BiasAlerts

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CNN Anchor Shamelessly Lauds Mayor Bloomberg's Newest Smoking Ban

CNN anchor Randi Kaye finished her Tuesday news hour with a giddy monologue praising the newest smoking ban in New York City. The ban, signed into law by Mayor Michael Bloomberg in February, took ...

MSNBC's Tamron Hall Blames Missouri Tornado on Climate Change, Climate Scientist Retorts 'Random Chance'

On Monday, less than 24 hours after a devastating tornado ripped through Joplin, Missouri ' killing at least 116 people ' an MSNBC anchor was busy putting a political spin on the tragedy.

Media Throw a Fit Over 'Rude' Netanyahu 'Lecturing' Obama

For many in the media Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's reaction to Barack Obama insistence that his country return to the 1967 borders was out of bounds. ABC's Christiane Amanpour declared she was ...

NBC Skips Supreme Court Ruling Freeing Thousands of Criminals and Scalia's Warning of 'Terrible Things'

NBC's Nightly News on Monday and the Today show on Tuesday ignored a controversial, ideologically divided Supreme Court ruling that ordered California to release at least 38,000 prisoners. ABC, ...

CNN's Sanjay Gupta Asks 'Did Someone or Something Fail Jared Loughner?' After Patrick Kennedy Sympathizes with Tucson Shooter

"Did someone or something fail Jared Loughner?" CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked recovering alcoholic and former Congressman Patrick Kennedy Sunday. The question came after ...

Diane Sawyer on Tornadoes: 'This Is the Evidence of a Kind of Preview of Life Under Global Warming?'

ABC's Diane Sawyer on Monday night presumed everyone lives inside her media bubble obsessed with "global warming" as she set out to blame the Missouri tornadoes on it ' but not even the CEO of a ...

Andrea Mitchell, Guest Scold GOP 2012 Hopefuls for Disagreeing with Obama on Israel

In lockstep with Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, who scolded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to "please don't speak to my President that way," MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell cautioned of the ...

Scarborough Demands 'Civility' Before Insulting Mitch Daniels' 'Unseemly Resentment' for Family

On the May 23 edition of Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough accused Mitch Daniels of having "resentment" for his wife and derided the Indiana governor as "unseemly." Moments earlier, the MSNBC host and ...

CBS's Stahl Proclaims 'Stately' Al Sharpton's 'Metamorphosis'

CBS's Lesley Stahl played up how Al Sharpton apparently "has gone through something of a metamorphosis" as she spotlighted the "street-protest agitator...now trusted White House adviser" on ...

NBC's Mitchell Admonishes 'Really Rude' Netanyahu for Treating Obama 'Like a School Boy'

At the end of Sunday's Meet the Press, NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell scolded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for daring to criticize President Obama's call for ...
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