BiasAlerts

Daily BiasAlerts, a product of the MRC's News Analysis Division, detail the latest instances of media bias by analyzing national media coverage of politics and policy. As of February 2015, they are no longer posted on MRC.org, but can be read on the CyberAlerts page of our NewsBusters blog.


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CBS Hypes 'Second Thoughts' About Alabama Law on Illegal Immigration

Wednesday's CBS Evening News featured a report by correspondent Mark Strassmann playing up the reservations that some are having about the new law to strictly enforce immigration laws in Alabama.

ABC's Vargas Asks if Gingrich is 'Fit to Be President'

On Tuesday's Good Morning America on ABC, during an interview with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, substitute host Elizabeth Vargas singled out GOP presidential candidate ...
NBC Touts Obama

NBC Touts Outdated Poll Showing Obama Approval Up, Downplays More Recent Figure

The NBC Nightly News on Tuesday hyped recent Gallup Daily Tracking Poll numbers from Monday showing a slight improvement in President Obama's approval/disapproval numbers after House Republicans ...

Ex-Newsweek's Fineman Sees 'Megalomania' in Gingrich, Obama 'Political Fortune' Has 'Risen'

Appearing as a guest on Monday's Today show on NBC, the Huffington Post's Howard Fineman - also of MSNBC and formerly of Newsweek - hyperbolically referred to "megalomania" in GOP presidential ...

First Runners-Up Quotes in the MRC's Best of NQ Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting

The first runners-up quotes in the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2011: The Twenty-Fourth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting." To determine this year's winners, a panel of 48 radio ...

'Worst Piece' of NYT Climate Reporting Ever? Justin Gillis's Christmas Day Snow Job

An environmental scientist eviscerates Justin Gillis's front-page article in the New York Times on extreme weather events and global warming as "perhaps the worst piece of reporting I've ever seen ...

NYT Buried Barstow's Reluctant Pentagon Vindication on Christmas Day

New York Times reporter David Barstow won a Pulitzer Prize for his 2008 investigation alleging the Pentagon breached ethics in its briefings of TV and radio military analysts. But a Pentagon ...

Winning Quotes in the MRC's Best of NQ Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting

The winning quotes in the MRC's "Best Notable Quotables of 2011: The Twenty-Fourth Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting." The awards issue was posted, with videos, on Monday, December 19. ...

CBS's Cordes Blames Tea Party for No 'Remarkable Pieces of Legislation'

On Sunday's Face the Nation on CBS, after asserting that in past years divided government "produced some really remarkable pieces of legislation," correspondent Nancy Cordes blamed Tea Party ...

NBC Relays Palestinian 'Propaganda' from Bethlehem During Christmas

On Saturday's NBC Nightly News, as he recounted Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, correspondent Martin Fletcher relayed Palestinian complaints about Israel.
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