Media Bias

How Will Hillary's Bosnia "Whopper" Play in the Media?

RJ Eskow | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics

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RJ Eskow

If you're Hillary Clinton and you've just been caught in a "whopper," the only thing to be grateful for is that it's Good Friday and people are distracted. How bad could this story be for her?

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Churchill: Another WW II Myth Along With Hiroshima

Sheldon Drobny | Posted 03.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Media Bias, History of Ww Ii, Politics News
Sheldon Drobny

I had the good fortune to be brought up in a family that lived through the 1st half of the 20th century. Unlike my baby boomer schoolmates, I was abl...

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Walter Pincus of the Post: Our Neutered Newsrooms are a Poor Example to the Rest of the World

Jay Rosen | Posted 03.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Clark Hoyt, Leonard Downie Jr, Josh Marshall, Media, Washington Post, Press, Walter Pincus, Media Bias, Home News
Jay Rosen

Reporters with depth of knowledge are capable of challenging government and getting beyond he said, she said, a tepid style of truthtelling. Neutrality valorizes a loss of footing and self-respect.

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Hillary Whines to the Refs

Cenk Uygur | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Anti-Hillary Bias, Barack Obama, Media Bias, Hillary Clinton, Mary Mapes, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Political Journalism, Liberal Bias, Superdelegates, Clinton and Saturday Night Live, Chris Matthews and Hillary Clinton, Media, Superdelegates Hillary Clinton, 2008 Election, Chris Matthews, Journalism, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

Why isn't the press reporting that Clinton can't possibly make a comeback in the remaining elections? Because they don't want to say it's over and have the wrath come down on their heads.

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Media Needs to Take More Responsibility With Regard to False Information

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 03.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mainstream Media, Social Security, Iraq War, Media, Credit Crunch, Accountability, Media Bias, Housing Crisis, Housing Bubble, Journalists, Herd Mentality, Journalism Accaountability, Political Journalism, Journalists Accountability, Journalism, Herd Mentality Journalism, Politics News
Mark Weisbrot

A herd mentality often prevails: journalists know that they will almost never get in trouble for reporting something that is wrong when everyone else is also saying it.

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Jason Linkins

Politico Says Bush "Brings Down House" At Gridiron, Is Probably Wrong

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gridiron Dinner, Media, Media Bias, George W. Bush, Politics News

Last night was the 123rd Annual Gridiron Club spring dinner, one of those inside-the-beltway events where the political media gets all cozy with the f...

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Kennedy/Obama-Nixon/Clinton

Bob Franken | Posted 03.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Media Coverage of Hillary, 2008 Election, Media Coverage of Obama, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Media Bias, Media News
Bob Franken

Given the low regard just about everyone holds for riff-raff reporters, Hillary has a good way to practice martyrdom politics. Ultimately, though, the bullying doesn't work.

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In The Paper Of Record, An Inexcusable Error

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.02.2008 | Media

Read More: New York Times, David Schuster, 2008 Elections, Jaques Steinberg, Media Bias, Hillary Clinton, Media News

It was with interest that I began reading the NYT' s Jacques Steinberg's article examining the media's meta-take on recent charges of bias in favor of...

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Media Expert Decries Campaign Coverage

AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 03.02.2008 | Politics

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DALLAS — The founder of a prestigious institute on media and politics added his voice Saturday to the chorus of complaint over perceived press b...

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Newsweek Examines The "Myth" Of Media Objectivity

Newsweek | Evan Thomas | Posted 03.01.2008 | Media

Read More: Media Objectivity, Press Bias, 2008 Elections and Press Bias, 2008 Election, Media Bias, Is the Media Biased Against Clinton, Media News

She tried to make a joke of it. At the debate in Cleveland last week, Hillary Clinton brought up a "Saturday Night Live" skit about journalists fawnin...

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Hillary Clinton May Have a Point About Media Bias

Hugh Hamilton | Posted 03.01.2008 | Media

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Hugh Hamilton

Of course there is bias, but it's only the natural bias of the wolf pack wanting to tear apart the weakest candidate. It's unfortunate that Hillary, with all her experience, can't seem but to help them.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Snl, Hillary Clinton, Saturday Night Live, Bitches Get Stuff Done, Tina Fey, Hillary Clinton and Saturday Night Live, 2008 Election, Media Bias, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Saturday Night Live hasn't been this politically relevant since Chevy Chase's Gerald Ford was tumbling over desks. Not only did Hillary mention the show during Tuesday's debate, not only did her campaign reps spend the week citing an SNL sketch showing members of the press fawning over Obama as validation of the Clinton camp's claims that the media have been unfair to Hillary, but there she was last night, yukking it up "Live from New York!" According to Time, Bill Clinton even telephoned Tina Fey to thank her; he apparently appreciated her ringing on-air endorsement of Hillary ("Bitches get stuff done!") so much he was willing to ignore her assertion that Hillary and Bill "are having exactly as much sex with each other as George Bush and Jeb Bush are." Will Bill's splenetic performance on the campaign trail this year prompt an SNL sequel: "Dick in a Ballot Box"?

