Daily Bias Alerts

NBC's Todd: Palin Will Attract 'Car-Wreck Watchers;' All Call Palin Decision 'Bizarre'

Friday, July 03, 2009 @ 08:58 PM ET

Sarah Palin's "bombshell" announcement that she will resign as Governor of Alaska trumped Michael Jackson as the lead on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts Friday as NBC's Chuck Todd predicted she will now make fundraising appearances for GOP candidates where she'll draw "car-wreck watchers." On all three newscasts Palin's decision was called "bizarre." (with video)

CBS Doesn't Mention Obama as Unemployment Hits 26-Year High

Thursday, July 02, 2009 @ 08:45 PM ET

Unemployment in June hit 9.5%, the highest since 1983, as 467,000 jobs were lost, yet the CBS Evening News didn't mention President Obama or his "stimulus" while NBC only touched Obama's policies by running a soundbite of the President defending the lack of positive impact from his policies: "It took years for us to get into this mess and it will take us more than a few months to turn it around."

NBC Puffs Al Franken with Softball Questions to New Senator

Thursday, July 02, 2009 @ 05:58 PM ET

On Thursday's Today, Meredith Vieira tossed mostly softballs to Senator-elect Al Franken, offering no hard questions about the disputed 2008 election, instead fawning, "...Are you more worried about becoming a target for the GOP or a target for Saturday Night Live, your old stomping ground?"

CNN Bashes Conservative Ads With 'Industry Insider,' Omits His Far Left Affiliation

Thursday, July 02, 2009 @ 02:35 PM ET

CNN glowingly featured an entire segment on Thursday's American Morning about Wendell Potter, a former chief corporate spokesman for the health insurance company Cigna, and he attempted to discredit conservative ad campaigns against health “reform” proposals as “outright lies.” But reporter Jim Acosta left out his current ideological employment with a left-wing advocacy group.

NBC's Meredith Vieira to Dick Morris: GOP Plan to 'Sit and Watch Obama Fail?'

Thursday, July 02, 2009 @ 03:05 PM ET

NBC's Meredith Vieira on Thursday conducted a defensive interview with Fox News' Dick Morris, at one point skeptically wondering if "the Republican tactic from this point on" would be "to sit and watch Obama fail." Later, when Morris pointed out the problems with the Canadian health care system, the Today host retorted, "But, the President clearly has said that's not the road he's headed down."

Are Black Female Reporters In The Tank for Michelle? 'Fabulously'

Thursday, July 02, 2009 @ 01:02 PM ET

Washington Post media reporter Howard Kurtz reported Thursday on black females on the Michelle Obama beat, and whether their shared race and gender produces gauzier coverage. "Indeed, most write with enthusiasm, in some cases even admiration, about the first lady as a long-awaited role model for black women."

• NBC's Todd: Palin Will Attract 'Car-Wreck Watchers;' All Call Palin Decision 'Bizarre'
• CBS Doesn't Mention Obama as Unemployment Hits 26-Year High
• NBC Puffs Al Franken with Softball Questions to New Senator
• CNN Bashes Conservative Ads With 'Industry Insider,' Omits His Far Left Affiliation
• NBC's Meredith Vieira to Dick Morris: GOP Plan to 'Sit and Watch Obama Fail?'
• Are Black Female Reporters In The Tank for Michelle? 'Fabulously'

Earlier Bias Alerts

Special Report

Cheerleaders for the Revolution

The media applauded Barack Obama's first 100 days as President, but how well did journalists perform? A Media Research Center study of ABC, CBS and NBC coverage of Obama's first 100 days finds the networks lavished good press on every major initiative of the early Obama administration, including the massive stimulus package, all of the various bailouts, health care, stem cells, the environment and foreign policy. They never investigated whether Obama was leading America towards socialism and never even once labled his huge government agenda "liberal."

2009 MRC Gala & DisHonors Awards

Bill Maher "Wins" the "Quote of the Year"

Through their applause and jeers, the audience at the MRC's "DisHonors Awards" on Thursday night, March 19 voted to designate Bill Maher's looney conspiracy theorizing about Sarah Palin's baby, which had won the "Half-Baked Alaska Award for Pummeling Palin," as the "Quote of the Year."

MRC Gala & Best of NQ Archive