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CNN Drops to Last Place Among Cable News Networks

CNN, which invented the cable news network more than two decades ago, will hit a new competitive low with its prime-time programs in October, finishing fourth – and last – among the cable news networks with the audience that all the networks rely on for their advertising.

Source: http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/cnn-drops-t...

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NY Times's Frank Rich Finds Anti-Bush Argument in Balloon Boy Saga

One could almost predict the desperately "current" New York Times editor/columnist Frank Rich would devote his Sunday column to try and make Balloon Boy an anti-Republican symbol of something or other, and he doesn't disappoint.

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091027014817.aspx

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Obama Administration Escapes Blame for H1NI Flu Vaccine Shortage and Delay

Hard to imagine that if George W. Bush were still in office journalists would hesitate a moment to invoke his name in identifying a culprit for the current shortage and delay in delivery, well beyond the schedule promised by HHS's Centers for Disease Control, of the vaccine for the H1N1 “swine flu” virus. Remember Katrina?

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091027015758.aspx

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CBS Takes Up White House Quest to 'De-Legitimize' Fox News, 'Irony' FNC Enabled Attack

“They report and the White House decides it's not fair. The President's feud with the Fox News Channel,” Katie Couric teased at the top of Friday's CBS Evening News in the first broadcast network newscast foray into the subject.

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091023084147.aspx

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Times Focuses on Gallup Poll Showing Palin Unpopularity, Ignored Drops by Obama, John Edwards

The Times still doesn’t miss a chance to go after former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Nadia Taha’s Friday post on the nytimes.com “Caucus” blog, “Palin Endorses Conservative in Divisive New York Race," took a parting shot at Palin's recent low favorability ratings in a Gallup poll. But what about similar steep drops by Barack Obama and John Edwards?

Source: http://www.mrc.org/timeswatch/articles/2009/20091023024049.a...

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MSNBC: Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, What's the Difference?

Showing that Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have become interchangeable, in the 2:00PM ET hour on MSNBC, anchor Contessa Brewer mistakenly introduced Jackson as Sharpton

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091021063821.aspx

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NBC Nightly News Champions Obama's Sensitivity to Women

Tied to NBC's promotion of Maria Shriver's “A Woman's Nation” report, completed in conjunction with the left-wing Center for American Progress, Wednesday's NBC Nightly News showcased Savannah Guthrie's interview with President Barack Obama in which she trumpeted how he “has put women in high places in his administration and the Supreme Court.

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091021091728.aspx

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Press Falls for Yet Another Hoax

RUSH: Do you remember the story yesterday we had about how Reuters, CNN, the Washington Post, and New York Times fell for a hoax? Yesterday we thought that it was just an e-mail hoax that they fell for. The hoax was perpetrated by some group that as a practice perpetrates hoaxes on the media. And they sent an e-mail out claiming that they were the Chamber of Commerce, that they had done a 180 and Chamber of Commerce was now ready to join Obama on cap and trade, and it was false.

Source: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_102009/content/0...

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CNN Psychoanalyzes Talk Radio Listeners, Cites Left-Wing Study on Format

CNN’s Carol Costello began a new series on political talk radio on Monday’s American Morning, suggesting it was unfairly dominated by conservatives, and brought on a liberal psychiatrist who theorized that Rush Limbaugh has an audience because he’s “operating like the bully, and if you’re on the playground...you want to be...under the bully’s wing and go along with him and get...some power by proxy.”

Source: http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2009/20091019073230.aspx