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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Chris Matthews Lies About Ronald Reagan as Way to Smear 'Terrorist' Republicans

Hardball host Chris Matthews on Wednesday distorted Ronald Reagan's position on taxes in order to justify his bizarre assertion that the late President would consider the current Republican stance ...

CNN Again Uses David Brooks to Pressure GOP to Compromise on Debt Ceiling

Referencing the sweet reason of the New York Times's "conservative" David Brooks, CNN's Brooke Baldwin urged Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to listen to the voice of compromise in the debt ceiling debate.

Republican Joe Walsh Taunts 'Bully' Chris Matthews: Obama 'Sends a Tingle Up Your Leg'

Republican Congressman Joe Walsh didn't put up with Chris Matthews' "bullying" on Tuesday, mocking the liberal MSNBC anchor for his effusive praise of Barack Obama. Over the host's frequent ...

Networks Cast Big-Government Obama as Pushing 'Very Significant' and 'Painful' Budget Cuts

Over the past 10 days, as the debt ceiling negotiations have seemingly stalled, network reporters and newspaper correspondents have repeatedly cast President Obama as striving for "very ...

NYT's Landler Sighs Along with Obama on 'Frustrating,' 'Unreasonable' 'Intransigence of the Republicans'

NY Times White House reporter Mark Landler takes sides, shares Obama's frustration with GOP: "And I think the frustration the president has, is, 'Look, I've come three-quarters the way to your ...

MSNBC's Contessa Brewer: Pie Attack on Murdoch 'Encapsulates What the British People are Feeling'

MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer on Tuesday insisted that a pie throwing attack on Rupert Murdoch, which occurred live on air, "encapsulates what the British people are feeling right now about Rupert ...

NBC Dismisses GOP Debt Ceiling Plan as a 'Show,' 'Just Wasting Time'

On Tuesday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry admonished Republicans for trying to pass a balanced budget amendment as part of a debt ceiling agreement: "Tea Party conservatives love this plan. The ...

Snarky Ali Velshi Batters Grover Norquist Over Debt Ceiling Pledge

On his Saturday show Your Money, CNN host Ali Velshi tried to pin the blame for the debt ceiling standoff on one man ' the president of Americans for Tax Reform, Grover Norquist. "Are you the ...

Esquire Magazine Genuflects: Obama's a 'World-Historical Soul,' 'He is What We Hope We Can Be'

An effusive love letter to Barack Obama published in the August edition of Esquire magazine. "2011 is the summer of Obama," gushed Stephen Marche, genuflecting "'I am large, I contain multitudes,' ...

NYT's James Traub on John Kerry, Latest 'Decent, Serious, Honorable' Dem Destroyed by 'Republican Attack Machine'

New York Times Magazine writer James Traub on mistreated John Kerry: "Kerry seemed to be the latest in a long line of decent, serious, honorable Democratic presidential candidates cut to ribbons ...
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