Donald Trump officially launched his presidential bid in 2016, but according to an NBC producer Trump campaigned years beforehand on the network.
For years, Trump campaigned on NBC and CBS late night shows reiterating talking points…
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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 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 10, 2016
The media often cite the Natural Resources Defense Council when covering environmental issues, but one of the group’s founders appears opposed to going “green”’ when it’s near his own back yard.
James Gustave…
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June 7, 2016
Hillary Clinton made herself look like the out-of-touch elitist she is often criticized for being, but rather than reporting that, broadcast networks hyped her “historic” nomination.
When Clinton spoke against income…
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June 2, 2016
Liberals often decry corporate greed, but a new report showed that the largest corporations donated $4.8 billion in charity. Three of the highest donating firms were typical media targets: Exxon, Walmart and Goldman Sachs.
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June 1, 2016
Another Obama administration agency has poured cold water on anti-fracking fears so commonly promoted by the liberal media.
The Federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement announced May…
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May 25, 2016
An NBC executive recently agreed with the argument that the network’s promotion of Donald Trump built the foundation for his presidential run.
For more than a decade, NBC amplified Trump’s public presence with hundreds of…
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May 10, 2016
Donald Trump’s rise as a presidential candidate has prompted many political observers to blame TV outlets for giving him historic amounts of free air time. While it…
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April 13, 2016
Since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling in 2010, the broadcast networks have been whining about corporate influence in politics — but not right now.
The media often attack the conservative Koch brothers for “…
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March 29, 2016
Actor and producer Robert De Niro has bowed to science and withdrawn an anti-vaccination documentary from his Tribeca Film Festival lineup.
NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt spent more than two minutes on March 28 covering De Niro’s…
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March 23, 2016
March Madness 2016 has begun filling up sports bars, lowering office productivity and bringing basketball and non-basketball fans together through friendly betting.
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March 15, 2016
Imagine if the Koch brothers supported disruptive protests that shut down a Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders rally, The broadcast news networks would be tripping over each other to tell the story.
But because it was Soros-funded groups…
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March 9, 2016
When Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri was chairman of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the networks relied on him to warn about the threat of climate change…
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February 10, 2016
The Supreme Court dealt a “major blow” to the Obama administration and the president’s climate agenda late on Feb. 9. NBC, the “Green is Universal…
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February 3, 2016
When gas prices were high, the media pumped their shows with stories about profit. But when prices were low, those stories took a back seat.
In 2015, gas prices tumbled from a high of $2.80 in June to a low of $2 in December after a glut…
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January 25, 2016
2016 was supposedly the “point of no return” for taking action on global warming, according to former Vice President Al Gore. His tipping point received widespread scorn on the right, resulting in an “Armageddon…
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January 7, 2016
When it comes to raising the minimum wage, networks minimize balance and maximize bias.
After a year of protests clamoring for a $15 minimum wage, Christian Science Monitor reported that 14 states and several cities…
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