Jonathan Karl

Journalists vs. the 'Far Right,' 'Hardline' and 'Ultra-Conservative' House GOP

rich.noyes — Tue, 27 Oct 2015 20:07:35 +0000

Rich Noyes

Over the past four weeks, as the broadcast networks have covered the House leadership contest, reporters have gone out of their way to relentlessly paint House Republicans, especially the Freedom Caucus, as ideologues who are outside the American political mainstream.

— Rich Noyes is Research Director at the Media Research Center. Follow Rich Noyes on Twitter.

Networks Fail to Cover WH Spokesman Refusing to Call the Taliban a Terrorist Organization

curtis.houck — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 04:07:47 +0000

Curtis Houck

During the daily White House press briefing on Wednesday, Deputy Spokesman Eric Schultz had an exchange with ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl where he declined to label the Taliban as a terrorist organization, instead insisting it's “an armed ins

— Curtis Houck is News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Curtis Houck on Twitter.

NBC’s Chris Jansing Gushes Over ‘an Energized, Combative President’; Scolds Boehner for Inviting Netanyahu

curtis.houck — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 07:22:28 +0000

Curtis Houck

NBC News senior White House correspondent Chris Jansing did her best to provide some White House spin during Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News, hailing President Obama as “an energized, combative President” whose policies made for a “carefully choreographed, populist message with the details generally panned by Republicans.”

— Curtis Houck is News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Curtis Houck on Twitter.

ABC and NBC Morning Shows Boost Obama’s ‘Aggressive’ SOTU Speech

jeffrey.meyer — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 16:34:53 +0000

Jeffrey Meyer

On Tuesday night, President Obama gave his sixth State of the Union address, and on Wednesday morning, ABC and CBS did their best to boost his speech and tout his liberal agenda to their audiences.

— Jeffrey Meyer is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Jeffrey Meyer on Twitter.

ABC, NBC Cheer Obama’s Liberal Proposals in SOTU Previews; ‘Going to Play a Little Robin Hood’ with Tax Hikes

curtis.houck — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 03:02:26 +0000

Curtis Houck

Ahead of President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, the networks offered previews of his speech during their Monday evening newscasts with ABC and NBC working particularly hard to paint a rosy picture for Obama with rising poll numbers and having “redefined” the “model of how to sell the State of the Union.”

— Curtis Houck is News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Curtis Houck on Twitter.

ABC and CBS Morning Shows Help Boost Obama’s ‘Paid Sick Leave’ Mandate

jeffrey.meyer — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 14:29:59 +0000

Jeffrey Meyer

On Thursday, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS This Morning eagerly promoted President Obama’s latest proposal that would require all private companies provide their employees with “at least seven days of paid sick leave.” NBC’s Today did not cover President Obama’s initiative on their Thursday morning broadcast.

— Jeffrey Meyer is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Jeffrey Meyer on Twitter.

ABC Hypes IRS Delaying Tax Refunds, More Identity Theft Due to Lacking of Funding from Congress

curtis.houck — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 23:12:24 +0000

Curtis Houck

On Wednesday, ABC’s Good Morning America had a segment that promoted how, due to budget cuts, the IRS will be forced to “delay those refund checks,” “increase the risk of identity theft,” conduct “46,000 fewer audits,” and maintain an “IRS help line” that “is going to become much less helpful.”

— Curtis Houck is News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Curtis Houck on Twitter.

ABC’s WNT and CBS EN Tag Team to Barely Cover Obama’s Absence from Paris March

curtis.houck — Tue, 13 Jan 2015 03:32:00 +0000

Curtis Houck

On Monday, ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir and the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley did their best to move on from the Obama administration’s decision to not have President Obama, Vice President Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, or Attorney General Eric Holder attend the march against Islamic terrorism in Paris on Sunday that drew well over one million people.

— Curtis Houck is News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Curtis Houck on Twitter.

2015: Will GOP Congress Cooperate with Obama? 2007: Democrats Should Impeach Bush!

geoff.dickens — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 22:53:01 +0000

Geoffrey Dickens

This week the media greeted the new GOP Congress with fears about a conservative “kamikaze caucus,” pushing “confrontation with Obama,” and stressed that if Republicans were to be successful they needed to look less “scary,” as they pointed out the 114th Congress was “80 percent white, 80 percent male and 92 percent of its members are Christian.”

— Geoffrey Dickens is Deputy Research Director at the Media Research Center. Follow Geoffrey Dickens on Twitter.

Networks Fret Conservatives Posed ‘a Thorny Obstacle’ for Boehner; Will Force Him to be ‘More Confrontational’

curtis.houck — Wed, 07 Jan 2015 03:33:36 +0000

Curtis Houck

On Tuesday night, each of the major broadcast networks devoted time to covering the swearing in of the 114th Congress and the race for House Speaker that saw John Boehner retain his post, but not without 25 conservatives voting in dissent against the incumbent Republican.

— Curtis Houck is News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Curtis Houck on Twitter.

CBS Covers ABC Reporter Grilling White House Press Secretary, ABC Doesn't

jeffrey.meyer — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:49:20 +0000

Jeffrey Meyer

On Tuesday afternoon, Jonathan Karl, ABC News Chief White House Correspondent, confronted White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest over President Obama’s appointment of Colleen Bell, a major Obama donor and producer of the soap opera The Bold And The Beautiful, to be the ambassador to Hungary.

— Jeffrey Meyer is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Jeffrey Meyer on Twitter.

ABC's WNT Omits Jonathan Karl Grilling Earnest Over Soap Opera Producer’s Credentials for Ambassadorship

curtis.houck — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 06:19:46 +0000

Curtis Houck

— Curtis Houck is News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Curtis Houck on Twitter.

Networks Push Illegal Immigrants, Pro-Amnesty Group Ahead of Obama’s Speech

curtis.houck — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:38:50 +0000

Curtis Houck

Ahead of President Obama’s speech on immigration on Thursday night, the major broadcast networks all did their parts to push the arguments in favor of his executive amnesty ranging from a whole segment devoted to a family that would benefit from the President’s executive order to promoting one pro-amnesty group.

— Curtis Houck is News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Curtis Houck on Twitter.

CBS and NBC Parrot WH Argument on Previous Presidential Immigration Policies as Grounds for Amnesty

curtis.houck — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 03:39:25 +0000

Curtis Houck

On Wednesday night, CBS and NBC promoted the White House talking point that previous presidential actions on immigration gives President Barack Obama the proper legal authority to enact executive amnesty the evening before a primetime address to the nation on the topic.

— Curtis Houck is News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Curtis Houck on Twitter.

ABC, NBC Omit Mention of Vulnerable Democrat Landrieu in Failed Keystone Senate Vote

curtis.houck — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:11:12 +0000

Curtis Houck

While all three major broadcast networks covered the failed vote in the U.S.

— Curtis Houck is News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Curtis Houck on Twitter.