Broadcast Networks | Media Matters for America

Media Matters regularly monitors the major national broadcast networks that provide television news: ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox.

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These major news outlets amplified JD Vance’s lie about Tim Walz’s military service without rebuttal

08/09/24 1:09 PM EDT
National TV news coverage of devastating Western U.S. and Canadian wildfires rarely connected them to climate change

07/31/24 10:38 AM EDT
RNC coverage has at times whitewashed J.D. Vance’s anti-abortion extremism

07/18/24 12:47 PM EDT
Only 4% of national TV news segments about Hurricane Beryl mentioned climate change

07/11/24 10:53 AM EDT
Fox and broadcast news largely ignored Trump promoting the prosecution of his political enemies on social media

07/09/24 4:11 PM EDT
National news media barely covered the infant mortality spike that followed Texas’ anti-abortion law

07/03/24 2:22 PM EDT
News outlets gorged on Hunter Biden trial coverage while ignoring Trump’s calls to prosecute foes

06/17/24 10:39 AM EDT
National TV news largely ignored the climate connection during coverage of the recent extreme heat event

06/12/24 9:03 AM EDT
Lessons from one month of national TV news coverage of Trump’s $1 billion Big Oil scandal

06/10/24 10:05 AM EDT
Corporate broadcast networks spent only 2 minutes covering Senate GOP blocking nationwide access to contraception

06/07/24 2:50 PM EDT
National news media are glossing over Trump’s “shady” financial benefits to witnesses

06/06/24 4:11 PM EDT
National TV news show little curiosity about how climate change fueled record-breaking extreme weather over Memorial Day weekend

06/04/24 12:49 PM EDT