Bias Alert April 26, 2017 New York Times scraps 'female genital mutilation' for being 'culturally loaded' term A top New York Times editor decided the paper shouldn’t use the term “female genital mutilation” because the phrase is too “culturally loaded” and widens a divide between the Western world and “people who follow the rite.”
Bias Alert April 19, 2017 AP translates Fresno shooter's 'Allahu Akbar' to 'God is great' The Fresno shooting suspect accused of killing three people on Tuesday shouted “Allahu Akbar” when he was taken into custody by law enforcement, according to Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer – but the Associated Press made an editorial decision to print the translation of his words from Arabic to English: “God is great.”
Bias Alert March 10, 2017 Four times Republicans faced outrage for things Dems did first Since President Trump’s inauguration, Republicans have sparked a great deal of controversy in some quarters – particularly left-leaning social media outlets. However, some of the desk-thumping appears to have an edge of hypocrisy, as similar actions by the Obama administration didn’t produce the same outrage.
Bias Alert January 24, 2017 Disgraced newsman Rather thumps Conway for 'alternative facts' Disgraced former anchor Dan Rather knows a thing or two about “alternative facts.”
Bias Alert January 23, 2017 Media, late-night pile on Conway as 'attention-hungry' Saturday was a day for women. Just not a woman named Kellyanne Conway.
Bias Alert December 20, 2016 BIAS ALERT: Slate switches from defense of Electoral College to calling it a tool of white supremacy What a difference four years and Donald Trump's victory make.
Bias Alert December 13, 2016 Media types hit panic button over CIA Russia assessment In the wake of a CIA assessment that Russia interfered in the U.S. election to boost Donald Trump, some media personalities are seizing on the report as proof Moscow just installed its own version of a Manchurian candidate.
Bias Alert December 7, 2016 Time mag brands Trump a 'huckster,' calls Clinton 'an American Moses' President-elect Donald Trump was named Time magazine's Person of the Year on Wednesday – and the honor basically ended there.
Bias Alert November 21, 2016 BIAS ALERT: NYT accused by its public editor of bias in Trump, Clinton coverage BIAS ALERT: The public editor for The New York Times said Sunday that the number of complaints the newspaper received over its coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign spiked to five times its normal level.
Bias Alert October 12, 2016 BIAS ALERT: WikiLeaks exposes media's secret support of Clinton The ongoing WikiLeaks dump of a top Hillary Clinton lieutenant’s emails is shining a light on the cozy and often improper relationship key members of the press had with the Democratic presidential nominee’s campaign.
Presidential October 11, 2016 BIAS ALERT: Did NBC sit on Trump hot mic footage? Billy Bush allegedly boasted about the now-infamous Donald Trump hot mic tape to NBC staffers as far back as August. But it still took nearly two months – and a leak to the Washington Post – for the politically damaging footage to see the light of day.
