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ABC Heralds End of 'Airport Armageddon,' Fails to Portray Furloughs Battle as Democratic Defeat

ABC stubbornly stuck to its talking points on Friday, portraying the furloughs of Federal Aviation Administration employees as "airport armageddon." Despite the fact that even liberal outlets such ...
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NBC Hosts Fret Over Children and Seniors Being 'Silent Victims' of Sequester

As news of a deal in Congress to end FAA furloughs of air traffic controllers broke Friday morning, a panel of NBC hosts on Today immediately fretted over other government programs affected by ...
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Networks Blame Congress More than Obama For Airport Delays

Nearly three times more blame for Congress than president for FAA furloughs due to sequester.
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Bill Press Threatens: I Want 'Unfreaking-bearable' Flight Delays, Americans 'On Their Knees'

Add liberal host Bill Press to the list of liberals who want the sequester to hurt Americans in order to prove a political point. On Tuesday morning’s Full Court Press, his radio talk show ...
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NBC Host Recalls Pilot Urging Passengers to Sign Petition Against FAA Furloughs

On Wednesday's NBC Today, news anchor Natalie Morales complained about having a flight delayed due to the FAA furloughing air traffic controllers in the wake of the sequester: "I was traveling ...
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NBC's Williams Hypes Airport 'Traffic Jams,' Hopes Americans 'Take Further Notice' of Sequester

At the top of Monday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams eagerly parroted Obama administration talking points when it came to blaming the sequester for sporadic flight delays: "The ...
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ABC Renews Push to Spread Sequester Fear: 'Airport Armageddon' to Strike America

The journalists at ABC News on Monday renewed their push to promote sequester fears. Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos hyped, "Breaking this morning: Airport armageddon. Almost seven ...
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NBC's Williams Hypes: 'Sequester in Washington is Going to Affect All Americans'

Weeks after White House hype over the budget sequester fizzled as the policy went into effect, on Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams signaled a new media push to scare viewers ...
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NYT's Wald Says Sequester-Related Tower Closings Risk Air Safety, Just like Reagan Did

Times reporter Matthew Wald dug deep to find a parallel to the dangerous sequestration-related budget cuts: "But some pilots said that in its plans to close the towers, the F.A.A. was risking ...
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Bozell Blasts Networks for Censoring Coverage of Reid's 'Rancid' Sequester-Marine Death Link

According to a new Media Research Center report, ABC, CBS, and NBC are refusing to report Democratic Sen. Harry Reid’s indefensible implication on the Senate floor yesterday that tiny sequester ...
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