BiasAlerts

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CNN Spends Over Half Hour of Coverage on Gun Control Presser, Touts 'Raw Emotion'

CNN devoted over a half hour of coverage on Thursday to touting Mayor Bloomberg's "Demand Action to End Gun Violence" conference, where Bloomberg, Vice President Biden, and family members of ...
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Chris Matthews: Does Tea Party Want America Where 'There Are No Gays, Blacks Were Slaves, Mexicans Were in Mexico'?

Two days after Chris Matthews and fellow MSNBCer Joy-Ann Reid suggested that participants at CPAC supported segregation, the liberal host was back at it on Wednesday's Hardball, when he ...
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NBC's Engel: 'Fortress' Israel 'Shutting Out the Arab World and Shutting Itself In'

On Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel described Israel's precarious position in the Middle East: "Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing. ...
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ABC Continues Blackout on Obama's Gun Control Setback; CBS, NBC Minimize Coverage

ABC continued ignoring Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's move on Tuesday to drop a proposed federal ban on so-called assault weapons. Neither Wednesday's World News nor Thursday's Good Morning ...
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Say Again? New York Times Book Critic Faults Fox News for Political Slant

Pot, kettle, as New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani faults Fox News for political bias: "[Chafets]....doesn’t ask his subject many tough questions about Fox News’s incestuous ...
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NBC Anchor Sides With Obama in Spanking Chuck Todd: 'He Is Incorrigible, Come to Think of It...'

After President Obama scolded NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd as "incorrigible" for asking too many tough questions during a Wednesday press conference, Nightly News anchor Brian ...
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Successful KGB Operation to Discredit an Anti-Soviet Polish Priest Portrayed on FX’s ‘The Americans’

FX’s The Americans. Last week, the historic drama set in 1981, portrayed a successful KGB effort to discredit a Polish priest, who is leading an anti-Soviet liberation movement, by smearing ...
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Obama Scolds 'Incorrigible' NBCer Chuck Todd for Asking Too Many Questions About Mideast Failures

During a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, President Obama lectured NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd for asking too many ...
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CNN Omits Harry Reid Implying Sequester Led to Marine Deaths; MSNBC Reported It

Senate Majority Header Harry Reid (D-Nev.) disgustingly implied on Tuesday that a freak explosion killing seven Marines during a training exercise in Nevada happened because of sequester cuts. ...
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Big Three Networks Punt on Covering Pennsylvania Abortionist's Murder Trial

ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the trial of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, which began on Monday. Gosnell is charged with murdering seven babies who were born after ...
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