http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bias/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:29:44 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418401/posts Nine Big Stories the Mainstream Media Missed in 2009 From radical advisers in the Obama White House to hacked e-mails showing questionable work by climate scientists, 2009 has seen its share of scandals. But if you only followed the mainstream media, you might have missed some of the biggest stories of the year. Here's a list of the top nine stories the mainstream media ignored in the past year. Van Jones White House Green Jobs adviser Van Jones resigned from his post in September after weeks of pressure over his radical past. A former self-avowed Marxist and anarchist, Jones signed... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418401/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:29:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418323/posts AmericaÂ’s Least Wanted 2009 Malcolm A. Kline, December 31, 2009 In the summary spirit of the season, Accuracy in Academia offers 10 reasons for ending tenure: 1) To not put the presidentÂ’s favorite professor at the top of this roster would be a gross injustice. “At a press conference on August 20, AmericaÂ’s Survival, Inc. unveiled the results of several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests made regarding the curriculum and activities of University of Illinois at Chicago professor Bill Ayers,” AIA staff writer Bethany Stotts wrote on August 25, 2009. “Ayers has visited Germany, the Netherlands, and Venezuela to... Accuracy in Academia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418323/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:37:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418010/posts ...“I hope the terrorists don’t think this is a good time to attack,” I said, looking protectively at the White House, which always looks smaller and more vulnerable and beautiful than you expect, no matter how often you see it up close. I thought our guard might be down because of the holiday; now I realize our guard is down every day. ...Before he left for vacation, Obama tried to shed his Spock mien and juice up the empathy quotient on jobs. But in his usual inspiring/listless cycle, he once more appeared chilly in his response to the chilling episode... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418010/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:08:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416572/posts A friend of mine who likes President Bush a lot can't quite understand why he’s taking so much vacation this summer. Read more of this nonsense from the CBS (See BS) website if you really want to...CBS Bush Hit Piece CBS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416572/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:15:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416238/posts Rasmussen's latest tracking poll shows 46% strongly disapprove of Obama's performance as president. That is compared to 43% who strongly disapproved of George W. Bush at the end of his presidency. But how much worse would Obama's numbers be (and how much better Bush's) if not for this Rasmussen finding: One bright spot in the numbers for the President is that 51% of voters still say former President George W. Bush is more to blame for the nation’s economic woes. Just 41% point the finger of blame at the current President. In fact, the mortgage meltdown was overwhelmingly a Democrat... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416238/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:36:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415369/posts A day after voting for a landmark health care reform plan, Democrat Bill Nelson returned to the Sunshine State on Thursday with claims of praise from ordinary citizens for the proposed legislation. WSVN-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415369/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:43:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415089/posts Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist By Meg Sullivan December 14, 2005 Category: Research While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.... http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx?RelNum=6664 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415089/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:14:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412789/posts Must be nice to be a liberal reporter and to get calls from the White House eh? Did I say calls? Oh, I meant orders: [VIDEO AT SITE] This is all over this kerfuffle: During his syndicated radio show Friday, libtalker and MSNBC host Ed Schultz relayed to listeners how he observed 'Morning Joe' Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski take feedback directly from the White House during their program last week. Schultz appeared on Thursday's Morning Joe and directly challenged Obama's David Axelrod on the current version of the health care bill under consideration in Congress. Interestingly, this particular segment has... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412789/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:04:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412641/posts If I already have health insurance, can I keep it as is? The short answer is: yes. Can I keep my doctors? Again, yes. If I change or lose my job, can I keep the same insurance? No... But the government would set up a new "insurance exchange" that you can buy into. If I'm on Medicare, will there be cuts to my benefits? No - your benefits will not be cut. In fact, the bill would improve your prescription drug coverage. Will taxes go up? In some cases, yes. If I'm uninsured now, how soon do I get the... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412641/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:06:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406070/posts LONDON – E-mails stolen from climate scientists show they stonewalled skeptics and discussed hiding data — but the messages don't support claims that the science of global warming was faked, according to an exhaustive review by The Associated Press. The 1,073 e-mails examined by the AP show that scientists harbored private doubts, however slight and fleeting, even as they told the world they were certain about climate change. However, the exchanges don't undercut the vast body of evidence showing the world is warming because of man-made greenhouse gas emissions. The scientists were keenly aware of how their work would be... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406070/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:43:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404205/posts True story: a man is laid off from a Wall Street job for over a year. He submits resume after resume -- because the Street is hiring for his skill -- but never gets the call. Finally, a friend, who knows a hiring manager at a Bracket Firm recommends the man highly. The hiring manager's first question is, "what color is he?" He explains that he has to hire an Asian this week, that a white man -- no matter how qualified -- will not fulfill racial hiring quota. He explains that, in fact, he must hire X blacks, X... My Favorite Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404205/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:18:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401993/posts Executives at National Public Radio recently asked the network’s top political correspondent, Mara Liasson, to reconsider her regular appearances on Fox News because of what they perceived as the network’s political bias, two sources familiar with the effort said. According to a source, Liasson was summoned in early October by NPR’s executive editor for news, Dick Meyer, and the network’s supervising senior Washington editor, Ron Elving. The NPR executives said they had concerns that Fox’s programming had grown more partisan, and they asked Liasson to spend 30 days watching the network. At a follow-up meeting last month, Liasson reported that... The Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401993/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 14:25:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400979/posts The push to provide newspapers a government bailout to save “independent” media got another boost from a rather likely source yesterday. As Danny Glover reports for Accuracy in Media, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) spoke at an FTC seminar on the crisis in media markets, at which other speakers insisted that government has routinely intervened in media, even newspapers, and that opposition to it somehow violates the American tradition. But first, Waxman said, newspapers had to ask Congress for a handout: Rep. Henry Waxman trekked from Capitol Hill to Federal Trade Commission headquarters today to deliver a message to journalists and... hotair.