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March 9, 2017
Twelve. That’s how many records the Dow Jones Industrial Average set in a row in 2017. Twelve new records, 12 sessions in a row.
Seven. That’s how few stories three combined networks devoted in their evening broadcasts to the record run…
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March 9, 2017
It’s not everyday that a payroll jobs analysis crushes expectations by coming in 100K above the forecast. So when it does, it should be big news.
And it was for some media outlets, but not to the broadcast networks. All three evening…
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February 22, 2017
Authorities ordered the temporary evacuation of almost 200,000 people living near the Oroville Dam in California after spillway damage and erosion caused fear of death and devastation.
However, as The Mercury News reported Feb. 12, this spillway…
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February 7, 2017
A federal agency discredited a common argument of climate skeptics in 2015, but now a whistleblower has accused the agency of misleading the public and playing politics. Not that anyone watching the network news would know it.
For several years,…
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January 12, 2017
Network broadcasts slammed Trump’s plan to prevent his businesses from being conflicts of interest during his presidency, and provided scant balance to defend him.
During his first press conference on Jan. 11, President-elect Donald…
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January 11, 2017
Broadcast networks barely covered the skyrocketing national debt in the past year, but spent far more time on toy animals called Hatchimals. ABC and NBC gave the toy sensation three times more coverage than the debt.
As of Jan. 9, the United States…
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December 19, 2016
As the Dow Jones Industrial Average neared the 20,000 mark for the first time in history, the index set 16 closing-day record highs since Donald Trump’s election.
Even some liberal media outlets have drawn a direct connection between the…
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December 14, 2016
2016 was a crazy year. Many celebrities died including Gene Wilder, David Bowie and Prince. So did Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.
Americans also had ringside seats to the presidential boxing match between Apprentice star Donald Trump, R, and former…
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December 6, 2016
If you scream loud and long enough for a liberal cause, the media listen. Pipeline opponents dominated network reporting of the Obama administration’s decision to refuse permission for a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL).
#NoDAPL…
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November 30, 2016
Journalists like to point out the 1950s and ’60s classic cars dominating Cuba’s streets, but in the wake of dictator Fidel Castro’s death they largely ignored the story those cars tell.
Those vintage cars are emblematic of the…