NBC’s Olympic-Sized Bias: 13 Times More Coverage to Russian Anti-Gay

Matt Philbin
February 6th, 2014 8:47 AM
Journalists love to preen as human rights watchdogs, congratulating themselves publicly for their roles – real or imagined – in securing the life and liberty of the downtrodden. That is, as long as it’s the right sort of downtrodden.  Take, for example, NBC’s coverage in the run up to the Sochi Winter Olympics. Because of Russian restrictions on gays’ free speechfor homosexuals, the official…
 

NPR Media Reporter Presses NBC News to Be More Biased on Russian Gays

Tim Graham
January 17th, 2014 6:37 PM
On Monday’s All Things Considered, NPR media reporter David Folkenflik drew this unintentionally hilarious sentence out of NBC executive Alexandra Wallace: “Our job is to report on what's going on in the world. We're not activists. We're observers and analysts.” Folkenflik’s story pressed on NBC News from the left, that they must campaign against Russian repression before, during, and after…