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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WashPost's King: GOP and FNC Painted Obama as 'Devil Incarnate,'

On Friday's Inside Washington on PBS, regular panel member and liberal Washington Post columnist Colby King charged that Republicans and Fox News have "painted Barack Obama as the devil ...
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Margaret Cho Complains GOP is 'Against Our Rights,' Palin Tries to 'Beat Feminism Down'

Appearing as a panel member on Sunday's Melissa Harris-Perry show, comedienne Margaret Cho wondered why some women are Republicans as she asserted that the GOP is "a party that's so against our ...
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CNN's Schneider Analyzes Gender Gap, Jokes 'Men Are Stupid'

Appearing as a panel member on Sunday's Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC, CNN's senior political analyst, Bill Schneider, undermined the judgement of men versus women while analyzing the gender ...
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Ex-ABC News Head Westin Defends Ban on American Flag Pins

Appearing as a guest on Sunday's Reliable Sources on CNN to plug his book, Exit Interview, former ABC News President David Westin recounted his decision to continue barring journalists from ...
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MSNBC's Harris-Perry Lauds Addition of Sex Change Surgery to Cuban National Health Care

On Saturday's Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC, after recounting some of the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Cuban government against its citizens, host Harris-Perry praised the efforts ...
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CNN Examines Obama's Donations from Bain Employees – But How Much Have They Actually Reported on It?

CNN's Dana Bash reported Friday on the irony of President Obama hitting Mitt Romney's connections to Bain Capital when he himself has received donations from Bain employees. CNN has ...
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CNN Fails to Refute Bogus Numbers Claiming 'Obama Spending Binge Never Happened'

While most anyone with common sense would label Obama a big spender, a MarketWatch report – re-circulated by the White House – absurdly claims Obama's "spending binge never happened" and that ...
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CBS: 'Troubling Signs' for Obama, Like Bush in '92, But President 'Cannot Control' Economy

On Friday's CBS This Morning, Jan Crawford spotlighted that "the economic and political climate today is more similar to years when incumbent presidents lost than when they won." The correspondent ...
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NBC's Williams Touts L.A. Banning Plastic Bags As Effort to Keep Them 'Out of the Natural World'

On Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams announced: "Los Angeles is about to become the third big city in California to ban plastic grocery bags." He then framed the government ...
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Media Mostly Mum on Outrageous Obama Claim of Fiscal Restraint

White House spokesman Jay Carney on Wednesday lectured journalists to not believe the "BS" that Barack Obama is a reckless spender. Rather than investigate Carney's assertions, or the sketchy ...
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