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December 19
Nets Neuter Newt, Puff and Enrich Hillary
CBS News Demanded Gingrich Scuttle His Book Deal, But CBS Made Book Deal with Sen. Hillary

December 14
ABC "Sets The Table" For Bush With Jesse Jackson Conspiracy Theories 
GIBSON: NO HONEYMOON FOR RACIST REPUBLICANS

December 13
ABC: "The Loser Might Be the Rule of Law" 
After Anti-Gore Ruling, Reporters Challenge U.S. Supreme Court's Stature, Judgment and Objectivity

December 11
In Lockstep, Reporters Flay Supreme Court Stay 
Florida Supreme Court Ruling Was Great, But U.S. Supreme Court Made a Damaging Partisan Move

December 7
Jack Ford Finds It "Difficult" To See Politics In Florida Supremes 
ABC STILL SELLING FLORIDA COURT AS PACK OF MODERATES

December 1
Bill Maher Jokes That America Hoped O.J. Killed Katherine Harris 
ABC PAYS FOR THIS, AND NBC'S TODAY THINKS IT'S FUNNY

November 30
Charles Gibson Trusts Bob Beckel And Al Gore, But Jeb Bush? Forget It 
ABC HOST SUGGESTS ONLY REPUBLICANS ARE POSEURS

November 29
Networks Stumped: Is Al Gore More Like A Military Hero Or Teen Crush? 
MSNBC'S BANFIELD IS EXCITED BY ALL-DEMOCRAT PHONE FEST

November 29
Patience Is A Very Partisan Thing 
Network Stars Wanted the Impeachment Trial Cut Short, Hammered GOP for "Lengthening the Process"

November 28
Newsweek's Fineman Admits The Media Are Coddling Loser Gore 
"THE ATTACKS ON BUSH WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY VICIOUS"

November 27
Bush Wins? Not As Democrat Dan Rather Sees It 
CBS Anchor Suggests Florida's Partisan Secretary of State is Far from the Final Nail in Al Gore's Coffin

November 22
ABC’s Diane Sawyer Can't Spot Non-Votes, But Praises Those Who Can 
FLORIDA DIMPLE-SPOTTERS ARE DOING "PHENOMENAL WORK"

November 14
Networks Don’t Pass "Smell Test" on Partisans 
Media Are Hostile to Florida Official's Decision to Abide By Statutory Vote-Counting Deadline

November 13
Media Talking Heads' Pro-Gore Weekend Line 
Liberal Pundits: Gore Won Florida; Republicans Who Complain Are Hypocrites; Karl Rove Is a Liar

November 10
No Media Skepticism of Fla. Ballot Challengers 
So Far, National Reporters Haven't Examined the Background of Palm Beach Trio Suing For a Re-Vote

November 8
Jonathan Alter Demands Gore Presidency In Spite Of Outcome 
THE CONSTITUTION DOESN'T PLEASE ONE LIBERAL REPORTER

November 6
What If Bush Called His Opponent "Evil"? 
Vice President's Outrageous Rhetoric Is Largely Unrebuked During Campaign's Final Hours

November 3
Media Promote Last-Minute Anti-Bush Hit Job 
Despite Being Smeared With Democratic Fingerprints, Networks Hype Story of Bush's 1976 Arrest

November 2
PM Edition: TV Balances Liberals... with Ultra-Liberals 
Networks Push Gore and Nader Line on Global Warming "Threat," But Ignore Skeptical Scientists

November 2
Cole-Call Outrage vs. Beirut Tragedy Milking 
Hillary’s Outraged Media Supporters Don’t Extend the Same Rules of Civility to Conservative Leaders

November 1
NBC’s Slavish Social Security Spin Specialists 
Claire Shipman Applauded Effective Gore Scare Ad, But Bush’s Defense Spun As "Harsh Attack Ad"

October 31
NBC: Helping Hillary on GOP Cole Calls 
Today Co-Hosts Upset at New York Phone Calls, But Blind To Democratic Anti-Bush Calls in Michigan

October 27
Networks Talk Ads, But Ignore the NAACP’s 
ABC, CBS, NBC Air NARAL Ad for Gore; ABC, CBS Hit Ads Against Gore on Sharpton, Chinagate

October 26
Is It Civil To Suggest Bush Is a Killer? 
Media’s Willie Horton Ad Bashers Sit in Stony Silence While NAACP Ad Is Denounced by Bob Kerrey

October 24
An Educational Example of Anti-Bush Bias 
ABC & NBC Ignored July RAND Study Touting Texas, But Promoted Critical RAND Election-Eve Report

