Media Bias

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Is Palin Afraid to Talk to the Press?

Caroline Presno | Posted 09.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democracy, Clinton, Free Press, Tom Brokaw, Media Bias, Katie Couric, Republicans, Chris Matthews, Sarah Palin, Wolf Blitzer, Campbell Brown, Politics News

For a group that wraps itself in patriotism, the extreme Right is certainly being unpatriotic about one of the cornerstones of democracy--the free press.

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Two White Guys "At the Movies"

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 09.09.2008 | Chicago

It's 2008 and some black dude is running for president, but the movie review show based in Chicago - which has one of the largest black and Latino populations in America--couldn't find one single movie writer, reviewer, or blogger "of color" to fill one of the seats?

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SpinSpotter: Website Claims It Can Sniff Out Spin In News Stories

Business Week | Jon Fine | Posted 09.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Spinspotter Media Bias, Media Bias Website, Media Bias, Spinspotter, Media News

In a development that could titillate political partisans of all stripes, a new Web application promising to spot bias in news stories will launch on ...

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Beating the Press -- Literally

Rory O'Connor | Posted 09.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Mainstream Media, Mccain, Republican Convention, Palin, Media Bias, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Change, John McCain 2008, Media News

Only in America could a man who is a longtime Republican stalwart run against his own party, which has governed while controlling most of the institutional levers of power.

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The Incredible Lightness of Being Sarah Palin

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 09.04.2008 | Media

Read More: ABC News Now, Michelle Obama, Gov. Palin, John McCain, Joe Cutbirth, Swift Boat, 2008 Vice Presidential Debates, Pitbull in Lipstick, Mccain, Karl Rove and Sarah Palin, Obama-Biden, Joe Biden, Vice Presidential Nominees, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Mccain-Palin, Cutbirth, Pitbull, Biden and Palin, Palin, Hillary Clinton, 2008 GOP Convention, Clinton Women, Steve Schmidt, Palin and Obama, Media Bias, Palin and Executive Experience, Wingnuts, Incredible Lightness, Media News

Palin will throw mud with impunity, then in the tradition of Agnew, Dole and Quayle yell "double standard" and "bias reporting" when she is called on it.

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Palin & GOP Attack Media: A Look at The Playbook

Josh Silver | Posted 09.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Media Coverage, John McCain, Media, Media Bias, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Sarah Palin, Media News

In the absence of a legitimate argument, and in the presence of half-truths and outright lies, McCain operatives are fiercely attacking news outlets that ask tough questions and dig up the truth.

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Play TV Talking Heads Rope-A-Dope Poker

William Klein | Posted 08.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Democratic Convention, Cnbc, Cnn, Obama, Political Satire, Cable News, Mika Brzezinski, Wolf Blitzer, Media Bias, Campbell Brown, Dnc, Convention Coverage, Media News

The networks' convention coverage can be so mind-numbingly tedious that viewers are concocting their own strategies for staying awake.

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The Game Is Over--The Media and Rick Warren Can't Protect McCain Anymore

Larry Gellman | Posted 08.23.2008 | Politics

When it comes to Barack Obama, the news media does its job with a vengeance. When Obama goes to Germany and draws a crowd of 200,000 they ask if he's ...

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Media Research Center Lies Exposed about Obama and the Press

John K. Wilson | Posted 08.20.2008 | Home

Read More: Howard Kurtz, John McCain, 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Media Research Center, Media Bias, Home News

When seriously evaluated, the data arguing that Obama gets "awfully good media coverage" is just wrong -- wrong for one month by at least a factor of ten. So why do analysts keep citing this data?

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McCain In His Memoirs: "It Had Become My Ambition To Be President"

Mark Nickolas | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ambition, John McCain Hypocrisy, John McCain, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Hypocrisy, Media, Barack Obama, Media Bias, Politics News

McCain's self-confessed "ambition to be president" isn't part of any media analysis when it comes to his own attacks against Obama on the same issue.

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The Media's Problem Of "False Balance" Showing Itself In Electoral Map Analyses

Mark Nickolas | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

What is particularly noteworthy is where the media bias lies: it's a clear willingness to give John McCain (R) the benefit of the doubt, but not Barack Obama (D).

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Markos, John, & Elizabeth: How Daily Kos Keeps Swallowing The Kool-Aid

Lee Stranahan | Posted 08.12.2008 | Media

Read More: John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, Liberal Blogosphere, Markous Moulitsas Newsweek, Elizabeth Edwards, Markos Moulitsas, John Edwards, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, Rielle Hunter, Media, Media Bias, Daily Kos, Media News

I think I know why I'm still banned. Markos got this story totally wrong and his wrongness set the tone over at Daily Kos for everyone who attacked me and who continue to attack me to this day.

