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NBC Nightly News Breaks Silence on Jonathan Gruber 32 Days After First Video Surfaced

After a month in which NBC Nightly News gave more prominence to ugly Christmas sweaters, grape salad, Al Roker's 34-hour weather report, and a live broadcast of Peter Pan starring Brian Williams' ...
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NBC Covers UNC Academic Fraud Scandal, Yet Skipped Academically Fraudulent Democratic Senator

Throughout the entire plagiarism scandal involving Democratic Senator John Walsh (Mont.), the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC have combined for only one story in the form of a news brief ...
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ABC and NBC Join CNN in Ignoring Scandal Involving NY Governor Andrew Cuomo

On Monday morning, broadcast networks ABC and NBC and cable news outlet CNN continued their blackout of the investigation into New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) and his shuttering of his own ...
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On PBS, David Remnick Praises Obama Administration As Scandal-Free, Pro-Science

David Remnick of The New Yorker told PBS's Charlie Rose that President Obama may go down as a historically "big" president -- partly because there has been "no scandal" in his administration and ...
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MSNBC's Alter-nate Reality: Network Contributor Dishonestly Claims There've Been No ‘Ongoing Revelations’ In IRS Scandal

While discussing Chris Christie’s bridge controversy, MSNBC's Jonathan Alter brought up the Obama administration’s IRS scandal. He remarked that the IRS matter "would still be a story" if there ...
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Saturday GMA Devotes 10x More Coverage to De Blasio's Pizza Faux Pas Than ObamaCare News

Some important ObamaCare news broke late on Friday, but Saturday's Good Morning America reduced it to a news brief in the second half of their show. In the first half of the show, they ran a ...
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Today Show Ignores Lois Lerner's Retirement But Aired Two Segments on Obama's Smoking Comments

Tuesday's Today show didn't even mention the retirement of Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of the Tea Party targeting scandal, but it aired two full segments on President Obama ...
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CNN Buries at 5 AM Big New Report on IRS Scandal

CNN has all but ignored a new report that according to IRS documents, the agency gave extra scrutiny to 162 political groups – 80 percent of them conservative – that were seeking tax-exempt ...
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ABC, CBS Fail to Label Scandal-Tarred Jesse Jackson Jr. a Democrat

On Thursday morning, neither ABC nor CBS labeled former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. a Democrat as they reported on his 30 month jail sentence for misusing campaign funds. NBC's Today did not ...
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