Bias by Omission
10/12/2012 3:28 PM ET
Times reporter James Barron leads left-wing poet Amiri Baraka into radical reminisces. The text box to Baraka's profile suggested his radical reading of the deadly 1967 Newark riots as a ...
10/10/2012 12:36 PM ET
As Congress holds hearings on the fatal attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, some media outlets break news or put the story on the front page. Then there's the New York Times, which devoted ...
10/8/2012 4:56 PM ET
None of the Big Three broadcast networks noted the release Friday of the
Congressional Budget Office’s final determination of the fiscal year
2012 federal budget deficit: $1.1 trillion, the ...
9/28/2012 6:25 PM ET
While ignoring breaking news in the Obama administration's Libya fiasco
on Thursday night, CNN's Piers Morgan dumped on the Romney campaign for a
good portion of his show, saying Mitt is "in a ...
9/21/2012 12:59 PM ET
Again the Times focused on the political damage fostered by
Mitt Romney's (accurate) statement at a fundraiser that 47 percent of
Americans do not pay income taxes, yet buried
two ...
9/14/2012 2:56 PM ET
The New York Times lets Obama play tough in a front-page story, but skips the attack on the U.S. embassy in Yemen, which the Washington Post fronts. From the Times: "The president was not happy; ...
9/7/2012 5:40 PM ET
Earlier this week, the GAO said the Obama administration evaded the law by waiving welfare requirements, but CNN failed to mention the report. Neither CBS nor ABC reported it as well. According to ...
8/17/2012 6:44 PM ET
In spite of a Washington Post poll
showing 74 percent of Americans favor government-issued photo ID
mandates at polling places, CNN skipped those numbers this past week in
six separate ...
8/16/2012 2:14 PM ET
Times reporter Helene Cooper gave Obama credit for lowering the rhetorical temperature of
the campaign, skipping completely the false and vicious attack from Priorities
USA, an ...
7/19/2012 11:12 AM ET
Times political reporter Peter Baker pleads for "proper context" against the "Internet-fueled distortions" of President Obama's politically damaging remark "if you’ve got a business, you didn't ...