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Networks Continue to Show No Interest in Covering Senate’s Passage of Keystone Pipeline

curtis.houck — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:49:26 +0000

Curtis Houck

The nation’s major broadcast networks continued their blackout on Friday morning of not covering the U.S. Senate’s passage of the Keystone XL oil pipeline with zero mentions on their morning newscasts.

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

CNN Barely Covers Release of Gitmo Detainees; Airs 19-Second Brief

matthew.balan — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 23:32:19 +0000

Matthew Balan

As of 6 pm Eastern on Thursday, CNN has devoted just 19 seconds of air time to the release of five prisoners from Guantanamo Bay detention facilities – a news brief during the New Day program. This is still more coverage than CBS and NBC, as both Big Three networks ignored the story on their Thursday morning newscasts.

— Matthew Balan is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Matthew Balan on Twitter.

ABC, NBC, Others Decline to Show Charlie Hebdo Cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Mohammad (UPDATED)

curtis.houck — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 05:19:09 +0000

Curtis Houck

Following the deadly Islamic terrorist attack in Paris on Wednesday, major broadcast networks ABC and NBC joined other news outlets in not showing any of the controversial cartoons of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad from the Charlie Hebdo magazine during their evening newscasts.

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

CNN Spends 26 Seconds on Bridgegate Report Clearing Christie; Devoted 8.5 hours on First Day of Allegations

curtis.houck — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 22:42:32 +0000

Curtis Houck

Back in January, when the Bridgegate scandal surfaced, CNN offered wall-to-wall coverage totaling just over eight hours and 35 minutes of coverage on its first full day and featured the Republican Governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, at the center of it all.

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

Rudy Rebukes Dyson's 'White Supremacy' Jab: 'I Said the Same Thing' Obama Said

matthew.balan — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 21:13:51 +0000

Matthew Balan

Rudy Giuliani fired back at Michael Eric Dyson on CNN's New Day on Tuesday for the MSNBC analyst's "white supremacy" attack on the former New York City mayor.

— Matthew Balan is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Matthew Balan on Twitter.

CNN Covers Sex Abuse Case Against Obama 'Friend,' As Big Three Censor Story

matthew.balan — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 20:57:02 +0000

Matthew Balan

CNN stood out on Sunday and Monday for actually covering the sex abuse charges against Terry Bean, a "major fundraiser for President Obama," as correspondent Erin McPike labeled him. The cable network devoted three full segments and two news briefs to the criminal charges against Bean, who is also the co-founder of the left-wing homosexual activist group Human Rights Campaign.

— Matthew Balan is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Matthew Balan on Twitter.

CNN's Cuomo Unsure About Bin Laden 'Having to Lose [His] Life'

matthew.balan — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:55:16 +0000

Matthew Balan

CNN's Chris Cuomo expressed his nagging doubt on Monday's New Day about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Cuomo, along with co-anchors Alisyn Camerota and Michaela Pereira, devoted a segment to the controversy over the Navy SEAL who claims to have shot bin Laden.

— Matthew Balan is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Matthew Balan on Twitter.

CNN Plays Up GOP 'Impediment' to Obama Nominee in Ebola Response

matthew.balan — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 21:55:55 +0000

Matthew Balan

CNN's Alisyn Camerota promoted a liberal talking point about the Obama administration's response to the Ebola outbreak on Friday's New Day, as she interviewed Rep. Jason Chaffetz.

— Matthew Balan is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Matthew Balan on Twitter.

CNN’s Cuomo on Biden After Latest Gaffe: ‘I Still Love Biden for What He Is...His Candor Is Refreshing’

curtis.houck — Fri, 03 Oct 2014 19:57:30 +0000

Curtis Houck

At the conclusion of the 6:30 a.m. news briefing during Friday’s New Day on CNN, substitute news reader John Berman played video of Vice President Joe Biden jokingly asking Harvard University’s student body vice president if he finds his job “a b****” after the student introduced himself to ask a question.

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

CNN Lobbies McCain to 'Help the Administration Succeed' with ISIS Strategy

matthew.balan — Thu, 11 Sep 2014 23:14:17 +0000

Matthew Balan

On Thursday's New Day, CNN's Kate Bolduan hounded Senator John McCain to back President Obama's new strategy to combat the Islamist terrorist group ISIS and help him gain congressional support: "We talk about how you are a critic of the administration.

— Matthew Balan is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Matthew Balan on Twitter.

CNN Guests: 'Handcuffed' Obama 'Has Very Little Ability to Sway' Global 'Crises'

matthew.balan — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 23:06:57 +0000

Matthew Balan

On Monday's New Day on CNN, Jonathan Martin of the New York Times and Bloomberg's Margaret Tavel ran to President Obama's defense over his handling of ISIS. Martin hyped that "the President is in a tough spot here....these two beheadings of journalists...have really outraged a lot of folks....and the President is forced to act. But again, there is not any appetite in this country to put ground troops back in that region.

— Matthew Balan is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Matthew Balan on Twitter.

After Hyping Christie’s ‘Bridgegate,’ CNN Buries Andrew Cuomo’s Scandal

curtis.houck — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:11:30 +0000

Curtis Houck

It has been over three weeks since The New York Times published a front-page investigation unmasking the actions of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) shuttering an anti-corruption commission. In reaction, the U.S.

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

Obama Admin. Admits Up to 310,000 Enrolled in ObamaCare Without Proof of Residency; Networks Yawn

matthew.balan — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 03:31:09 +0000

Matthew Balan

The Big Three networks' evening newscasts on Wednesday failed to notice the Obama administration's latest revelation about ObamaCare: that more than 300,000 people who signed up for health plans under the controversial law could lose them because they failed to prove they were legal residents of the U.S.

— Matthew Balan is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Matthew Balan on Twitter.

Networks Refuse to Cover Christian Cities in Iraq Falling to ISIS; CNN’s Cuomo Calls Story 'Largely Underreported'

curtis.houck — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 19:27:55 +0000

Curtis Houck

On Thursday, the al Qaeda spinoff group the Islamic State seized numerous towns in northern Iraq that are home to much of the country’s minority Christian population, sending tens of thousands of them fleeing further into the Kurdish-dominated region to avoid the unforgiving and deadly extremist group. When it came to the major broadcast networks covering this story on their Thursday morning news shows, neither ABC, CBS, or NBC provided their viewers with information on this story.

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

ABC Out to Lunch on U.S. Attempt to Kindle Political Change in Cuba; CBS and NBC Cover

matthew.balan — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 21:32:01 +0000

Matthew Balan

As of Tuesday morning, ABC's morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the Associated Press report that revealed the Obama administration's covert program in Cuba that attempted "recruit young Cubans to anti-government activism" on the communist-dominated island. The AP outlined that "over at least two years, the U.S.

— Matthew Balan is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Matthew Balan on Twitter.