Monday’s NBC Nightly News led off with anchor Lester Holt decrying the “dark consequences” of Donald Trump’s “fiery and unsupported” warnings of a “rigged” election next month, and on Tuesday morning, MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin labeled Trump’s concerns “dangerous.” But back in 2004, NBC’s cable network MSNBC was the leader in casting doubt on the legitimacy of an election outcome, as then-8pm host…
On the September 4, 2016 edition of CNN's Reliable Sources, Slate editor Jacob Weisberg attempted to justify the news media skewing their coverage against Donald Trump, claiming the GOP nominee was far outside the norms of U.S. politics:
Slate editor Jacob Weisberg: “You know, the structure of covering politics is you compare an apple and an orange, and they have different attributes, but they’…
Following the President's speech to the Democratic convention on July 27, 2016, correspondent Andrea Mitchell enthused on MSNBC:
“[Barack Obama] invoked the audacity of hope, all of the spirit, all of the creativity of his own brilliant speech writing....I don’t think we’ve ever had a President, save Lincoln, who is as great a speechwriter as this man.”
Video illustrating the eighth and final segment of NewsBusters' Special Report: Hillary Clinton's Media Fan Club. This installment: How journalists have openly yearned for Hillary to become the first woman President of the United States.
Read Part One: Journalists celebrating Clinton as the “successful,” “remarkable,” “fabulous,” “sexy” and “pious” “icon of American womanhood.”
Part Two:…
Video illustrating Part Seven of NewsBusters' Special Report: Hillary Clinton's Media Fan Club. This installment: How journalists have openly yearned for Hillary to become the first woman President of the United States.
Read Part One: Journalists celebrating Clinton as the “successful,” “remarkable,” “fabulous,” “sexy” and “pious” “icon of American womanhood.”
Part Two: Journalists disparage…
Video matching Part Six of NewsBusters' Special Report: Hillary Clinton's Media Fan Club. This installment provides examples of journalists trying to wave away her many scandals — from Whitewater in the 1990s to current Benghazi and the e-mail scandals — by casting her as a victim, or suggesting she’s too valuable to hold accountable, or that the scandals are simply the fevered exaggeration of…
Video illustrating Part Five of NewsBusters' Special Report: Hillary Clinton's Media Fan Club. This installment: Ten examples representing the softball treatment Hillary has received in TV interviews over the years.
Read Part One: Journalists celebrating Clinton as the “successful,” “remarkable,” “fabulous,” “sexy” and “pious” “icon of American womanhood.”
Part Two: Journalists disparage…
Video matching Part Four of NewsBusters' Special Report: Hillary Clinton's Media Fan Club. This installment: a collection of quotes showing reporters in awe over Hillary’s “dazzling” political mastery.”
Read Part One: Journalists celebrating Clinton as the “successful,” “remarkable,” “fabulous,” “sexy” and “pious” “icon of American womanhood.”
Part Two: Journalists disparage Clinton's critics…
Video matching Part Three of NewsBusters' Special Report: Hillary Clinton's Media Fan Club. This installment: examples of reporters cheerfully echoing Hillary’s attempt to blame all of her and her husband’s scandals on a “vast right-wing conspiracy,” as opposed to the Clintons’ own impoverished ethics.
Read Part One: Journalists celebrating Clinton as the “successful,” “remarkable,” “fabulous…
Video matching Part Two of NewsBusters' Special Report: Hillary Clinton's Media Fan Club. When Hillary faced tough questions or scrutiny over her scandals, members of her media fan club cast her critics as motivated by sexism and antagonism to her feminist achievements.
Read Part One: Journalists celebrating Clinton as the “successful,” “remarkable,” “fabulous,” “sexy” and “pious” “icon of…