Wednesday's Biased Item Archives

February 2012

2/15/2012 - Scare quotes in news reports

2/8/2012 - Indiana “Right to Work” Bill Passes

2/1/2012 - Two Papers in One

January 2012

1/25/2012 - Fact-free ‘Fact Check’

1/18/2012 - Barely News: North Korea’s ‘Criticism Sessions’

1/11/2012 - Networks Ignore Recall of Chevy Volts

1/4/2012 - Reporter’s opinion

December 2011

12/14/2011 - Fact Check

November 2011

11/30/2011 - Leading with Statistics

11/16/2011 - Network Morning Shows Display Bias

11/2/2011 - Repeal a Ban, or Ban?

October 2011

10/26/2011 - Wall Street Protests

10/19/2011 - A Tale of Two Protests

10/12/2011 - Unemployment Rate Left Out of Most Job Stories

10/5/2011 - Musician is a Terrorist?

September 2011

9/28/2011 - The Media and the War on Terror

9/21/2011 - Don’t Be Misled

9/14/2011 - Holding Republicans Accountable?

9/7/2011 - Networks Ignore Religion Ban at Ground Zero Ceremony

August 2011

8/31/2011 - Reuters Continues to Doubt Hikers’ Story

8/24/2011 - Unknown Motive?

8/12/2011 - Jon Stewart: ‘Shame on You, Newsweek’

June 2011

6/8/2011 - Media Skips Reporting on U.S. Solicitor General’s Suggestion

6/1/2011 - Media Shocked by Bad Economic News…It’s “Unexpected”

May 2011

5/25/2011 - NBC Skips Supreme Court Ruling Freeing Thousands of Criminals

5/18/2011 - 20% of New Health Care Waivers Go To Nancy Pelosi’s District

5/11/2011 - Media Largely Misses Yemeni Passenger Story

5/4/2011 - At WH Request, Newspaper Censors Mildly Negative Sentence

April 2011

4/27/2011 - Mystery Motive

4/20/2011 - Rising Gas Prices Linked to Obama Drilling Ban in 1% of Evening News Stories

4/13/2011 - Neutralizing Terrorism

4/6/2011 - Stories the Media Missed

March 2011

3/30/2011 - Does a Reporter’s Opinion Belong in a News Report?

3/23/2011 - Able to Provide Unbiased News Reports?

3/16/2011 - Editorializing in a News Report

3/9/2011 - Misleading Quote?

3/2/2011 - Out of Context

February 2011

2/23/2011 - Media Quiet on Plight of Afghan Convert

2/16/2011 - An Accurate Headline?

2/9/2011 - Rewriting Ronald Reagan

2/2/2011 - Identify the Party

January 2011

1/26/2011 - ‘CNN Could Not Independently Verify Those Claims’

1/19/2011 - Networks Out of Step with Public

1/12/2011 - A Study in Contrasts

1/5/2011 - Photo Bias Exposed in the Wire Services

December 2010

12/15/2010 - Gallup Poll: Distrust in Media Hits New High

12/8/2010 - By 6-to-1 Margin, Networks Paint Debate Over ‘Tax Cuts,’ Not Raising Rates

12/1/2010 - NYT Publishes Scores of WikiLeaks Docs

November 2010

11/17/2010 - Misleading Headline of the Day

11/10/2010 - “Nearly All” of NPR’s Board Members are Liberals

11/3/2010 - Tax Cuts to Expire, Media Minimizes Impact on Americans

October 2010

10/27/2010 - Media and Stone Throwers Collude In Silwan?

10/20/2010 - News Corp. Gives to GOP; NBC, ABC, CBS Employees Give to Dems

10/13/2010 - Unfortunate Timing?

10/6/2010 - AP Coverage of Failed Times Square Bomber Shahzad’s Sentencing Doesn’t Reveal Who Trained Him

September 2010

9/29/2010 - Does the Headline Fit the Story?

9/22/2010 - Survey Results Differ with Media on Ground Zero Mosque

9/15/2010 - Is the World Health Organization Reliable?

9/8/2010 - NY Times Finds New Yorkers “Deeply Divided” on Mosque

9/1/2010 - Importance of Accurate Captions

August 2010

8/25/2010 - Deceptive Gitmo Headlines

June 2010

6/9/2010 - Fauxtography – Reuters Uses Photoshop

6/3/2010 - Washington Post Exposes BP ties to Eco-Groups

May 2010

5/26/2010 - ‘Hikers’ or ‘Spies’ ?

