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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CBS Trumpets Opposition to 'Notorious' Arizona Law from One Cop and Linda Ronstadt, Already Finds 'Chilling Effect'

Katie Couric teased Thursday's CBS Evening News by trumpeting a lawsuit against it from a lone police officer: "The latest response to Arizona's new immigration law? Sue the state. We'll tell you ...

MSNBC: Charlie Crist Independent Run Shows GOP Pushing Out Moderates

During Thursday's 11AM ET hour on MSNBC, anchor Tamron Hall asked former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean about Florida Governor Charlie Crist's expected announcement to run as ...

NBC's Andrea Mitchell Sides With U.K. Prime Minister, Slams Voter as a Bigot

On Thursday's Morning Joe, NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell appeared and seemed to agree with Britain's Prime Minister that a voter he met was a bigot. Discussing Gordon Brown's April 28 comments, ...

'Crackpot' Republicans Behind 'Lunatic Magnet' Arizona's 'Crackpot' Immigration Law

Former New York Times reporter Timothy Egan is not a fan of the new illegal immigration crackdown in Arizona: "The crackpot laws owe their genesis to the crackpots who dominate Republican ...

Time Places 'Moron' NewsBusters on 'Least Influential' List

Time magazine's website on Thursday named me [MRC news analyst Matthew Balan] to their tongue-in-cheek "Least Influential People of 2010" list, ranking me with other notables such as Russian ...

ABC Thrills Over 'Rising Star' Charlie Crist's 'Declaration of Independence' From GOP, Grilled Lieberman

ABC's Good Morning America on Thursday gushed over "rising star" Charlie Crist's decision to leave the Republican Party and run as an independent in the Florida Senate race. Next to a graphic that ...

Oops: CNN, WaPo Jumped on CAIR's License Plate 'Hate' Theory, Now Disproved

On April 22 and 27, CNN and The Washington Post both helped forward Islamic advocacy group CAIR's publicity stunt which demeaned an anonymous Virginia motorist as a racist. The Post finally found ...

Couric Touts San Francisco as Proof of 'Backlash Against Arizona's New Immigration Law'

A night after ABC and NBC championed the supposed "growing national backlash" against Arizona's new anti-illegal alien law, CBS caught up as Katie Couric teased her Wednesday newscast by ...

NYT Editor Sam Tanenhaus: 'Extremist,' Know Nothing Tea Partiers Like Birchers

In a friendly chat with left-wing MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, New York Times Book Review/Week in Review editor Sam Tanenhaus compares the Tea Party movement to the John Birch Society, proclaims ...

Today Warns About Ads Geared To Kids...Then Breaks for Ad Geared To Kids

NBC's Matt Lauer, on Wednesday's Today show, previewed a segment about an FTC campaign about the evils of businesses marketing to children, as he alerted viewers: "Plus the barrage of ads our kids ...
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