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Media Bias

The Savaging of Sarah Palin

Heather Robinson | Posted 07.08.2009 | Home

Read More: Attacks on Sarah Palin, Child Abuse, Sarah Palin Resignation, Sarah Palin, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, 2008 Campaign, Governor Sarah Palin, Media Bias, Home News
Heather Robinson

Whatever your opinions, Palin and her family were savaged in a manner that went beyond any reasonable standard.

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Iran, Al Sharpton, Sarah Palin and Myths About "Media Bias"

Rob Asghar | Posted 07.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jackson, Neil Postman, Al Sharpton, Media Bias, Matt Welch, Sarah Palin, Media News
Rob Asghar

When we began to receive more information than we could possibly digest, we grew able to digest only that which is tasty and entertaining -- in politics, in education, even in religion.

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Media Feeding Frenzy Cheats Viewers

Saul Segan | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jackson, News Coverage, Farah Fawcett, News Media, Ed McMahon, Iran, Media Bias, Journalism, Media News
Saul Segan

While it was understandable that Jackson's death merited considerable coverage, the disgraceful monopoly of the topic on the television screens and neglect of any other news story were not.

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CNN Praises a Dictator

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 06.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Kerry, Media, Sanjeev Bery, Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran Election, Khomeini, Bery, Media News, Shah of Iran, Mossadeq, Mohammad Mossadegh, Shah, Iran, Savak, Cnn, cnn.com, Iranian Democracy, John Kerry, Mossadegh, Cia, Operation Ajax, Media Bias, Media News
Sanjeev Bery

Somehow, CNN.com is bestowing positive coverage upon the Shah and his son without once acknowledging the repressive practices of the Shah's regime.

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Use Free Speech to Celebrate Animal Life, Not to Enjoy Their Suffering

Vamsee Juluri | Posted 04.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Earth Day 2009, Freedom of Speech, Animal Cruelty, Vegetarian, Breaking Media News, Animal Rights, Earth Day, Vegan, Free Speech, Animal Abuse, Green, Gandhi, Media, TV and Animals, Animals, Vegetarianism, Media Bias, Media News
Vamsee Juluri

Under the dizzying spell of modernity's promises and consumerism's illusions, we see animals as mere objects, either as commodities for our consumption or as blank slates for us to write our fantasies and fears upon.

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Yelling "FIRE!" in an Empty Theater

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 04.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Greg Palast, Andrew Meyer, Usc, Media News, John Ziegler, Media Bias, John Ennis, Sarah Palin, Media News
John Wellington Ennis

I encourage everyone to freely review all speech from everywhere, and then reach their own independent, informed decisions about how big of an embarrassment John Ziegler really is.

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Media Literacy 101: Of Susan Boyle, Michelle's Arms and Bo the Dog

Susan Moeller | Posted 04.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Simon Cowell, Turkey, Susan Boyle, England, Media Literacy, Youtube, Media, Media News, Bo Obama, Media Bias, Michelle Obama Fashion, American Idol, Newspapers, Media News
Susan Moeller

How do mainstream media -- on any platform -- determine what is news?

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Warning: This Tea May Cause Severe Damage to Journalistic Integrity

Karl Frisch | Posted 04.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Tax Day Tea Party, Bill Shine, Greta Van Susteren, Media Matters, Sean Hannity, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto, Media, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Media Bias, Fox News Channel, Media News
Karl Frisch

Organizers of these tea-party protests have no bigger cheerleader (or crowd-builder, for that matter) than Fox News, which has provided attendance and organizing information for the events on air and online dozens of times.

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Bias in black and white

Yoav Sivan | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

Read More: El Mundo, Anti-Semitism, Newspapers, Ethics in Journalism, Zapatero, Media Criticism, Spain, Europe, Israel, Antisemitism, Media Bias, Journalism, El Pais, World News
Yoav Sivan

Imagine that Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero relied exclusively for his knowledge of Middle East affairs on El Pais, his country's...

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Study Finds Bias in 2008 Campaign -- Among Men Only

Ari Melber | Posted 03.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Yochai Benkler, Puma, Gender Bias, Male Bias, Clinton, Bias, Harvard Study, Obama, Media Bias, Politics News
Ari Melber

A new Harvard study reports that male voters displayed "in-group" bias for people who shared their candidate preference in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary, while women voters did not.

