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Networks Trumpet News of 'Christian' Killer, But Balked Over Labeling Muslim Violence

The three major networks trumpeted the news this weekend that the man behind a mass shooting spree in Norway is also a Christian, highlighting the fact in eight different programs from Saturday ...

Times Highlights Tenuous 'Anti-Muslim' U.S. Links to Norway Terrorist on Front Page

Scott Shane: "...the mass killings in Norway, with their echo of the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City by an antigovernment militant, have focused new attention around the ...

On CNN Newsroom, Same-Sex Marriage Is the Major Story of the Day

A possible debt ceiling crisis? Mass murder in Norway? These are important stories, but Sunday on the 6:00 pm EDT hour of CNN Newsroom they took a backseat to the first day of legalized same-sex ...

NYT Sees More Danger After 'Christian Extremist' Attack in Norway; Found 'Understanding' for Muslim Bombers of London in 2005

While the Times showed no reluctance to identify the lone gunman in the Norway attacks as a "Christian extremist" in a front-page headline and hinted at more danger from "right-wing extremists" in ...

MSNBC's Wolffe Suggests Obama 'Reasonable' & 'Grownup,' GOP 'Irresponsible Children'

On Friday's Last Word on MSNBC, MSNBC analyst Richard Wolffe suggested that Obama was being "reasonable" and "the grownup in the room," while Republicans were not being "responisible' or a ...

CBS's Schieffer Mimics Obama, Proposes Republicans 'the Party that Can't Say Yes to Anything?'

Adopting the spin of President Barack Obama - who on Friday insisted "one of the questions that the Republican Party is going to have to ask itself is: Can they say yes to anything?" ' on Sunday's ...

CBS Gives Michael Bloomberg Forum to Promote Same-Sex Marriage

Saturday's The Early Show on CBS gave New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg an unchallenged forum to promote his views favoring same-sex marriage as the show celebrated New York's recent ...

Network Poll Coverage Ignores Public Opposition to Debt Ceiling Increase

NBC and CBS polls released earlier this week determined that a significant portion of the American public remain opposed to any increase in the nation's debt limit, but neither network has ...

GOP Guest Informs CNN of Its Own Poll Results

Rep. Tom Graves (R-Ga.) twice told CNN's John King Thursday night the results of CNN's own poll showing Americans favor a Cut, Cap, and Balance plan. King would not affirm his claims and instead ...

Tax-Loving, Obama-Defending NYT Writer Leonhardt Rises to Washington Bureau Chief

David Leonhardt, the New York Times' chief economics writer, has insisted on "the upside of paying more taxes' and has twice claimed big-spending Obama was in fact a "fiscal conservative." Three ...