October 23
Saturday Night Live Poked Fun At One-Sided Pro-Gore Questions 
LEHRER’S TOWN HALL DEBATE SO BIASED IT INSPIRED A SKIT

October 19
Jack Kemp Ripped, Joe Lieberman Skipped 
Boston Globe, CBS, U.S. News & World Report Have Perfect Double Standard on Farrakhan Flaps

October 18
PM Edition: Do Softballs Help Sell the Master of Detail? 
CBS Picked Style Over Substance, ABC Praised Veep’s Mastery, While NBC’s Russert Forced Specifics

October 18
Lehrer Picks Pile of Liberal Questioners 
PBS Anchor Stacked the Deck for Gore With Eight Questions from the Left, and Two from the Right

October 17
Media Malpractice on Texas Health Care 
State Comptroller Not Allowed To Respond, Even Though She Was Cited As Source By Gore Backers

October 16
Holy Squish! Lieberman Goes Soft 
Veep Pick Hailed for Orthodox Morals Ignored By Networks When He Becomes Farrakhan-Praising Pol

October 12
PM Edition: ABC Pushes Bush Gaffes, Ignores Gore’s 
Networks Found No Gore Flubs Worth Pointing Out; ABC’s Jack Ford Feels the Vice President’s Pain

October 12
Lehrer Repeated Shaw’s Liberal Questions 
Why Didn’t the PBS Anchor Balance Questions from the Left with Questions from the Right?

October 11
Networks Have Yet To Question Gore's Error On Alaskan Oil 
WHY DO REPORTERS KEEP INSISTING GORE IS "THE MASTER OF THE MATERIAL"?

October 10
Right-Leaning Talkers Shock Morning TV 
ABC's Diane Sawyer Challenged Fox's Bill O'Reilly, While NBC Balanced Limbaugh with Begala

October 6
Bernard Shaw’s Left-Leaning Flaw 
CNN Anchor Hit Veep Hopefuls with Liberal Questions; Little on Lieberman's Flip-Flop Whopper

October 5
Lieberman Respects Farrakhan: No Story? 
After Eight Days, Most of the Press Still Missing, Despite Question to Clinton, Fox's Grilling of Daley

October 4
PM Edition: Tall-Tale Al Gets Ignored or Excused on TV 
Only ABC Asked About Witt, and Stephanopoulos Found "No Big, Big Lies or Grand Distortions"

October 4
ABC Wins in the Post-Debate Bias Contest 
Stephanopoulos Swooned Over Gore; ABC Gore Reporter Praised Al, Bush Reporter Dumped on W.

October 3
Stop the Church of Saint James Lehrer 
Debate Moderator Is Not Bryant Gumbel, But His Journalism Has Historically Followed the Liberal Pack

October 2
Why Can't Tim, Bob, Wolf, Tony, Sam & Cokie Invade Hillary's Space? 
IT'S OCTOBER, AND THE TOWN MEETING STAR IS MISSING...

September 29
Media Out to Lunch on Gore’s Big Gay Shift 
ABC, CBS, NBC Ignore Gore's Changing Stand for Gay "Civic Unions" In MTV/Time Youth Forum

September 28
With Pro-Gore News Like This, Why Buy Ads? 
Like the RATS Fracas, Networks Take Democratic Handouts and Build a Controversy Around Them

September 26
CBS Evening News Questions Military Opposition To Gore 
DAN RATHER RAISES SPECTER OF 3rd WORLD DICTATORSHIP

September 22
Why No Talk of Gore’s Big Oil Connection? 
Protesters of Gore's Family Ties to Occidental Petroleum Spiked While Al Bashes GOP "Big Oil Ticket"

September 21
Will TV Let Gore Get Away With Phony "Profiteering" Charges? 
REPORTERS SHOULD DEMAND TO SEE THE PROOF

September 19
Gore Drug Claim Not True. Who Cares? 
ABC, CBS and NBC Hyped "RATS," But Won't Tell Viewers About Vice President's Fictional Tales

September 15
Sawyer Proves Charge Of Pro-Gore Omissions 
STEPHANOPOULOS EXCUSE: AL GORE'S JUST "IN THE ZONE"

September 14
Zero on Gore Corruption Scoop 
TV STUCK TO HILLARY DEBATE, DOWNEY PACKAGE

September 12
Why Gore Looks Good: Omit, Omit, Omit 
Reporters Tout Democratic Momentum, but Few Report Stories That Might Ruin the Veep’s Vibe

September 7
You Don’t Want a Tax Cut, Voters Told 
FMP Analysis: No Economic Experts Quoted as Network Newscasts Portray Bush Tax Plan as a Loser