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The Media's "Buy-Us" Bias - The Power of "Concentrated Attractors" in the Media and the Market

Bill Shireman | Posted 03.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Consumerism, Conservative Media Bias, Corporate Responsibility, Corporations, Sustainable Food, Liberal Media Bias, Freedom, Sustainability, Sustainable Energy, Media, Free Market, Conscious Consumerism, Corporate Greed, Media Bias, Green News
Bill Shireman

The media has a liberal bias, argue angry conservative talk show hosts, from their high-paid perches atop the nation's leading media companies. Or, t...

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Meet The Real Press

Stu Kreisman | Posted 03.13.2009 | Media

Read More: Bob Woodward, Karl Rove, Meet the Press, Andrea Mitchell, Jon Stewart, George Tenet, David Gregory, Media Criticism, Paul Bremer, The Daily Show, Media Bias, David Letterman, Jim Cramer, Tim Russert, Media News
Stu Kreisman

The fourth estate has abdicated its responsibilities to Stewart, Letterman, Olbermann, Maddow, Campbell Brown and the bloggers on the internet.

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The Monkey's Pawn: Monkey Misery Outshines Human Misery in Louisiana's Delta

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 03.11.2009 | Media

Read More: New Orleans, Animal Rights, Human Rights, Louisiana, Rural Poor, Fema, Mary Landrieu, Hurricane Recovery, Media Bias, Congo, Media News
Georgianne Nienaber

While the NYT signals that all is well in Congo because the mountain gorilla is well fed, a woman places her newborn baby on a tattered piece of cloth covering a bed of grass on lava rock.

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Jane Brody, Wrong on Nutrition

Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 03.03.2009 | Style

Read More: American Dietetic Association, American Diet, The New York Times, Jane Brody, New York Times, NY Times, Diet, Media Bias, Style News
Dr. Jonny Bowden

I have a love / hate relationship with the New York Times. On the one hand, there's David Brooks and Gail Collins. On the other hand, there's Jane ...

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How Big Media Misses the Biggest Stories and Some More Stories They Will Miss

Gary Shapiro | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, National Debt, Economic Stimulus Package, Federal Budget Deficit, Bailout, Big Media, Economic Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Obama Administration, Future Generations, Media Coverage of the War, Media Bias, Gary Shapiro, Media News
Gary Shapiro

We are in trouble unless we have an honest inquiry and discussion on the big issues of our time -- and they all come down to money and priorities.

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Down for the Count: The Real Fight for 2012

Karl Frisch | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Supreme Court, White House, Msnbc, Census Bureau, Morning Joe, President Obama, Media, Democratic Party, Obama White House, Joe Scarborough, Mike Huckabee, US Census Bureau, American Statistical Association, Republican Party, Judd Gregg Withdrawal, Bill Clinton, US Supreme Court, Obama Judd Gregg, Washington Times, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Mitt Romney, Sun Myung Moon, Democrats, Palin 2012, Barack Obama, Clinton Administration, Chris Matthews, Judd Gregg Commerce, Mainstream Media, 2010 Census, Census, Hardball, Rahm Emanuel, Judd Gregg Withdraws, Sarah Palin, Department of Commerce, Judd Gregg, Media News, Media Bias, Ben LaBolt, Republicans, Media News
Karl Frisch

The fight over the 2010 census, which will ultimately dictate how congressional districts are drawn in 2012 and potentially influence party control of Congress for years to come, has already started.

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The Three R's: Roland, Racism and Resignation

Hermene Hartman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Roland Burris, Racism, Roland Burris Senate, Roland Burris Senate Appointment, Media Bias, Chicago News
Hermene Hartman

The Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune editorials have called for the resignation of Senator Roland Burris. I oppose their position. I should hope fr...

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Newsmax's Stimulus Falsehoods

Terry Krepel | Posted 02.20.2009 | Media

Read More: David Patten, Ronald Kessler, Newsmax, Barack Obama, Newsmax Bias, Right Wing Media, Economic Stimulus Package, Conservative Media Bias, Stimulus, Media Bias, Media News
Terry Krepel

Newsmax began attacking Obama long before his presidential inauguration, and has since moved to repeating misleading claims and telling outright falsehoods about Obama and the stimulus.

