Read more media bias stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/25226/media-bias.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 7:21:56 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72414/obama-assault-on-fox-news-is-nixonian.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Obama administration is over the line in its war on Fox News, seeking not only to criticize it, but to delegitimize and marginalize it, writes Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post . “There’s nothing illegal about such search-and-destroy tactics,” he argues, but they do violate “Madisonian norms.” James Madison argued...http://www.newser.com/story/72414/obama-assault-on-fox-news-is-nixonian.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 23 Oct 2009 7:16:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70452/meg-whitman-tests-medias-celeb-ceo-myth.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFor years Meg Whitman has benefited from the sycophantic business media’s lionization of the CEO. Throughout the boom years, “CEOs were pretty much automatically rock stars,” writes Simon Dumenco for Advertising Age . “If they banked a billion or more, the thinking went, they must have been doing something right—right?”...http://www.newser.com/story/70452/meg-whitman-tests-medias-celeb-ceo-myth.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Sep 2009 15:09:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70256/stossel-yeah-im-biased-so.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen John Stossel announced he was leaving ABC for Fox News, many complained he was “biased.” His response? “Every reporter has political beliefs,” he writes for Reason Online. “The difference is that I am upfront about mine.” For example, most media outlets call President Obama’s plan to overhaul health care...http://www.newser.com/story/70256/stossel-yeah-im-biased-so.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 25 Sep 2009 15:56:31 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60946/rush-newt-push-media-to-the-right.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMedia coverage of Barack Obama is closed-minded and biased—in favor of conservatives. "Rush Limbaugh's sneezes or Newt Gingrich's tweets" circulate like wildfire, but criticism of the president from the Democratic left goes unheard, writes EJ Dionne of the Washington Post. The result is a skewed picture in which "Obama...http://www.newser.com/story/60946/rush-newt-push-media-to-the-right.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 04 Jun 2009 9:15:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60626/fawning-press-glosses-over-obamas-agenda.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama has enchanted the media more than any president this side of Jack Kennedy, writes Robert Samuelson of the Washington Post . A recent Pew study concluded that Obama had enjoyed “substantially more positive media coverage,” than either Bush or Clinton during their first months. “On the whole, this is...http://www.newser.com/story/60626/fawning-press-glosses-over-obamas-agenda.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 01 Jun 2009 8:12:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/60230/web-will-make-conservatives-miss-the-times.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagConservatives have delighted in making a piñata out of the New York Times, but they’re not going to like the post- Times world, writes Francis Wilkinson of The Week. “Like most powerful, entrenched institutions, the Times has a deep bias in favor of the way things are,” he argues, and...http://www.newser.com/story/60230/web-will-make-conservatives-miss-the-times.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 27 May 2009 11:49:14 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/58655/hey-media-us-jails-journos-too.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe American media are celebrating Iran’s release of journalist Roxana Saberi in a case the press doggedly pursued. But today’s back-patting is hypocritical, writes Glenn Greenwald in Salon : the US media have all but ignored foreign journalists imprisoned by our own government, often with little reason. Case in point: the...http://www.newser.com/story/58655/hey-media-us-jails-journos-too.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 11 May 2009 12:21:08 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57938/media-let-specter-off-the-hook.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen the Arlen Specter story broke last week, “most journalists assumed the role of handicappers,” writes Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post . The value-neutral reporting focused on how powerful this would make Democrats, and what it meant for the wilderness-dwelling Republicans. “Little attention was devoted to this question: Was this...http://www.newser.com/story/57938/media-let-specter-off-the-hook.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 04 May 2009 7:26:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/51164/ink-stained-wretches-flee-media-to-obama-admin.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAt least six journalists have signed on to government jobs, reports Politico, and that has conservatives asking if the same would be the case in a McCain/Palin White House. “When some leave journalism because of a reduction in staff, what’s the natural landing spot? The Obama administration,” says a conservative...http://www.newser.com/story/51164/ink-stained-wretches-flee-media-to-obama-admin.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 18 Feb 2009 13:06:05 CST