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October 14, 2010
Cry Babies: ‘View’ Hosts Walk Out on O’Reilly During Heated Mosque Debate

Whoopi calls O’Reilly’s claims ‘bull****’ before storming off stage

October 12, 2010
'Year of the Republican Woman' Sets Politico Spinning

Politico aids faltering female Dems candidates, highlighting their “history making” accomplishments.

October 5, 2010
Media Calls Year of Conservative Women ‘Year of the Setback’ for Women

Unlike ’92, when the press celebrated influx of liberal women legislators, press mocks strong conservative female candidate.

September 29, 2010
National Education Association a Left-Wing ‘Lobbying Group.’ You’d Never Know it Watching Networks

Even when President Obama parts ways with NEA on education issues, media won’t mention liberal Democrat credentials.

September 27, 2010
Huffington Post Worries About Book Banning

To hear HuffPo and NYTimes, opponents of intellectual freedom lurk on every school board.

September 21, 2010
Imam’s Group Trained NY Times Reporter Who Wrote Glowing Ground Zero Mosque Article

Reporter also formerly worked as lobbyist for CAIR.

September 20, 2010
Obama Omits 'Creator' From Declaration of Independence Quotation

Media ignore misquote of founding document, jumped on Bush for misquoting Jefferson.

September 17, 2010
ABC Promote Kimmel Masturbation Jokes as 'News'

Network's obsession with candidates' views on sex takes precedent over substance, maturity.

September 17, 2010
High School Textbooks Whitewash Islam, Criticize Christianity in Texas

Resolution claims books 'sanitize' definition of jihad, ignore history of Muslim violence.

September 16, 2010
Networks Ignore Fired Koran Burner, Defended Teacher Who Compared Bush, Hitler

Equating Bush to Hitler characterized as ‘free speech,’ but broadcast shows make no mention of Koran burner.

September 8, 2010
Contradictions Pile Up Around Vanity Fair’s Palin Hit Piece

Author retracts one mistake while others raise even more questions about accuracy of profile.

September 1, 2010
Vanity Fair Attacks Palin as Volatile, Angry, Fake

Unsourced hit piece attempts to depict 'sad and moldering strangeness' of Palin's life.

August 31, 2010
Overwhelmingly White Media Criticize Conservative Rallies as 'Overwhelmingly White'

Notoriously minority-deficient media criticize Tea Parties, other conservative gatherings for lack of diversity.

August 27, 2010
John Mayer Flips Out on Huffington Post, Says Website is ‘Full of S***’

Wonders whether liberal news site pays reporters in ‘Silly Bandz.’

August 27, 2010
Khan Job: GZ Mosque Organizer Said in 2006 1st Amendment Shouldn’t Include 'Right to Offend'

Daisy Khan's position today conflicts with her words from past.

August 26, 2010
Sesame Street Helps Military Kids Deal with Loss

Production company uses Muppets, real life stories, to teach children how to grieve

August 24, 2010
 The Perfect HuffPo Entry: Liberal Condescension and Anti-Reagan Revisionism

Lefty list of 'overrated' figures combines snobbery with untruth.

August 19, 2010
AP Orders Staff: ‘Stop Using the Phrase “Ground Zero Mosque”’

News service issues memo to ‘fact-check’ Republicans who are ‘demonizing’ Islamic Center.

August 19, 2010
This Time Weigel Compares Right to Czars Who Butchered Jews

One-time 'conservative beat' blogger for the Washington Post is still sliming the right.

August 17, 2010
MLK Artist also Sculpted Glenn Beck in Manure

  WaPo overlooks controversial artwork in preview of events honoring Martin Luther King Jr.  

August 13, 2010
NY Times Hails Bloomberg’s Mosque Support in Front-Page Love-Fest

Paper says ‘uncontroversial’ Ground Zero mosque plan was ‘inflamed’ by Conservatives.

August 12, 2010
Flashback: Media that Praises Ground Zero Mosque Same Ones that Called Virginia Terrorist Mosque ‘Moderate’

Washington Post even gave Al Qaeda cleric ‘religious advice column’ during tenure as Virginia imam.

August 10, 2010
The Radical Professors and Left-Wing Extremists of JournoList

Reporters, editors, joined by anti-conservative voices on e-mail listserv.

August 6, 2010
HuffPo Does Strip Tease to Attack For-Profit Colleges

College grad-turned-stripper anecdote masks call for increased government regulation of for profit colleges.

August 6, 2010
Ad in Foreign Policy Magazine Praises Palestinian Terrorists

Group calls for radical restructuring of ‘Nazi-state’ Israel’s border.

July 23, 2010
The View’s Hasselbeck Grills Sherrod over ‘Racial’ Statements in NAACP Tape

Co-Host Behar says George Bush ‘didn’t give a damn about poor people.’

July 21, 2010
HuffPo's New Travel Section Another Spot for Liberal Agenda

Left-wing blog uses new travel page to defend Obama from vacation criticism.

July 20, 2010
Book of Poetry, Cartoons Explains Conservative Views

Businessmen's stories aimed at teaching kids conservative values through rhyme.

July 7, 2010
Media Darling Univision Anchor Brings Pro-Illegal Immigration Bias to Latino Households

Jorge Ramos advocates amnesty for illegals, open borders, other liberal positions, via popular nightly newscast

July 1, 2010
CMI Commentary: WaPo Needs a ‘Conservative Beat’ Reporter Not a ‘Beat Conservatives’ Reporter

Reading a single daily issue proves that someone needs to explain the right to the paper.

June 30, 2010
AP Equates Illegal Immigrants to Civil Rights-Era Minorities

Report praises segregration-era protest tactics, offers no counterpoint

June 30, 2010
American Atheist Editor: Christian Daycare is ‘Child Abuse’

Professional non-believer calls religious training ‘forced ignorance.’

June 29, 2010
Olbermann: Palin a 'Phony,' 'Idiot'

MSNBC host ridicules Sarah Palin for speech gaffe  

June 29, 2010
Fireworks Are 'Toxic, Environmental Hazard,' Claims Green Movement

Eco-group sues California city to ban July 4th display.  

June 29, 2010
Salon’s Walsh Jumps the Shark -- Calls GOP Senators Bigots for Invoking Manhattan’s Upper West Side

Liberal columnist insists pointing out SCOTUS nominee Elena Kagan's roots is anti-Semitic and opposing activism from the bench is racist.  

