Daily Bias Alerts

Thursday, September 02, 2010
Wednesday’s CBS Evening News, without Katie Couric, uniquely amongst the broadcast network evening newscasts tied Discovery Channel hostage-taker/bomber James Lee to Al Gore and, even more miraculously, highlighted how Tony Blair, in his new book, describes George W. Bush as “intelligent.”
Thursday, September 02, 2010
Appearing as a guest on Tuesday’s Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter repeatedly characterized the conservative wing of the Republican party as “radical” and “extreme.” He went on to advise “progressives” that they “need to learn a little bit about what the stakes are” because Republicans currently have a “radical agenda.”
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
On Wednesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith served as an apologist for President Obama, who failed to credit President George W. Bush with the Iraq troop surge in an Oval Office address Tuesday night: "...while he [Obama] did not acknowledge...President Bush's support for the surge....he at least gave it tacit agreement – approval. And he has certainly approved a surge in Afghanistan."
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
NBC's Matt Lauer wanted one question to stick in the minds of his Today show viewers, as from the top of Wednesday's show, to his interview with Vice President Joe Biden, the Today co-anchor repeatedly asked was the Iraq war "worth it?"
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
President Barack Obama's decision to include, in his Tuesday night address from the Oval Office on the end to the “combat mission” in Iraq, a sentence respectful toward former President George W. Bush, appalled MSNBC host Rachel Maddow: "Describing his 'commitment to our security' despite the recklessness with which President Bush discarded that national security..."
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs made the rounds of the six broadcast and cable morning news shows on Tuesday morning to help set the table for the President's speech marking the end of major combat operations in Iraq. Of the six network anchors Gibbs spoke with, only CBS's Harry Smith failed to ask whether President Obama would extend credit to President Bush for the successful surge stra...



Commentary

Brian Williams: From Musketeer to Mousketeer

NBC's evening anchor shows a dramatic contrast in interviewing presidents on Katrina: Bush was bullied as a racist, but Obama was treated like a statesman offering wisdom.

Why Does Obama Tell Muslims America Is Nation of 'Non-Believers'?

Why has President Barack Obama on at least two occasions told specifically Muslim audiences that America is a nation of—among other things—“non-believers”?

Journalists Have Bad Case of Americaphobia

The media's attack on Americans who still remember what happened on Sept. 11 2001, could be called a crusade. But that word that makes you a pro-Western bigot in their eyes. So let's call it what it is – jihad. An out-and-out pro-Islamist assault on American values. In a term they might understand, it's Americaphobia.









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Revolving Door Update:

ABC News's Deputy Political Director Jumps to Left-Wing Union, the 15th Obama Activist Through the Media's Revolving Door

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Profile in Bias:

New ABC Host Christiane Amanpour: Top Ten Notable Quotes from a Liberal Career

On August 1, longtime CNN international correspondent Christiane Amanpour took over as the host of ABC's Washington, DC-based This Week. A quick perusal through the MRC's Notable Quotables archive confirms her standard liberal outlook on the world.


Previous Profiles in Bias:

Good Morning, Bias: Diane Sawyer’s Liberal Spin

Helen Thomas: Decades of Bias

Notable Quotables:

Ground Zero Mosque Remarks = "Courageous" Obama's "Finest Moment"

Notable Quotables

Journalists salute Barack Obama for his handling of the Ground Zero mosque while slamming mosque opponents like Newt Gingrich (a “demented, anger-infused doofus”) and scorning the public’s opposition as “ignorance” and/or “bigotry.” Plus, Newsweek declares America to be only the 11th best country in the world (and blames our problems on George W. Bush), while Time's Joe Klein commits the mother of all flip-flops regarding Bush's 2003 aircraft carrier landing after the end of major combat operations in Iraq. Those, plus 18 more quotes in this edition of Notable Quotables.


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Media Reality Check:

Networks Protest Arizona's Immigration Law With Cameras and Microphones

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How aggressively have the TV networks have demonstrated their dislike of Arizona’s state law “cracking down on illegal immigrants,” allegedly pitting “neighbor against neighbor?” An MRC review of all 120 immigration stories on the ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news programs from April 23 to July 25 an astonishing ten-to-one tilt against the Arizona law.


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NBC's Richard Engel, on Tuesday's Today show, dumped on the entire Iraq mission as he claimed that Saddam Hussein, before the war, was "getting more moderate" and concluded that the mission was "a giant distraction of resources" and if not for the invasion of Iraq, the war in Afghanistan "would probably be over."
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