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

NBC Piles on Santorum, Claims He Wants to 'Reignite the Culture Wars in America'

On Sunday, NBC's David Gregory spent much of Meet the Press blasting Rick Santorum for criticizing President Obama's "phony theology" of liberalism. Earlier that morning, he appeared on the ...
Media Research Center

Judge on CBS Prime Time Drama Cheers ‘Amazing’ Occupy Protesters: ‘I Salute Them’

Occupy Wall Street earned a shout-out Sunday night on a CBS drama, the kind of Hollywood affirmation the Tea Party could never dream of receiving. “Before we begin,” a judge announced in a ...
Media Research Center

MTP’s Gregory Frames Election Through Liberal Prism: ‘The Year of Birth Control Moms’

“GOP says HHS mandate is about liberty, not contraception. Dems say it’s about contraception, not liberty. Media accept and amplify Democratic framing.” So the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes ...
Media Research Center

CNN Plays Up Democratic Protests Over Congressional Hearing on Birth Control

Liberal women were in an uproar over the all-male panel at Thursday's congressional hearing on the HHS birth control mandate, and CNN made sure to tout their displeasure. Anchor Hala Gorani ...
Media Research Center

CNN's Velshi: Opponents of Auto Bailout 'Kind of Have Egg on Their Faces'

Despite the cost of the auto bailout to taxpayers, CNN hailed the subsequent resurfacing of GM as a "pretty amazing" feat and took a jab at the original opponents of the bailout, which ...
Media Research Center

NBC Slams GOP for 'Unfortunate Image' of Religious Freedom Hearing 'Dominated by Men'

On Friday's NBC Today, substitute co-host Savannah Guthrie eagerly touted liberal talking points attacking a hearing held by House Republicans over the controversial ObamaCare ...
Media Research Center

Santorum Fires Back at CBS's 'Gotcha'; Raises Rev. Wright Double Standard

On Friday's CBS This Morning, Rick Santorum pushed back against Charlie Rose's interrogation about supporter Foster Friess's recent "bad off-color joke" on contraception, all but name-dropping ...
Media Research Center

Bailout Ballyhoo for Obama, Boos for Romney

In anticipation of Michigan's GOP primary the liberal media have been playing up Barack Obama as the savior of Detroit and turning Mitt Romney into its villain. Even though the auto bailout ...
Media Research Center

Krugman's Revealing Playboy Interview: Supports Occupy Movement, Defends Revolting 9-11 Anniversary Comments

Columnist Paul Krugman in Playboy (an interview, thank goodness) says Occupy Wall Street has performed a "great service," and brags on himself for being persecuted during the post-9-11 period: ...
Media Research Center

MSNBC Hyperventilates Over 'Cro-Magnon' Santorum and His 'Big Money' 'Spokesman'

MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Thursday hyperventilated about a joke made by a Rick Santorum donor, frothing that "big money" Foster Friess and his candidate must be from the "Cro-Magnon" era. The ...
Syndicate content