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Moderator of VP Debate Mired in Bias Brouhaha

Ifill's book on black politics has been reported for months

Oct 2, 08 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - When the two presidential campaigns agreed that Gwen Ifill would moderate tonight's VP debate, it was already known that she was writing a book on contemporary black politics. But yesterday the right wing blogosphere erupted with claims that Ifill is biased toward the Democrats and should pull out. As the... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Joe Biden • Election 2008 • media bias • Sarah Palin • Gwen Ifill

 

  McCain Camp
  Slams 'Biased'
  NY Times


Strategist cries foul after paper reports on lobbyist links

Sep 23, 08 3:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - The McCain camp launched another attack on the media yesterday, this time blasting the New York Times as "biased" for its report linking the campaign to lobbyists for Freddie Mac and Freddie Mae. A spokesman called the Times a "pro-Obama advocacy organization" after the paper revealed that campaign... More »

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John McCain • New York Times • lobbyist • Rick Davis • media bias • Steve Schmidt

 Cindy Cries 
 'Sexism' in 
 Palin Uproar 

McCain rips media, can't recall Palin's 'whining' zinger at Clinton

Sep 3, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cindy McCain "absolutely" believes sexism is behind the media scrutiny of Sarah Palin, the beer heiress told ABC's Good Morning America, complaining that the Palin coverage is "insulting" and "outlandish." McCain, however, said she didn't remember Palin deriding Clinton's "whine about that excess criticism" as... More »

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Hillary Clinton • sexism • Good Morning America • Cindy McCain • media bias • Sarah Palin

AP Bureau Chief Considered Job With McCain

It's the 2nd accusation
of cozying up to
right wing for Fournier

Jul 30, 08 1:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ron Fournier’s objectivity is being questioned yet again, as Politico reports that the AP’s Washington bureau chief was offered a senior position in the McCain campaign before returning to the wire service in March 2007. Fournier’s political leanings have been a hot topic lately, since a 2004... More »

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John McCain • Karl Rove • Associated Press • McCain 2008 • media bias • Ron Fournier

OPINION

McCain Jab on War Most 'Scurrilous' in Memory: Klein

Time's Klein can't believe he said Obama would rather lose war than election

Jul 23, 08 3:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain’s latest jab at Barack Obama—“It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign”–stuns Joe Klein, who writes in Time that the Republican’s Iraq claim is the most “scurrilous statement by a major... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • troop surge • negative campaigning • Iraq exit strategy • media bias

ANALYSIS

European Demands Vex Obama Camp

Suggestions tour lacks substance add sour note to fawning press

Jul 23, 08 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama’s campaign is frustrated that his Berlin visit tomorrow is being over-analyzed, Der Spiegel reports—with Europeans complaining that he’s giving a mere stump speech, or that his address might lack substance. Obama is dropping in to outline his vision for trans-Atlantic alliances—he’s expected to... More »

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Barack Obama • Berlin • European Union • Brussels • foreign policy • media bias

ANALYSIS

Ripping Media on One Hand, Mac Says It's 'Fun to Watch'

Even as campaign blasts press fawning over Obama, candidate demurs with Couric

Jul 23, 08 2:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Yesterday, as his campaign released an ad mocking the press corps’ affection for Barack Obama—and handed out press credentials rubbing it in—John McCain said the opposite to CBS’ Katie Couric. Mac “doesn’t think” the media has been unfair: “I'm certainly not complaining. And, in fact,... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Katie Couric • France • media bias • contradiction • press credentials

Opinion

 Obama Appears
 Cocky, Presidential 

The media fawns, McCain glowers, but Obama gets raves: Dowd

Jul 23, 08 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - The better Barack Obama’s foreign excursion goes, the more nervous Republicans get,  Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times. Images of John McCain happily sharing a golf cart with Bush 41 don’t contrast well with images of Obama happily sharing a helicopter with David... More »

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Iraq • Barack Obama • Israel • John McCain • Jordan • American media • foreign policy • Iraq exit strategy • media bias

McCain Video Mocks Media Coverage of Obama

Montage offers snippets of glowing coverage

Jul 22, 08 7:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - The McCain campaign debuted an Internet video today it says documents the press corps’ one-sided swoon over Barack Obama, ABC News reports. Set to music, the video features on-air personalities—MSNBC's Chris Matthews is among those featured prominently—offering adoring sentiments about Obama. It also airs Democratic-primary complaints from top... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • John McCain • Chris Matthews • media bias • campaign press corps

glossies

Olbermann to Media: 'Shut
the Hell Up' 

Blunt host may be changing the news,
but is it for the better?

