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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

• Military analysts named in Times exposé appeared or were quoted more than 4,500 times on broadcast nets, cables, NPR

Monday, May 12, 2008

• Fox's Hemmer failed to challenge GOP strategist's false and misleading statements about Obama and flag, flag pin, Senate record

• Imus corrected Dietl's slur against Arabs: "It's, uh, 'camel humpers' "

• Russert told Harwood, "Speak for yourself," on the media as McCain's "base" -- but Russert's colleague Matthews has said it too

• Previewing McCain's environment speech, Reuters did not mention his voting record or include criticisms of his positions

• Drudge highlighted Financial Times quote echoing false rumor about Obama's religion

Sunday, May 11, 2008

• WSJ's Henninger called Cindy McCain's refusal to release tax returns "a fairly marginal issue," but WSJ urged Heinz Kerry to release hers

Friday, May 9, 2008

• "Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser

• On at least 15 occasions on May 8, Fox News promoted notion that McCain is reluctant to discuss his POW experience

• Fox's Baier misrepresented Gore's comments about Myanmar cyclone

• Blitzer failed to challenge Romney's suggestion that he had not attacked McCain's lack of accomplishment "in the world of business"

• CNN military analyst Shepperd on trip to Gitmo: "Did we drink the government kool-aid? -- of course"

• Reuters reported McCain attack on Obama on campaign finance, did not mention that McCain may be breaking campaign finance laws

• Fox News' Banderas ignored McCain's smear of Obama, while repeating McCain's charge that Obama was making "a dig at John McCain's age"

• WSJ uncritically reported McCain's accusation that Obama raised age issue, ignoring Obama's actual charge about negative campaigning

• CNN's Blitzer, on-screen text misled on cost of housing bill

• Wash. Times issues correction for uncritically quoting Indiana man calling Obama a Muslim

Thursday, May 8, 2008

• Discussing Cindy McCain's tax returns, NBC's Curry did not note effect on John McCain of wife's fortune or benefit to Cindy of tax cuts her husband now supports

• On Fox News, Williams cited McCain's immigration record as evidence of "working across party lines," but not his abandonment of bipartisan position

• Fox News' Cavuto, on-air graphic misrepresented projected cost of housing bill

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Monday, May 12, 2008

• Russert told Harwood, "Speak for yourself," on the media as McCain's "base" -- but Russert's colleague Matthews has said it too

Thursday, May 8, 2008

• Matthews offers walk-and-chew-gum explanation for why media don't adequately cover McCain

Friday, May 2, 2008

• Commentary blog post on Obama: "He's still on fruit juice while the adults are sipping bitter and bracing coffee"

• Airing Maddow clips, Gibson referred to "island of Lesbos" and played clip of voice saying, "Ooh, lesbians. Yummy"

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

• Olbermann named NPR's Rudin "Worst Person" for comparing Clinton to Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction

Monday, April 21, 2008

• Rudov called himself a "feminist" on Your World, ridiculed study on housework as product of a "gyno-versit[y]" on O'Reilly

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

• McCain: "I'm very pleased with the relationship that I've had with the media over many years"

Friday, April 11, 2008

• Saying he was cited by "Media Morons," Boortz again smears Mexicans: "[A]ny Mexican worth his salt would be able to" operate a floor buffer "without getting hurt"

• On O'Reilly Factor, Rudov asserted: "Girls just love to expose themselves"

• On Hardball, Matthews and Shuster critiqued Obama's "weird" beverage selection at Indiana diner

Thursday, April 10, 2008

• Boortz's commentary on his inability to use a floor buffer: "I would make a lousy Mexican"

• NY Times' Gail Collins: Obama "can be disturbingly Ivy League"

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

• Morning Joe panelists "sick[ened]" by story of pregnant transgender man

Saturday, April 5, 2008

• On Tim Russert, Hitchens asserted Clinton's actions made her look "sort of alternately soppy and bitchy"
  

Friday, April 4, 2008

• O'Reilly on transgender man's pregnancy: "[I]magine a poor kid getting born into that family"

• O'Reilly apparently still not relaxing "on all this gay stuff"

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

• Limbaugh: "[A] lot of these feminists and women ... think they're owed" a Clinton win; "they've had two or three abortions"

• Newsweek's Bailey referred to Clinton's emotional NH moment as her "most famous moment of trying to be like an average human being"

Friday, March 28, 2008

• Marc Rudov on O'Reilly Factor: "Men are depressed ... because men are allowing women to take over the world"

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

• On Fox News, Sabato equated Democrats to "mommy," Republicans to "daddy"

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• Military analysts named in Times exposé appeared or were quoted more than 4,500 times on broadcast nets, cables, NPR

• Imus corrected Dietl's slur against Arabs: "It's, uh, 'camel humpers' "

• Fox's Hemmer failed to challenge GOP strategist's false and misleading statements about Obama and flag, flag pin, Senate record

• O'Reilly threatens caller for mentioning another talk show. What's next?

• Russert told Harwood, "Speak for yourself," on the media as McCain's "base" -- but Russert's colleague Matthews has said it too

• Four-Star Elephant in the (News)room

• Drudge highlighted Financial Times quote echoing false rumor about Obama's religion

• NBC News' bad week: Russert, Williams, and Huffington

• O'Reilly threatened radio show caller with "a little visit" from "Fox security" for mentioning Olbermann's name on the air

• NBC's Curry did not challenge Cindy McCain on claim that "[m]y husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all"

• So now the press tells candidates when to quit?

• CNN's Sanchez: O'Reilly "screamed at the top of his lungs for a very long period of time"

• Drudge on Foley: "This wasn't coerced," "the kid was having fun with this"

• WSJ's Henninger called Cindy McCain's refusal to release tax returns "a fairly marginal issue," but WSJ urged Heinz Kerry to release hers

• Multiple choice: Of the following, which outlet covered two recent major national security stories -- NBC, CBS, NPR, PBS, or ... Comedy Central?

• The media's "elitist" cookbook

• "Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser

• O'Reilly: No escaping "the similarities between what Hitler ... did back then and the hate-filled blogs, what they're doing"

• CNN military analyst Shepperd on trip to Gitmo: "Did we drink the government kool-aid? -- of course"

• Previewing McCain's environment speech, Reuters did not mention his voting record or include criticisms of his positions

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September 2007

• Black and White and Re(a)d All Over: The Conservative Advantage in Syndicated Op-Ed Columns

June 2007

• The Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America Is a Myth

May 2007

• Left Behind: The Skewed Representation of Religion in Major News Media

May 2007

• Sunday Shutout: The Lack of Gender & Ethnic Diversity on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows

May 2007

• Locked Out: The Lack of Gender and Ethnic Diversity on Cable News Continues

March 2007

• If It's Sunday, It's Still Conservative Special Report: How the Right Continues to Dominate the Sunday Talk Shows

February 2006

• If It's Sunday, It's Conservative: An analysis of the Sunday talk show guests on ABC, CBS, and NBC, 1997 - 2005

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