5/19/2010 - Attorney General Calls for Lawsuit Against Law He Hasn’t Read

5/12/2010 - TV Networks Oppose AZ’s Illegal Immigration Law

5/5/2010 - A Double Standard?

April 2010

4/28/2010 - Times Says Economy is Improving

4/21/2010 - Mystery Land

4/14/2010 - Networks Barely Mention FCC Plan to Spend Up to $350 Billion for Broadband Internet

4/7/2010 - A Report on Two Presidents

March 2010

3/31/2010 - Headline Leads to False Impression

3/24/2010 - The Media vs. the Protesters

3/17/2010 - ‘Ideologically Neutral’

3/10/2010 - Eager Elephants

3/3/2010 - With Our Miracle Diet, You Can Slim Down While Gaining Weight!

February 2010

2/24/2010 - The World’s Biggest Story, Everywhere but Here

2/17/2010 - NBC and ABC Opposing Reports on Same Story

2/10/2010 - The Emperor’s Old Clothes

2/3/2010 - CBS Exposes Congress Wasting Money

January 2010

1/27/2010 - Proof of Media Bias?

1/20/2010 - AP Bungles a ‘No Comment’

1/13/2010 - Wikipedia: Reliable Resource?

1/6/2010 - Double Standard?

December 2009

12/16/2009 - An Accurate Report?

12/9/2009 - Navy SEALs to be Court-Martialed - http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/images/uploads/tiger.jpg

12/2/2009 - Fair And Balanced?

November 2009

11/25/2009 - More Accountability Journalism

11/18/2009 - Accountability Journalism

11/11/2009 - The PTSD Evasion

11/4/2009 - CNN Waters Down the Israeli Response

October 2009

10/28/2009 - The Guardian Removes Israelis from Nobel Prize Winners List

10/21/2009 - NPR to Stations: ‘Avoid’ Saying ‘46 Million Americans’ Are Uninsured

10/14/2009 - NBC Reporter Waves the White Flag: ‘Time to Start Leaving’ Afghanistan

10/7/2009 - Networks Flip Flop on Jobs

September 2009

9/30/2009 - Public Trust in Media Accuracy and Fairness Plunges

9/23/2009 - Dog Bites Infidel

9/16/2009 - NYT Bestsellers Receive Uneven Coverage from Networks

9/9/2009 - Doing Their Job?

9/2/2009 - Comparing AP and Reuters Reports on CDC’s Chicago H1N1 Study

August 2009

8/26/2009 - Media Double Standard?

June 2009

6/10/2009 - How Often Do We Hear About These Heroes?

6/3/2009 - The Obama Infatuation

May 2009

5/27/2009 - The Media vs. The Masses

5/20/2009 - Reutian Slip

5/13/2009 - Bias at the U.N.?

5/6/2009 - WH Reporters Stand For Obama, But Not For Bush?

April 2009

4/29/2009 - Is Obama Getting a Pass for Monday’s Air Force One NYC Flyover?

4/22/2009 - Jews on the Rampage!

4/15/2009 - Media Ignores Negative Aspects of President Obama’s Trip to Europe

4/8/2009 - Should the Media Report on the Presidential Bow to the Saudi King? - AmericanThinker.com

4/1/2009 - Obama’s Press List

March 2009

3/25/2009 - Dog Years

3/18/2009 - The Media Promote Embryonic Stem Cell Research

3/11/2009 - Atlanta Paper Responds to Concerns About Bias, Becomes ‘Fairer’

3/4/2009 - ABC, CBS, NBC Put Positive Spin on Huge Growth of Government

February 2009

2/25/2009 - A Tale of Two Headlines

2/18/2009 - Galluping Past Bad Polls?

2/11/2009 - CBS Ignores Broad Public Support for Tax Cuts in Recent Poll

2/4/2009 - Pliability Journalism

January 2009

1/28/2009 - NY Times Ignores March for Life

1/21/2009 - Pumped Up Predictions

1/14/2009 - Accountability Journalism

1/7/2009 - CNN Reports on Protests Against Israel

December 2008

12/17/2008 - CNN: One Year Analysis

12/10/2008 - Accountability Journalism

12/3/2008 - NY Times’ Nicholas Kristof Acknowledges Media Bias

November 2008

11/26/2008 - ABC’s Tapper Says Media Favored Obama

11/19/2008 - Abandon All Hope

11/12/2008 - Washington Post Admits Bias Towards Obama

11/5/2008 - Wannabe Pundits

October 2008

10/29/2008 - Most Voters Say News Media Wants Obama to Win

10/22/2008 - N.Y. Times Iraq War Coverage Drops to All-Time Low

10/15/2008 - Should the Media Report on Presidential Candidates’ Abortion Records?

