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Sam Dorman | August 3, 2016

NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt disputed the notion that his network was responsible for Donald Trump nabbing the republican presidential nomination.

"There's really not that much of a correlation between one and the…

Mira Ebersole | August 2, 2016

Food is so scarce in Venezuela that last week a group of starving people broke into a zoo and killed a horse for food. Burdened by government regulations, Venezuela’s economic crisis and its food shortage are forcing many people to leave…

Julia A. Seymour | 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…

Julia A. Seymour | 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…

Sam Dorman | 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…

Sam Dorman | July 13, 2016

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…

Sam Dorman | 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…

Aly Nielsen, Sam Dorman | 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…

Sam Dorman | 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…

Julia A. Seymour | 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…

Mira Ebersole | 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…

Sam Dorman | 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…

Sam Dorman | 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.   

Mira Ebersole | 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…

Sam Dorman | 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…

Sam Dorman | 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…

Aly Nielsen | 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 “…

Aly Nielsen | 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…

Julia A. Seymour | 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.

Aly Nielsen | 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…