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400979/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 15:39:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400617/posts Here's the cancellation letter I sent over. I have been a subscriber to Popular Science for a very long time, and enjoyed it most of the time. It seems in recent years, Popular Science has become politically motivated instead of seeking truth and science. The recent revelations about the deceptions from the global warming community made me realize how out of touch with the truth PopSci has been. You guys should have been uncovering the truth instead of swallowing the misinformation without an once of doubt. PS. I'm also sending this letter to your male enhancement advertisers to let them... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400617/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 00:00:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2398331/posts …you referred to her now famous Hardball appearance, and you incorrectly reported that she said that the “government would do well to investigate ‘anti-American’ congressmen.” What she actually said was that the American media should do so, not the government, which is something quite different. Fightin Words http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2398331/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:43:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2392075/posts Resarchers at UCLA prove that the media definitely has a liberal bias. They used the scientific method to arrive at these conclusions, and their research is completely sound. The left no lomger has any claim that the mainsream media doesn't have a liberal bias. For all their bitching about FoxNews, Dumbocrats will be forced to admit that the overall media is left leaning. http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx?RelNum=6664 UCLA Newsroom http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2392075/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:05:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2391591/posts Sarah Palin has breathed some life into the word "lamestream". We've been using "lamestream" here at Free Republic for quite some time. I looked up the word in the Urban Dictionary and found Sarahs use of the word was not defined. So I sent in this definition: "An insult directed at the dominant commercial news services for bias in covering politics". They turned it down! myself http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2391591/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:42:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390177/posts Have a close look at the screencap. Notice what Norah O'Donnell's holding in her left hand? Those are notes, with factoids from the 2008 presidential campaign. She's reading from them to challenge a Sarah Palin supporter who was waiting in line at the book signing yesterday in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We all remember how back during the '08 campaign, MSM reporters would challenge people attending Obama rallies with uncomfortable truths about their candidate, along the lines "would you still support him if you knew he had the most liberal voting record in the Senate?" Or not. I certainly can't remember... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390177/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:36:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389883/posts Newsweek advertised its cover story on the release of Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue” by asking, “How do you solve a problem like Sarah?” This headline was informed by the same journalistic standards that led the Washington Post to publish a book review by someone who admits she didn’t read the book – and then prompted MSNBC to invite this person on the air as an expert on the book she didn’t read. Newsweek apparently couldn’t be bothered to watch “The Sound of Music” all the way through, because Maria is the hero of the piece. The nuns singing “How Do... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389883/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:40:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2389976/posts A month or two I published a letter I had written to Newsweek's letters to the editor section telling them why I was not going to renew my subscription. I don't need to say why, I just couldn't take anymore of their cover stories and articles like "Why Fox News is Bad for America.", "We're All Socialists Now", "America: Not a Christian Nation. Many of you decided to chide me, I thought a bit over the top in some cases, into dropping it entirely immediately. No no, I thought, maybe I'm just overreacting to some bad covers, unfair articles. Yet... Free Republic Bloggers & Personal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2389976/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:08:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2389512/posts This video clip shows Maddow's bias, but also, the wacko she interviews who accuses everyone else of being wackos is clearly nuts. youtube.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2389512/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:22:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2387446/posts "What they do is their business," Dobbs said yesterday. "I tried to accommodate them as best I could, but I've said for many years now that neutrality is not part of my being." [CNN boss Jonathan] Klein long believed Dobbs was at odds with CNN's desire to position itself as an opinion-free, middle-of-the-road alternative to its cable news rivals -- conservative Fox News and liberal MSNBC. Dobbs got $8M to quit Ny Post ^ | Nov. 16, 2009 | MICHAEL SHAIN A man once, upon learning that I'm conservative, said "You probably think that journalism isn't objective." I was... Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2387446/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:49:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387302/posts Seems that former WSVN and WPLG reporter Olga Bichachi is sick and tired of the fluff her former employers pass off as news, reports SFLTV. She recently joined a group of protestors outside Local 10, and found time to give an interview that was posted on YouTube. Miami New Times (liberal extremist 'newspaper') http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387302/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:54:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386348/posts We welcome every single patriotic American who mourns the destruction of freedom and liberty to join us in a nationwide protest against all things Socialist. This event is an all out, no holds barred, tell it like it is, in your face protest designed to give liberty and freedom- loving American citizens and patriots an opportunity to voice just how fed up we are with BIG GOVERNMENT, BIG SPENDING, BIG DEBT, BIG BAILOUT, and BIG MEDIA COMPLICITY. Operation Can You Hear Us Now http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386348/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:51:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385394/posts A new poll by AP-GfK has Obama’s approval rating at 54 percent. I reported a few weeks back on how the poll might be engineered to favor Obama. Today, I have some shocking news as to how the AP-GfK poll was framed when Bush was president. With regard to the new Obama poll, the question immediately preceding Obama’s approval question reads as follows: When you think about how things are going in your life in general, would you say you are very happy, somewhat happy, neither happy nor unhappy, somewhat unhappy, or very unhappy? The results from that question: “Total... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385394/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:50:37 GMT