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NBC Puffs Al Franken with Softball Questions to New Senator

On Thursday's Today, Meredith Vieira tossed mostly softballs to Senator-elect Al Franken, offering no hard questions about the disputed 2008 election, instead fawning, "...Are you more worried ...

Dr. Snyderman's Unhealthy Prediction

'Today' segment connects the dots between obesity and world power.

NBC's Meredith Vieira to Dick Morris: GOP Plan to 'Sit and Watch Obama Fail?'

NBC's Meredith Vieira on Thursday conducted a defensive interview with Fox News' Dick Morris, at one point skeptically wondering if "the Republican tactic from this point on" would be "to sit and ...

Front-Page Story Gets Nostalgic for Summer School

Education reporter Sam Dillon doesn't question using the economic "stimulus" money for funding summer school classes facing the budget ax.

CNN Bashes Conservative Ads With 'Industry Insider,' Omits His Far Left Affiliation

CNN glowingly featured an entire segment on Thursday's American Morning about Wendell Potter, a former chief corporate spokesman for the health insurance company Cigna, and he attempted to ...

NYT Editors: Powerful and Modest

A story on Times editors hashing out the next morning's front page talks of "11 men and 7 women with the power to decide what was important in the world."

Egan: Bush Years of "Sanctioned Torture and War Built on Deceit"

Happy 4th of July! Reporter turned nytimes.com blogger Timothy Egan celebrates the return of liberal patriotism after the nightmare of the Bush years.

Are Black Female Reporters In The Tank for Michelle? 'Fabulously'

Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz reported Thursday on black females on the Michelle Obama beat, and whether their shared race and gender produces gauzier coverage. "Indeed, most write ...

Shades of Bias: Bringing Illegals "Out of the Shadows"

Yet another sympathetic portrayal ofillegal immigrants as cowering 'in the shadows' - a phrase the Times has used several times in supposedly objective news stories.

Journalists Actually Criticize Obama's Healthcare Forum

CBS's Chip Reid joined even by liberal Helen Thomas to complain about White House media control.