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9/11/2012 12:47 PM ET
If journalists were interested in fairness, there's nothing more basic than giving a similar amount of airtime to each major party convention. An MRC analysis finds that's exactly what CBS and ABC ...
9/10/2012 12:43 PM ET
All three morning shows on Monday covered the massive teachers strike in
Rahm Emanuel's Chicago that left 350,000 students in the lurch.
However, only CBS This Morning explained that the ...
9/7/2012 11:52 AM ET
Even the journalists on the liberal NBC, CBS and ABC morning shows had a
hard time spinning Barack Obama's acceptance speech to the Democratic
National Convention. On Friday's Today show, ...
9/6/2012 12:14 PM ET
ABC on Wednesday and Thursday buried coverage of the embarrassing spectacle of Democratic delegates booing the reinsertion of God and Jerusalem to the party's platform. World News, Nightline and ...
9/5/2012 4:27 PM ET
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel appeared on all three morning shows,
Wednesday, but faced no questions about the city's skyrocketing murder
rate. Instead, NBC, CBS and ABC treated the former chief ...
9/5/2012 11:44 AM ET
All three network morning shows on Wednesday ignored a move by Democrats to delete references to God from the party's 2012 convention platform. NBC skipped another controversial decision, removing ...
9/4/2012 11:41 AM ET
The hosts of the three network morning shows on Tuesday grilled Paul
Ryan, questioning the Republican's facts and citing Joe Biden as a
policy expert. Former Democratic operative turned ...
9/3/2012 1:01 PM ET
Chris Matthews appeared on the Labor Day edition of the Today show to promote his fawning new documentary, Barack Obama: Making History. The liberal host also insisted that, "from now on," the ...
8/31/2012 12:24 PM ET
The network morning shows on Friday slammed conservative actor Clint
Eastwood's "bizarre," "rambling" endorsement of Mitt Romney at the
Republican National Convention. Good Morning America, ...
8/30/2012 4:29 PM ET
Nightline reporter David Wright on Wednesday night profiled the new conservative documentary 2016: Obama's America, but warned that the film was a "conspiracy" movie that included "disingenuous" ...
8/30/2012 11:54 AM ET
How has George Stephanopoulos spent his week? The former top aide to
Bill Clinton pushed Democratic talking points on all his guests at the
Republican National Convention, continuing the ...
8/29/2012 12:17 PM ET
All three morning shows, Wednesday, pounded Marco Rubio, forcing him to
defend a supposedly anti-Hispanic Republican Party and explain that the
GOP won't destroy Medicare. CBS This Morning ...
8/28/2012 4:16 PM ET
CBS This Morning anchor Charlie Rose on Tuesday pestered Rick
Santorum about Todd Akin and tried to goad the former Republican
presidential candidate into bashing Mitt Romney. Highlighting ...
8/28/2012 10:42 AM ET
Former Democratic operative George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday hit Chris
Christie, the Republican National Convention's keynote speaker, with
liberal talking points about his state. Reading off ...
8/27/2012 1:01 PM ET
The hosts and reporters on Monday's Good Morning America downplayed a new ABC News/Washington Post poll
showing Mitt Romney taking the lead over Barack Obama. It wasn't until
the 8am hour that ...
8/27/2012 10:51 AM ET
Chris Matthews' unhinged, fuming performance on Monday's Morning Joe
is a good reason why members of the GOP avoid MSNBC. Republican
National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus aggressively ...
8/23/2012 12:11 PM ET
The media obsession with a gaffe by Congressman Todd Akin continued on
Wednesday and Thursday morning. The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts
and morning shows offered five additional ...
8/22/2012 6:38 PM ET
Former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman appeared on Wednesday's Hardball and
warned that the Republican Party has become a "faith-based,"
"Bible-based" political organization. Fineman also ...
8/22/2012 1:32 PM ET
A week after giving relatively light coverage to Joe Biden's "chains" smear, the broadcast networks eagerly dove into the Todd Akin
controversy, giving over four times more coverage to an ...
8/21/2012 6:12 PM ET
MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Tuesday continued the effort to tie the entire
Republican Party to the gaffe-prone Todd Akin, smearing the GOP as a
party that doesn't believe in the concept of rape. ...