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It Takes a Nation of Cowards to Prove Eric Holder Right

Rinku Sen | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Obama Controversy, Eric Holder Speech, Eric Holder Attorney General, Eric Holder Obama, Racial Equity, Racial Disparities, Nation of Cowards, Department of Justice, Media, Race, Media Bias, Eric Holder, Obama Administration, Black History Month, Politics News
Rinku Sen

Apparently, there's only room for one black man at the highest levels of government taking the nation to task on race.

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Jonah Goldberg Is Still a God-Awful Media Critic

Eric Boehlert | Posted 02.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Media Matters for America, Jonah Goldberg, Media Bias, Nro, President Obama, Media News
Eric Boehlert

It's telling that Goldberg never addressed the fact that I called him out for concocting a story about how Obama allegedly "walked into an Oval Office window."

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Asian Women: Rape And Hate Crimes

Jaemin Kim | Posted 02.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Gawker Media, Ethnicity, Chinese, White People, Michael Phelps, Gawker.com, Videogames, Anime, Sexism, Dating, Defamer, Racism, Racial Stereotypes, African Americans, Korean, Rape, Rachel Getting Married, Gawker, Asian Americans, Washington State, Los Angeles, Sexuality, Black People, Stereotypes, Spokane, Asians, Japanese, Nerds, Hate Crimes, Violence Against Women, Prejudice, Legal, Prosecution, Justice, Bigotry, Interracial Dating, Sexual Violence, Interracial Relationships, Fetish, Sexual Assault, Laws, Asian Women, Bias Crime, Living News, Women, Asian Fetish, Caucasians, Sex Crimes, Salon.com, Media Responsibility, Media Bias, Living News
Jaemin Kim

Reducing Asian women into a sexual object is not funny, it is not flattering. It is perilous. We can see this when Asian women are subject to race-targeted sexual violence.

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Why Did the BBC Censor a Cry to Help Gaza Victims?

Erik Ose | Posted 01.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Uk, Bbc Charity Appeal, Dec, Bbc, Gaza Charity Appeal, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestinian Territories, Israel Gaza, Hamas, Israel Gaza Raid, Media News, Bbc Air Gaza Plea, Sky News, Gaza, Media Bias, Middle East, Mark Thompson, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Rupert Murdoch, Gaza Strip, Censorship, Israeli Gaza Operation, Israel, Media News
Erik Ose

The BBC has let down its worldwide viewership by refusing to broadcast this charity appeal to help Palestinian victims of the violence.

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Bernard Goldberg's "Bias" Against the Facts

Karl Frisch | Posted 01.28.2009 | Media

Read More: 2008 Elections, Regnery Publishing, CBS Early Show, Liberal Media, John McCain, Rush Limbaugh, Media Matters for America, Media, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama 2008, Media Matters, Tom Brokaw, The Charlie Rose Show, Liberal Bias, 2008 Presidential Race, Jeff Glor, New York Times, 2008 Campaign, Media News, Election 2008, Bernard Goldberg, Media Bias, Charlie Rose, Obama, 2008 Eletion, Sacha Baron Cohen, Media News
Karl Frisch

Just shy of a week after Obama took the oath of office, there's a new tome out by Bernard Goldberg that seeks to trash the supposedly liberal "mainstream media" for being in the tank for Obama.

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White House Press Corps Quick to Show Republican Slant

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Scott Reed, President Barack Obamam, Executive Orders, Press Bias, Media Bias, New York Times, Obama Administration, Conservatives and Obama, Newt Gingrich, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Eric Cantor, Republican, White House Press Corps, Criticism of Obama, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

Republicans who while in power drove the country into ruin and lost two elections, are now the primary sources for the White House press corps to judge the "success" or "failure" of the new president? Wow!

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Media, Propaganda and the Gaza Conflict

Nancy Snow | Posted 01.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Public Diplomacy, Israel, Gaza, Media Bias, Global Public Diplomacy, Propaganda, Politics, Day Five, First 100, Media News
Nancy Snow

I wonder which media today are completely unbiased? You have to search for the truth among varied media sources and always question what you know to be true.

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