June 23, 2010
Build-a-Baby: ABC Promotes Designer Baby Services

Web report highlights latest in customized offspring trend: looks-based eugenics.

June 17, 2010
Tea Partiers Boycott MSNBC Advertisers Over ‘Slanderous’ Documentary

‘The New Right’ portrays conservatives as racists, terrorists, and conspiracy theorists,

June 14, 2010
WaPo Promotes Ted Olson's Anti-Prop 8 Efforts, Continues Gay Marriage Advocacy

As he ‘crusades' for same-sex marriage, Olson is the kind of conservative the Post is happy to profile.

June 14, 2010
Nickelodeon Game Site Lets Kids Play at Trying to Look Up Skirt of 'Naughty' Cartoon Teachers  

Network makes games titled 'Perry the Perv' and 'Booty Rider' accessible to young children.  

June 10, 2010
NY Times Hired Former Pro-Muslim Lobbyist to Report on Ground Zero Mosque, Underwear Bomber

Associated Press, ABC News also employed former CAIR workers as journalists

June 8, 2010
Salon.com Equates Helen Thomas to Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity

'Broadsheet' columnist Anna Clark blames White House press room fixture's downfall on ageism and sexism.

May 27, 2010
Washington Post Downplays Polyamorous Gay Triad in Murder Cover-up Trial

The Washington Post has omitted crucial details in 60 percent of D.C. murder case coverage.

May 26, 2010
Post 'Conservative' Blogger Attacks Palin for 'Immature' Facebook Post

Weigel's 'Right Now' piece latest example of his attacks on conservatives.

May 26, 2010
To Media and Left, Wartime Service Unimportant for Supreme Court

Journalists should ask whether highest court in a nation at war should include someone who understands war. 

May 4, 2010
Post ‘Conservative’ Staffer Apologizes for Calling Traditional Marriage Proponents ‘Bigots’

Weigel’s Tweets show liberal bias, even as he attempts to defend them in ‘Right Now’ blog.

April 27, 2010
Behar: Arizona Immigration Policy ‘Like Sort of Nazism a Little Bit’

HLN host call bill ‘creepy’ and guest Phil Donahue digs up false lefty charge against Bush administration.

April 26, 2010
Newsweek's Transparent Call for Legalizing Gay Marriage

Magazine's circular argument supports recognizing gay divorce and, hence, accepting gay marriage.

April 20, 2010
Newsweek Frets Over the 'Waning Influence' of Abortion Activists

Newsweek's abortion article only quotes abortion-rights group NARAL, ignores pro-life advocates.

April 14, 2010
NBC Becomes New Gay Advocate

Partnership with gay magazine raises questions about coverage.

April 14, 2010
Media: Confederate History Month Proof of Conservative Racism

MSNBC and CNN fan accusatory flames

April 9, 2010
‘Entertainment Tonight’ Feebly Attempts to Stir up More Palin Controversy

Samantha Harris interviews Levi Johnston about Bristol Palin’s new Candie’s Foundation advertisement.

April 7, 2010
Media: Pope Benedict Guilty Until Proven Innocent

In Holy Week reports, broadcast networks ignore evidence in his defense

April 5, 2010
Media's Go-To Christian Voice a Liberal

Huffington Post author doesn’t hide his liberal view points as he promotes 'social justice.'

March 30, 2010
The Religion Blog That Hates Religion

Huffington Post's new effort lists 'crusader-jihadist mentality,' 'rejection of science' as 'dangerous side-effects' of faith.

March 25, 2010
WaPo Continues Drum Beat for Gay Rights

Newspaper devotes another 191 inches of column space to homosexual advocacy.

March 24, 2010
A Tale of Two F-Bombs: WaPo, MSNBC, CNN Bothered By Cheney, Not Biden

Media outlets applied two different standards to vice presidents' slips - Cheney’s viewed as a breach of decorum and Biden’s as 'excited profanity.'

March 18, 2010
Vanity Fair Fears ‘Texas Witch Trials’ Will Erase the Civil Rights Movement from History Books

Henry Rollins warns of a 'return to the dim-bulb cruelty and religious fascism' of the past.

March 15, 2010
CNN Documentary Depicts Sex Change as a 'Medical Necessity ... Done to Preserve Life'

CNN devotes a two-hour program to support of transsexuality, gives 47 seconds to opponents.  

March 12, 2010
Bias by the Numbers: WaPo Giddy Over Gay Marriage

Paper’s reporting on DC same-sex marriage ruling quotes supporters seven times more than opponents.

March 4, 2010
WaPo Celebrates Legalization of Gay Marriage in D.C.

Alexander and Marimow enthuse that the ‘fight’ for gay marriage has been won.

March 4, 2010
Double Standard: NPR Applies Varying Terminology on Gun Rights vs. Abortion

Cato analysis finds NPR readily calls Second Amendment rights advocates 'gun advocates' but has seldom used the same jargon for abortion, pornography.

February 19, 2010
CNN Perpetuates Dangerous Tuskegee Myth

In ‘Black in America,’ O’Brien repeats as fact the poisonous legend of medical experiments.

February 19, 2010
At CPAC, Breitbart Calls NY Times Reporter who Alleged Racism CPAC 'Despicable'

Web entrepreneur and publisher of BigGovernment.com blasts Times' Kate Zernike for alleging racism at conservative event and explains the 'social justice' mentality.

February 18, 2010
Bias by the Numbers: Networks Give 30 Minutes to Tiger; Nothing for Right's Mt. Vernon Statement  

Omission reveals media priorities that ignore conservatives, hype sex and deliver tabloid TV over news.

February 5, 2010
Beck Should Be Institutionalized, ‘Abusive’ to Have Him on TV Says ‘Daily Show’ Creator

Lizz Winstead, co-creator of popular Comedy Central program, takes critical jabs at highly rated Fox News host.

February 3, 2010
Post's Milbank Gushes Over Admiral's Plea to End Ban on Gays in Military; Attacked Supporter of Current Policy in 2008  

Writer proves he has different standards for different beliefs.  

February 2, 2010
Huffington: Fox News 'Tumor' Label 'A Legitimate View'  

Left-wing blog Editor-in-Chief alleges Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have 'strong positions based on fantasy.'

