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Fox Newswatch Highlights Winner in MRC’s Online Voting for Worst Bias of 2010

FNC’s Fox Newswatch on Saturday highlighted a winner in the MRC’s online balloting, in which many NewsBusters readers took part, for the annual awards for the year’s worst reporting. "The winner...

PBS's Smiley: U.S. Christians Blow Up People "Every Day"

PBS's Tavis Smiley lectured author Ayaan Hirsi Ali that radical Muslims are not uniquely predisposed to violence. "Christians do that every single day in this country," Smiley asserted. "Do they blow up...

Bozell on 'Fox and Friends': PBS Was Right to Edit Fey's Comments

After comedienne Tina Fey's lewd criticism of Sarah Palin during her acceptance of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the MRC's Brent Bozell said PBS did the right thing in editing out her comments....

Reuters Editor Thinks Financial Regulation 'Still a Very Feudal' System

Chrystia Freeland, Reuters global editor-at-large, thinks the regulations in the Senate Financial Reform bill are still pretty loose. However, Freeland believes the regulations will be good for market...

Time's Mark Halperin: GOP Response to Oval Office Speech 'Childish' and 'Churlish'

Time Magazine's Mark Halperin maintains that Republicans are "mocking" President Obama with their "childish" response to his Oval Office speech. Rather than looking for common ground,the GOP is wishing...

PBS Host Says U.S. Christians More Violent than Radical Muslims

On his May 25 Tavis Smiley show, the host challenged persecuted author Ayaan Hirsi Ali about the idea that radical Muslims uniquely rationalize violent acts: "But Christians do that every day....People...

PBS' Tavis Smiley: Christians Blow People Up 'Every Day'

On the May 26 Tavis Smiley Show, the show's host objected to the idea that the threat of terrorism comes mainly from Islam. He bizarrely claimed that Christians blow people up "every day."

Ted Turner: Global Warming Will Make Us All "Cannibals"

Appearing on PBS's Charlie Rose, April 1, 2008, CNN founder Ted Turner predicted that global warming would kill most of humanity and "the rest of us will be cannibals."

NPR’s Totenberg: Sotomayor More Conservative than Scalia

On the July 13 edition of “Charlie Rose,” Totenberg told Charlie Rose that Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor has “a pretty conservative record.” Totenberg went on to tell Rose that Sotomayor’s...

'Video Your Vote' Is Not Neutral

Jan Tyler of Election Neutrality Now said the "Video Your Vote" project of PBS and YouTube is not neutral because PBS' statement emphasized potential complaints about voter-identification laws but not...

JP Morgan CEO on Bear Stearns Manipulation and Collapse

JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon suggests harsh penalties for those who might have intentionally caused Bear Stearns to collapse.

Quinn: Rev. Wright's Career Destroyed by Soundbites

On PBS's Charlie Rose, Washington Post writer Sally Quinn bemoaned how Obama's pastor, Jeremiah Wright, had "his career completely destroyed by three 20-second soundbites," adding: "We are still a racist...

Bill Moyers' Softball Jeremiah Wright Interview

On the April 29 "Hannity & Colmes," Media Research Center President Brent Bozell criticized Bill Moyers of PBS for a taxpayer-funded "puff piece" on Barack Obama.

Worst Business Myths, No. 6: Rolling Jeeps

No. 6 of the Business & Media Institute's "Nine Worst Business Stories." Dec. 21, 1980: "60 Minutes" reported on Jeeps' tendency to rollover. The story, which hurt sales, was based on "abnormal" research...

Moyers Gives Liberal Author Time to Bash Blackwater

PBS host Bill Moyers conducts one-sided interview devoid of objectivity with Jeremy Scahill, longtime critic of private military contractors.

Send Bush to Abu Ghraib Award Winner at 2005 DisHonors Awards

Bill Moyers Warns of GOP "Monopoly" to Turn "Radical Ideology Into the Law of the Land"

A couple of days after the 2002 midterm elections, in which Republicans held their narrow lead in the House and captured the Senate, PBS's Bill Moyers hypeventilated that, with George W. Bush in the White...

PBS Host Slams Conservative Woman: At Your Age, You're Unlikely to Be Raped

Debating gun control on PBS's To the Contrary back on May 13, 2000, shortly after the Million Mom March, conservative Linda Chavez pointed out that living in a rural area, the police could not arrive fast...