Daily Bias Alerts

Saturday, March 13, 2010 @ 05:00 PM ET
On Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, during a discussion of Mitt Romney's recent altercation with rapper Sky Blu on an airplane, host Maher suggested that Romney might have been motivated by racism in confronting the rapper as the he brought up racially tinged quotes from former Mormon church president Joseph Fielding Smith dating back to 1963 as if the words were relevant to Romney's scu...
Saturday, March 13, 2010 @ 05:00 PM ET
On Friday's Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, during a discussion of Mitt Romney's recent altercation with rapper Sky Blu on an airplane, host Maher suggested that Romney might have been motivated by racism in confronting the rapper as the he brought up racially tinged quotes from former Mormon church president Joseph Fielding Smith dating back to 1963 as if the words were relevant to Romney's scu...
Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 03:45 PM ET
Good Morning America's George Stephanopoulos on Friday moderated a group of mostly liberal voices to sympathize with Democratic Congressman Patrick Kennedy and, at times, former Representative Eric Massa. Speaking of the politician who spent the week talking about naked showers arguments and tickle fights, Stephanopoulos fretted, "Too much time on Eric Massa?"
Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 03:48 PM ET
Former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines accuses the Times of "a propaganda campaign against the Obama administration" that's "without precedent in our modern political history" and accuses the network of having "overturned standards of fairness and objectivity that have guided American print and broadcast journalists since World War II."
Friday, March 12, 2010 @ 02:19 PM ET
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, on Friday's Today show, remarked how similar the Eric Massa case was to the Mark Foley sex scandal in 2006, and back then Scarborough went with Matt Lauer's premise that Hastert should be "Thrown under the bus." However when NBC's Meredith Vieira questioned if Pelosi needed to testify, let alone resign, over the Massa mess Scarborough demurred: "I don't think so."
Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 05:30 PM ET
Liberal comedian Jon Stewart featured a rare conservative voice on Tuesday's Daily Show, former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen. As he often does during the occasions he talks to right-leaning guests, Stewart turned combative, attacking Thiessen for "living in a selective world."



Commentary

The Shameless Abortion Carnival

The media were fascinated by a woman discussing her chemical abortion -- as it happened -- on Twitter and YouTube. But it wasn't worthy of debate, just praise.

An Obama Nominee And Disappearing Persons

Dawn Johnsen, another of President Barack Obama's remarkable nominees, discovered a way to make a person disappear by making two persons into one. She essentially views an unborn child as the property of the mother. As a lawyer, Johnsen has crusaded against waterboarding terrorists and in favor of denying unborn children any legal recognition at any stage of development.

Health Care Sequel: The Empire Strikes Back

Journalists are touting yet another "final push" by President Obama on his health care initiative.









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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





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