Kyle Drennen is a news analyst for the Media Research Center. He joined the MRC in 2007 after graduating from Providence College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science.
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5/29/2013 5:24 PM ET
Talking to CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer on Wednesday's NBC Today
about signs of improvement in the economy, co-host Matt Lauer wondered
about past media fearmongering: "[What] we talked ...
5/29/2013 12:31 PM ET
At the top of Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer seized on Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's decision not to seek re-election in 2014: "Breaking news. A bombshell announcement from Michele ...
5/28/2013 5:50 PM ET
On Monday's NBC Today, correspondent Tom Costello fretted over
the impact of modest reductions in government spending: "401 parks,
battlefields, monuments, seashores, volcanos, and deserts ...
5/28/2013 12:38 PM ET
Leading off a report on Tuesday's NBC Today about President
Obama's trip to survey recovery efforts along New Jersey's shoreline
after Hurricane Sandy, White House correspondent Peter ...
5/24/2013 4:23 PM ET
In an interview with Chris Christie on Friday's NBC Today,
co-host Matt Lauer grilled the New Jersey Governor on his skepticism
that man-made climate change caused Superstorm Sandy: "You said ...
5/24/2013 12:13 PM ET
As of Friday morning, NBC News broadcasts had completely ignored an
important scoop from the network's own national investigative
correspondent Michael Isikoff that Attorney General Eric ...
5/23/2013 4:25 PM ET
While Thursday's NBC Today completely ignored Wednesday's
dramatic congressional hearing on the growing IRS scandal, the network
morning show did manage to find time to gush over Barack ...
5/23/2013 12:09 PM ET
While the three network morning shows on Thursday all promoted President
Obama's "renewed focus on transparency" in an upcoming national
security speech, none of the broadcasts made any ...
5/22/2013 5:00 PM ET
In an interview with Congressman Tom Cole on Wednesday's NBC Today
about the tornado that devastated his hometown of Moore, Oklahoma,
co-host Matt Lauer saw an opportunity to hit congressional ...
5/21/2013 3:53 PM ET
In statement released on Tuesday,
the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Joel
Simon, issued this warning against the Obama Justice Department
investigating Fox News ...
5/21/2013 12:00 PM ET
While much of the news coverage Monday evening and Tuesday morning was
dominated by coverage of the tornado that devastated Moore, Oklahoma,
Tuesday's NBC Today did manage to provide two news ...
5/21/2013 10:11 AM ET
On Sunday's NBC Meet the Press, moderator David Gregory urged
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell to condemn fellow Republicans for
drawing parallels between the scandals rocking the Obama ...
5/20/2013 2:08 PM ET
On Sunday's NBC Nightly News, White House correspondent Peter Alexander led off with Obama team spin on the scandals rocking the administration: "...the White House is aggressively responding, ...
5/17/2013 5:12 PM ET
On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, after proclaiming President
Obama to be "on the offensive" amid growing scandals, anchor Brian
Williams hinted at those controversies being only temporary ...
5/17/2013 12:44 PM ET
On Friday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer described how President Obama was "trying to move past" the scandals
plaguing his administration. In the report that followed, chief White
House ...
5/16/2013 2:33 PM ET
On Thursday's NBC Today, in a desperate attempt to deflect from
the scandals engulfing the Obama administration, co-host Savannah
Guthrie wondered: "I read a headline yesterday that said ...
5/15/2013 5:46 PM ET
With a headline on screen lamenting "Obama's Second-Term Blues" on Wednesday's NBC Today, the worst criticism Meet the Press
moderator David Gregory could muster against the President amid ...
5/15/2013 12:59 PM ET
On Wednesday's NBC Today, regular panelist Donny Deutsch
downplayed the scandals embroiling the Obama administration as merely
the result of the public not having anything else to focus on: "I ...
5/14/2013 5:37 PM ET
In an interview with former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday's NBC Today,
co-host Matt Lauer tried to dismiss the growing Benghazi scandal: "Do
you think that the administration ...
5/14/2013 11:54 AM ET
While Monday's NBC Nightly News was content to accept President
Obama labeling the Benghazi scandal as a "political circus" worthy of
ridicule, on Fox News Channel's Special Report, chief ...
