Daily Bias Alerts

Friday, November 06, 2009 @ 04:36 PM ET
Appearing on the Dr. Nancy program on MSNBC Friday, NBC News terrorism analyst Roger Cressy warned against labeling the mass shooting at Ft. Hood as terrorism, despite the apparent radical views of the shooter: “We've heard some family references that he was being criticized for his Muslim faith, that's all we know right now....It's still premature to draw the terrorism conclusion.”
Friday, November 06, 2009 @ 12:10 PM ET
All three morning shows on Friday identified the man who killed 12 at an Army base in Texas as a Muslim. However, Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer repeated a concern from Thursday's World News: "...We heard Martha Raddatz say last night that the wife of a soldier said 'I wish his name had been Smith,' so no one would have a reflexive question about [a religious motive]."
Friday, November 06, 2009 @ 09:45 AM ET
The ABC, CBS and NBC newscasts Thursday night squeezed in full stories pegged to a "kill the bill" anti-Pelosi/ObamaCare rally outside the U.S. Capitol attended by "angry protesters" as all the stories also stressed how President Obama got a "boost" from "big," "powerful" "key" and "major" endorsements from the AARP and AMA.
Thursday, November 05, 2009 @ 08:48 PM ET
Neither CBS nor NBC, in their East coast feeds Thursday night, noted the Muslim religious beliefs of the mass killer at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, but ABC anchor Charles Gibson wasn't cowed by political correctness. ABC's Martha Raddatz concluded a story on reaction at Fort Hood: "As for the suspect, Nadal Hasan, as one officer's wife told me, 'I wish his name was Smith.'"
Thursday, November 05, 2009 @ 04:16 PM ET
Scott Wolf, the star of a new show about evil aliens who use superficial journalists to take over the planet, appeared on Monday's Good Morning America and compared his "morally compromised" character to real-life CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. The V star asserted that "Chad Decker" doesn't have much "gravitas" and added, "He's more of Anderson Cooper-y."
Thursday, November 05, 2009 @ 04:40 PM ET
Thursday's CBS Early Show looked back at 1954 as part of its 'Time Machine' series, with co-host Harry Smith praising former CBS anchor Edward R. Murrow for taking on Senator Joseph McCarthy: “McCarthy was on a kind of a witch hunt. Ed Murrow boldly recognized that and took him on....It was very gutsy and very risky on Murrow's part....McCarthy was a bully. Ed Murrow said 'I'm not going to stand f...



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