September 5
Bush Is Right: Clymer Is a Liberal Jerk 
Criticized New York Times Reporter Sought to Promote Ted Kennedy, Demote Newt Gingrich

August 31
Nixon, the Wife Abuser and Drug Addict? 
Networks Promote Anti-Nixon Author As Credible, But They Dismissed Anti-Clinton Authors

August 24 
Gore In ‘94: Clinton Hasn't Lied
THE UNBELIEVABLE INTERVIEW BEHIND THE FOILED RNC AD

August 21
Verdict First, Evidence Later on Ray "Leak" 
Dan Rather Embarrasses Himself By Claiming "Carefully Orchestrated Leak" by "Jesse Helms Wing"

August 18, Campaign 2000 
AM Edition: Gore's Speech Satisfied Network Analysts
"Al Gore Tonight Rose to the Occasion" & "He Hit a Home Run"

August 17, Campaign 2000 
AM Edition: Lieberman "Tapped Into a Spirit in the Hall"
Unlike Cheney, Speech Not Described as Delivering "Red Meat"

PM Edition: Russert Impressed By Senator "Regular Joe" 
"Liberal Night" Issues Downplayed in Favor of Nostaglia

August 16, Campaign 2000 
AM Edition: Lieberman "Too Conservative"?
"There's Not Very Much Talk About Poverty in America"

PM Edition: Kennedy Night Coverage, the Morning After 
"Liberal Night" Issues Downplayed in Favor of Nostaglia

August 15, Campaign 2000 
AM Edition: Both Parties Too Conservative for MSNBC
Liberals Probed About Concerns the Ticket Not Liberal Enough

PM Edition: Journalists Applaud "Rock Star" President 
No Questioning of Clinton's View of Self, History, and GOP

August 14, Campaign 2000  
AM Edition: Lieberman Let Off Easy Sunday Morning
Cheney Grilled on Votes, Lieberman by CBS About Cheney's Pay

PM Edition: Invisible Donna Reappears on Morning Shows
CBS Host Praises Political Ascent of "Unapologetic Liberal"

August 7
Lieberman the "Conservative Democrat"?
Does a Conservative Rating Average of 19 Percent Define the "Middle of the Road" of Politics?

August 4, Campaign 2000 
AM Edition: "Presidential" Bush Won Over Media, But...
"I'll Tell You the Surprise, I Thought It Was a Very Good Speech"

August 3, Campaign 2000 
AM Edition: Cheney's "Red Meat" Dissected
"I Thought This Was the Convention of Sweetness and Light"

PM Edition: "Nasty" Speech, "Religious Right" Assailed
Couric Amazed: "Mild-Mannered Dick Cheney. Who Knew?"

August 2, Campaign 2000 
AM Edition: "Inclusive Party"? Networks Say No
Tom Brokaw: "Isn't It About Intolerance?"

PM Edition: Lynne Cheney Called "Right-Wing Warrior"
Katie Couric Grills VP Nominee's Wife About Conservative Views

August 1, Campaign 2000 
AM Edition: Powell Appearance Used to Rebuke GOP
"Have to Think About Minorities...Not Just Every Four Years."

PM Edition: Today Skeptical of "Made-for-TV" GOP
Powell Quizzed on Mandela, Confederate Flag and Abortion

July 31, Campaign 2000 
AM Edition: Cheney Quizzed on Sunday About Past Votes
Donaldson: Should Someone Who Used Cocaine Be President?

PM Edition: "Warm and Fuzzy" With No "Red Meat"
CBS Asks How An African-American Could Support Cheney

July 26
Is Cheney Extreme Next to Gore? 
"MOST CONSERVATIVE" VS. "NOT A LIBERAL IN SIGHT"?

July 18
No Buzz About Baseless Business-Bashing 
Top Government Officials Were Told the Truth, But Preferred to Attack Big Oil for "Price Gouging"

June 30
Did Gumbel Call Guest a "F---ing Idiot"? 
In One Morning, Conservative Expert Robert Knight Gets Dissed by CBS, Cancelled by ABCNews.com

June 27
Changing the Subject to Big Oil-Bashing 
Networks Turn on Oil Companies After EPA Declared Itself Innocent on Midwestern Gas Price Hikes

June 23
Gary Graham vs. Ricky Ray Rector 
Networks Gave 30 Stories to Texas Capital Case vs. Two for 1992 Arkansas Execution

June 21
Pumping Protests, Dumping Conventions 
If Conventions Are Un-Newsworthy "Foregone Conclusions," What Was the "Million Mom March"?

