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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4/11/2012 11:19 AM ET
Reporting on Rick Santorum leaving the Republican presidential race on
Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Ron Mott proclaimed: "It was a campaign filled with highly-publicized ...
4/10/2012 4:32 PM ET
On Monday, both NBC's Nightly News and ABC's World News hyped a finding
by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that, in
the panicked words of NBC environmental ...
4/10/2012 10:11 AM ET
In an interview with Congressman Paul Ryan on Tuesday's NBC Today,
co-host Ann Curry slammed the Wisconsin Republican's proposed budget: "Where
is the empathy in this budget?...Do you ...
4/9/2012 2:13 PM ET
Appearing on NBC's Sunday web-based feature Press Pass, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley tore apart the media obsession with the contraception debate: "The
media thinks that women only care ...
4/6/2012 11:18 AM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Tonight Show, host Jay Leno asked Meet the Press host
David Gregory if Mitt Romney's religion would be fair game in the
general election: "...with Obama....you know, 'Oh, ...
4/5/2012 3:51 PM ET
In an opinion piece for CNBC.com on Wednesday, Street Signs anchor Brian Sullivan argued: "...for the majority of the country, $4 gas isn't going to doom us or our economy....right now it just ...
4/5/2012 12:01 PM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams accused a federal
judge of bringing politics into the judicial process simply by ordering
the Justice Department to explain controversial ...
4/4/2012 3:51 PM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry informed viewers that
reviews were in for Sarah Palin's Tuesday guest-hosting stint on the
broadcast: "...we had a pretty interesting morning around ...
4/4/2012 10:54 AM ET
While serving as guest host on Tuesday's NBC Today, Sarah Palin
literally gave HBO's hit piece on her, Game Change, a thumbs down, and
declared: "I didn't see the movie. And I wouldn't waste ...
4/3/2012 3:00 PM ET
In his Tuesday interview with Sarah Palin on NBC's Today, co-host Matt
Lauer insisted the economy was getting better and wondered why voters
should bother voting out President Obama: "Some ...
4/3/2012 12:07 PM ET
While discussing a new Facebook app that allows users to list their
enemies during the Tuesday panel segment on NBC's Today, liberal
advertising executive Donny Deutsch claimed guest host ...
4/3/2012 9:52 AM ET
On Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer pressed Sarah Palin on
whether the Republican nominee should pick a vice presidential running
mate with more experience than she had in 2008. Palin ...
4/3/2012 7:28 AM ET
At the top of Saturday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Lester Holt scared viewers with an ominous declaration: "Disaster
warning. Scientists sound the alarm. If you think this season's wild
weather ...
4/2/2012 2:43 PM ET
Appearing on Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, New York Times columnist Tom
Friedman slammed Mitt Romney by suggesting even Aborigines tribes in New
Zealand and Australia were mocking him: "I just ...
3/30/2012 3:22 PM ET
Filling in for Matt Lauer on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Hoda Kotb made a
bizarre proclamation about race relations in the wake of the Trayvon
Martin shooting: "Skittles obviously has become ...
3/30/2012 11:05 AM ET
While supposedly updating viewers on important news of the day on
Friday's NBC Today, fill-in news anchor Savannah Guthrie touted an Obama
campaign public relations effort: "Well, just days ...
3/29/2012 3:54 PM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams touted how "plans for Mitt Romney's home near San Diego include a four-car garage and a car elevator for each of the cars," and that "his ...
3/29/2012 8:36 AM ET
In a piece of propaganda that would make Cuba's Castro regime proud, on
her Tuesday MSNBC program, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent
Andrea Mitchell cheered the communist state's "highly ...
3/28/2012 10:22 AM ET
In an interview with House Speaker John Boehner aired on Wednesday's NBC
Today, co-host Matt Lauer depicted the November election as a futile
effort for the GOP: "[The economy] does put some ...
3/27/2012 3:50 PM ET
Responding on Tuesday to NBC Today co-host Matt Lauer wondering if Tim
Tebow would be the "right fit" for the New York Jets, advertising
executive Donny Deutsch predicted the faithful ...