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Forty Years On: Kerner and the Liberal Media

John Ridley | Posted 02.29.2008 | Media

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John Ridley

For all the areas of society in which blacks -- and by extension all minorities -- have enjoyed some measure of parity, there is one glaring and ironic omission: the very media which is so often accused of having a liberal bias.

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Media Has Large, Often Unnoticed Role In National Politics

Mark Weisbrot | Posted 02.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Democratic Primary, US Election, Media Bias, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Polls, Mainstream Media, 2008 Elections, John McCain, Hillary Clinton 2008, Nafta, John Edwards, Media, Media Narratives, Politics News
Mark Weisbrot

Obama knew how to define his candidacy within the limits of the media's constraints and still have a mass appeal.

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Silence Is Assent: What the Democratic Party Apparently Thinks of Women

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Betty Friedan, Hillary Clinton, Women's Movement, Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Media Bias, Hillary Hatred, Political Incivility, 2008 Election and Sexism, Feminism, 2008 Election, Ted Kennedy, 2008 Election and Gender, Gender, Ted Kennedy Endorses Obama, Sexism, Politics News
Kathleen Reardon

Barack isn't to blame for the nastiness against Hillary and demeaning women so men might advance. But he's hardly denounced it. Many of his supporters revel in it.

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Caught in the Middle of David Shuster's Screwup

Bill Press | Posted 02.09.2008 | Media

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Bill Press

Meet the man in the middle. MSNBC's David Shuster was suspended for a question about Chelsea Clinton he asked -- me! Did his question merit suspension? Absolutely.

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Why Are We Kidding Ourselves? All of These Candidates Are Politicians

Kathleen Reardon | Posted 01.24.2008 | Politics

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Kathleen Reardon

No matter how much people carp about Clinton, Obama, or Edwards positioning issues to detract from the competition, you can bet that they're all doing their share.

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Gay Sex Equals Death! Again! Always!

Sara Whitman | Posted 01.16.2008 | Living

Read More: Mrsa, Homosexuality, Stds, Pharmaceutical Industry, Staph Infection, Antibiotics, Homophobia, New Staph Infection, Media Bias, Media Prejudice, Gay Men Staph Infections, Living News
Sara Whitman

Whenever gay men's sex lives ends up being classified as deadly instead of focusing on the pharmaceutical industries responsibility for the growth of antibiotic resistant infections, I have to wonder why.

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False Identity of East in West

Ellaha Shaheen | Posted 01.16.2008 | Media

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Ellaha Shaheen

In the western media, Afghan women have been pictured in Burqas and with tearful eyes. What would be the common interpretation of such pictures? Definitely a tortured, helpless victim.

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Politics as Entertainment

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 01.09.2008 | Media

Read More: News Coverage, Election Coverage, Larry King, Bill O'Reilly, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, Media Bias, Tim Russert, Chris Matthews, Media News
Reese Schonfeld

Never has a symbiotic relationship between politicians and television been as obvious as in the past two weeks. News networks discovered that primaries, nominations, and elections could serve as the mother's milk of TV.

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NYT: Clinton Opens Up To Press, Obama Becomes "Cautious, Guarded"

NY Times | MARK LEIBOVICH | Posted 01.08.2008 | Politics

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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has become the open and accessible candidate -- sharing beers with reporters, taking endless questions from voters at c...

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Bill: Hillary Will Go Negative, And It's The Media's Fault

Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 01.04.2008 | Politics

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Bill Clinton voiced his abiding anger at the media's coverage of him and his wife in Durham, N.H., today, and suggested that media bias will force Cli...

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The Unethical "Entrance Polls"

David Sirota | Posted 01.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Media Bias, Iowa, Iowa Caucuses, Journalism Ethics, 2008 Election, Journalism, Ethics, Politics News
David Sirota

The media's desperation to create storylines has the very real possibility of creating self-fulfilling predictions.

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O'Reilly...New Year. Same Old Bullshit.

Steve Young | Posted 01.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Bill O'Reilly, Gallup Polls, The O'Reilly Factor, Bill O'reilly New York Times, Right Wing Media, Talking Points Memo, O'Reilly, Media Bias, Media News
Steve Young

Once again, Bill has spun - meaning, ignored the facts that would have shown Bill was actually just a crazed ideologue - just to get his audience to believe another one of his crazed ideologue lies.

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Media Insiders Shaft Biden, Richardson, Dodd, Kucinich and America

Brent Budowsky | Posted 12.30.2007 | Media

Read More: Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Media Bias, Media Insiders, Bill Richardson, Media News
Brent Budowsky

Biden, Richardson and Dodd are the political detainees of our time, the political prisoners of our democracy, treated with contempt and scorn by the elites of the political press.

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