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Gibson Empathizes with Obama: 'Holy God, What a Weight that Is on Your Shoulders'

In his swan song interview with President Barack Obama, which consumed more than ten minutes of World News, ABC's Charles Gibson couldn't have provided a friendlier or more empathetic platform to Obama on the “weight” of sending troops to war and how “devilishly difficult” it's become to pass a health care plan because of a few rogue Senators.

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091216084746.aspx

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ABC's Martin Bashir Attacks 'Brutal Regime' of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Assails 'Racial Profiling'

On Monday’s Nightline, co-host Martin Bashir conducted a one-sided, hostile profile of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s "brutal regime" and attacked his crackdown on illegal immigration as "racial profiling."

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091215052327.aspx

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Will Smith: 'Barack Obama as an Idea Marks an Evolutionary Flash Point for Humanity'

“Barack Obama as a person is a fantastic individual, but Barack Obama as an idea marks an evolutionary flash point for humanity”

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091210071822.aspx

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NBC Showcases Statue of Barry Obama at 10 with Nobel Medal and Butterfly

NBC's Brian Williams took time Thursday night to show video a statue of President Barack Obama at age 10, then known as Barry, being unveiled in Jakarta, near where he attended school at that age.

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091211031417.aspx

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ClimateGate 'An Inconvenient Scandal' Which 'Threatens to Crumble' Global Warming Consensus

ABC and CBS discounted the scientific relevance of the admissions and obfuscations displayed in the ClimateGate e-mails, but on Wednesday night they finally devoted full stories to the controversy and quoted the “most-damning” of the e-mails, the ones referring to a “trick” to “hide the decline” in a temperature measurement and in which a scientist fretted “we can't account for the lack of warming at the moment, and it is a travesty that we can't.”

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091210100936.aspx

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Tiger Tales: Networks Overlook Athletes as Role Models Angle

Coverage of Woods scandal focused largely on the impact to his endorsements and image.

Source: http://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/articles/2009/200912...

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The Media's Top 10 Worst Economic Myths of 2009

From jobs 'saved or created,' to stimulus saving the economy, to 'deficit neutral' health care reform; here are ten biggest stories the media got wrong this year.

Source: http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20091209120343...

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On Today: Climategate Already Forgotten but U.S. is 'Blamed' for Global Warming

On Tuesday's Today show, there was no mention of Climategate -- apparently the one mention of it on yesterday's show was enough for them -- but NBC's Ann Curry did pass along more global warming hysteria from the Copenhagen conference, including an admonition of the United States.

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091208031340.aspx

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CBS and NBC Trumpet UN Predictions About Warmest Decade Since 1850

CBS and NBC on Tuesday nightly eagerly pounced on the latest UN pronouncement about a warming world, without any regard for ClimateGate disclosures about manipulation of past data and without mentioning, as the AP noted, “the United States and Canada experienced cooler conditions than average.”

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091209094739.aspx