June 15
Gore: "I'm Not an Expert on Computers" 
Democrat Stumbled Over Fox Question About Mysteriously Vanishing Year Of White House E-Mails

June 8
Al Gore's Tennessee "Tempest In a Toilet"? 
Veep’s Renters Go To TV Station to Force Plumbing Repairs, But Big Media Flushes Another Gore Gaffe

June 1
Little "Sleaze Factor" Coverage of Clinton 
Major Networks, News Magazines, Even Newspapers Ignore Potentially Embarrassing New Stories

May 25
Disbarment? What Disbarment? 
Most Network Morning and Evening Shows Whistled Past Effort to Revoke Clinton’s Law License

May 17
Helen Thomas, Legendary Liberal 
Long-Time UPI White House Correspondent Quits Rather Than Work for Conservative Owners

May 12
A Million Moms Need a Straight Shooter 
Why Must Organizer Donna Dees-Thomases Sell Herself As A Clueless, Unorganized Housewife?

May 11
If It Isn't Big Government, It's Risky
Media Ridicule Bush's Social Security Reform Plans, but Gore's Scheme Is Called "Conservative"

May 3
Nationaljournal.com Finds Liberal Bias
CNN Editor Denounces As "Crock" Discovery of Great Gap Between Liberal and Conservative Labeling

April 27
CNN's Dishonest Hillary "Town Meeting"
Network Failed to Tell Viewers or Web Visitors That Questioners Were Screened Before Show

April 24
Dan Rather, Stenographer to Power
CBS News Unveiled Its Compassion for Janet Reno, Fidel Castro, and Photographed INS Gunman

April 19
Skeptics Frozen Out of Warming Debate
Will Media’s Earth Day Extravaganza Include Any Dissent from the Environmental Establishment?

April 13
Relax, Elian Will Live Above Cuba’s Poor
In A Public Relations Twist, Reporters Tout the Privileges of Communist Party’s "Well-Off Stratum"

April 6
Leonardo: ABC’s Liberal Laughingstock
25-Year-Old Movie Star/Teen Idol/Earth Day Activist Hired as White House Correspondent For a Day

March 30
Legacy Enhancers and Campaign Enablers
Missing E-Mails, Tax-Funded Campaign Planes, Lavish Lisbon Living, and Man-Handling Willey Ignored

March 23
Clinton: Other Nations Lucky to Lack NRA
While Networks Deplored NRA’s "Personal" Attacks in 28 Stories, Only One Faced Clinton’s Rhetoric

March 16
Media to LaPierre: Only Conservatism Kills
Same Outlets Shocked by NRA Leader’s Clinton Quotes Routinely Let Liberals Find Malice on the Right

March 13
Big Three Black Out Anti-Gore Scoop
Internal Justice Department Memo by LaBella Hit the L.A. Times Friday, But ABC, CBS, NBC Spiked It

March 10
Bush Is "Far Right," McCain Wasn’t "Left"
STUDY: TV Evening News Couldn’t Find A Left Turn on the Republican Campaign Steering Wheel

March 2
McCain's "So-Called" Straight Talk Express
Media Favor McCain’s Sloganeering Bus Title, But Dan Rather Chokes on "Christian Coalition"

February 24
Al Gore Benefits from the McCain Frenzy
Media Suggest Bush’s S.C. Victory Tilts Him to the Far Right, But Ignore Gore’s Attention from Far Left

February 18
What Conservative Anti-McCain Ads?
Media Outlets Ignore Ads Which Underline McCain's Support for Tobacco Tax, Attacks on Pro-Lifers

February 11
Rather's Anchorman Amnesia Over Hillary
Much Like Tom Brokaw's Amnesia With Gore, CBS Anchor Cites Hillary Gaffes He Hasn't Aired

February 3
No Bounce Allowed for Forbes or Keyes
Media’s Overt Favoritism for McCain Matched by Exclusion of Conservative Top Finishers in Iowa

January 27
Little or No Interest in Gore and Marijuana
Media Leaped on Rumors of Bush Cocaine Use Without Any Accuser, But Gore Accuser Gets Little Play 

January 20
Why Should Hillary Hate the Press?
Reporters Plugged Letterman Stunt, Protested Buffalo Interview, and Downplayed Meeting with Racists

January 11
Jeffrey Toobin vs. The Right-Wing Cabal
ABC Fires Zelnick and Kristol, But Its "Objective" Legal Expert Has New "Highly Partisan" Liberal Book 

January 6
Where are Gun Rights Themes on TV?
New Two-Year MRC Study Found Pro-Gun Themes and Arguments Are Unwelcome On the Air

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