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Obama's Muslims and Six Degrees of Guilt by Association

Ray Hanania | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Islam, Anti-Muslim Slander, Muslims, Imam Jamal Said, Mazen Asbahi, Bridgeview Mosque, Wall Street Journal, Anti-Arab Defamation, Barack Obama, Media Bias, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

The real tragedy is that Asbahi is most likely a very decent person who is very American, opposes the Islamic terrorists and just wants to see Muslims and Arabs become more active in American politics

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Stealth Advertising: The Dangerous Sound of Media Silence

Nancy Marsden | Posted 08.08.2008 | Media

Read More: Television, Product Placement, Advertising, Regulation, Kevin Martin FCC, Public Health, Stealth Marketing, Media Bias, Media News

There's nothing philosophical about it. When a press release from 23 watchdog groups falls in the media "forest" and nobody hears it, as far as the pu...

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Popular Vote v. Electoral College (Why The Media Badly Needs A History Lesson)

Mark Nickolas | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Polls, John McCain, National Polls, Harry Truman, Michael Dukakis, Obama Popular Vote, Media Coverage, Polling Data, Media, Electoral Map, Barack Obama, National Popular Vote, Polling, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Electoral College, President Bush, Media Bias, Popular Vote, Politics News

It's painful to watch these fools -- they don't know how a five-point popular vote victory almost always translates when it comes to the only metric that matters -- the Electoral College. (Hint: landslide).

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Despite Media Narrative, Obama Leads By Over 100 Electoral Votes According To Independent Groups

Mark Nickolas | Posted 08.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, National Polls, Swing State Polls, Media Coverage, Barack Obama, Media Bias, State Polls, Bayh Obama, Politics News

With all the breathlessness over the minute movements in the irrelevant national polls, the one thing no one seems to be noticing is that the electoral map is still trending very poorly for McCain.

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Friday Talking Points [41] -- The Silly Season

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

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I have a confession to make. I actually watch the network news. Maybe I should enter into a twelve-step program or something. But I don't watch the ...

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Revolution March Blacked Out By Media

Jordan Page | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: March, Corporatism, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Media Bias, Ron Paul, Politics News

We need to be aware that we live in a country where the only individuals who are allowed to be viable candidates for president are those who fit into the picture that corporate interests.

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Beyond Sexism

Michelle Kraus | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Senator Barack Obama, Women's Rights, Gender Bias, Senator Hillary Clinton, Discrimination, Race, Religious Tolerance, Media Bias, Politics News

It is time to stop penalizing women for being smart. It is time to stop using language that reveals the deep revulsion to smart, competent women.

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The Media is Misframing Obama

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 07.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama 2008, John McCain, Media, Obama Europe, Media Bias, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Barack Obama European Trip, Barack Obama, Media News

Desperate to find some fault, the "balanced reporting" on a series of events that was clearly a major "one-sided" success, the media complained that Obama's speech in Berlin lacked specifics.

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Wailing Wall Wrong -- Could Spark New Accountability for the Media?

Michelle Kraus | Posted 07.28.2008 | Media

Read More: Media, Media Bias, Barack Obama, Media News

There is sanctity to a person's direct prayers to their G-d. If there any truth to the publication Obama's direct and private conversation at the Wailing Wall, it is just wrong.

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How Should Journalists Cover a Charismatic Candidate? When the Subjective is Objective

Drew Westen | Posted 07.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Journalists, Barack Obama Media Coverage, Barack Obama, Media Bias, Media News

Charges of bias, particularly toward a charismatic candidate like Obama, create confusion among journalists -- as a result, they often overshoot.

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New Study Shows Major Networks Tougher On Obama Than McCain

LA Times | James Rainey | Posted 07.27.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Media Bias, Barack Obama, Liberal Bias, George Mason Media Study Mccain Obama, Networks Tougher on Obama, Media News

Haters of the mainstream media reheated a bit of conventional wisdom last week. Barack Obama, they said, was getting a free ride from those insuffera...

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McCain: Whiner In Chief (the Angry Penguin Must Win!)

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: The Right, Obama, Mccain, Republicans, Media Bias, Berlin, John McCain, Politics News

Presidential contests are all about comparisons. What is different this year is that there has been a total role reversal -- the new candidate looks seasoned and the old hand looks inexperienced.

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No Love. For Anyone.

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media

Read More: John McCain, Media, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Race, Chris Matthews Barack Obama, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Media Mccain, Media Bias, Media News

The end of a media affair with a politician shouldn't be a time of mourning, anger, and despair. It is a time that should be celebrated because it means the media has regained its senses.

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