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The network morning shows on Thursday went into tabloid overdrive for the Jodi Arias verdict and an abduction case in Ohio, offering a staggering 56 minutes of coverage. In contrast, NBC, CBS and ...
The New York Times' public editor criticizes her paper's
Benghazi coverage: "...my sense is that, starting last fall, The Times
has had a tendency
to both play down the subject, which has ...
New York Times columnist and former reporter Maureen Dowd offensively roped Clarence Thomas into her column
on the arrest on sexual battery charges of Jeffrey Krusinski, the Air
Force officer ...
CBS's Sharyl Attkisson is apparently viewed by network executives as "wading dangerously close to advocacy" in her coverage of the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in ...
Wednesday's congressional hearings on the September 11 terrorists attacks in Benghazi provided a stark contrast between Fox News Channel and MSNBC. From the time the whistleblower testimony began ...
Teasing an upcoming panel discussion on Wednesday's NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer proclaimed: "Today's Professionals are going to weigh in on what could be a game changer in the gun debate, a ...
On Wednesday's NBC Today, news reader Natalie Morales touted a "Today
exclusive" with Michelle Obama, playing a clip of a "wide-ranging
conversation" between the First Lady and Kelly Wallace ...
On Tuesday's The Last Word on MSNBC, substitute host Alex Wagner and MSNBC contributor Joy Reid rejoiced over the prospect of Republicans "alienating" minorities as Wagner devoted a segment to the ...
Appearing on Wednesday's NBC Today, Huffington Post contributor
Abby Huntsman proclaimed that following Mark Sanford's win in Tuesday's
special congressional election in South Carolina, ...
The extent of the media's influence to shape public opinion was on full
display in a new Pew Research Center poll that shows, even though gun
crime has dropped by half since its peak in the ...