BiasAlerts

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CNN: 'Hardcore Conservatives' Meet in DC; Reagan 'Most Secular' President

CNN's Suzanne Malveaux led Friday's Situation Room by labeling the social conservative Value Voters Summit a "traditional showcase for hardcore conservatives." Later in the same segment, senior ...

CBS: Even With Susan Boyle 'Warm-Up Act' Pope Still Couldn't Pull In A Big Enough Crowd

Reporting on Pope Benedict's visit to the UK on Friday's CBS Early Show, correspondent Mark Phillips noted how 65,000 people attended a Thursday outdoor mass in Scotland, but observed: "...it was ...

Book Review: NYT Reporter Kate Zernike, Tea Party Book Author, Still Finding Racism

In "Boiling Mad," her new book on the Tea Party, New York Times reporter Kate Zernike proves she still has a sharp eye for Tea Party racism, no matter how unsubstantiated, blaming the movement for ...

CBS's Smith: Tea Party and Palin Could Bring GOP to 'Edge of the Abyss'

Appearing on Friday's CBS Early Show, Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer continued to compare the rise of the tea party and possible candidacy of Sarah Palin in 2012 to the 1964 campaign of Barry ...

ABC Champions White House's 'Greatest Hits of the Stimulus Program,' Sawyer Trumpets 'We Have the List!'

ABC whored itself out Thursday night to an effort by the White House to prove its "stimulus" spending created a lot of jobs. "Still ahead on World News," an easily impressed Diane Sawyer hyped, ...

Citing Wins by 'Fringe Candidates,' Couric Regurgitates Concern Moderate Republicans Becoming an 'Endangered Species'

Following a story on how "big primary victories by fringe candidates open a rift in the GOP," which warned "moderate Republicans worry that if the Tea Party movement drives the GOP too far to the ...

Christiane Amanpour Gushes to Hillary: Was Daughter's Wedding as Tough as Peace in the Middle East?

This Week anchor Christiane Amanpour appeared on Thursday's Good Morning America and offered a softball question to Hillary Clinton about her daughter's wedding. After discussing Middle East ...

CBS 'Early Show': Pope's Visit to UK Source of 'Criticism' and 'Controversy'

At the top of Thursday's CBS Early Show, fill-in co-host Erica Hill teased a report on Pope Benedict's visit to Scotland: "...it's a rather controversial visit for a number of reasons." Later, ...

NY Times Writer Matt Bai Deplores GOP Attacks on Obama as 'the Other,' Hints at Racism

New York Times writer Matt Bai: "White House advisers contend that as the conservative insinuations about Mr. Obama grow more pronounced, the extremism that underlies them will become self-evident ...

Ed Schultz: Obama's School Speech Should Be Mandatory for All Students

At certain schools across the country, parents possessed the authority to pull their children from class on Tuesday so as not to witness President Obama's address to students nationwide ' ...
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