Mark Potter

NBC Cheers 'New Era' in U.S.-Cuba Relations, Barely Notices Opposition

12/18/2014 3:41 PM ET

During the five minutes of coverage that Thursday's NBC Today provided on President Obama reopening diplomatic relations with Cuba, only twenty-three seconds was devoted to critics of the ...

Networks Barely Mention Brutality of Castro Regime or Cuba Being Communist

12/17/2014 11:58 PM ET

Following the trend set when news broke early Wednesday, the major broadcast networks continued their praising of the move by President Obama to seek normalized relations with Cuba on their ...

NBC’s Mark Potter Blames Cuba’s Poor Economy on ‘the Long-Standing U.S. Embargo’

12/17/2014 9:20 PM ET

During Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News, correspondent Mark Potter reported from Havana, Cuba on the news that President Obama was altering U.S. relations with the communist state and parroted a ...

NBC Proclaims 'Hero's Sendoff' for Chavez, 'A Harsh Critic of the U.S.'

3/8/2013 5:02 PM ET

Introducing a brief report on Friday's NBC Today about the funeral proceedings for socialist Venezuelan strong man Hugo Chavez, news reader Natalie Morales announced: "In Venezuela, a hero's ...

ABC and NBC Tout ‘Larger Than Life’ Chavez Who ‘Never Backed Down from a Challenge’

3/6/2013 1:09 PM ET

ABCNews.com on Wednesday greeted the death of Hugo Chavez by avoiding the word “socialist.” Instead, GMA's Brandi Hitt touted the repressive leader as someone who “appeared to never back ...