Media Reality Check

Occasional reports and mini-studies documenting distorted coverage and/or media omissions.
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Two New MSNBC Hosts Bring News Media-Obama Revolving Door to 30

With two political activists, who toiled for Barack Obama, starting hosting duties today with new shows on MSNBC (Ronan Farrow and Joy-Ann Reid), the MRC’s list of those revolving between ...
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Bad News for ObamaCare? No, Just a 'Hiccup' Say Big Three Nets

In the last couple of weeks ObamaCare has been dealt two serious setbacks: yet another delay in the employer mandate, and a devastating CBO report that claimed it will cost the equivalent of ...
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The Media's Most Outrageous Olympic Outbursts

Sports fans checking in on coverage of Team USA at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia might want to brace themselves for unexpected outbursts of liberal preaching from reporters covering ...
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It’s Not Just One Tweet: MSNBC’s Despicable Record of Smearing Conservatives as Racists

The MRC has compiled a long list of instances in which the network’s anchors have committed character assassination disguised as journalism, unjustly smearing conservatives, Republicans and ...
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Don't Know the Party of a Politician Caught in a Scandal? He's Probably a Democrat

Within the span of 40 seconds, NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams reported on two politicians caught in scandals, one a Republican the other a Democrat, but he gave the party affiliation ...
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Bieber Obsessed Nets Ignore NYT's Front Page IRS Scandal Scoop

A Thursday front page New York Times reported that Friends of Abe, a group made up of Hollywood conservatives like actors Gary Sinise and Kelsey Grammer, became the latest right-leaning ...
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Priorities! Nets Spend Twice as Much Time on Michelle Obama's Birthday Bash Than Benghazi

On Wednesday the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a devastating report that blamed the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton’s State Department for security failures leading up to the ...
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Deluge: Now 44 Times More TV Coverage of Christie's Traffic Scandal Than in Last Six Months on IRS

In less than 48 hours, ABC, CBS and NBC deluged viewers with coverage of Chris Christie's traffic jam scandal, devoting a staggering 88 minutes to the story. In comparison, these same news outlets ...
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Networks That Skipped Bashir's Gross Attack on Palin Were Outraged By Limbaugh Fluke Joke

When Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a “slut” the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks went ballistic, making the conservative talk show host a centerpiece in their campaign to tarnish Mitt Romney ...
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Multiple Obamagasms: Top 10 Most "Tingling" Quotes from Chris Matthews

Fawning over President Obama is incredibly common among journalists, but Matthews has taken it to a whole new level. According to the network host, Obama is a "perfect," "cool," brilliant ...
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