10/8/2008 - ‘Embarrassing News’

10/1/2008 - When Watchdogs Snore: How ABC, CBS & NBC Ignored Fannie & Freddie

September 2008

9/24/2008 - AP: US ‘A Nation That Enshrined Slavery in its Constitution’

9/17/2008 - Media’s Treatment of Hillary, Barack and Sarah

9/10/2008 - Media Credibility Plummets

9/3/2008 - The NY Times: A Year-Long Analysis: Part 2

August 2008

8/27/2008 - The NY Times: A Year-Long Analysis: Part 1

8/20/2008 - Washington Post Ombudsman: ‘3 to 1’ Obama Front Page Advantage

June 2008

6/11/2008 - Poll Shows Majority of Americans Believe Reporters Try to Help Their Candidates Win

6/4/2008 - The Great Media Depression

May 2008

5/28/2008 - The AP Maligns Our Soldiers On Memorial Day Weekend

5/21/2008 - Media Make Economic Storms Out of Silver Linings

5/14/2008 - Four Times More Journalists Identify as Liberal Than Conservative

5/7/2008 - Global Warming Censored

April 2008

4/30/2008 - NYT Reporter Winces at “Splintered” Court Decisions

4/23/2008 - Crude Coverage

4/16/2008 - Michael Monsoor

4/9/2008 - AP Math: 0.6% Rise is ‘Feeble’, 0.6% Decline is ‘Plunge’

4/2/2008 - More ‘Accountability Journalism’

March 2008

3/26/2008 - One Year Analysis: Reuters 2007 “Pictures of the Month”

3/19/2008 - Five Years of Slant Against Iraq War Success

3/12/2008 - ABC, NBC Continue to Ignore Personal Responsibility for Foreclosures

3/5/2008 - Analysis of the BBC: The Subtle Bias

February 2008

2/27/2008 - Media Spins Success in Afghanistan as Failure

2/20/2008 - Only ABC Marks One Year Anniversary of the Successful Surge in Iraq - NewsBusters.org

2/13/2008 - CBS and ABC Falsely Describe Medicare Spending Hike as a Cut

2/6/2008 - A Tale of Two Withdrawals: Respecting Edwards, But Giuliani “Living an Illusion” - TimesWatch.org and OpinionJournal.com

January 2008

1/30/2008 - The Underreported View – ‘The Economy Is Fine’ - BusinessandMedia.org

1/23/2008 - 84 Percent of Americans Happy With Lives - NewsBusters.org

1/16/2008 - Crazed Veterans Spark Nationwide Crime Wave - PowerLineBlog.com

1/9/2008 - 2.4 Percent: ‘Dramatic’ Decrease or ‘Disappointing’ Increase? - BusinessAndMedia.org

1/2/2008 - AP’s Conflict of Interest on Bilal Hussein - NewsBusters.org

December 2007

12/19/2007 - Good News = Less News on Iraq War - Media Research Center

12/12/2007 - Gore Takes Train From Oslo Airport, Luggage Takes Mercedes

12/5/2007 - WaPo Promotes Cuban ‘Election’ Fiction in News Brief

November 2007

11/28/2007 - Military Desertion Rates and the Associated Press

11/14/2007 - Nets Lead w/ ‘Awful’ Economic News, Not So Excited About Job Gains

11/7/2007 - ABC Airs Upbeat Iraq Story on Fallujah’s ‘Remarkable Turnaround’

October 2007

10/31/2007 - Washington Post Worries Only About Suffering In Gaza—Ignores Qassam Barrages At Sderot

10/24/2007 - ABC World News Profiles an Army Sergeant Who Helped Iraqi Girl

10/17/2007 - Medal of Honor Winner’s Story Unfit to Print?

10/10/2007 - Should Chris Matthews be Allowed to Moderate GOP Debates?

10/3/2007 - NPR Snubs Interview With the President

September 2007

9/26/2007 - Reuters Misleads About Bush Saying ‘Mandela’s Dead’

9/19/2007 - ABC Trumpets Greenspan’s Bush Went to War for Oil, Ignores His Real View

9/12/2007 - Wannabe Pundits

9/5/2007 - ABC, CBS and NBC Morning Shows Promote Democrats On the Road to the White House?

August 2007

8/29/2007 - What’s Wrong With This Headline?

