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• On at least 15 occasions on May 8, Fox News promoted notion that McCain is reluctant to discuss his POW experience
  Friday, May 9, 2008
• Blitzer failed to challenge Romney's suggestion that he had not attacked McCain's lack of accomplishment "in the world of business"
  Friday, May 9, 2008
• Reuters reported McCain attack on Obama on campaign finance, did not mention that McCain may be breaking campaign finance laws
  Friday, May 9, 2008
• 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"
  Friday, May 9, 2008
• WSJ uncritically reported McCain's accusation that Obama raised age issue, ignoring Obama's actual charge about negative campaigning
  Friday, May 9, 2008
• Wash. Times issues correction for uncritically quoting Indiana man calling Obama a Muslim
  Friday, May 9, 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
  Thursday, May 8, 2008
• On Fox News, Williams cited McCain's immigration record as evidence of "working across party lines," but not his abandonment of bipartisan position
  Thursday, May 8, 2008
• Matthews offers walk-and-chew-gum explanation for why media don't adequately cover McCain
  Thursday, May 8, 2008
• Fox News' MacCallum allowed GOP strategist to falsely claim Obama is "pushing for this global tax that would require America to pay tax to the U.N."
  Thursday, May 8, 2008
• Ignoring his numerous falsehoods, Detroit Free Press reported that at a town hall meeting, "[a]s usual, McCain was candid"
  Thursday, May 8, 2008
• NBC's Curry did not challenge Cindy McCain on claim that "[m]y husband is absolutely opposed to any negative campaigning at all"
  Thursday, May 8, 2008
• Dick Morris: Election hinges on whether "we believe" Obama is "sort of a sleeper agent who really doesn't believe in our system"
  Thursday, May 8, 2008
• More media outlets quoted Indiana man saying Obama is "a Muslim" without noting the assertion is false
  Thursday, May 8, 2008
• Will falsely claimed Clinton became Yankee fan "retroactively"
  Thursday, May 8, 2008
• Las Vegas Review-Journal praised McCain for not backing off "bold position" on MN bridge collapse -- but he reportedly did back off
  Wednesday, May 7, 2008
• CNN hosts Republican creator of racially charged ad to falsely suggest link between 9-11 and Iraq
  Wednesday, May 7, 2008
• Reuters failed to note Bush withdrew renomination of FEC chair who asserted McCain needs FEC permission to leave public financing system
  Wednesday, May 7, 2008
• Russert noted media's lack of scrutiny of McCain over Hagee, other issues, but not Russert's own McCain "grace period" on Hagee
  Wednesday, May 7, 2008
• Wash. Times quoted Indiana man saying Obama is "a Muslim" without noting the assertion is false
  Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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