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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USA Today Frets Over the Possible Loss of (Democratic) Women in Congress

A headline in USA Today on Monday worried, "Elections are likely to trim number of women in Congress." It wasn't until the 15th paragraph of Susan Page's story that the numerous female Republican ...

CBS Touts Private Todd Palin Email Leaked By Left-Wing Anti-Palin Website

On Wednesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith highlighted supposed division between Sarah Palin and Alaska senate candidate Joe Miller: "...a controversial e-mail, reportedly from Sarah ...

Lauer Tosses Softballs to DNC Chair Tim Kaine on Today

Just a day after NBC's Matt Lauer engaged in a rough interview with Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, Lauer engaged in a much more friendly chat, with DNC chairman Tim ...

With Republican Groups Outspending Democratic Ones, CBS Upset by Speech from 'Outside Groups'

It's okay for the news media to attack a candidate, but not for citizens to join together to buy TV ads criticizing one ' especially if more of those ads attack Democrats than Republicans. ...

CBS's Greenfield Offers Step-by-Step Campaign Advice to Dems

Touting "faint signs of hope" for Democrats in November, on Monday's CBS Evening News, political correspondent Jeff Greenfield outlined a strategy the DNC could use to stave off major Republican ...

CNN: Conservative 'Anti-Gay' Groups Are Part of the Bullying Problem

CNN senior legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and author Rosalind Wiseman agreed on Monday's Anderson Cooper 360 that conservative groups who oppose protective measures for gay students simply treat ...

Parker: Palin Is a Dishonest Tease, But 'I Am Not Unfair to Palin'

On Monday's premiere episode of CNN's Parker-Spitzer, pseudo-conservative Kathleen Parker targeted Sarah Palin, labeling her a "tease" for not announcing her candidacy for the presidency, and ...

Combative George Stephanopoulos Pushes Idea That the Tea Party May Be 'Losing Traction'

ABC trumpeted a new poll on Tuesday as proof that conservatives and Republicans could be losing ground in the midterm election. Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos excitedly opened ...

Matt Lauer and Carl Paladino Duke It Out on the Today Show

With Election Day just a month away NBC's Matt Lauer, on Tuesday's Today show, attacked New York GOP gubernatorial nominee Carl Paladino repeatedly with such pejoratives as "angry" "nasty" and ...

Aaron Sorkin Takes to CNN's Parker Spitzer to Denounce Palin as 'An Idiot,' 'Jaw-Droppingly Incompetent and Mean Woman'

Aaron Sorkin came aboard the Monday premiere of CNN's Parker Spitzer to promote the new movie, The Social Network, for which he wrote the screenplay, but used more of his air time to spout his ...
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