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Human Rights Watch Founder Blasts Human Rights Watch For Anti-Israel Bias Posted: 1 month ago by 2manyusernames
Robert L. Bernstein, the former president and chief executive of Random House, was the chairman of Human Rights Watch from 1978 to 1998. Here in an op-ed piece he laments the obvious bias against Israel that HRW has long been accused of.
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Media Bias is becoming so transparent Posted: 11 months ago by 2manyusernames
The degree of bias in reporting is getting worse and worse. Don't believe me? You will after watching this video from our friends at The Onion
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Pigs Have Flown - ABC Admits Liberal Bias Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
ABC political director, Mark Halperin, went on The O’Reilly Factor and agreed with Bill O’Reilly that members of the “old media” are too liberal and should “prove to conservatives that we understand their grievances.”
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Putting Money Where Mouths Are: Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1 Posted: 1 year ago by ImNotBlue
The New York Times' refusal to publish John McCain's rebuttal to Barack Obama's Iraq op-ed may be the most glaring example of liberal media bias this journalist has ever seen. But true proof of widespread media bias requires one to follow an old journalism maxim: Follow the money...
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Censored by PBS, FOX To Air "Islam vs. Islamists" Documentary Posted: 2 years ago by ImNotBlue
[Producers Burke and Gaffney said] they made a series of changes to accommodate PBS. Ultimately, however, they concluded the problem wasn’t their film, but liberal bias at PBS.
“In the first meeting, they said to me, ‘Fire your partners.’” Burke said. “And I said ‘Why?’ They said, ‘Because they are conservatives.’”
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Reporters Say Networks Put Wars on Back Burner Posted: 1 year ago by ImNotBlue
"According to data... coverage of Iraq has been “massively scaled back this year.” Almost halfway into 2008, the 3 newscasts have shown 181 weekday minutes of Iraq coverage, compared with 1,157 minutes for all of 2007."
So is this (a) bias, (b) evidence the public has lost interest, (c) sign things are going better over there, (d) all of the above, (e) none of the above?
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Parents Show Bias In Sibling Rivalry, Says Study Posted: 2 years ago by mandolinorange
It's true, Mom loves your big brother more.
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Wage gap linked to customer bias Posted: 6 months ago by stinkobinko
Researchers have helped solve the mystery of why white men continue to earn 25 percent more than equally well-performing women and minorities. Managers and business owners must pay a premium for white male employees because customers prefer them.
*helped solve the mystery, huh?*
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Liberal Media Bias Working Overtime Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
With a headline like "Bush Motorcade Kills Cop" you would picture Bush running over some poor cop. The actual story is a motorcycle crashed his bike while riding as part of the motorcade. Must be some ultra-liberal rag right? Well, it was Time Magazine.
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Chris Matthews Admits He's In The Tank For Obama Posted: 1 year ago by ImNotBlue
"You know what?" Matthews said. "I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new Presidency work."
Before the questions and attacks begin, here's why this is important: Media bias, and a "journalist's role." Should journalists, as Matthews suggests, try to "help" the administration... or just report on it? [From HuffPo]
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Americans Slam News Media on Believability Posted: 2 years ago by ImNotBlue
"Americans know bias and imbalance when they see it and they don't like it." said Jerry C. Lindsley, director of the Sacred Heart University Polling Institute.
According to a A Sacred Heart University Poll:
The most trusted national TV news organizations, for accurate reporting: Fox News (27.0%), CNN (14.6%), and NBC News (10.90%).
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U.N. says anti-women bias costs Asia $80 billion a year Posted: 3 years ago by ReBoot
Backwards View. It isn't "costing" the government anything. They're just missing out. Big difference.
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The Certainty Bias: A Potentially Dangerous Mental Flaw Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
A neurologist explains why you shouldn't believe in political candidates that sound too sure of themselves.
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Worst Liberal Media Quotes Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
Media Research Center does an excellent job tracking liberal bias among journalists, is out with its Best Notable Quotables of 2006, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from December 2005 through November 2006
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MSNBC Newsroom Booed Bush State of the Union Posted: 2 years ago by ImNotBlue
"Joe Scarborough has pulled back the curtain on the liberal bias at MSNBC, describing an incident in which people in its newsroom ceaselessly booed President Bush during a State of the Union address."
You mean there's bias in the news media... and it's not from FOX! Well I am just... shocked.
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Political bias in the news Posted: 1 year ago by lynxears
Or, why McCain is getting hosed in the press.
"Before answering the question, indulge us in noting that the subject of ideological bias in the news media is a drag. The people who care about it typically come at the issue with scalding biases of their own. Any statement journalists make on the subject can and will be used against them. So the incentive is to make bland and guarded statements. Even honest ones, meanwhile, will tend to strike partisans as evasive or self-delusional."
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Net users see mainstream media as biased Posted: 2 years ago by hisidea
As many as 38% of those who rely mostly on the internet for news say they have an unfavorable opinion of cable news networks such as CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, compared with 25% of the public overall.
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McCain Goes After L.A. Times On PLO Spokesman Video Posted: 1 year ago by ImNotBlue
John McCain's latest crusade against the elite media targets the Los Angeles Times, which is refusing to release a videotape that the Republican presidential candidate says could show Democratic rival Barack Obama making pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel statements.
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Obama Love Fest: NBC Reporter Admits Objectivity Difficult Amid Candidate Fervor Posted: 2 years ago by ImNotBlue
"From the reporter's point of view, it's almost hard to remain objective because it's infectious energy. It sort of goes against your core to say that as a reporter."
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CBS News Publishes "Crackpot Global Warming" / Earthquake Story Posted: 1 year ago by ImNotBlue
"Yesterday I posted a story from CBS News: Quake n’ Bake: Global Warming Causes More Energetic Earthquakes?
"This drew a lot of attention because of the total lack of verifiable science associated with it. I posted some graphs of USGS data showing that the opposite was true, that recent earthquake energy was actually less that in the early 1900’s..."
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