannah Guthrie proclaimed: "Fired for trying to get pregnant. Tonight,
the teacher versus the Catholic school." Guthrie was referring ...
4/26/2012 11:42 AM ET
In a supposed discussion of financial ethics with left-wing Harvard
professor Michael Sandel on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry
decried people being able to pay more money to get ...
4/25/2012 3:18 PM ET
Throughout the Wednesday broadcast, NBC's Today repeatedly found time to
promote President Obama as funny, hip, and connecting with young
voters. Touting the President's appearance on NBC's ...
4/24/2012 12:24 PM ET
In a news brief on Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams
managed to twist a positive development for Mitt Romney, the endorsement
of Rudy Giuliani, into a negative: "Giuliani, who ...
4/24/2012 10:39 AM ET
Appearing on Tuesday's NBC Today, political director Chuck Todd warned
Mitt Romney against picking Marco Rubio as a vice presidential running
mate with a negative comparison to Sarah Palin: ...
4/23/2012 3:23 PM ET
In a stunning admission to the New York Time's David Carr on Monday, NBC News president Steve Capus confessed that the network made a mistake in not issuing a correction on air for falsely editing ...
4/23/2012 2:15 PM ET
During a report for the April 18 edition of NBC's Rock Center, correspondent Ted Koppel was right at home with French socialist campaign workers: "...it is the Socialist campaign directed by these ...
4/13/2012 4:21 PM ET
On his 9 a.m. EDT MSNBC show The Daily Rundown on Friday, NBC political director and chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd referred to Hilary Rosen's denigrating remarks about Ann Romney as a ...
4/13/2012 8:49 AM ET
In a statement totally disconnected from the reality of media coverage
of the Trayvon Martin shooting, on Thursday's Today show, NBC chief
medical editor Nancy Snyderman proclaimed that the ...
4/12/2012 11:23 AM ET
Adding to past reports defending disgraced former Democratic
presidential candidate John Edwards against charges of violating
campaign finance laws, on Thursday's NBC Today, correspondent Lisa ...