February 1, 2010
Slate's Saletan Fights Tebow Pro-Life Ad with 'Grisly Truth' about Pregnancy

Liberal online magazine says Tebow family shouldn't be 'guide to making abortion decisions.'

January 13, 2010
Secular Left Cries Foul on Religion in Sports

From Brit Hume and Tiger Woods to Tim Tebow and scripture, liberals don’t get sports and Christianity. But they sure are offended by it.

January 5, 2010
American Library Association’s Not-So-Hidden Gay Agenda

With its Youth Media Awards, the ALA works to get pro-gay propaganda on library shelves.

December 22, 2009
'Christmas Perils' Preoccupy Washington Post

Health & Science story warns about holiday weight gain, hazardous packaging and poisonous plants.

December 15, 2009
GMA Pushes Pregnancy Prevention, Doesn’t Mention Abstinence

Not one of six-person panel mentions the best form of contraception and way to limit STDs.

December 9, 2009
‘Today’ Promotes a Radical Leftist's Version of American History

Show guests also make anti-war remarks.

December 2, 2009
Beck to Media on White House Party Crashers: Do Your Job or Face Conspiracy Theories

FNC host warns people will invent crazy answers to Salahis’ State Dinner incident unless the press asks hard questions.

November 30, 2009
WaPo Feminist Says Palin News Was Sexist, But Palin Children ‘Tumbled Down the Stairs’

Writer blamed Palin for the media portrayal of the former governor.

November 24, 2009
CMI Commentary: Iowa Parents Lose to Sex Ed Lobby

Ames library will keep distributing sexually explicit teen magazine that politicizes adolescence.

November 13, 2009
In Warning Against Caricaturing Hasan, Newsweek’s Miller Caricatures U.S.

Another liberal fears a ‘backlash.’

November 12, 2009
Prejean: King ‘Inappropriate’ During Interview

Larry King shows different standards for conservatives and liberals. 

November 11, 2009
Glamour Flies Liberal Flag with “Women of the Year” List

Annual honor removes any doubt of the bias present in women’s magazines.

November 10, 2009
CMI Commentary: On Ft. Hood, Media and Elites Refuse to Deal with Reality - Again.

From the ‘black rage’ defense 16 years ago to ‘pre-traumatic stress,’ a society that excuses mass murder and worries over ‘backlash’ is ill.

November 9, 2009
Compare and Contrast: Bill O'Reilly Asks Palin Book Authors the Questions Harry Smith Won’t

Is "Sarah from Alaska" a damaging slam against former GOP VP candidate? It depends on which network you watch.

October 30, 2009
In Sympathetic WaPo Story on 'Abortion Addict,' All the Condemnation Is Saved for Pro-Lifers

Post Reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia depicted pro-lifers as violent and hateful.

October 29, 2009
FCC Goes Left to Analyze Future of Journalism

Chairman appoints liberal Beliefnet president who said McCain was trying to make Obama look like Antichrist.

October 22, 2009
‘View’ Shames Media for ‘Guilty Until Proven Innocent’; No Mention of Limbaugh

Hosts muster sympathy for teacher wrongly accused of having sex with a teen; forget their own complicity in spreading falsehoods.

October 22, 2009
‘Safe Schools Czar’ Funded Anti-Christian Gay Porn Art Exhibit

The man advising the president on safe schools is a gay activist who sponsors ‘important’ dirty pictures.

October 21, 2009
‘Morning Joe’: With Fox Feud, Administration Really ‘Playing’ Rest of Media

Scarborough, guests agree White House is sending a message to others not to follow FNC’s lead.

October 19, 2009
On ‘View’ Goldberg Holds up Cronkite as Paragon of Unbiased Reporting

Whoopi pines for the 'Cronkite generation.'

October 19, 2009
GMA Hypocrisy: Wants Apology from Balloon Boy Family; Doesn’t Apologize to Limbaugh

A balloon hoax requires an apology, smearing a man with phoney racism charge doesn't.

October 16, 2009
Networks Cover Bogus 'Balloon Boy' Story 100 Times More Than Made-Up Limbaugh Quotes

ABC, CBS and NBC morning shows give more than 80 minutes to possible 'stunt,' but a meager 47 seconds to made up comments about conservative talk show host.  

October 16, 2009
Actor Richard Belzer: Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck 'Fascist Stooges'  

CNN HLNs “Joy Behar Show” conservative personality character assault continues; Fox News called 'racist,' 'misogynistic.'  

October 15, 2009
CMI Commentary: Where’s All That Liberal Brainpower the Media Promised?

Are these people really our “best and brightest?”

October 13, 2009
Pulitzer Winner on Rush's NFL Bid: He Sees 'Visions of Plantation Grandeur Dancing in his Head'

Hunter College professor and author of 'Pimpology' uses challenged quote to make racist charge against Limbaugh; Says NFL should refuse him as owner.  

October 12, 2009
CBS Early Show Hits Obama From Left on Gay Rights March

From CBS, you'd never guess gays form part of Obama's liberal base.

October 9, 2009
The MSNBC Vendetta Continues: Two Hosts Attack Rep. Bachmann … Again

Olbermann, Schultz use segments to respond to Minnesota Republican’s observation that MSNBC dedicates a lot of time to her.

October 6, 2009
Rep. Michele Bachmann: 'I’m Certainly Not Going to Fear the Likes of Keith Olbermann’

Republican Minnesota congresswoman and constant target of MSNBC on-air personalities calls network ‘irrelevant.’

October 2, 2009
Networks Allow Letterman to Play ‘Victim’

Coverage shows bias in favor of liberals behaving badly.

September 30, 2009
Pittsburgh Protest Promoters

Liberals suggest that conservative anger might lead to violence, but conservative protests are happy and lawful, while left-wing protests draw hundreds of arrests for violence and property destruction.

September 23, 2009
GMA Questions Appropriateness of ‘Skimpy Bikini’ PSA Yet Shows Clip Six Times

ABC repeatedly shows controversial breast cancer ads while expressing disapproval.

September 21, 2009
Senate Health Bill Funds Abortion; Media Mostly Mum

The Family Research Council says Baucus bill covers abortion. Journalists say ‘so what?’

