https://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/11921/all en https://archive2.mrc.org/bias-alerts/abc-empathizes-white-house-coakley-loss-shakespearean-tragedy-greek-proportions <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/brent-baker">Brent Baker</a> </div> </div> </div> <div style="float: right;"><img height="174" width="241" src="http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/uploads/2010-01-18-ABC-WNDS-Steph.jpg" /></div><p>ABC on Monday night again empathized with the Obama White House's disbelief that they could lose "Ted Kennedy's Senate seat" - and thus ObamaCare - if Republican Scott Brown beats Democrat Martha Coakley in Tuesday's special election in Massachusetts. <b>George Stephanopoulos saw a "Shakespearean" tragedy just over a week after PBS's Judy Woodruff, on ABC's This Week, described such a scenario as "a tragedy of Greek proportions." </b><br /> </p><p><a href="https://archive2.mrc.org/bias-alerts/abc-empathizes-white-house-coakley-loss-shakespearean-tragedy-greek-proportions" target="_blank">read more</a></p> BiasAlerts News Analysis Division ABC'sThisWeek ABC'sWorldNews BiasAlert dianesawyer GeorgeStephanopoulos healthcare JudyWoodruff liberalmediabias MarthaCoakley obamacare ScottBrown Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:55:00 +0000 35557 at https://archive2.mrc.org https://archive2.mrc.org/articles/media-echo-obamas-false-claim-mccain-lied-about-sex-ed-bill <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/colleen-raezler">Colleen Raezler</a> </div> </div> </div> <p >Did the media tell the truth about the sex ed bill Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama supported in the <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Illinois</st1:place></st1:state> state Senate? Was the bill aimed at protecting kids from sexual predators, as he says?  Or would it have extended "comprehensive" sex education to the kindergarten level, as GOP nominee John McCain says?  </p><p><a href="https://archive2.mrc.org/articles/media-echo-obamas-false-claim-mccain-lied-about-sex-ed-bill" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Culture Education CNN comprehensivesexeducation JudyWoodruff kindergarten LarryKing MarkShields mccain MSNBC NewYorkTiumes obama PBS RachelMaddow sexed sexualpredators Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000 admin 28078 at https://archive2.mrc.org