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Networks Give Three Times More Quotes to Supporters of Gay Scout Admittance Than Opponents

Touting the Boy Scouts' "landmark" and "historic" decision to allow openly-gay members, CBS, ABC, and NBC gave supporters of the decision three times as many quotes as their opponents got on ...
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CBS Hits Holder's 'Outrageous Overreach', But Defers to Obama to Act

Friday's CBS This Morning, unlike NBC's Today, briefly picked up on NBC journalist Michael Isikoff's significant reporting from Thursday that Attorney General Eric Holder's "signed off on a ...
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Christie Dismisses Climate Change Question from NBC's Lauer as 'Distraction,' 'Esoteric Theory'

In an interview with Chris Christie on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer grilled the New Jersey Governor on his skepticism that man-made climate change caused Superstorm Sandy: "You said ...
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NBC Fails to Report Its Own Scoop That AG Holder Approved Investigation of Fox's Rosen

As of Friday morning, NBC News broadcasts had completely ignored an important scoop from the network's own national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff that Attorney General Eric ...
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Only CBS Notes IRS Official’s Leave, Yet ABC and NBC Have Time to Show Obama’s Prom Photo with ‘Foxy’ Friend

Already moving on from the IRS scandal? On Thursday night, only the CBS Evening News of the broadcast network evening newscasts bothered to note how Lois Lerner, the IRS official in charge of ...
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Andrea Mitchell: 'More Than Any of Its Predecessors,' Obama Administration Has Targeted Journalists

Longtime MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell on Thursday lashed out at the Obama administration, complaining that "more than any of its predecessors in recent years [they have], gone after journalists." ...
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MSNBC's O'Donnell Slams 'Vicious' Attempt to Ban Violent Criminals from Welfare

On the Wednesday, May 22, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell show on MSNBC, host  O'Donnell called for the defeat of a "vicious" Senate amendment pushed by Louisiana Republican Senator ...
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No Mention of IRS Scandal on NBC's 'Today,' But Plenty of Time for Obama Prom Photo

While Thursday's NBC Today completely ignored Wednesday's dramatic congressional hearing on the growing IRS scandal, the network morning show did manage to find time to gush over Barack ...
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CBS Spotlights 'Firestorm' Over 'Obama's War on Journalism'; ABC Punts

The Big Three networks' coverage so far of the Justice Department's questionable investigation of Fox News' James Rosen has followed a similar pattern to that of their coverage of the Kermit ...
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Networks Tout Obama's 'Renewed Focus on Transparency' in War on Terror; No Mention of Benghazi

While the three network morning shows on Thursday all promoted President Obama's "renewed focus on transparency" in an upcoming national security speech, none of the broadcasts made any ...
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