September 8, 2009
Unmentionable: Best-Selling Conservative Books and the Networks that Ignore Them

Research reveals a glaring imbalance in network coverage of liberal best-sellers and comparable conservative titles.

September 3, 2009
MSNBC Guest: Unwillingness to Have Obama in Classroom a Symptom of why Schoolchildren ‘Are So Dumb Today’

Daily Voice editor Keith Boykin likens Obama classroom simulcast to the voice of ‘common sense.’

September 3, 2009
CMI Commentary: Teach Your Children, Don’t Let Obama Do It

Speech to young students is an education in how the left controls our schools.

September 2, 2009
Charity: The Untold Story of Katrina

Media ignored kindness of American people in favor of propagating myths about the storm that destroyed New Orleans.

August 11, 2009
Perez Hilton: Bad “Tastemaker”

LA Times article praises gossip blogger as a “force to be reckoned with.”

August 7, 2009
A Kidnapped Fetus?

A baby that first saw the light of day in such a foul and violent fashion deserves better than to be described merely a “fetus.”

August 6, 2009
If it’s Morning, it Must Be Michael Jackson

Over five weeks after pop star’s death, the networks’ morning shows continue to pay homage.

August 6, 2009
Chicago Enlists ‘Birthday Sex’ Singer for Back-to-School Campaign

School officials indifferent to message in Jeremih's lyrics.

August 5, 2009
MSNBC Goes to Bat Against 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'

Viewers would never know there are two side to the gays in the military debate.

July 20, 2009
Unhappy ‘Humpday’

Predictably, media love movie about straight men and gay sex.

July 17, 2009
Porn: CNBC’s Not-So Pleasurable Special

CNBC special pimps porn under guise of studying the ‘business.’

July 14, 2009
CBS and NBC Turn a Blind Eye to ‘Jane Roe’s’ Arrest

Anti-abortion outburst was barely covered by the network evening news programs.

July 13, 2009
CNBC Special Promotes Porn

A controversial July 15 report has already lost one sponsor, but the network goes ahead with adult business show.

July 10, 2009
Jacko Telethon: Primetime Broadcast Network Coverage Devotes One Third of All News to Pop Star's Death  

Breakdown of the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts shows Michael Jackson's death dominating coverage with 4 times more TV than any other story in 13-day span.  

July 8, 2009
The 12 Days of Michael

Overabundance of “news” about Michael Jackson’s death promotes celebrity as nation’s top priority.

July 2, 2009
MSNBC Contributor Doesn’t Understand Why ‘White Americans’ Think Jackson Coverage Excessive

Touré appears on new Snyderman show to say media should take ‘a couple of months, if not a couple of years’ before exploring star's troubled past.

July 2, 2009
Faded Glory: How Broadcast Networks Trivialize Patriotism

To ABC, CBS and NBC, patriotic holidays are for barbecues, picnics and fireworks, something to cook or decorate the house for, not for reflection on the blessings of freedom, security and prosperity we Americans enjoy.

June 29, 2009
Duke U. Official Attempts to Sell 5-Year Old Son for Sex: MSM Out to Lunch

Could the media’s epic failure be reluctance to report on a gay dad abusing a black child?

June 25, 2009
PBS Wages War on Pro-Lifers

We're the domestic terrorists?

June 24, 2009
Media Laud Title IX; Ignore Dark Side

Sixty-five percent of broadcast discussions focus on gains by female athletes and white-wash the negative effects on men. 

June 16, 2009
Wolffe: President Missed Reverand’s Rantings Because ‘He Wasn’t Much of a Churchgoer’

Obama biographer and former Newsweek columnist claims politician used church attendance for votes and was ‘lucky’ Wright details didn’t surface before Iowa.

June 4, 2009
A Pro-Life "Jihad"?

The prop-abortion media is willing to smear the pro-life movement with the mud of the militia movement or al-Qaeda if it will enable their cause.

May 27, 2009
Jon and Kate Plus The Media

CBS’ ‘The Early Show’ sympathizes with the exploited Gosselins before do some exploiting of its own.

May 27, 2009
Voters Triumph in California; Nets Cover Protesters

Seventy percent of the broadcast network coverage of court ruling on Proposition 8 focused on gay activists’ reaction.

May 26, 2009
Sex, More Sex and Jesus?

Analysis of ABC’s “Faith Matters” segments reveals network preoccupation with sexuality and Christianity.

May 21, 2009
Media Let Culture Wars Cloud 'American Idol' Win

Networks and print usually love tales of underdogs - unless they’re heterosexual Christian underdogs.

May 19, 2009
Colbert To Meghan McCain, ‘You’re More Liberal Than President Obama!’

McCain continues to push Republicans to be more liberal on social issues.

May 18, 2009
Networks Lead the Cheer for Obama’s Notre Dame Address

On abortion, he talked a good game, and that was enough for reporters.

May 15, 2009
Resigned Miss California Director Claims National Organization for Marriage is Hate Group; CBS Doesn’t Bat an Eye

On ‘The Early Show,’ Shanna Moakler goes after Prejean and traditional marriage advocates.

May 14, 2009
'The Early Show' Focus: 'Is America Ready for a Gay Supreme Court Justice?'

CBS discusses identity politics; skips over judicial philosophy.

May 13, 2009
Another Day, Another Softball MSNBC Interview with Perez Hilton

Network’s Brewer bemoans the lack of apology from Miss California to vulgar blogger.

May 13, 2009
Silent Spring for Networks on Recent Same-Sex Marriage Decisions

Nightly news programs fail to cover liberal definitions of marriage.

May 13, 2009
 Weak Knees at the White House

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May 12, 2009
Liberals Cash in on Their Own Brand of Hate  

Journalists decry conservative 'anger,' but left has turned venom into big business.  

May 7, 2009
Chris Matthews Portrays GOP as Anti-Science

According to MSNBC host, not believing in evolution is a rejection of the scientific method.

May 6, 2009
Shuster-fied Tolerance

Inflammatory MSNBC reporter lectures Joe the Plumber on accepting others.

May 6, 2009
‘The Early Show’ Uses Palin Drama to Bash Abstinence

As Bristol speaks out for abstinence, CBS focuses on Levi Johnston’s disagreement with the family.

