Category: NBC

ABC / CBS / NBC

CBS Goes a Step Further with Coverage of Tight Senate Race

This year, Democrats are close to retaking the Senate. One network’s coverage of the Senate race has gone a step further than the other two. On Oct. 26, CBS aired a nearly two-minute story on the Indiana Senate race. The piece followed Democrat and former senator Evan...

ABC / CBS / NBC / Trump

To Cover or Not to Cover Melania Trump

More than one week after the release of the 2005 Access Hollywood tape, Melania Trump broke her silence. For ABC and NBC her Oct. 17 interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper was major news. CBS ignored it totally. Which network was right? ABC’s David Muir began with...

Clinton / NBC / Trump

NBC Misses Key Facts in Clinton Hacked Email Coverage

NBC’s Andrea Mitchell covered the release of hacked emails from the Democratic campaign on Oct. 11. Did she tell the whole story? She began, “Another email showing contact between the Clinton campaign and the Justice Department: Clinton Press secretary Brian Fallon writing he was in touch with the...

ABC / CBS / NBC / Trump

Trump’s Demeaning Words: Not Made for Evening News

A video of the 2005 conversation between Donald Trump and Access Hollywood host Billy Bush dominated coverage Oct. 7. It is unusual for networks to present profanity-laced language from a major party’s presidential nominee. But that is what CBS, NBC, and ABC had to do — and they all did...

NBC

Report says Donald Trump violated federal law in 1998, ABC and CBS stay quiet

News organizations have gotten plenty of criticism during the 2016 presidential race for not focusing on the issues that matter to many voters. Friday night, ABC and CBS may have added fuel to the blame-the-media fire. Early Sept. 30 Newsweek released a report stating that Donald Trump...

 

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What We’re Reading

  • Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds | The New Yorker
  • The Media Loved Trump's Show of Force | The Washington Post
  • Why Is Trump Fighting ISIS in Syria? | The New York Times
  • Trump's White House Is a Family Business | Politico
  • Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda | Columbia Journalism Review
  • CNN Had a Problem: Trump Solved it | The New York Times
  • The New York Time Reporter Trump Can't Quit | CNN

    • Sites We’re Following

  • TV Newser
  • Jim Warren, Chief Media Columnist, Poynter Institute
  • Brian Stelter, CNN Reliable Sources