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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Video Compilation: The Media Crashing the Tea Party

Over the past year since its inception, the media have worked hard to discredit and denigrate the tea party movement. News organizations employed various strategies, from dismissing the protests ...

CBS 'Early Show' Touts Government Regulation of Salt

At the top of Wednesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez proclaimed: "the truth about salt, why a new report wants the government to take salt off the table." She later introduced a ...

ABC Self-Generates 'Controversy' Over Palin's Innocuous 'Christian Nation' Remark

Horror of horrors, at least to ABC, last week Sarah Palin suggested the U.S. is a "Christian nation," hardly an unusual presumption, but the network discovered "controversy" as anchor Diane Sawyer ...

Matthews: Republicans Like Rubio Taking Part in 'Stalinesque' Purge of GOP

Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's Hardball, claimed Republicans like Marco Rubio were engaged in a "Stalinesque" purge of the GOP.

ABC's Ashleigh Banfield Frets Over War of Words Between Clinton and 'Right-wing Polemics'

Good Morning America's Ashleigh Banfield on Sunday spun Bill Clinton's continuing attack on talk radio as a "war of words" between the ex-President and the "right-wing polemics [sic]." The former ...

CNN's Brown Touts 'Rise in Right Wing Extremism;' Guest: SPLC 'Exaggerates'

On her CNN program on Monday, Campbell Brown forwarded one of the Left's talking points about the tea parties by stating that "it does appear that we are seeing a rise in right wing extremism ...

Olbermann: Limbaugh 'Hate Radio' Has 'Blood on Your Hands' for Oklahoma City Bombing

On Monday's Countdown, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann used his "Worst Person" segment to accuse Rush Limbaugh of having "blood on your hands" for the Oklahoma City bombing in response to the conservative ...

Bloomberg Editor Al Hunt Attacks Tea Partiers: 'That's Not America'

Bloomberg Washington Editor Al Hunt appeared on the web-only section of Sunday's This Week and dismissed the idea that the Tea Party movement has broad appeal. He derided, "They love Glenn Beck ...

Today Ignores Pew Poll on Less Trusted Government, Publicizes Pew Results on Teen Texting Instead

A new Pew poll that shows just 22 percent of respondents trust the government was actually covered by NBC Nightly News on Monday night but for some reason NBC's Today show didn't find that news ...

CNN's Rick Sanchez Goes After 'Cheap Shot' From NewsBusters

CNN's Rick Sanchez named MRC news analyst Matthew Balan and NewsBusters to "the very top" of his daily 'List That U Don't Want 2 Be On' on his Rick's List show on Monday. Sanchez criticized Balan ...
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