Jun 16, 08 1:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - Keith Olbermann has always been mad as hell, and a parade of ex-colleagues tell the New Yorker they just couldn't take it anymore. The O'Reilly-pummeling, Murrow-channeling ex-sportscaster host of MSNBC's Countdown has consistently alienated both co-workers and higher-ups with the same brusque combativeness he applies nightly to the Bush administration. More »

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MSNBC • Tim Russert • Keith Olbermann • NBC News • Brian Williams • media bias • phil griffin

ANALYSIS

CNN Reporter: Corp. Execs Pushed Media to Play Up War

Jessica Yellin explains 'deferential' attitude Scott McClellan alluded to

May 29, 08 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - CNN reporter Jessica Yellin charged on-air last night that “the press corps was under enormous pressure from corporate executives” to present the Iraq war consistently “with the patriotic fever in the nation and the president's high approval ratings.” Responding to Scott McClellan’s complaint that reporters were... More »

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CNN • Scott McClellan • media bias • Jessica Yellin • corporate execs • Ashleigh Banfield • Phil Donahue

OPINION

 Journos Pick 
 at McClellan
 Portrayal 

Some get defensive at ex-spokesman jabs; others agree

May 28, 08 3:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scott McClellan writes in his memoir that “the ‘liberal media’ didn't live up to its reputation” on Iraq. “If it had, the country would have been better served.” Some insider reactions:
  • “You know you're a wussy press corps when the former White House Press
... More »

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Scott McClellan • Iraq war • media bias

Hillary's Been 'Denigrated,' Says Bill; Also, I Shoulda Shut Up

But ex-prez denies playing race card

May 22, 08 2:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton has been “dismissed, denigrated, declared dead” by a press corps in her rival’s pocket, Bill dishes to People. The first spouse wannabe says bias has been such that “I thought I was literally lost in a fun house.” Still, he partly faults himself for... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Bill Clinton • Chelsea Clinton • media bias • the race card

 Rove: From Politics to Punditry

News networks picking up commentators with party connections

May 12, 08 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - To stoke interest in cutthroat election coverage, cable news networks and other outlets are recruiting political strategists with credentials and big-time party connections, the New York Times reports. One of the newest pundits? None other than Karl Rove, now an analyst for Fox News and contributor to Newsweek and the ... More »

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Karl Rove • journalism • pundits • George Stephanopoulos • Election 2008 • political strategists • media bias

Race Heats Up for Sunday News Anchors

Oh, and the candidates, too—though they may claim unfair treatment

May 3, 08 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - They are locked in an epic struggle for the nation's heart, the grizzled veteran versus the up-and-comer, both popular, both controversial. No, not Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Tomorrow, the real showdown is between Tim Russert, who is interviewing Obama, and George Stephanopoulos, who is interviewing Clinton at roughly the... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • media • MSNBC • Tim Russert • George Stephanopoulos • ABC News • media bias

OPINION

Clinton Strategist Blasts 'Unfair' Obama Camp

Penn's replacement rails against 'personal attacks'

Apr 25, 08 2:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton's campaign isn't the rough one, top aide Geoff Garin writes in the Washington Post, railing against what he calls "the direct, personal character attacks that the Obama campaign has leveled against Clinton from the beginning of this race." In addition, he charges, the candidate "has... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • negative campaigning • media bias

Pro-China Cyberattack on CNN Cancelled

Angry Internet users postpone hacking; isolated incidents cause little trouble

Apr 20, 08 5:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - A group of cyberattackers called off a planned virtual onslaught of CNN's main webpage yesterday as excess publicity caused confusion, ComputerWorld reports. A group called Revenge of the Flame wrote that "Our original plan for 19 April has been canceled because too many people are aware of it and... More »

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China • cyberattack • CNN • Tibet • hackers • media bias • media coverage

OPINION

Clinton's Done; Media in Denial

'Comeback kid redux' hopes endure, and besides, horserace makes a better story

Mar 21, 08 5:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has sewn up the Democratic nomination, but the press refuses to report it, Politico’s Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen contend. "Reporters and editors love a close race — it’s more fun and it’s good for business," the veteran journalists write. They crunch the... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • superdelegates • media bias

'SNL' Staffers Not Laughing
at Hillary Bias Claims

Show tries to be equally unfair to all candidates

Mar 13, 08 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - “Saturday Night Live” staffers are getting serious over accusations of a pro-Clinton bias, with producer Lorne Michaels telling the Los Angeles Times any perception of bias is a "major concern" and assuring “there’s no agenda.” The show’s send-up of a media crush on Barack... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Tina Fey • Democratic nomination • Lorne Michaels • Seth Meyers • Amy Poehler • media bias • Weekend Update • media frenzy

OPINION

Hill's Bad Press Rallies Women

Women support Clinton when going gets tough

Mar 9, 08 1:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - The press may be ganging up on Hillary Clinton—but that’s good news for her campaign, writes Deirdre Depke in Newsweek. When women sense an affront to the senator, they come out for her in droves, as they did in New Hampshire, Ohio, and Texas. The best course for... More »

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Saturday Night Live • Hillary Clinton • Democratic nomination • female voters • Election 2008 • media bias

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