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.


The CyberAlert e-mail, with more than 175,000 subscribers, delivers a compilation each weekday of the newest posts. Sign up here.

Media Research Center

'Lovefest!' ABC Gushes Over 'Best of Friends' Clinton and Obama

The journalists at Good Morning America on Monday could barely restrain the hype as they gushed over the "lovefest" joint interview between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. An ABC graphic even ...
Media Research Center

NBC Gushes Over Obama and Clinton 'Chuckling Together' and 'Finishing One Another's Sentences' in Softball Interview

Following the friendly chat President Obama and outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had with CBS's Steve Kroft on Sunday's 60 Minutes, NBC's reporters could barely contain their glee ...
Media Research Center

NBC Gushes Over Kennedy Aide's Memorabilia, Ignores He and JFK Shared Intern for Sex

During fawning reports on Thursday's NBC Nightly News and Friday's Today, the network's news personalities expressed thrill over the discovery of a collection of JFK memorabilia once owned by ...
Media Research Center

ABC and CBS Spike Huge Pro-Life March, Yet Highlight Puny Pro-Gun Control Protest

The annual pro-life march, this year marking the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade decision, drew tens of thousands to Washington, DC on Friday, but didn’t garner a syllable ...
Media Research Center

Bill O’Reilly Illustrates How Media Have Expanded Love for Obama to Hillary Clinton

“Is Hillary Clinton the new Barack Obama in the eyes of the national media?” Bill O’Reilly asked in his Friday night “Talking Points Memo,” using the same examples as highlighted in the ...
Media Research Center

CNN's O’Brien Tries to Liken Critics of Women in Infantry to Opponents of Racial Integration

With the recent news that outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has lifted the ban on women serving in front-line combat roles, it is no surprise that CNN is cheering the decision. 
Media Research Center

NBC and CBS Eagerly Promote New Assault Weapons Ban

On their evening and morning news shows on Thursday and Friday, NBC and CBS were quick to tout Democratic efforts to reimpose an assault weapons ban, with NBC Nightly News anchor Brian ...
Media Research Center

Gingrich Interrogates Gun-Grabbing Piers Morgan: 'Isn't Your Real View That You Would Ban Pistols?'

Newt Gingrich on Thursday night interrogated the gun-grabbing Piers Morgan, pushing the CNN host as to what his real motives are. An aggressive Gingrich insisted, "So, why don't you share your ...
Media Research Center

Piers Morgan Accuses GOP of 'Misogyny,' 'Political Grandstanding' at Clinton Hearing

After Republicans grilled Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over the Benghazi attacks on Wednesday, CNN's Piers Morgan Morgan unloaded on their criticism as "political grandstanding" showing ...
Media Research Center

CNN's O'Brien Accuses Senator Johnson of 'Playing Politics' in Daring to Question Hillary

Starting Point anchor Soledad O'Brien deflected scrutiny away from Clinton in her Thursday interview with Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.). O'Brien focused instead on remarks Johnson made on ...
Syndicate content