Category: Media
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'V' Sci-Fi Star Compares Journalist-Mouthpiece for Evil Aliens to Anderson Cooper
Scott Wolf, the star of a new show about evil aliens who use superficial journalists to take over the planet, appeared on Monday’s Good Morning America and compared his "morally compromised" character to real-life CNN anchor Anderson Cooper. The V star asserted that "Chad Decker" doesn’t have much "gravitas" and added, "He's more of Anderson Cooper-y."
Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091105062120.aspx
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Better Off Red? Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Recalling the Liberal Media's Blindness to the Evils of Communism
Twenty years ago this week, the Berlin Wall fell, tearing down the Iron Curtain that had sliced Europe in half since the end of World War II. Barely two years later, the Soviet Union itself disintegrated, ending the Cold War. Yet before, during and after those momentous events two decades ago, many in the liberal media continuously whitewashed the true nature of communism, or suggested free-market capitalism was somehow worse.
Source: http://www.mrc.org/specialreports/2009/BetterOffRed/ExecSum....
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CBS and NBC Fail to ID Hasan as Muslim; ABC's Raddatz Relays: 'I Wish His Name was Smith'
Neither the CBS Evening News nor NBC Nightly News, in their East coast feeds Thursday night, noted the Muslim religious beliefs of the mass killer at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas
Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091105085345.aspx
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Press corps repeatedly condemns conservatives for delivering victories for Republicans
The 'Dewey Defeats Truman Awards' for the Most Incompetent Political Reporting of This Year's Election
Source: http://mrc.org/press/releases/2009/20091104112929.aspx
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ABC's Stephanopoulos Spins NY 23 as a 'Big Loss' for Sarah Palin, Hits GOP 'Civil War'
Former Democratic aide turned journalist George Stephanopoulos appeared on Wednesday’s Good Morning America to spin the loss of a Conservative Party congressional candidate in New York as a "big loss for Sarah Palin." He enthused, "A big win for the Democrats who poured it on in the final days especially Vice President Biden who came in the final day."
Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091104010020.aspx
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Newsweek Despairs 'Checks and Balances' Impede ObamaCare
Penning the lead story for the “Yes He Can (But He Sure Hasn't Yet)” Newsweek cover, “A Liberal's Survival Guide,” Anna Quindlen defended President Obama from liberal complaints he's not enacting liberal policies fast enough as she explained that he's “saddled” by the “incremental” constitutional structure, but she fretted:
Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091029014120.aspx
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CBS Interviews Levi Johnston Again; Palin Says Network Should Be 'Ashamed'
For the third time in six months, the CBS Early Show provided a soap box for Levi Johnston to continue his vicious personal attacks against Sarah Palin, as co-host Maggie Rodriguez proclaimed: “He is back on the offensive in this he-said-she-said battle that began shortly after the presidential election....he says he’s trying to show the world the real Levi.”
Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091029054532.aspx
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Double Standard? ESPN Suspends Griese for a Week After Racist Slur
Only a week suspension for a blatantly racist joke?
Source: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102709/content/0...
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ABC Heavily Promotes New HBO Documentary on Obama: He's so 'Zen' and 'Normal'
Good Morning America co-host Diane Sawyer on Tuesday helped promote an upcoming HBO documentary on Barack Obama and allowed producer Ed Norton to gush over the "zen" presidential campaign of the Democratic candidate.
Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091027051654.aspx
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Matthews Mocks 'Motivational' Speaker Bush as 'Halloween Prank'
Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's Hardball, mocked former President George W. Bush making his debut as a motivational speaker as he laughed it off as a "Halloween prank, you know like toilet-papering somebody’s house."
Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091027071227.aspx