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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ABC and NBC Spike Solyndra Execs Taking the 5th, CBS Gives It 25 Seconds

Appearing Friday before a House subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, the CEO and CFO of Solyndra both invoked their 5th amendment right against self-incrimination. But instead of ...

CBS's Hill Lobbies Bachmann for DREAM Act-Type Amnesty

On Friday's Early Show, CBS's Erica Hill advocated for a liberal pet cause, urging Michele Bachmann to allow children of illegal aliens to receive in-state college tuition. Hill also spotlighted ...

By Record Margin, Public Sees Media as 'Politically Biased'

Two polls released Thursday show the public now sees the media as liberal, biased, inaccurate, untrustworthy, harmful to democracy and even immoral. A poll of 1501 adults conducted by the Pew ...

ABC Fawns Over Chelsea Clinton, Hints of Possible Political Future

ABC's Good Morning America touted Chelsea Clinton's appearance at the Clinton Global Initiative in a fawning segment on Friday. Former Clinton advisor George Stephanopoulos termed it "that rare ...

ABC, CBS Skip Investigation Into Solyndra; NBC Highlights Obama Connections

ABC and CBS on Friday skipped any coverage of a congressional investigation into Solyndra and the appearance of its two top executives to plead the Fifth. Only NBC's Today show provided an ...

CNN's King Forwards Bush 41's 'Courage' to Hike Taxes as Model for Current GOP

Interviewing former Vice President Dick Cheney at the Reagan library, CNN's John King recalled how former President George H.W. Bush "made an incredibly tough personal and political choice" to ...

CBS: Cyberbully Dan Savage is 'Tireless Advocate' for Bullied Kids

CBS's Erica Hill lauded homosexual activist Dan Savage, the mastermind of an Internet smear campaign against Rick Santorum, as a "tireless advocate" for bullied schoolchildren on Thursday's Early ...

CNN Accuses Perry of Using Patriotism as 'Political Tool'

On Thursday's American Morning, CNN regarded Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry's newest web-ad as using "patriotism as a political tool." Co-host Carol Costello lumped his ad in with ...

Joy Behar Asks Anti-Palin Author McGinniss If He Has 'Death Wish' for Writing Book

While CNN gave two tough interviews to Palin-bashing author Joe McGinniss, HLN's Joy Behar joked around with him on her Wednesday show. She referenced his newest tome on Sarah Palin and her ...

Former NYT Reporter Can't Grasp 'Moral Compass' of Obama-Care Opponents

Former NYT Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse is offended: "...I just don't get the attack on the federal law. I don't understand people who voluntarily, without claiming poverty, let their ...
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