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November 2nd, 2008 9:48 AM | Rich Noyes
Going into Tuesday’s election, polls show Democrat Barack Obama with a modest lead over Republican John McCain, but one group whose support of Obama should not be in doubt is the national media.…
November 1st, 2008 11:51 AM | Rich Noyes
Yes, the media are rooting for Barack Obama. Two studies out in the past couple of days show that it’s not just conservatives who see a strong tilt by journalists in favor of the Democrats: A…
October 31st, 2008 9:13 PM | Matthew Balan
On Friday’s American Morning program, CNN correspondent Carol Costello referred to the liberal organization ACORN as merely "a group committed to registering minority voters," and highlighted how…
October 31st, 2008 11:51 AM | Jeff Poor
Based on media coverage, conventional wisdom suggests Wall Street would favor Republican Party candidates when donating to campaigns. But that’s not the case.
According to…
October 31st, 2008 11:32 AM | Noel Sheppard
The media's abysmal coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign has been the equivalent of a mass press suicide that has signaled the end of journalism.
So wrote National Review contributor…
October 30th, 2008 10:45 PM | Matthew Balan
CNN anchor Kiran Chetry referred to John McCain’s warning of Democratic Party rule in both the White House and the Congress if Barack Obama is elected president as "scare tactics" during a preview…
October 30th, 2008 6:56 PM | Matthew Balan
CNN’s "Magic Wall" map on Thursday’s Situation Room displayed an error regarding the results of the 2000 presidential election. Instead of indicating that President George W. Bush won in the state…
October 30th, 2008 12:30 PM | Kyle Drennen
On Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez talked to Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer about Obama’s Wednesday night campaign infomercial and Schieffer offered rave reviews: "...this…
October 29th, 2008 9:43 PM | Brent Baker
Chris Matthews came aboard the shortened Countdown after MSNBC, unlike FNC and CNN, aired the Obama campaign's half-hour infomercial on Wednesday night, and oozed over how “it was romance. It was…
October 29th, 2008 5:57 PM | Matthew Balan
CNN practiced a more subtle form of bias during two reports in October by using its on-screen graphics. On October 14th's Newsroom program, a graphic accompanying a segment on Sarah and Todd Palin…
October 29th, 2008 2:42 PM | Noel Sheppard
Former NBA star Charles Barkley followed up Monday's idiotic assertion that John McCain can only win the White House if he uses the race card by offering a rather vulgar opinion of Fox News…
October 29th, 2008 2:00 PM | BMI Staff
Left, Media Try to Cook Up a New New Deal
The
media have been obsessed with the Great Depression this year,
comparing our current time to…
October 29th, 2008 1:59 PM | Julia A. Seymour
1929 was a devastating year. The October stock market crash erased more than people’s life savings; in many cases it also robbed them of hope as the United States entered the Great Depression…
October 29th, 2008 1:27 PM | Matthew Balan
On Tuesday's Election Center program, CNN anchor Campbell Brown criticized Barack Obama's decision earlier this year to break his November 2007 pledge to accept public financing of his…
October 28th, 2008 3:40 PM | Noel Sheppard
Are you getting tired of being told that you're a racist if you vote for John McCain?
Well, former NBA star Charles Barkley basically told Campbell Brown that on CNN Monday, and went so far…
October 28th, 2008 3:19 PM | Matthew Balan
CNN anchor Campbell Brown criticized the sexism of the "diva" comment about Sarah Palin from a supposed anonymous McCain campaign adviser on Monday’s Election Center program, despite how it was…
October 28th, 2008 9:13 AM | Lauren O'Reilly
Many economists argue that increases in the minimum wage cost jobs, but that didn’t stop “Your $$$$$” hosts Ali Velshi and Christine Romans from defending such increases.
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October 28th, 2008 9:01 AM | Jeff Poor
Election punditry sometimes comes from strange places. On CNN, it came from a former professional basketball player with a liberal point of view.
Charles Barkley, a former NBA…
October 28th, 2008 7:28 AM | P.J. Gladnick
Don't blink your eyes. If you do, you might miss the one very brief mention of Barack Obama's stunning 2001 radio interview on Larry King Live last night where he called for legislative means to…
October 28th, 2008 7:18 AM | Jeff Poor
The Obama campaign has decided to employ the shoot-the-messenger approach in response to comments he made about claims his positions are socialist. The quotes come from a 2001 Chicago Public…
October 28th, 2008 3:04 AM | Brent Baker
An emerging preview of the post-election media spin that McCain lost because he moved too far to “the right,” with his pick of Sarah Palin as the smoking gun? On Monday night's Late Late Show with…
October 27th, 2008 8:44 PM | Mike Bates
Like much of the mainstream media, CNN anchor Jack Cafferty has set aside any pretense of objectivity in this year's presidential election. On today's Situation Room he used a "Cafferty File"…
October 27th, 2008 6:41 PM | Jeff Poor
You know media bias has reached epic proportions when journalists are criticizing their own colleagues for a lack of professionalism in covering Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack…
October 27th, 2008 3:36 PM | Matthew Balan
On Monday’s Newsroom program, CNN ran a report from its San Francisco affiliate which sympathized with parents in California who are upset that video of their first grade children, whom they…
October 27th, 2008 2:33 PM | Dan Gainor
Little did Joe the plumber know that Barack Obama was just scratching the surface when he answered Joe’s question with a desire to “spread the wealth around.” A new discovery of a 2001 radio…