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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Matthews: GOP's 'Pledge to America' is the Biggest Cover Up Since Watergate

Chris Matthews thinks the Republican Party's Pledge to America is all part of a ploy to hide the more "radical" ideas of their party as he, on Thursday's Hardball, announced that the GOP ...

Joe Scarborough Rips Liberal MSNBC Colleagues Schultz and Olbermann On-Air

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Tuesday used his Morning Joe program to mock outlandish barbs from his colleagues Ed Schultz and Keith Olbermann as examples of how not to act. He then played clips of ...

John Berman Recalls: Tea Partiers Were Called 'Fringe,' Forgets When He Dismissed 'Fringe' Tea Partiers

ABC's John Berman on Wednesday sarcastically narrated a brief history of Tea Party movement. Interestingly, the Nightline reporter (see file photo at right) skipped the media's role in suggesting ...

Bloomberg's Carlson Slams Christine O'Donnell as Brainless, But Gushed Over Primary Victories of Boxer and Feinstein in '92

In a zinger that roused the indignation of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Bloomberg columnist Margaret Carlson cast Christine O'Donnell as Sarah Palin's protege ' but "with not a fully-functioning human ...

Reporter Kevin Sack Issues White House Press Releases for Obama-Care

"For Many Families, Health Care Relief Begins Today" is one of four profiles the New York Times featured on the front of the National section to celebrate the day many of its regulations (the ...

George Stephanopoulos Parrots Democratic Talking Points on New GOP Pledge: They're 'Repealing Health Care'

Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Thursday offered up Democratic talking points as he discussed a new set of Republican promises, should the GOP win Congress. The skeptical host ...

Tom Brokaw Dissed 'Contract With America' Then, Disses 'Pledge To America' Now

Back in 1994, as the MRC's Brent Baker recently pointed out, Tom Brokaw derided the Contract with America as "long on promises, but short on sound premises." So on the very day that Republican ...

Flashback to 1994: Brokaw Declared Contract with America 'Long on Promises, But Short on Sound Premises'

With Republicans set to unveil their "Pledge to America," a look back at how then-NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw derided the Contract with America when it was announced in 1994: "Today, GOP ...

Jack Cafferty Lumps in Christine O'Donnell in New Attack on Palin

On Wednesday's Situation Room, CNN's Jack Cafferty revisited his anti-Sarah Palin obsession and somewhat predictably, grouped U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell with the former Alaska ...

CNN's Tuchman Suggests O'Donnell is a Totalitarian Due to Anti-Media Remark

CNN's Gary Tuchman blasted Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell on Tuesday's AC360, suggesting that the Republican was like the leader of a totalitarian regime, after she dared to say ...
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