Daily Bias Alerts

CBS Turns to Top Catholic Bishop on ObamaCare Mandate Scandal, ABC Punts

Thursday, February 09, 2012 5:30 PM EST

After almost three weeks, CBS finally brought on a member of the Catholic hierarchy on Thursday's CBS This Morning to discuss the Obama administration health care mandate that forces Catholic institutions, like hospitals and colleges, to violate their consciences and pay for abortion-inducing drugs and contraception. On Good Morning America, ABC ignored the controversy for the second straight day....

Chris Matthews Excoriates: Rick Santorum Is a 'Theocrat' and Franklin Graham Is a 'Disgrace'

Thursday, February 09, 2012 5:17 PM EST

Only two days after admitting that Barack Obama has a problem with his "frightening" birth control decision, Chris Matthews on Thursday was back on offense. He berated Rick Santorum as a "theocrat" and knocked Reverend Franklin Graham as a "disgrace."

NBC's Curry Grills JFK Mistress: Why Have You 'Burdened' People With Truth About Kennedy?

Thursday, February 09, 2012 3:47 PM EST

In a live interview with John F. Kennedy mistress Mimi Alford on Thursday's NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry fretted over her sharing unflattering details about the late president: "What about Caroline [Kennedy], who is still alive?...Did you think about, as you talk about unburdening yourself, the idea that you've burdened other people now with this?"

CNN Reporters Call CPAC a 'Conservative Petri Dish'

Thursday, February 09, 2012 2:52 PM EST

Shortly before noon Thursday, live from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), CNN political reporter Peter Hamby described the gathering as a “conservative petri dish” to measure “how Mitt Romney is received and how his challengers are received too.” Anchor Suzanne Malveaux chimed in: “I love that, conservative petri dish. That’s a great way to describe it.” (with video)

Chris Matthews Reacts to JFK Mistress: Kennedy a Hero Who 'Still Arouses the Country'

Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:34 AM EST

Following a revealing interview with former JFK mistress Mimi Alford on Wednesday's NBC Rock Center, left-wing MSNBC host Chris Matthews, along with liberal historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Richard Reeves, were invited on the broadcast to give a sycophantic defense of the womanizing president.

ABC and CBS Evening Newscasts Finally Cover 'Firestorm' Between Catholic Church and Obama

Wednesday, February 08, 2012 7:25 PM EST

After 19 days of controversy, ABC's World News and the CBS Evening News on Tuesday night finally got around to covering the growing dispute between the Obama administration, which wants to impose a mandate for sterilizations and birth control on religious institutions, and the Catholic Church and its allies, who see it as a violation of religious liberty. All of the Big Three networks' evening new...

• CBS Turns to Top Catholic Bishop on ObamaCare Mandate Scandal, ABC Punts
• Chris Matthews Excoriates: Rick Santorum Is a 'Theocrat' and Franklin Graham Is a 'Disgrace'
• NBC's Curry Grills JFK Mistress: Why Have You 'Burdened' People With Truth About Kennedy?
• CNN Reporters Call CPAC a 'Conservative Petri Dish'
• Chris Matthews Reacts to JFK Mistress: Kennedy a Hero Who 'Still Arouses the Country'
• ABC and CBS Evening Newscasts Finally Cover 'Firestorm' Between Catholic Church and Obama

Earlier Bias Alerts

Special Reports:

Still Thrilled by Obama

The Media Research Center’s review of the ABC, CBS and NBC weekday morning news programs finds the networks are disparaging the Republican candidates and casting them as ideological extremists. But four years ago, those same network shows promoted the Democratic candidates and cast their strong liberal views as mainstream.

Counting the Reasons to Defund

As Congress considers whether or not to grant public broadcasting’s request for $495 million dollars for FY 2014, they should consider the refusal of the taxpayer-subsidized public-broadcasting empire to attempt balance and objectivity in all “programming of a controversial nature,” as required by the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. Instead, PBS and NPR programmers continue to lurch hard to port to please liberal Democrats and radical-left activists.

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Surveys over the past 30 years have consistently found top journalists are much more liberal than the rest of America. At the same time, public opinion polls show Americans see the media as politically biased, inaccurate and an obstacle to solving society’s problems.