Daily Bias Alerts

CNN Host Asks How Any Nevada Voter Can 'Connect' With Romney - Though Poll Shows Him Ahead by 20 Points

Friday, February 03, 2012 5:56 PM EST

While Mitt Romney is polling strong in Nevada – as her own network had reported – CNN's Ashleigh Banfield still questioned how anyone in the state could "connect" with him over his laissez-faire approach to the foreclosure crisis. Banfield's question came at the bottom of the 1 p.m. hour of Friday's Newsroom.

ABC Alters ESPN Reporter's Quote to Attack Faith of 'Astonishingly Polarizing' Tebow

Friday, February 03, 2012 5:08 PM EST

The journalists at Good Morning America on Friday altered a quote from an ESPN reporter, turning a question about Tim Tebow into a declaration that the faith of the quarterback is why he's such an "astonishingly polarizing," "divisive figure."

NBC Uses Trump Endorsement to Promote DNC Attacks on Romney

Friday, February 03, 2012 3:53 PM EST

Following Democratic National Committee talking points to the letter at the top of Thursday's NBC Nightly News, anchor Brian Williams saw Donald Trump's endorsement of Mitt Romney as an excuse to bash the Republican frontrunner: "New fallout from Mitt Romney's choice of words about the very poor, and tonight a new endorsement from a man who's catchphrase is 'You're fired.'"

Claire Shipman's Misleading Report Hits 'Political' Komen for Defunding Planned Parenthood

Friday, February 03, 2012 11:30 AM EST

Good Morning America reporter Claire Shipman on Friday offered a one-sided, misleading segment on Susan G. Komen's "political" decision to defund Planned Parenthood. Shipman inaccurately described a women who got a breast screening "through a Planned Parenthood screening." The organization doesn't do such procedures.

ABC's Amanpour: Conservative 'Gang' Were 'Frog-Marching' U.S. to War with Iraq

Friday, February 03, 2012 7:33 AM EST

On Thursday's The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, ABC's Christiane Amanpour characterized conservatives as several years ago "frog-marching" the U.S. to war in Iraq as she discussed the likelihood that Israel will soon attack Iran.

Nets Rush to Defend Planned Parenthood, Ignore Catholic Dispute with Obama

Thursday, February 02, 2012 6:35 PM EST

The Big Three networks continued their blackout on covering the controversy involving the Obama administration trying to force Catholic institutions to include coverage of abortifacients and contraception in their health plans without a co-pay. Instead, Diane Sawyer on Wednesday's ABC World News highlighted Pfizer's recall of birth control pills that could "raise the risk of accidental pregnancy."...

• CNN Host Asks How Any Nevada Voter Can 'Connect' With Romney - Though Poll Shows Him Ahead by 20 Points
• ABC Alters ESPN Reporter's Quote to Attack Faith of 'Astonishingly Polarizing' Tebow
• NBC Uses Trump Endorsement to Promote DNC Attacks on Romney
• Claire Shipman's Misleading Report Hits 'Political' Komen for Defunding Planned Parenthood
• ABC's Amanpour: Conservative 'Gang' Were 'Frog-Marching' U.S. to War with Iraq
• Nets Rush to Defend Planned Parenthood, Ignore Catholic Dispute with Obama

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