BiasAlerts

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CBS: Coffee 'Might Be Heading for Extinction' Due to Climate Change

On Monday's Early Show, CBS took advantage of Americans' love of coffee to hype climate change, bizarrely claiming that "your morning cup might be heading toward extinction." Contributor Taryn ...

Debunking Claims of an Anti-Obama Media Bias

The national media have certainly NOT been giving Barack Obama a rougher ride than the GOP candidates, but a new study by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism is fueling the myth that, as ...

Networks Gush Over 'Rock Star' Bill Clinton's Birthday Bash with Lady Gaga

The network newscasts over the weekend proved that no occasion is too small to fawn over "rock star" Bill Clinton. Over the course of three days, the morning shows and evening newscasts donated ...

NBC's Gregory: Occupy Wall Street Will 'Dovetail Nicely' with Obama's Campaign Message

Appearing on Sunday's NBC Today, Meet the Press host David Gregory proclaimed that the Occupy Wall Street protests would "...dovetail nicely into a big message that the President's selling, which ...

Williams Hypes Protests 'Still Growing, Changing and Spreading,' CBS Delivers 'Series' of Genial Stories

The broadcast networks continued their enthusiastic coverage Friday night on behalf of the far-left Wall Street protesters, with NBC's Brian Williams the most excited while CBS anchor Scott Pelley ...

Sean Penn Calls Tea Party the 'Get the N-Word Out of the White House Party' Which Wants to 'Lynch' Obama

Left-wing actor Sean Penn slimed the Tea Party as motivated by racism, charging on CNN's Piers Morgan Tonight on Friday evening that an impediment to Obama's success is "what I call the 'Get the ...

NBC's Isikoff Warns Cain's 9-9-9 Plan May Mean 'More Pain' for 'Struggling Families'

On Saturday's NBC Nightly News, correspondent Michael Isikoff filed a report recounting criticisms of GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain's 9-9-9 plan, as Isikoff asserted that "critics see ...

NPR's Totenberg: Income Gap as Bad as 'People Came to this Country to Avoid'

On Friday's Inside Washington on PBS, NPR's Nina Totenberg incorrectly claimed that the "top tenth of one percent" of income earners in America "controls something like 20 or 30 percent" of the ...

Maher Bets $1 Million 'Token Black Guy' Cain Loses GOP Nod

During the monologue of Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, host Maher referred to GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain as a "token black guy" as he asserted that establishment ...

Big Three Nets Trumpet Wall Street Protesters 'Proclaiming Victory'

The Big Three networks' seeming desperation to report on "Occupy Wall Street" reached a new level on Friday, after they led their morning shows with New York City's decision to not clear the park ...
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