May 1, 2009
Shuster Attacks Traditional Marriage Advocate; Asks If He Fears Attraction to Gay Couple

MSNBC host turns interview into shouting match about Miss California controversy.

April 30, 2009
MSNBC’s Shuster Launches Attack Campaign Against Miss California for Gay Marriage Stance

Daytime news anchor calls Perez Hilton ‘accurate’ on his Twitter page and lobs criticism at Prejean for having cosmetic surgery.

April 30, 2009
Time’s Liberal Bias Taught in Schools

Free news magazine for students promotes liberal ideology.

April 29, 2009
Media Hails Senate Confirmation of Health Secretary to Combat Swine Flu; Downplays to Her Late-Term Abortion Support

Media ignores Homeland Security’s lead role responding to virus, maintains Sebelius needed combat it.

April 29, 2009
A Hundred Days of Love

Three months have made zero difference in the major media’s ardor.

April 29, 2009
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April 24, 2009
Sebelius' Controversial Veto takes Back Seat to Stories about Bo Obama

Broadcast news, major papers barely mention Obama nominee's protection of late-term abortion procedures.

April 24, 2009
Sebelius’ Controversial Veto takes Back Seat to Stories about Bo Obama

Broadcast news, major papers barely mention Obama nominee’s protection of late-term abortion procedures.

April 15, 2009
MSNBC’s Sexist Hypocrisy: Open Season on Conservative Women

In America, only liberal women enjoy protection from public degradation and disgusting characterizations.

April 10, 2009
A Whopper of a Problem: CBS Anchor Makes Light of Raunchy Fast Food Ad

Early Show co-host Maggie Rodriguez laughs off concerns about Burger King Kids Meal ad featuring sex and SpongeBob.

April 7, 2009
University of Maryland on Free Speech: Porn In, Prayer Out 

The use and abuse of freedom of expression on a state school campus.

April 3, 2009
A Rainbow of College Choices

Newsweek snipes at conservatives while discussing special circumstances surrounding college admissions process of gay students.

April 2, 2009
Hyping Class, Ignoring Controversial Business

Media ignore abortion connection in coverage of Montana plane crash.

April 2, 2009
Enviro-Elmo Gives Green Gospel to Terrible Twos

Sesame Street: ‘green’ indoctrination for the pre-school set.

March 31, 2009
US Media and Europe: OMG, its Michelle Obama! OMG!

Network morning shows continue to fawn over the first lady and her debut trip to Europe.

March 31, 2009
It’s Easy Being Green: Just Listen to Celebrities

Nickelodeon inserts green propaganda into Kids’ Choice Awards program.

March 25, 2009
Fight Over Obama, Notre Dame Address Leaves Networks Speechless

Radical pro-choice president speaking at a Catholic graduation ceremony is non-controversial to broadcast journalists.   

March 25, 2009
Audacity of the Pope 

Media lambastes Benedict XVI for sticking to Church doctrine and committing condom heresy.

March 16, 2009
AP Ignores Notorious Abortionist’s Ties to Obama Nominee

A late-term abortionist and supporter of Obama’s pending health secretary goes on trial without any mention.

March 5, 2009
Media Absent on Prom and Politics

Popular video contest "Project Green Prom" is a hit on liberal eco-friendly sites, gets no national media attention.

March 4, 2009
ABC and CNN Propel Phony Porn Study

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February 20, 2009
Networks Ignore Condom Ad That Offends Christians

ABC, CBS and NBC pass right over an outrageous story about a university condom ad featuring a famous Sistine Chapel religious painting.

February 18, 2009
Abstinence, Biology and Bozo on ‘View’

Walters’ posse tackles sex ed.

February 17, 2009
Fairness Doctrine’s Other Likely Victim: Christian Radio

GOP Congressional leaders warn of dangers; Supreme Court precedent in place for regulation of Christian radio under FCC rule.

February 16, 2009
Here Come the Brides: CNN Promotes a Social Engineering Soap Opera

John Roberts and Lola Ogunnaike show pro-homosexual bias in reporting about first lesbian wedding on daytime television. 

February 13, 2009
The Other Side of Disgust

New York Times Magazine contributor Daniel Bergner defends sexual deviancy in his new book.

February 12, 2009
“Glamour”-ous Terminations

Popular women’s magazine promises ‘unbiased’ information; delivers one-sided pro-abortion take.

February 3, 2009
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February 3, 2009
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February 3, 2009
Public Pans Obama’s Abortion Action

Gallup finds Obama's overseas abortion funding decision least popular. Will media continue its silence on the issue?

January 30, 2009
Obama Puff Pieces Let Some Embarrassing Truth Through

Meant to endear, Network coverage of Obama Whitehouse sometimes exposes hypocrisy, inconsistencies and extravagance.

January 28, 2009
CBS Highlights 'Eco-Warrior' Kids Living 'Green Gospel'

Network celebrates green-indoctrinated nags as little ‘future custodians.’

January 26, 2009
CNN: Ladies Nag Obama about Lack of Women’s Jobs

Kyra Phillips of ‘Newsroom’ and Christine Romans discuss ‘discouraging’ lack of women in Obama’s cabinet, job package that ‘favors’ men.

January 19, 2009
Michelle Obama, First Recessionista?

The new First Lady’s fashion choices may be affordable in the eyes of the media but they still remain out of the budget of many average people.

January 16, 2009
The Naked Truth About CBS and Teen Sex

The “Early Show” shows soft-core pics and hosts anti-abstinence advocates, but protests too much when confronted with teen sex.

January 7, 2009
Nick’s Big Green Hype

Next on Nick: environmental propaganda!

January 5, 2009
Life on the Straight Edge

  Our health experts eagerly discourage teen drinking or drug use. Why do they seem to have a real problem with people who would discourage teenage sex?

January 2, 2009
Early Show Fails on Facebook Fiasco

CBS host Maggie Rodriguez does not acknowledge personal responsibility in breastfeeding photos controversy.

December 29, 2008
Today Show Ignores Counterpoint in Major Teen Sex Study

NBC’s morning show hosts comprehensive sex education advocate and fails to mention problems with the study.

December 9, 2008
AP Reports Day Without A Gay Only One Way

In ‘call in gay’ story, AP ignores traditional marriage supporters; features event creators and lefty teachers eager to introduce gay issues to students.

