The MRC@25: The Worst Media Bias of

NewsBusters is showcasing the most egregious bias the Media Research Center has uncovered over the years — four quotes for each of the 25 years of the MRC, 100 quotes total — all leading up to our big 25th Anniversary Gala on Thursday evening. Click here for posts recounting the worst of 1988 through 2010. Today, the worst bias of 2011: Paul Krugman calls the anniversary of 9/11 “an occasion…
Rich Noyes
September 25th, 2012 8:09 AM

CBS Fails to Air Tough Questions to Obama on Negative Campaign Ads

Sunday's 60 Minutes couldn't be bothered to air Steve Kroft pursuing President Obama about "nasty and negative campaign ads under your name, or under the name of your various PACs." Obama begrudging admitted, "Do we see, sometimes, us going overboard in our campaign, or the mistakes that are made, or...areas where there's no doubt that somebody could dispute how we are presenting things? You…
Matthew Balan
September 24th, 2012 6:12 PM

ABC, NBC Punt on Latest Developments in Libya Consulate Attack; CBS Hi

On Monday, ABC's Good Morning America and NBC's Today failed to air any full reports on the continuing inquiry into the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and mentioned the issue only in passing. CBS This Morning did devote a full segment to the dispute between the State Department and CNN over their use of a Ambassador Chris Stevens' personal journal, but didn't mention…
Matthew Balan
September 24th, 2012 3:52 PM

And the Emmy-Winner is … Liberal Politics

With the November election looming, liberals are leaping at any chance to blast conservatives. And the Emmy Awards on Sept. 23 both rewarded liberal TV shows and offered Hollywood celebs a chance to slight right-wingers.
Lauren Thompson
September 24th, 2012 2:09 PM

PBS’s Moyers Gives Over $1.3 million to 4 of 6 Groups Attacking Cons

Media icon funds liberal media, but uses public television show to criticize political funding of right.
Mike Ciandella
September 24th, 2012 11:19 AM

The MRC@25: The Worst Media Bias of

NewsBusters is showcasing the most egregious bias the Media Research Center has uncovered over the years — four quotes for each of the 25 years of the MRC, 100 quotes total — all leading up to our big 25th Anniversary Gala on Thursday evening. Click here for posts recounting the worst of 1988 through 2009. Today, the worst bias of 2010: Journalists attack the Tea Party as Nazi “goons;”…
Rich Noyes
September 24th, 2012 7:59 AM

Emmy Winner Julianne Moore: 'I Feel So Validated Because Sarah Palin G

To likely no one's surprise, HBO's Sarah Palin-bashing schlockudrama "Game Change" did very well at Sunday's Emmys. Julianne Moore won for best actress in a miniseries or movie, and proceeded to celebrate by mocking her character saying, "Wow, I feel so validated because Sarah Palin gave me a big thumbs down" (video follows with commentary):
Noel Sheppard
September 24th, 2012 1:25 AM

Ex-ABC Anchor Gibson Asserts Romney Forced ‘Far To the Right’ and

Demonstrating that he would have made the same news judgments hostile to Mitt Romney as those who succeeded him at ABC News, in an address Thursday night to students at Quinnipiac University, Charles Gibson declared “the Republican Party has done Romney no favors by forcing him so far to the right that he may not be able to scramble back by November 6th,” castigated Grover Norquist’s anti-tax…
Brent Baker
September 24th, 2012 1:15 AM

Ann Coulter Discusses New Book ‘Mugged’ With NB: Racism Dead If No

Ann Coulter is an eight-time New York Times bestselling author as well as the legal correspondent for Human Events and a syndicated columnist for Universal Press Syndicate. She has been a dear friend of the Media Research Center’s for decades and is beloved by NewsBusters readers around the world. We’re very pleased to have an opportunity to discuss her new book with her entitled, “Mugged:…
NB Staff
September 24th, 2012 12:18 AM

Trifecta: Politico, WSJ and AP Report Obama Crowd in Wis. of About

Saturday, Joel Pollak at Breitbart's Big Journalism observed that President Obama is having some trouble drawing big crowds these days, and that the national press is exaggerating the turnout at his events. He specifically cited the situation this weekend where Politico and the Wall Street Journal claimed there were "18,000 people inside a 5,000-seat arena at an Obama event in Milwaukee on…
Tom Blumer
September 23rd, 2012 11:59 PM

Bay Buchanan Challenges Joe Scarborough's Conservatism Right To His Fa

Bay Buchanan, one of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's senior advisers, got into quite a heated exchange with MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday. After Scarborough took issue with Buchanan implying that she was the only conservative present on a panel filled with liberals, Buchanan replied, "You know, Joe, on this set, you appear to be one of the four" (video…
Noel Sheppard
September 23rd, 2012 5:03 PM

Chris Wallace Asks Obama Adviser 'President Has Time for Whoopi Goldbe

Fox News's Chris Wallace on Sunday asked senior Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs an absolutely delicious question about the current White House resident's schedule. During a Fox News Sunday interview, the host said, "The President has blocked out time to appear on The View on Tuesday. So, he has time for Whoopi Goldberg but he doesn’t have time for world leaders?" (video follows with…
Noel Sheppard
September 23rd, 2012 10:22 AM

CNN's Candy Crowley: I Take Advantage of the Tax Code Just Like Romney

CNN's Candy Crowley on Sunday oddly went counter to the liberal media meme concerning Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's taxes. In a State of the Union discussion on the subject with Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Crowley actually said, "It is the IRS system and he took advantage of it which I do, which I assume both of you do" (video follows with…
Noel Sheppard
September 23rd, 2012 9:44 AM

CNN Promotes Liberal Minister Who Hates Evangelical 'Islamophobia

On Twitter, James Taranto at The Wall Street Journal found a “stunning inversion” in a CNN Belief Blog post by liberal minister Brian McLaren: “At a time when U.S. embassies are being attacked and when people are getting killed over an offensive, adolescent and puerile film targeting Islam - beyond pathetic in its tawdriness – we must begin to own up to the reality of evangelical Islamaphobia […
Tim Graham
September 23rd, 2012 8:36 AM