8/22/2007 - Seattle Times Editor Admits Staff is ‘Blue’

June 2007

6/13/2007 - What’s Wrong With This Headline?

6/6/2007 - Kennedy Airport Terror Plot Doesn’t Make NY Times’ Main Section

May 2007

5/30/2007 - Did You See This News Story?

5/23/2007 - Army National Guard at Full Strength for First Time Since 1999, Media Mum

5/16/2007 - AP caption: High Gas Prices are Posted at a Shell Gas Station

5/9/2007 - U.S. and International Newsweek Editions Present Different Views of Warming

5/2/2007 - How Often Do We Hear From the Media About These Heroes?

April 2007

4/25/2007 - Documentaries Skeptical of Global Warming Not Shown on American TV

4/18/2007 - BBC Cancels TV Movie On Iraq War Hero As ‘Too Positive’

4/11/2007 - Media Ignore Near-Record Cold in Alaska

4/4/2007 - AP on Polish Abortion Protests: ‘Ultraconservative’ Catholics vs. ‘Young People’

March 2007

3/28/2007 - Are There Two Sides to Every Story?

3/21/2007 - Zogby Poll: Voters Believe Media Bias is Very Real

3/14/2007 - Media Buries Story on Troop Increase in Iraq by Republic of Georgia

3/7/2007 - How Likely?

February 2007

2/28/2007 - Post Strips News Reports Of Factual Context – Depicts Israel In Negative Light

2/21/2007 - What’s News, AP?

2/14/2007 - Palestinian Factions Try to Observe New Truce

2/7/2007 - Big Three Networks Gloss Over Pro-Life March, But Send Excited Reporters to Boost Anti-War Rally

January 2007

1/31/2007 - Bad News From Iraq, According to the New York Times

1/24/2007 - For 2008 Race, LA Times Giving Way Better Coverage to Democrats Than Republicans

1/17/2007 - NYTimes Headline Reads “Airstrike Rekindles Somalis’ Anger at the U.S”

1/10/2007 - NBC Declares Israel’s Attack Plans ‘Alarming’—But What of Iran’s?

1/3/2007 - The Iraq War on Cable TV

December 2006

12/20/2006 - 2006 Dishonest Reporting Awards

12/13/2006 - ABC’s Sawyer on North Korea: Touts ‘Happiest Children in World’

12/6/2006 - We Denounce, You Decide

November 2006

11/29/2006 - USA Today: Motorists Aren’t Paying Enough for Roads

11/15/2006 - BBC ‘Set to Cause Enormous Problems’

11/8/2006 - Missouri: NBC’s Tibbles Repeatedly Leaves Embryo Out of ‘Stem Cell Research’ Story

11/1/2006 - Media Twist Good Economy Into Bad News

October 2006

10/25/2006 - CNN Airs Video from Iraqi Insurgents

10/18/2006 - AP Headline Chosen For Political Effect?

10/11/2006 - Reporting News, or Selling Stemware?

10/4/2006 - Media Ignore Baseball Charity Called “Strikeouts For Troops”

September 2006

9/27/2006 - Veteran WaPo Reporter Admits MSM’s Bias Is ‘Overwhelmingly to the Left’

9/20/2006 - Couric: U.S. Enemies a ‘Who’s Who of Bush’s Adversaries’

9/13/2006 - The Media vs. The War on Terror

9/6/2006 - USA Today Leaves out Minimum Wage Earner’s Liberal Activism

August 2006

8/30/2006 - Election In The Streets

8/23/2006 - Pictures Do Lie

8/16/2006 - Reuters Caught Distributing Photos Doctored to Besmirch Israel

June 2006

6/21/2006 - Touting Military Misdeeds, Hiding Heroes

6/14/2006 - Zarqawi a Victim?

6/7/2006 - CNN Falsely Says Iraq Supports Iranian Nuclear Weapons Programs

May 2006

5/31/2006 - Stories Missed by the Media

5/24/2006 - Is Google Purging Conservative News Sites?

5/17/2006 - Troops in Iraq Say Reporters Have a ‘Vulture Syndrome’

5/10/2006 - Media Still Ignoring the Good News from Iraq

5/3/2006 - The Good News Is the Bad News Is Incomplete

April 2006

4/26/2006 - Where Credit Is Due

4/19/2006 - CBS Weatherman From Baghdad: Iraq Better Than the Headlines

4/12/2006 - I just can’t take it anymore…

4/5/2006 - Column of the Day: Michael Barone

March 2006

3/29/2006 - NYT: Osama bin Who?

