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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You Read It Here First: Coverage of MRC's Expose of Wisconsin Coverage Double Standard

FNC's Special Report, nationally-syndicated radio host Mark Levin, OpinionJournal.com and columnist Bernard Goldberg all picked up on Tuesday's Media Reality Check documenting the media's ...

Why Is MSNBC Allowing Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones to Hype His Truther Website?

MSNBC anchors, such as Chris Matthews, often rail about a supposed failure by conservatives and Republicans to denounce birthers from their ranks. Yet, host Contessa Brewer interviewed 9/11 ...

NY Times Reporting Dotted With Warnings of 'Far-Right,' 'Hard-Right' Conservatives

A Nexis search shows Times reporters have used "hard-right" five times in the last two years, and the paper's liberal columnists employ it regularly. By contrast, no Times reporter, columnist, or ...

The View Brings on Two Congressional Abortion Advocates, No Pro-Lifers

ABC's The View on Thursday neglected one side of the abortion debate by bringing on two staunch supporters of Planned Parenthood in Congress without any other guests arguing the pro-life side. As ...

The Rand Paul 'Chainsaw' Massacre: ABC's Apocalyptic Take on 'Radical,' 'Controversial' Senator

According to Nightline anchors Terry Moran and Bill Weir, new Republican Senator Rand Paul is "radical," "controversial" and longs to take a chainsaw to the Department of Education. Using ...

CBS Applauds Obama's 'Strong Words' on Libya While Even MSNBC is Not Impressed

At the top of Thursday's CBS Early Show, co-host Chris Wragge touted President Obama's statement on the violence in Libya: "...making his first public statements on the situation there with some ...

NBC and CBS Tout Prank Call on Gov. Walker as 'Evidence' He Wants to 'Crush Unions'

On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Michael Isikoff claimed a prank phone call on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker "provided his critics with evidence that his real motivation is what ...

Networks Skip Democratic Congressman's Call for Union Protesters to 'Get a Little Bloody'

Wednesday's nightly newscasts and Thursday's morning shows completely ignored video of a Massachusetts congressman exhorting union protesters in Wisconsin to "get a little bloody" in the fight ...

Prime Time CBS Drama 'The Good Wife' Impugns Tea Party as 'Racist Organization'

Tuesday night's The Good Wife on CBS gave prime time legitimacy to the presumption the Tea Party is racist as a lawyer in a courtroom tried to discredit an expert witness by demanding he admit ...

ABC's Sawyer Publicizes Left-Wing Effort to Tar U.S. and Advocate for Another Entitlement

Human Rights Watch released a hardly comprehensive report, one "based on interviews with 64 parents across the country," which complained: "Just three countries definitively offer no legal ...
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