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5/7/2012 4:25 PM ET
Despite devoting 33 stories to the dramatic case of Chinese dissident
Chen Guangcheng, NBC and ABC have all but ignored the major cause of the
human rights activist: Opposing the communist ...
5/7/2012 11:28 AM ET
Perhaps previewing the winking and nodding that will follow in the
general election campaign, ABC's John Berman on Monday uncritically
parroted the White House line on gay marriage: "What the ...
5/4/2012 11:57 AM ET
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams on Thursday fretted
about the "very tough spot" a Chinese dissident and human rights
activist has put Hillary Clinton in. On Friday's Good Morning ...
5/3/2012 5:42 PM ET
MSNBC on Thursday again featured Ron Reagan to trade on the legacy of
his father, trashing the Republican Party as a "haven for bigots." The
liberal son of the former president appeared ...
5/3/2012 12:28 PM ET
Wednesday's nightly newscasts and Thursday's morning shows hyped
"steamy," "romantic" journal entries from an ex-girlfriend of Barack
Obama, but downplayed or ignored revelations that his ...
5/2/2012 12:20 PM ET
The same networks that huffed and whined about George W. Bush's secret
trip to Iraq over Thanksgiving in 2003, calling it an "embarrassing"
"presidential shell game," had no such harsh ...
5/1/2012 2:42 PM ET
According to the reporters at Good Morning America, May Day is
a "traditional day of protest," one in which members of the Occupy
movement can get "fired up about." Reporter John Berman ...
4/30/2012 11:42 AM ET
George Stephanopoulos and the reporters at Good Morning America did not
treat Dan Rather like a discredited journalist who disgraced CBS with
faked documents. Instead, Rather was extolled as a ...
4/26/2012 11:04 AM ET
ABC News has, thus far, ignored its own revelation that, contrary to
insinuations made by Barack Obama, the then-private citizen and his wife
"were making enough to be considered 'wealthy' by ...
4/25/2012 11:52 AM ET
MSNBC's Chris Jansing on Wednesday didn't exactly press Jimmy Carter as
she interviewed the ex-President, wondering if Mitt Romney has "gone too
far" with conservatism "to be trusted." Carter ...
4/24/2012 5:37 PM ET
Washington Post political writer Chris Cillizza definitively declared on Tuesday's Hardball
that for the 2012 race, Barack Obama is "cool" and Mitt Romney is "not
cool." Host Chris Matthews, ...
4/24/2012 1:25 PM ET
Over a combined total of nine and a half hours of programming, CBS, NBC
and ABC allowed a mere 72 seconds of coverage to the news, Monday, that
Social Security will go bankrupt three years ...
4/23/2012 5:53 PM ET
An unhinged Chris Matthews on Monday excoriated Republican primary
voters as racist, deriding them as the "Grand Wizard crowd." Former
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael ...
4/23/2012 11:47 AM ET
ABC reporter and global warming enthusiast Bill Blakemore on Sunday
condescendingly dismissed climate change skeptics as "denialists." In a
piece on ABCNews.com, he called for yet more ...
4/20/2012 2:31 PM ET
CBS's Bill Plante on Friday downplayed graphic photos of U.S. soldiers
in Afghanistan posing with severed body parts of suicide bombers as a
GOP "distraction," insisting that Republicans were ...
4/19/2012 5:00 PM ET
The big three networks have, thus far, shown little interest in
investigating the nearly one million dollars in commuting costs spent by
Barack Obama's Defense Secretary. According to the ...
4/19/2012 11:44 AM ET
Apparently Hardball anchor Chris Matthews doesn't watch his own network. On Wednesday, the liberal cable host piously proclaimed that liberals would never compare a conservative to a dictator such ...
4/18/2012 4:47 PM ET
MSNBC's Martin Bashir, who previously compared Rick Santorum to genocidal murderer Joseph Stalin,
on Wednesday mocked the concept that MSNBC could be biased against
Republicans. A network ...
4/18/2012 11:48 AM ET
Of the three major networks, only ABC's Good Morning America on
Wednesday covered the "dog wars" counterattack by Mitt Romney's
operatives. Co-anchor George Stephanopoulos highlighted that the ...
4/17/2012 5:19 PM ET
MSNBC analyst David Goodfriend appeared on Tuesday's Dylan Ratigan Show
to slime the National Rifle Association as having "blood on its hands."
Goodfriend, who was only identified as a ...