December 5, 2008
TIME’s Jeff Israely Calls the Pope a ‘Scrooge’

Aren’t the leaders of religions supposed to defend church doctrine?

December 5, 2008
Barbara Walters Betrays ‘Fascinating’ Bias

During her “Ten Most Fascinating People” special, ABC’s news doyenne tolerates a pregnant pseudo-man, an outspoken cultist, a scandal-beset adolescent actress and a liberal president-elect, but judges a conservative talk show host and a conservative politician.   

December 5, 2008
Grinch-o-Meter ALERT! 

Politically correct holiday nonsense is picking up steam, especially in schools.

December 3, 2008
Is “Under God” Outdated?

A Washington Post/Newsweek writer calls for removing God from the Pledge of Allegiance, amid a little-reported eruption of pre-Christmas attacks on faith. 

December 2, 2008
Britney’s Booty Shakes Up ABC’s Morning News

Good Morning America dedicates 45 salacious minutes to the Pop Princess’s comeback.

December 2, 2008
The View: Still Pounding on Palin

ABC’s morning news chatters still won’t acknowledge that the media deliberately tarnished the image of the GOP vice presidential nominee.

December 2, 2008
Grinch-o-Meter ALERT!

WaPo fetes an artist whose Bush-bashing ornament is hanging on the White House Christmas tree

December 1, 2008
NBC Bemoans Divorce Taking a Hit in Bad Economy

The Today show fails to suggest that couples forced to stay together for economic reasons should try to reconcile.

December 1, 2008
CBS Tastelessly Mixes Wal-Mart Tragedy with Shopping Story

Folding the trampled security guard into a story about giddy bargain hunters is disrespectful and crass.

December 1, 2008
World Editor and King’s College Provost Marvin Olasky Joins CMI Advisory Board

Veteran journalist, educator and author brings decades of experience to Culture and Media Institute’s Board of Advisors.

November 25, 2008
Grinch-o-Meter ALERT! Bicoastal Episodes of Political Correctness

Florida school bars holiday decor, while two California schools give the ax to kindergarteners dressing as Pilgrims and Indians

November 19, 2008
O’Reilly Alone Reports Gay Attack on Christians

Homosexuals enraged over Prop. 8 physically and sexually assault a group of religious believers innocently praying in a public place, and this isn’t news?

November 18, 2008
Media Mute on Obama’s Mismatched Marriage Messages

How can a politician say he supports man-woman marriage when he opposes the Defense of Marriage Act?

November 17, 2008
CNN, Newspapers Beat the Drum for Same-Sex “Marriage”

Nationwide anti-Prop. 8 protests get little broadcast news attention.

November 17, 2008
ABC Special Touts Sex Changes as Normal

Barbara Walters promised she would “raise the whole question” of what is a man and what is a woman.  She never answered the question, she just preached tolerance. 

November 17, 2008
Hollywood’s Morals ≠ America’s Morals

A new poll confirms a CMI study’s findings that Americans believe their moral values are being assaulted by Hollywood and the national media.

November 17, 2008
Pregnant ‘Man’: Barbara Walters Struggles Against Reality

ABC News’s leading lady is using Thomas Beatie to persuade Americans to accept “nontraditional” families.    

November 14, 2008
Major Media Ignore Homosexual Hatefest in Christian Church

Gay activists disrupting a worship service by shouting “Jesus is a Homo!” apparently are not newsworthy.  

November 14, 2008
ABC: Courts, not Chromosomes, Now Define Sex   

Barbara Walters ignores biology while insisting the pregnant “man” is truly a man. After all, the state of Oregon says so.

November 13, 2008
Barbara Walters Uses Pregnant ‘Man’ to Redefine Sexes, Family

In her quest to revise America’s understanding of “man” and “woman,” the veteran ABC news celebrity covers up the essential fact: Thomas Beatie is, in reality, a woman.   

November 13, 2008
Media Have a Proposition for Calif. Churches: You’re Bigots

Two days after California voters upheld man-woman marriage by voting for Prop. 8, the media stopped reporting the facts and started beating its “civil rights” drum.

November 12, 2008
Washington Post Quotes Liberal Catholic Saying U.S. Bishops Hold “Minority View” on Abortion

Note to WaPo: religions don’t base moral teachings on opinion polls.

November 12, 2008
Matthews on Palin Seeking God’s Okay: ‘A Lot of Our Enemies Talk Like That’

MSNBC Hardball host suggests that politicians should not openly say they’re looking for God’s guidance in America’s “secular environment.”

November 10, 2008
Nets Promote Prop. 8 Protesters

“News” coverage denies traditional marriage supporters any opportunity to make their case.

November 10, 2008
News Anchor: Hate on "Both Sides" as Prop. 8 Protesters Stomp on Cross

Talk about false "moral equivalence." 

November 10, 2008
‘Access’
Denied to Prop 8 Supporters
A popular entertainment news show, Access Hollywood, provides a platform only for celebrities in favor of same-sex marriage.

November 10, 2008
WaPo: Bush Pro-Life Regs “Onerous,” “Ideologically Offensive”

Reporters quote a former Clinton official accusing the Reagan and Bush administrations of establishing the “Mexico City Policy,” which limits the promotion of abortion by government-funded groups, for “overtly political” reasons.

November 7, 2008
ABC, NBC Repeat Anonymous Rumors Discrediting Palin

No acknowledgement that McCain campaign staffers may be scrambling to hang the blame for his defeat on the vice-presidential nominee.

November 7, 2008
Access Hollywood
Serves Up One Palin-Bashing Story, Two Kisses for Obama 
Movie stars go gaga over Obama; Palin allegedly spent more than 150K on clothes and spoke with McCain staffers clad only in a towel; Obama to buy a puppy for his daughters.  

November 7, 2008
WaPo Critic Seethes as Grey’s Anatomy Drops Lesbian Character

ABC show continues to promote aberrant forms of sex. 

November 6, 2008
Media, McCain Ignored Key Issues

Conservative values still resonate with the public.  Obama ran to the right of McCain on social and fiscal issues, and the media ignored the contradictions to his record.

November 5, 2008
NBC Keeps Beating on Palin

The election is over, but Savannah Guthrie of the Today show is still assassinating the character of Sarah Palin.