3/22/2006 - Covering Saddam’s Shenanigans, Not His Crimes

3/15/2006 - Torturing the News

3/8/2006 - Troop Desertions Rise and Decline According to USA Today

3/1/2006 - Newspaper Publisher Tears into CBS for Altering Its Frontpage

February 2006

2/22/2006 - Bill Clinton Speaks Against Freedom of the Press, Media Yawn

2/15/2006 - LA Times Silent On Al Gore’s “Terrible Abuses” Remarks

2/8/2006 - Fair-Weather Free-Speech Friends

2/1/2006 - The AP’s “Martyrs”

January 2006

1/25/2006 - AP Headlines Bush Slip Of The Tongue

1/18/2006 - Photo Fakery at the New York Times

1/11/2006 - Terrorists In Saddam’s Iraq? Weekly Standard Says Yes…

1/4/2006 - Saudi Billionaire Boasts of Manipulating Fox News Coverage

December 2005

12/21/2005 - CBS’s ‘Early Show’ Presents Extremely One-Sided View of Domestic Spying

12/14/2005 - Reuters Questions Holocaust

12/7/2005 - TV’s Bad News Brigade:  ABC, CBS and NBC’s Defeatist Coverage of the War in Iraq

November 2005

11/30/2005 - Broadcast Networks, Which Led With Murtha, Ignore Lieberman

11/16/2005 - The Media and the Unhinged Marine

11/9/2005 - Deadly Toys

11/2/2005 - All the News That’s Fit to Omit

October 2005

10/26/2005 - Abortion Imbalance

10/19/2005 - ABC Passes Along Worries Saddam Hussein Won’t Get Fair Trial

10/12/2005 - Big Brother Bombs

10/5/2005 - Washington Post Insider: Colleagues “Cheer Unabashedly for the Democrats”

September 2005

9/28/2005 - Gallup: By 3-to-1 Public Sees Liberal Over Conservative News Media Bias

9/21/2005 - Washington Post Editorial Fairly Portrays Near Anarchy In Gaza, But Where Are The News Reports?

9/14/2005 - ‘Slumps’

9/7/2005 - Network Reporters Assess Rehnquist Through a Liberal Prism

August 2005

8/24/2005 - ABC’s Gibson Scolds Americans for Excessive Per Person Oil Use

8/17/2005 - Nets Falsely Cite “Record High” Gas Prices, Target Oil Profits

July 2005

7/13/2005 - Our First Presidents Were Terrorists?

June 2005

6/29/2005 - Retired General Tours Guantanamo, Tells CNN Media Portrayal Wrong

6/22/2005 - Networks Skip Durbin’s “Nazi” Rant

6/15/2005 - ABC Stresses Disapproval of Bush, But Approval Only Down 1 Point

6/8/2005 - Post Fails To Report Double Terrorist Bombing Thwarted In Jerusalem This Week

6/1/2005 - Ignoring Saddam’s Mass Graves, Covering Undies Photo ‘Outrage’

May 2005

5/25/2005 - Williams Claims Filibuster to Block Judges “Used by Both Sides”

5/18/2005 - Starr Gets Dowdified

5/11/2005 - “Jockeying” Over Judges

5/4/2005 - A Comparison of Washington Post and New York Times Coverage of Israeli Shooting…

April 2005

4/27/2005 - The Post’s Phony Poll

4/20/2005 - Couric Distorts Poll to Say Most Want “Less Conservative” Church

4/13/2005 - C-SPAN’s Shaky Balance

4/6/2005 - Global Warming Gobbledygook

March 2005

3/30/2005 - High-Bias Leads

3/23/2005 - Slanting the News Against Terri Schiavo

3/16/2005 - Jennings Takes Snide Shot Over Difficulty to Improve View of U.S.

3/9/2005 - Nets Avoid How “Italian Journalist” Works for Communist Paper

3/2/2005 - NPR Spurns Social Security “Reform” Tag, But in Clinton Years…

February 2005

2/23/2005 - Future CBS Anchor Applies Ideological Tag to Republican, Not Dem

2/16/2005 - Post Failing to Report News that Doesn’t Fit Its Agenda

2/9/2005 - Reporting Bad News Before It Happens

January 2005

1/26/2005 - Media’s Coverage Has Distorted World’s View of Iraqi Reality

1/12/2005 - USA Today Story Frets Democrats Don’t “Fight Back” in Campaigns

1/5/2005 - Deja  Vu on Education Cuts