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Bias by Omission
Unmasking Mask Hypocrisy at the New York Times and Time Magazine
May 23rd, 2020 1:50 PM
New York Times reporter Annie Karni followed President Trump on a tour of a Ford plant in Michigan and adopted a judgmental tone in her Friday story when Trump refused to wear a protective face mask in front of reporters. The paper also went after Mike Pence for his mask faux pas at the Mayo Clinic. But just how consistent has the New York Times and other print outlets been in moralizing over the…
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Nets Skip Church Burned for Opening, Whine Trump Didn’t Wear Mask
May 21st, 2020 9:09 PM
Showing their discontent for religious liberty and penchant for just being petty, the Thursday evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC refused to cover a Mississippi church burned to the ground Wednesday in an act of arson because they had sued to stay open. Instead, all three of them threw a hissy fit because President Trump wasn’t wearing a mask for part of his visit to a Ford factory, which was…
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Cuomo Thumbs Nose at Accountability for Gov. Brother, Plays With Swabs
May 20th, 2020 11:43 PM
CNN has been flouting journalistic ethics for weeks now as they allowed Chris “Fredo” Cuomo to interview his Democratic brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo almost weekly. Things came to a disgusting head during Wednesday’s edition of Cuomo PrimeTime when Chris thumbed his nose at bipartisan calls to investigate his brother’s disastrous mishandling of the outbreak in his state. Instead, he…
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Nets Skip Bipartisan Calls to Probe Why NY Put COVID in Nursing Homes
May 20th, 2020 9:05 PM
NBC Nightly News may have been the lone network to dare report on how Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had forced nursing homes to take in COVID patients (and then deny them access to the state’s supply of personal protective equipment) last week, but come Wednesday, they were just as silent as ABC’s World News Tonight and CBS Evening News on reporting on calls to appoint outside counsel…
NPR Media Reporter Hails $4.7M Donation to NPR from Major DNC Donor
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May 20th, 2020 4:36 PM
If there was ever a reason to defund liberal National Public Radio (NPR) from its taxpayer cash flows, this latest news surely makes a strong case. NPR’s Media Correspondent, Host and Editor David Folkenflik published a glowing piece heralding how a “pair of philanthropists” Eric Schmidt (former Google CEO) and wife Wendy Schmidt are “seeking to promote more local coverage from public radio with…
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ABC, NBC Fume Over Trump’s Medication, Boost Pelosi Calling Him Fat
May 19th, 2020 9:29 PM
For the second day in a row, the liberal media were obsessed with President Trump’s decision to start taking hydroxychloroquine to possibly prevent coronavirus as a medication he obtained with a prescription from his doctor. Tuesday’s evening newscasts saw ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News continued their meltdown from the previous night, with the later boosting Speaker Nancy Pelosi (…
NYT Enthuses Over 'Occupy Democrats': Immigrant Twins vs Trump Machine
May 19th, 2020 4:09 PM
New York Times reporter Nick Corasaniti celebrated the creators of the Facebook page Occupy Democrats in a big profile on Tuesday, “Immigrant Twin Brothers Battle Trump Machine on Facebook.” It was a friendly chat: "Meet Rafael and Omar Rivero, the co-founders of Occupy Democrats, the social media mavens of the left who are quickly emerging as a counterweight to the dominance of right-wing online…
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Spanish Nets Covered Bad April Jobs Report 8X More Than Record Lows
Latino
May 19th, 2020 9:00 AM
MRC Latino’s most recent study shows the extent to which the nation’s most widely-viewed Spanish-language newscasts neglected covering the Hispanic jobs boom, while giving more than ample time to the historic jobs collapse due to the coronavirus pandemic, as reflected in the April 2020 unemployment report.
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Nets Meltdown After Trump Says He Takes Hydroxychloroquine
May 18th, 2020 9:32 PM
Even though the FDA says the use of Hydroxychloroquine was up to a patient and their doctor, Monday’s evening newscasts saw ABC, CBS, and NBC clutch their pearls after President Trump admitted he’s been taking the anti-Malaria drug for several days to prevent catching coronavirus. Acting as though he was self-medicating and not telling viewers that the drug needed a prescription to obtain it,…
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Stephanopoulos Gets SCHOOLED on Administration’s Early COVID Response
May 17th, 2020 1:34 PM
In a feisty appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro, who has proudly described himself as a national quartermaster during the pandemic, took ABC chief anchor and Clinton lackey George Stephanopoulos to school on how the Tump administration had responded in the early days of the pandemic. At one point, Stephanopoulos even seemed to concede that the facts…
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MSNBC Asks Biden What Day 1 of Presidency Will Be Like, Pardon Trump?
May 15th, 2020 12:56 AM
In an effort to aid presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden in his struggle to campaign during the coronavirus crisis, MSNBC’s The Last Word hosted an hour-long interview/town hall special featuring the former Vice President and Stacey Abrams, who's been obsessive in her desire to be his running mate. Among the softball questions, slow-pitched to Biden was whether or not he would commit to not…
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Cognitive Dissonance: Nets Cause Unease With Conflicting COVID Reports
May 14th, 2020 9:48 PM
What makes a crisis, such as the one we’re all living through, worse is when the public gets mixed and/or conflicting messages about what to expect. This causes confusion and anxiety. And that’s exactly what the broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC have been creating with the cognitive dissonance plaguing their evening news reports, which reach millions of people.
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Nets Ignore Radical Provisions in Dems' $3 Trillion Stimulus Package
May 14th, 2020 9:33 PM
All three of the morning news shows on the alphabet soup networks mentioned that House Democrats had unveiled a $3 trillion stimulus package that included economic relief for Americans facing economic hardship because of Coronavirus. All three reports made sure to mention that President Trump and/or the Republicans had vowed to block the bill. None of the reporters mentioned that radical…
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While His Brother Put COVID in Nursing Homes, Cuomo Smeared Florida
May 14th, 2020 12:20 AM
We now know that Democratic New York Governor Andrew Cuomo had been packing coronavirus patients into nursing homes for weeks, possibly killing untold numbers of people. But while he was doing that, his CNN host little brother, Chris “Fredo” Cuomo was lashing out at Florida and Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, suggesting they didn’t care about the lives of non-residents. Now, we know that New…
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