November 5, 2008
Ballot Measure Results Mixed for Values Issues

Voters upheld man-woman marriage in three states, but pro-life measures went down.

November 5, 2008
The Enduring Culture War

Some pundits claim the political battles over moral values are effectively at an end.  They're kidding themselves.

November 4, 2008
ABC Shills for Same-Sex ‘Marriage’

Network continues pattern of one-sided coverage of homosexuality, with a segment favoring opponents of California's Proposition 8.

November 4, 2008
CNN Host: GOP Palin Critics ‘Intellectual,’ Palin Backers ‘Knuckle-Draggers’

Mike Malloy also described the GOP's social conservative base as "crazy" and "mouth breathers."

October 31, 2008
WaPo/Newsweek ‘On Faith’ Editor Smears Dobson, Focus on the Family

David Waters accuses the Christian ministry of “fear-mongering” in a letter warning of the possible consequences of electing Obama.

October 31, 2008
Pulitzer-Winning Author Who Wanted Bush ‘Shot’ Spews Hate on Huff Post

Should the leading leftwing Web site be providing a platform for such ill-informed, rage-driven rants?  Whatever happened to civility?

October 30, 2008
Palin, Jesus and Witches???

Newsweek caricatures Palin’s faith one week before the presidential election, even raising the specter of anti-Semitism.

October 29, 2008
Skank-o-ween 2008: The Sexualization of Children

Is your daughter trick-or-treating in the "Wicked School Girl" costume this year?

October 29, 2008
Network News’s High-Tech Lynching of Sarah Palin

ABC, NBC and CBS news shows ran 69 stories about the GOP vice-presidential nominee in two weeks.  Only 2 stories were positive.

October 28, 2008
Time Magazine’s Picture-Perfect Pitch of Obama

For all intents and purposes, the latest issue is a Barack campaign flyer.

October 27, 2008
Time’s
‘Campaign Scorecard’ Ignores Character Issues
The weekly political assessment leans heavily toward pro-Obama topics.

October 24, 2008
Kids’ Halloween Costumes Get Sexy    

Marriage and family therapist missed an opportunity to speak on long-term effects of young girls dressing in inappropriate Halloween costumes on CBS’s Early Show.

October 24, 2008
NY Times Film Reviewers Take on Marriage, Sort of

Two reviews of "gay marriage" films in one day, with a gay slasher film review tossed in.

October 24, 2008
WaPo: Conservatives Are Happier than Liberals

And it has something to do with personal responsibility, religion and marriage. Go figure

October 24, 2008
Media Scrutiny of Wardrobe-gate  ‘Eats Up’ Another Day of Coverage

Media cover frivolous issue while refusing to dig deeper into Obama’s past.

October 23, 2008
Fireproof Book The Love Dare Tops NYT Bestseller List

A little (Christian) book featured in a little (Christian) movie is flying off the shelves.

October 22, 2008
Media Drink Obama’s “8 Years Old” Kool-Aid

Rather than investigate the candidate's relationship with William Ayers, establishment media are just repeating the campaign's talking points.

October 21, 2008
UPDATE: ABC’s Coverage of “Pay it Forward” Organ Donation Program Saves Lives

One year later donors and recipients of a life-saving kidney donation program gather to recognize one man’s generosity that inspired them all.

October 21, 2008
Womanizer… or Man-Eater?

Lyrics and racy video do not match up in Britney Spears’s latest chart topper.

October 20, 2008
Family Guy: McCain/Palin = Nazi

New episode perfectly reflects Hollywood's anti-Republican bias.

October 17, 2008
Boston Globe Publishes Slain Soldier’s Blog

Entry expresses his pride in America and his reasons for serving.

October 16, 2008
Schieffer Ignored Key Social Issues, Protected Obama

CBS debate moderator fails to question candidates on marriage, military and gun rights. 

October 16, 2008
ABC: “Firearm Friendly Sarah Palin” Locks and Loads Voters in Wyoming

Good Morning America reporter uses liberal group’s statistics to wave the pro-gun control flag.

October 14, 2008
Big News: Obama Wins the Crayon Set

Children vote and Obama is the winner.  What does this mean for the general election?  How are they forming their opinions? 

October 14, 2008
Media Ignore Obama’s Radical Abortion Record

The Democratic presidential candidate has voted to protect partial birth abortion, and to deny care to infants who survive botched abortion attempts.

October 13, 2008
Womanizer: 20/20 Sleazes Things Up in the Name of ‘News’

Since when do major network evening news shows ask celeb adulterers how often they had sex?

October 10, 2008
CNN Gives One-sided Boost to Hate Crimes Legislation

Are homosexual activists really fighting for “all Americans?”  What about the damaging repercussions of such laws?

October 10, 2008
Fox’s Lying, Slacker Jesus

The people at Fox Entertainment clearly don’t care one iota about offending the millions of Christians who see Jesus as the central figure in their hopes for eternal salvation. To them, God is just an empty punch line.

October 10, 2008
Media Ignore Pro-Family Victory in McDonald’s Boycott

The fast-food giant has withdrawn from the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

October 9, 2008
The Bad, the Good and the Ugly

Three breaking stories expose the developing cult of personality in America, and the harm being inflicted on our culture by the media.

October 9, 2008
Newsweek’s Religion Reporter Again Features Former Bush-Supporting Pastor Now Backing Obama

Lisa Miller apparently is trying to defuse criticism of Obama over Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

October 8, 2008
Character Counted in Second McCain-Obama Debate

While every question addressed policy issues, nearly a third also revealed the character of the candidates.

October 8, 2008
How 25 Years of Gay Activism in Hollywood Has Paid Off

This season, a record number of broadcast television series are featuring sympathetic homosexual characters.

October 7, 2008
ABC Addresses Debt and Personal Responsibility Head On

Economic woes trigger two segments with some refreshing straight talk about pursuing “the American dream.”

October 7, 2008
Still Screwing Up America

Abortion zealot Linda Hirshman has vindicated Bernie Goldberg’s choice to include her in his book, 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America.

October 6, 2008
Weekend Box Office: Americans Vote, Maher Loses

Anti-God mockumentary beaten out by movies about faith, love, patriotism … and Chihuahuas.

October 1, 2008
‘Fair’ Warning to Palin

Media sharpen the knives for that one error in the vice presidential debate.

