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Voters Triumph in California; Nets Cover Protesters

Seventy percent of the broadcast network coverage of court ruling on Proposition 8 focused on gay activists' reaction.

Sotomayor Prompts More 'Conservative' Than 'Liberal' Labels

Amazingly, after showing no reluctance in 2005 to describe John Roberts and Sam Alito as "conservative" or worse, the Tuesday network evening newscasts, particularly ABC and NBC, applied more ...

CNN's Jeff Toobin: Sotomayor a 'Moderate Liberal, Like Ginsburg and Breyer'

CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin on Tuesday twice labeled President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor a "moderate liberal."

Matthews: Nevermind 'Crazies' Like Limbaugh, Obama 'Wowed Us' with Sotomayor

Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's Hardball, couldn't contain his excitement over Obama's nomination of Sonia Sotomayor: "It was a brilliant piece of work....it couldn't have been done any better," and ...

ABC Minimizes 'Liberal' Label for Sotomayor; Used 'Conservative' for Alito Frequently

ABC News didn't use any labels such as liberal or progressive to describe Judge Sonia Sotomayor during its Tuesday morning coverage of her nomination to the Supreme Court. On the other hand, when ...

NYT's Blow: Smart Northeasterners Not Fooled By 'Cheney-Limbaugh Illusionati'

A New York Times columnist on Saturday: 'In 1984, Ronald Reagan won every Northeastern state. Since then, the leadership of the GOP has systematically shed its idealists in favor of ideologues, ...

NYT Warns GOP: Don't Challenge Obama's Supreme Court Pick

Chief political reporter Adam Nagourney plays the ethnicity card, suggesting Republicans would be wise to let Judge Sonia Sotomayor be confirmed without putting up a fight or risk "doom[ing] ...

Flashback: Nets Were Quick to Tag Alito and Roberts as 'Ultra' and 'Hardline' 'Conservatives'

Network anchors and reporters didn't hesitate to apply strong ideological labels (not just quoting others) to President Bush's two Supreme Court nominees, John Roberts and Samuel Alito. Will they ...

Kirk Johnson: Conservatism Still Dying in Utah

Reporter Kirk Johnson, hypersensitive to signs of conservative weakness out West, foresees the eclipse of traditional conservatism in Utah, unless the state "swerves right" by electing "staunch ...

Times Still Denying the Obvious About Bronx Synagogue Bomb Plot

"The authorities have made no overt claim that the four suspects - James Cromitie, Onta Williams, David Williams IV and Laguerre Payen - hatched a plot in jail or that their experiences behind ...