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• World News' Compares 'Clean Coal' to Fat-Free Doughnuts'

  Published: August 8, 2007, 1:29 pm

  Tags: Business Coverage, David Kerley, Jeff Goodell, Abc, World News Tonight

  a collapsed coal mine ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson took it the opportunity to kick the coal industry while it was down but this time in the name of global warming. The criticism of coal is that it's a dirty energy source. Although many of the pollutants are being scrubbed out it's still high in carbon, the

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• ABC's Gibson ignored Padilla's three-year detention without charges

  Published: August 17, 2007, 3:53 pm

  Tags: Charlie Gibson, Abc, Abc World News Tonight, National Security Foreign Policy, Terrorism

  [chuckles] And that is World News for this Thursday. From the August 16 edition of NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams: BRIAN WILLIAMS (anchor): There is a verdict this evening in one of the most closely watched terrorism cases of our post-9-11 era, and the verdict is guilty for Jose Padilla, an American citizen once

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• NY Times, networks ignored Sen. Craig's record on gay and lesbian issues

  Published: August 28, 2007, 6:35 pm

  Tags: Abc, Abc World News Tonight, Cbs, Cbs Evening News, Nbc, Nbc Nightly News, The New York Times, Civil Human Rights, Ethics, Government Elections, Lgbt Issues

  27 broadcasts of ABC's World News with Charles Gibson, NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams, and the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. By contrast, an August 28 CNN.com article noted his votes on gay and lesbian issues and reported that "Craig's voting record has earned him top ratings from social conservative

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• Despite hyping lower July death toll, network evening news programs silent on number of troop deaths this summer

  Published: August 29, 2007, 12:20 pm

  Tags: Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric, Abc, Abc World News Tonight, Cbs, Cbs Evening News, Nbc, Nbc Nightly News, National Security Foreign Policy, War In Iraq

  networks' evening news programs -- ABC's World News with Charles Gibson, CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, and NBC's Nightly News with Brian Williams -- reported that the death toll for U.S. service members in Iraq was down in July. In particular, on World News, anchor Charles Gibson pointed to the lower July death toll

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• According To ABC's Wright, 100 Percent of Anbar Iraqis Oppose Troop Surge

  Published: September 10, 2007, 12:46 pm

  Tags: Congress, Iraq, David Petraeus, David Wright, Saddam Hussein, Good Morning America, World News Tonight

  famously observed on "World News Tonight that in a 1995 Iraqi election, "... Saddam Hussein won 99.96 percent of the vote. Of course, it is impossible to say whether that's a true measure of the Iraqi people's feelings." While discussing the ABC survey of Iraqi households, Wright didn't question the fact that not one person

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• AP, networks mum on Romney-Blackwater connection

  Published: September 18, 2007, 6:55 pm

  Tags: Abc, Abc World News Tonight, Associated Press, Cbs, Cbs Evening News, Good Morning America, Nbc, Nbc Nightly News, Today Show, 2008 Elections, Government Elections, Mitt Romney

  Miklaszewski at the Pentagon tonight. Mik, thank you for that. And for more on all of this, we're joined tonight by our NBC News Middle East bureau chief Richard Engel. He's in Beirut. And, Richard, first of all, this is the first conflict we have used contractors in this heavy a role. Lay out what kinds of jobs they're doing.

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• Network news did not report CBO assessment that Bush's SCHIP proposal sharply underfunds program

  Published: September 21, 2007, 8:25 pm

  Tags: Abc, Abc World News Tonight, Cbs, Cbs Evening News, Nbc, Nbc Nightly News, Economic Issues, Health Care

  neither NBC's Nightly News, ABC's World News, nor the CBS Evening News noted that Bush's alternative proposal -- a $5 billion expansion over five years -- would, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), underfund the program by $14 billion during that period. Further, on the Nightly News, NBC News chief White

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• Major newspapers, network news still silent on Romney-Blackwater connection

