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NBC Wonders How 'Rising Star' Weiner Can Get Pic Scandal 'Behind Him'

At the top of Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Meredith Vieira worried about the impact of the Twitter photo scandal on Congressman Anthony Weiner's career: "Will the scandal and his response to it ...

ABC's John Berman: Sarah Palin Makes Mitt Romney Seem 'More Reasonable' and 'More Secure'

Good Morning America correspondent John Berman on Thursday offered a sarcastic take on Sarah Palin's tour, dismissing it as a "magical mystery bus." He also spun a possible 2012 run by Palin as ...

ABC Scurrilously Implies Trimming Federal Spending Will Lead to More Deaths

In a story which ironically included a soundbite from Republican Congressman Paul Ryan denouncing demagoguery on budget decisions, ABC's Jake Tapper on Wednesday night sank to employing some of ...

Unlike ABC and CBS, NBC's Williams Spikes Weinergate Yet Has Time for Christie's Helicopter 'PR Problem'

ABC and CBS on Wednesday night allocated full stories to Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner and the lewd photo sent from his Twitter account, but not the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. ...

NPR Host Decries 'Fairness Bias' - When Media Overcompensate to Conservatives

NPR host Brooke Gladstone admits that journalists are generally more liberal than regular Americans, but she thinks they overcompensate for their bias by giving too much of a voice to conservatives.

Martin Bashir: Sarah Palin's Bus Tour a 'Breach of Federal Law'

MSNBC's Martin Bashir on May 31 insisted that Sarah Palin's bus tour amounts to a "breach of a federal law." Anchoring his eponymous program, Bashir scolded: "In fact, the whole thing could be in ...

NBC's Curry Whines About Palin's 'Bad Relationship' with Media, 'Not Playing Well' With GOP

On Wednesday's NBC Today, fill-in co-host Ann Curry fretted over Sarah Palin not sucking up to the press, complaining "[she] seems to delight in having a bad relationship with what she calls the ...

Rahm Emanuel for President in 2016? George Stephanopoulos Touts His White House Buddy

Continuing his cozy relationship with powerful Democrats, George Stephanopoulos on Wednesday interviewed his good friend, and newly elected mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel. The Good Morning America ...

Obama's Other Foreign Policy Sounding Board - NYT's Thomas Friedman - Mocks Israel, Congress

NewsBusters previously reported that CNN's Fareed Zakaria had met with President Obama face-to-face to discuss foreign policy. Obama's other reported "source" of information on foreign policy, New ...

AP's Babington Warns of Damage 'Hard-Right' Positions Cause GOP White House Hopefuls

"GOP presidential contenders drift to the right," reads the headline over a dispatch by the AP's Charles Babington who devoted an entire story to fears "Republican candidates are drifting ...
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