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The deluge of royal baby coverage went into overdrive on Monday with all three morning shows devoting a staggering 73 minutes total to the impending birth and the child's gender. At the same time, Good Morning America , Today and CBS This Morning ignored any developments in the growing Internal Revenue Service scandal. The Today show obsessed over the royal baby the most, pushing the story for 43 minutes and five seconds over 18 segments. (This amounts to a quarter of the four hour program's running time, minus commercials.) Good Morning America speculated on all subjects royal for 21 minutes... continue reading

Douglas Brinkley predictably gushed over President Obama on Saturday's CBS This Morning , and hailed the Democrat's Friday speech on the not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial: " It certainly was historic ....I think it elevated the Trayvon Martin story , really, to the annals of DayGlo, top-tier history ....it was quite memorable ." Brinkley later heralded the President as a "constant grief counselor." Substitute anchors Maurice DuBois and Vinita Nair also gushed over the address, and seconded the liberal historian's praise for Obama: " This was really a historic speech, in the sense that he also got... continue reading

According to George Stephanopoulos, the late Helen Thomas, who passed away on Saturday, was a "passionate," "tenacious" journalist who only got a "bit" "biased" at the end of her career. The former Democratic operative turned journalist reminisced over his interactions with her when he was White House Press Secretary for Bill Clinton. Appearing on Sunday's Good Morning America , Stephanopoulos remembered, "She was so tenacious, so passionate. She was such a trail blazer and mentor to a lot of women reporters in that White House briefing room as well and everybody could count on her to ask the tough questions."... continue reading

As he guest hosted the Friday, July 19, All In show, MSNBC's Ezra Klein -- also of the Washington Post -- stuck by the liberal line that all of the blame for the Trayvon Martin shooting lies on George Zimmerman, primarily because the neighborhood watchman followed Martin, without regard to who might have thrown the first punch. Ignoring the absence of any eyewitnesses to confirm which party struck first, or even the witness who saw Martin on top of Zimmerman, Klein asserted that Martin "was not the violent one that night." Klein began his biased analysis: I think this is... continue reading

On Monday's NBC Today , correspondent Mara Schiavocampo offered a fawning report on the 20th anniversary of the popular children's show, Bill Nye, The Science Guy , describing its host as "Part teacher, part crusader." A soundbite followed of Nye declaring: "Climate change is happening." [ Listen to the audio ] While Schiavocampo started by describing the success of educational program, she quickly turned to promote Nye's advocacy: "But don't let his friendly appearance fool you.... Bill Nye has become a firebrand for science, an advocate regularly speaking out about topics like evolution and climate change." Clips were interspersed of... continue reading

Once again obscuring any line between MSNBC and NBC News, Brian Williams brought frequent MSNBC contributor Joy-Ann Reid aboard Friday’s NBC Nightly News to praise President Obama’s comments on the Zimmerman-Martin case while he failed to mention she spent 2008 working for the Obama presidential campaign. Between hailing Obama’s remarks as “extraordinary” and “brave,” Reid painted Obama as the victim of racism: “Everything about the Obama presidency, race has been a subtext to all of it. From the Tea Party which saw differently the Obama bailout of the auto industry from George W. Bush’s and suddenly became a movement, to... continue reading

On Thursday's All In show, MSNBC host Chris Hayes again demonstrated just how far left his views are when he admitted that he has had difficulty understanding the widespread criticism of Rolling Stone magazine over its provocative cover photo of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. To his credit, Hayes brought aboard someone with an opposing opinion from his own in the form of The List 's Rachel Sklar, normally herself left-leaning, to discuss the issue. After declaring that his initial reaction was, "I don't understand why people are so upset," he later conceded that a reflexive impulse to disagree with... continue reading

All three networks on Thursday night and Friday morning avoided key factors in the bankruptcy of Detroit, skipping the city's astronomically high tax rate and ignoring Democratic dominance for the previous half century. (Detroit's last Republican mayor left office in 1962.) Instead, ABC, NBC and CBS acted as though the bankruptcy, what Brian Williams called "the slow-moving tragedy of decline," was something that just happened. On Good Morning America , Betty Liu gently summarized, " What happened here? Well, people have been leaving the city for years. Back in the 1950s, you had almost two million people, at the peak,... continue reading

The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC ) networks have essentially censored the latest IRS scandal news. Not a single network reported on the bombshell coming out of Thursday’s congressional hearing that IRS employees were ordered to send Tea Party tax-exemption applications to the office of the IRS’s Chief Counsel, which was headed by William Wilkins , who at that time was the only Obama political appointee at the IRS. The Big Three networks have also ignored this week’s news that tax records of political candidates (including one-time GOP Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell ) and certain donors were improperly accessed by... continue reading

Eliot Spitzer, the former Democratic New York governor who resigned in 2008 amidst a prostitution scandal, was given a prime-time CNN show less than three years later. And on Wednesday night he enjoyed a nice promotion from CNN's Piers Morgan as he runs for New York City comptroller. Morgan largely avoided Spitzer's 2008 scandal – except to use it for his "comeback" narrative. " This is all part of a comeback. You are the 'Comeback Kid.' Do you like being the 'Comeback Kid? '" he asked Spitzer. [Video below. Audio here .] Morgan also got Spitzer to pitch his own... continue reading