Daily Bias Alerts

Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 06:06 PM ET
Concluding a report on proposed soda taxes across the country on Monday's CBS Evening News, correspondent Michelle Miller gleefully proclaimed how such a tax would help fight obesity and fill local government coffers: "New York's mayor estimates a tax would raise a billion dollars, suggesting what's good for the waistline could be good for the bottom line."
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 05:05 PM ET
MSNBC Host David Shuster on Tuesday continued to attack the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) for the organization's reference to Charlie Rangel as a "Harlem Democrat." He reiterated, "I pointed out the NRCC did not call him a corrupt New York Democrat or just corrupt. Rather, a corrupt Harlem Democrat. And I asked a guest if this was racially tinged."
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:41 PM ET
Late night talk show host and author Chelsea Handler was invited on Tuesday's Today show to plug her new book Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang and couldn't leave the show without taking a dig at earlier guest Karl Rove, as well as Sarah Palin who she called "Really stupid."
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 04:32 PM ET
NBC's Ann Curry invited former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura to promote his new book of conspiracy theories, on Tuesday's Today show, and pressed the former professional wrestler to throw out the loony charge that the Bush administration had foreknowledge of 9/11.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 03:52 PM ET
At the top of Tuesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith proclaimed: "President Obama makes a tough final push, going on the offensive against health insurance companies. Will it work?" Later, co-host Maggie Rodriguez gushed: "It looked like a campaign rally yesterday with President Obama center-stage taking his fight for health care reform out of Washington and into America's heartland."
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 @ 12:00 PM ET
ABC's George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday showed little interest in grilling Robert Gibbs over serious allegations made by a Democratic Congressman. Talking to the White House press secretary, he could only manage a single question: "[Representative Massa has] made very specific and pointed charges against Rahm Emanuel, Democratic leaders in the House. What's the White House response?"



Commentary

A Year of Anti-Religious Bigotry

It's quite shocking to see a high-profile American faith take so much abuse from Hollywood and New York and other bohemian centers of America.

Sen. Jim Bunning's Historic and Heroic Stand

Republican Sen. Jim Bunning of Kentucky, a 78-year-old grandfather of 40 who is not running for re-election, has single-handedly fought a battle on Capitol Hill over the past week that ought to inspire all taxpayers to rally around his banner of common sense.

Here Lies Nancy Pelosi; Will Journalists Notice?

The Speaker of the House changes her tune about tea parties, but media don't call her on it.









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Special Report

Omitting for Obama

MRC Special Report

An MRC study documents how New Media outlets such as Fox News, talk radio and the conservative blogosphere uncovered numerous stories damaging to the Obama "brand" in 2009. But on the Old Media networks, these scoops were slow in arriving and quickly disappeared.


Previous Special Report: Better Off Red?



Poll: Public Trust in Media Accuracy and Fairness Plunges, Liberal v Conservative Bias Gap at 28 Points

Updated: Revolving Door from Journalism to Team Obama Now at Fourteen


Profile in Bias

New World News Anchor Diane Sawyer: A Profile in Bias

Profile in Bias

Diane Sawyer takes the helm of ABC’s World News December 21, but as the long-time, but as the long-time co-host of ABC’s Good Morning America, she has a track record of liberal spin. Sawyer has lauded high-profile liberals like Nancy Pelosi (“galvanized steel with a smile”) and Hillary Clinton (“political mastery,” “dazzling”), while in her infamous 20/20 interview, she targeted Ken Starr’s report on Bill Clinton as “demented pornography, pornography for Puritans.”


Previous Profile in Bias:

A Smattering of Harry Smith’s Liberal Smugness

Notable Quotables

Victorious Obama Exposed "Party of No"

Notable Quotables

CBS's Chip Reid crowns Barack Obama the winner of the health care summit, saying he successfully cast "the Republicans [as] the party of no," while his colleague Maggie Rodriguez frets how "health care is being held hostage by partisanship." Also, the media unleash on Senator Jim Bunning for daring to demand a pay-as-you-go approach to new spending, a Washington Post writer tweets that Rush Limbaugh "is really a loathsome racist," plus 17 more quotes in this edition of Notable Quotables.


Previous NQs:

Scolding the "Harsh Rhetoric" of Tea Party "On the Fringe"

Hailing Obama's "Command Performance"


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Year-End Awards:

The Best Notable Quotables of 2009: The 22nd Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting


Media Reality Check

Documenting the Media's Lopsided Liberal Slant

Reality Check

Surveys over the past 30 years have consistently found top journalists are much more liberal than the rest of America. The MRC has now created a one-stop online resource, “Media Bias 101,” detailing more than 40 surveys revealing journalists’ liberal opinions and the public’s attitudes about bias.


Previously: TV's Tilted Take on Harry Reid

Climategate: A Scandal for Journalism, Too





MSNBC's David Shuster on Monday attacked Republicans as racist for calling embattled Congressman Charlie Rangel a "crooked, Harlem Democrat." Talking to ex-Virginia Governor Doug Wilder, the host complained about a "racially tinged" press release by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC): "They could have called him the crooked New York Democrat."
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