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
8/20/2014 11:52 AM ET
After a long-running "bromance"
between weatherman Al Roker and Vice President Joe Biden, the hosts of
Wednesday's NBC Today arranged a surprise live appearance from Biden to
wish Roker a ...
8/19/2014 9:23 AM ET
Filling in as host of NBC's August 17 Meet the Press, Andrea Mitchell looked back
at departing moderator David Gregory's years anchoring the broadcast.
The tribute followed Thursday's ...
8/18/2014 11:26 AM ET
All three network morning shows on Monday continued to hype the Friday
indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry, but none of the broadcasts
mentioned prominent liberals like Obama adviser David ...
8/15/2014 9:45 AM ET
In an interview with the director of a Boston drug rehabilitation center on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer worried about the impact media coverage of legalized marijuana was having on ...
8/14/2014 11:59 AM ET
On Thursday, the hosts of CBS This Morning interrogated former
NBC and CNN journalist Campbell Brown and prominent liberal attorney
David Boies over their effort to reform the public education ...
8/13/2014 4:07 PM ET
As the Media Research Center NewsBusters blog reported on Tuesday, CNBC's chief Washington correspondent John Harwood observed on Squawk Box
that the world "blowing up" on President Obama's ...
8/13/2014 1:51 PM ET
On Wednesday, NBC's Today devoted a nearly four-minute segment to promoting a fawning interview that Wired
magazine conducted with NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Despite introducing
the story by ...
8/12/2014 3:12 PM ET
Appearing on CNBC's Squawk Box Tuesday morning, the business
network's chief Washington correspondent John Harwood acknowledged that
President Obama's failed foreign policy would be an ...
8/11/2014 11:36 AM ET
Eager to defend President Obama from criticism of his vacation in
Martha's Vineyard amid multiple international crises, both Sunday's ABC Good Morning America and Monday's NBC Today used false ...
8/8/2014 2:19 PM ET
Of the three network morning shows on Friday, only NBC's Today
made any mention of President Obama being criticized over his slow
response to the terrorist group ISIS taking over Iraq. Co-host ...
8/7/2014 1:35 PM ET
On Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie noted a
restaurant in Minnesota that found "a unique way to offset the added
expense" of the state hiking its minimum wage: "The Oasis Café is ...
8/7/2014 10:22 AM ET
In a surprisingly favorable gun rights story on Thursday's NBC Today, correspondent and weekend Today host Erica Hill profiled Dartmouth College student Taylor
Woolrich "in Washington D.C. ...
8/6/2014 2:13 PM ET
In a report for Tuesday's NBC Nightly News, chief foreign
correspondent Richard Engel declared that "Gazans tried to put their
lives back together" during a cease-fire with Israel and said of ...
8/6/2014 10:23 AM ET
After NBC Nightly News completely ignored the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll on Tuesday, political director Chuck Todd appeared on Wednesday's Today to promote the survey but skipped the ...
8/5/2014 3:34 PM ET
On Monday night, only the CBS Evening News covered what anchor Scott Pelley described as an "emerging genocide" in Iraq.
In a 48-second news brief, Pelley reported: "The Islamic army known as ...
8/5/2014 9:31 AM ET
On Tuesday's Today, Savannah Guthrie had an exclusive interview
with Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice, but rather than grill
the controversial administration official on a variety of ...
8/4/2014 3:46 PM ET
All three network morning shows on Monday eagerly touted the Obama
administration denouncing Israel after an attack on Hamas targets in
Gaza led to civilian deaths. On NBC's Today, ...
8/4/2014 9:58 AM ET
On Monday's Good Morning America, hosts Dan Harris and Amy Robach seized on Pope Francis advising against proselytization in a Sunday interview with Argentinian magazine Viva. Harris observed: ...
8/1/2014 3:08 PM ET
Appearing on MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell Reports on Friday, NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd made a celebratory declaration: "Look,
Democrats, for the first time probably in 18 months, ...
8/1/2014 11:34 AM ET
Talking to Megyn Kelly on Thursday's NBC Late Night, host Seth
Meyers touted how the Fox News anchor had recently "sort of grilled"
former Vice President Dick Cheney and "called him to task ...
