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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Great Grandmother Accuses Democrat of Sexual Harassment; NBC Yawns

NBC hasn't covered the ongoing Bob Filner sexual harassment scandal an almost a week, despite a fifteenth woman – a 67-year-old great grandmother – coming forward on Thursday, accusing the former ...
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NewsBusters Catches Piers Morgan's Falsity, Gets Him to Apologize

The MRC's blog, NewsBusters, reported that during a debate on guns, CNN's Piers Morgan falsely claimed that according to FBI statistics, Virginia had the highest murder rate in the country in ...
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CNN Anchors Tire of 'Silly,' 'Stupid' Rodeo Clown Controversy

On Thursday afternoon CNN's Athena Jones called the Missouri rodeo clown controversy a "firestorm," but CNN's tone changed within a matter of hours. On Thursday night's Piers Morgan Live, ...
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NBC Does Entire Segment on U.S. Egypt Policy Without Mentioning Obama by Name

In an impressive display of journalistic gymnastics on Friday's NBC Today, co-host Savannah Guthrie and Meet the Press moderator David Gregory managed to have an entire discussion about U.S. ...
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CNN's Cuomo Lectures GOP: 'Any Jackass Can Kick Down a Barn'

CNN's Chris Cuomo had a sharp message on Thursday's New Day for Republicans looking to get re-elected simply for opposing ObamaCare. "Any jackass can kick down a barn. But it takes a good man or ...
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13 State Attorneys General Warn of Possible ObamaCare 'Privacy Disaster;' CNN Has Yet to Report

Thirteen GOP state attorneys general sent a letter to HHS Secretary Sebelius on Wednesday detailing serious concerns over ObamaCare's privacy protections and warning of a "privacy disaster ...
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ABC, CBS Fail to Label Scandal-Tarred Jesse Jackson Jr. a Democrat

On Thursday morning, neither ABC nor CBS labeled former congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. a Democrat as they reported on his 30 month jail sentence for misusing campaign funds. NBC's Today did not ...
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CBS Runs to Obama's Defense Over Card Games on Night of Bin Laden Raid

Norah O'Donnell and Charlie Rose acted as apologists for President Obama on Thursday's CBS This Morning, after former presidential assistant Reggie Love revealed the Democrat's apprehension to ...
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After Gauzy Promotion of Bin Laden Raid, NBC Scolds Obama Aide for Revealing President's Card Game

While NBC marked the one-year anniversary of the Bin Laden killing with a fawning Inside the Situation Room profile of President Obama, on Thursday, the cast of Today chided former White House ...
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NBC Suddenly Gets Tough on Clintons In Wake of Hillary Biopic Controversy

Perhaps in response to the backlash against a planned miniseries on Hillary Clinton, Thursday's NBC Today aired an unusually critical story about the "chaos" at the Clinton Foundation and the ...
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