  Published: September 26, 2007, 8:37 pm

  Tags: Abc, Abc World News Tonight, Cbs, Cbs Evening News, Good Morning America, Los Angeles Times, Nbc, Nbc Nightly News, The Early Show, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Today Show, Usa Today, Wall Street Journal, 2008 Elections, Government Elections, Mitt Romney

  reports by the five major newspapers and the three networks on the Iraqi Interior Ministry revoking Blackwater USA's license, none of those outlets has reported on Romney's connection to Blackwater or his refusal to comment on the matter. Reports that the Iraqi Interior Ministry had ousted Blackwater were on the front page of the

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• Networks Help Democrats Target Blackwater; Only ABC Notes Firm's Perfect Record

  Published: October 3, 2007, 5:26 pm

  Tags: Business, Democrats, Iraq, Charles Gibson, Christopher Shays, Dan Burton, David Martin, Erik Prince, Jonathan Karl, Abc, Cbs, Cbs Evening News, Nbc, Nbc Nightly News, World News Tonight

  alone, but when the evening news got star-struck by the Democratic personalities on a congressional committee, that task was monumental. Erik Prince, CEO of Blackwater USA, testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform making the lead story on World News, NBC Nightly News and CBS Evening News. Glad to come

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• Networks Play Goldilocks With Winter Weather Predictions

  Published: October 10, 2007, 2:47 pm

  Tags: Weather Report, Charles Gibson, Katie Couric, Nbc Nightly News, World News Tonight

  Man." On CBS's Evening News, Katie Couric stated that "the government predicted today that temperatures this winter will generally be above average. Even so, it will cost you more to heat your home." But ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson" led its broadcast with the Energy Information Administration's report by

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• ABC, CBS Abandon Hillary's Talking Points on Social Security

  Published: October 16, 2007, 5:18 pm

  Tags: Social Security, Chip Reid, David Wright, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, John Harwood, Closing Bell, Cbs Evening News, World News Tonight

  October 15 CBS Evening News and ABC World News Tonight with Charles Gibson had a different take on Social Security contrary to liberal Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's position. On October 11, Clinton told CNBC's John Harwood she wasn't going to jump the gun and scare people by addressing their Social Security

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• Media Still Have Bad Case of (Black) Mondays 20 Years Later

  Published: October 19, 2007, 6:11 pm

  Tags: Economy, Stock Market, Alan Greenspan, James Baker, Mark Left, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw, Cnn, Nbc Nightly News, San Francisco Chronicle, World News Tonight

  of his term and a network TV news media voicing warnings the American economy might be doomed. Except this day in 1987, the stock market dropped 508 points. It's a day that will be in bold print in history books Black Monday, October 19th, 1987, when the stock market went into a freefall, losing more in one day than it did on Black Tuesday

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• The Worst Notable Quotables' of the Past 20 Years: Conservatives

  Published: October 23, 2007, 10:26 am

  Tags: Conservatives, History, Bryant Gumbel, Dan Rather, Morley Safer, Peter Jennings, Ronald Reagan, Tom Brokaw, Abc, Cbs, Nbc, World News Tonight, Mrc Nb News

  March 16, 1995 CBS Evening News. When NBC Nightly News continues: In Washington, if they cut food stamps, who doesn't eat? Tom Brokaw, March 22, 1995. Next week on ABC's World News Tonight, a series of reports about our environment which will tell you precisely what the new Congress has in mind: the most frontal assault on the

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• Tapper did not challenge Giuliani's claim that he did not "get[] the information" about Kerik

  Published: November 9, 2007, 4:25 pm

  Tags: Jake Tapper, Abc, Abc World News Tonight, 2008 Elections, Government And Elections, Rudy Giuliani

  From the video excerpt ABCNews.com posted of Tapper's interview with Giuliani: CHARLES GIBSON (ABC's World News anchor): ABC's chief political correspondent Jake Tapper is traveling with Mr. Giuliani in Iowa and asked him about the [then-]pending indictment for Kerik. [begin video clip] GIULIANI: I made

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