When it comes to covering the economy under President Obama, the broadcast networks have a habit of covering good economic news, but glossing over or ignoring bad economic news.
It turns out coverage of income and poverty data…
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September 15, 2016
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September 12, 2016
When it came to covering voters’ most important issue, networks fumbled again in August. Instead, the networks spent more time tackling a football player who protested the national anthem.
Voters and presidential…
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September 9, 2016
It’s a Bernie Sanders dreamland. In socialism, government takes over the means of production. One of the first steps is to grow government. The latest jobs report gave…
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August 31, 2016
Networks vilified a drug company and its CEO for the high price of life-saving allergy medicine, all while ignoring government actions which enabled the company’s monopoly, contributed to rising costs and increased demand.
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August 24, 2016
MRC’s Dan Gainor rebuffed Clinton campaign complaints of distortion on the part of Associated Press due to recent reporting on the Clinton Foundation scandal.
On Aug. 23, AP reported that a disturbing amount of Clinton’s…
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August 24, 2016
One of the liberal media’s favorite Hollywood actors, Leonardo DiCaprio, intended to host a fundraiser in his home for Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton…
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August 22, 2016
When CNBC’s Joe Kernen calls someone out for liberal bias, it is usually one of his colleagues. This time, he hit ABC This Week anchor George Stephanopoulos.
“I love when Steph goes after the Republicans, man. He's tough.…
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August 11, 2016
Oil giant Chevron won in court again as a federal appellate court recently upheld a 2014 ruling blocking enforcement of an $8.65 billion claim against the oil company. But just as they did in 2014, the broadcast evening news shows…
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August 11, 2016
When it came to covering issues voters cared about, the networks didn’t catch ‘em all, especially the most important one.
According to the Pew Research Center, voters ranked the economy as their highest priority in July. But…
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August 9, 2016
Donald Trump spent more than 52 minutes laying out his plans for the economy in Detroit Monday. It’s an issue voters ranked as their most important, yet ABC spent only devoted 33 seconds to what Trump proposed.
Pew Research Center…
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August 8, 2016
Once again the broadcast networks showed that when it comes to economic news, they pick news that makes Obama look good.
ABC World News and CBS Evening News…
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August 2, 2016
The U.S. economy “sputtered” again in the second quarter, according to The Wall Street Journal. However, that “disappointing” economic news, coming on…
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July 25, 2016
They call it a comeback.
It is true, the U.S. economy is no longer in the depths of what has been called “The Great Recession.” But, in many ways…
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July 15, 2016
The media exuded panic surrounding the vote for the U.K. to leave the European Union, commonly called Brexit. Reports after the vote panicked over how much markets had fallen, worried about a potential recession for the UK and otherwise attacked…
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July 11, 2016
Media coverage put a Republican face to the water crisis in Flint. The broader story on lead contamination revealed that Democratic mayors vastly outnumbered Republicans in cities with lead testing problems.
The Flint crisis gained…
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June 27, 2016
Democracy is all well and good, until the outcome of a popular vote is unpopular with the liberal media.
The people of the United Kingdom voted on June 23, to leave the European Union. The broadcast news programs tried their own…
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June 16, 2016
The Federal Reserve announced it wouldn’t raise interest rates, in part due to poor employment growth and economic “headwinds.” Two out of the three broadcast networks ignored the decision.
Federal Reserve…
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June 16, 2016
Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss lashed out at ABC over its miniseries about fraudster Bernie Madoff. He specifically complained about the network’s refusal to name banks in Madoff.
“They were afraid [the banks] would sue…
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June 14, 2016
President Obama threatened to bankrupt the coal industry before he was elected. Presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton recently told coal miners she would put a lot of…
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June 9, 2016
Disney’s CEO apparently doesn’t sing “Hakuna Matata” when reviewing his company’s taxes.
The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger slammed the U.S. tax system as “ridiculously complex,” and said the…
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