September 29, 2008
Maher’s Misconceived Call to Arms

Early reviews of Religulous indicate the movie doesn’t inspire atheists, it mocks believers.

September 26, 2008
ABC’s 2-Day ‘Coming Out’ Party for Clay Aiken

‘Exclusive’ interview is a giant puff piece for new self-proclaimed ‘gay’ father.

September 24, 2008
Obama Tries to Flush Rush

Obama's bizarre version of Willie Horton is Rush Limbaugh?

September 24, 2008
Newsweek on Palin: A 'Pet Pony' and 'Rapture-Ready Extremist'

Once again Newsweek gives multiple pages to an atheist's rant.

September 23, 2008
Reagan’s Rebuke of Carter Missing in Debate Commission’s Transcript

Is it an editing error or a dose of political correctness?

September 18, 2008
‘Mindless Christian Lemmings’ Columnist Uses Obscenity to Bash Conservatives, Christians … and NASCAR Fans

This kind of language is acceptable in a major newspaper?

September 17, 2008
TIME Gives Distorted View of McCain’s, Obama’s Character

The GOP presidential nominee is manipulating public opinion, the Democratic nominee is a victim.  But is it really vice versa?

September 17, 2008
Media Echo Obama’s False Claim that McCain Lied about Sex Ed Bill

Many major news organizations accepted at face value Obama’s denial that he backed comprehensive sex education for kindergartners.  Reporters should have read the actual text of the bill.

September 16, 2008
Schieffer ‘Uneasy’ Rick Warren Saddleback Forum Took Place in a Church

CBS Face the Nation host says ‘Saddleback Civil Forum on Presidency’ made him uneasy because of belief in a ‘separation.’

September 16, 2008
ABC and MSNBC Respect Medical Miracles and the Power of Prayer

Two networks, two stories, one common theme.

September 12, 2008
Wall Street Journal Fails to Identify GOP-Bashing Author as Gay Activist

James Kirchick's column comes straight out of the homosexual political playbook.

September 12, 2008
Running Purity Rings around MTV

Chastity enjoys a resurgence among some teen stars.

September 12, 2008
Profane Palin Hate, Unfit for Publication? WaPo 'Washes In Most Happily'

Please remember episodes like this when the Left (and its subset, The Washington Post) stands up and says that "hate speech" from the right is a terrible problem.

September 11, 2008
Coffee, News and S-bombs

Another guest’s use of an expletive on the Today Show highlights the need to use time delays during live broadcasts.

September 11, 2008
MRC's Tribute to the Media for 9/11 Coverage

On September 11, 2001, the news media did themselves proud in their coverage of the attack on America. 

September 11, 2008
MRC's Tribute to the Media for 9/11 Coverage

On September 11, 2001, the news media did themselves proud in their coverage of the attack on America.

September 10, 2008
Newsweek’s Female Columnists Pile on Palin

Writers blast away on religion, abortion and sexism.

September 9, 2008
The Cost of Killing Palinzilla

The liberal media's all-out assault on the faith and character of the GOP vice presidential nominee comes at a steep price: credibility.

September 9, 2008
Palin Heat Threatens Planet

The reaction of the media and assorted leftwingers to the GOP vice presidential nominee seems a trifle overwrought.

September 8, 2008
Stop the Presses! Palin’s Church Holds to Bible’s Teaching on Homosexuality!

Once again, AP gets a religion story wrong because of theological ignorance.

September 4, 2008
AP Wrongly Charges Palin with Deception over Faith

Doesn’t the Associated Press have any religion reporters familiar with evangelical culture and theology?

September 4, 2008
Pro-gay Journalist: Palin’s Religious Worldview “Controversial”

Huffington Post suggests that applying Christian values to public policy is inappropriate. 

September 3, 2008
Palin-Bashing in the Supermarket Checkout Line

US Weekly, a tabloid owned by an Obama supporter, smears the GOP vice presidential candidate and her children in this week’s cover story.

September 3, 2008
Whalin’ on Palin: Media Discover Motherhood, Overlook Character

Since GOP presidential candidate John McCain announced Alaska's governor would be his running mate, the dirt-diggers have been working around the clock.

September 2, 2008
Savaging Sarah Palin

The media are trying to define the GOP vice presidential nominee before the public gets to know the real person.

September 2, 2008
CNN Reveals Anti-Abstinence Bias in Report on Palin's Daughter

How does Kyra Phillips know what Bristol Palin was taught about sex?

August 29, 2008
Media: Dems Acknowledging Abortion Disagreement is 'Reaching Out' to Pro-lifers

During his speech at the Democratic convention, however, Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, Jr. didn't really reach out to pro-lifer voters at all.

August 29, 2008
Celebrities Embarrass Obama

With friends like Madonna and Ludacris, who needs enemies?

August 28, 2008
About-Face: Media Outlets Turn on 'Cancer Vaccine' Maker

Nets, newspapers were also promoting Gardasil before the side effects were known.

August 27, 2008
NBC to ‘Gay’ Journalists: ‘Your Victories Are Our Victories’

The news media loudly proclaimed its support for the homosexual activist agenda at the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association convention in Washington, D.C.

August 26, 2008
Former ABC Reporter, Now Obama Campaign Worker, Bashes GOP As 'Extremely Conservative' on Abortion

NBC's Morning Joe hosts failed to challenge Linda Douglass on Obama's extreme pro-abortion record.

August 26, 2008
Nets Not Showing Embarrassing DNC Convention Events

No cameras have shown Trojan handing out condoms to Democratic delegates - or the prolife demonstration in Denver.

August 26, 2008
New York Times and Washington Post Ignore Obama’s Housing Shortage

McCain doesn’t know how many houses his wife owns - that’s news.  Obama is allowing his own brother to live in destitution in Kenya, and bought his property with the help of a slumlord now serving time - that’s not news.

August 26, 2008
‘Gay’ Journalism Conference Panel Targets Religious Influence on Public Policy

Washington Post editor, defrocked minister urge homosexual reporters to ignore conservative Christian leaders like Pat Robertson and James Dobson.

August 25, 2008
Brokaw Gives Pelosi a Chance to Help Obama on Question of When Life Begins

Obama’s “above my pay grade” statement prompts pro-abortion Speaker of the House to spin the teachings of the Catholic Church.

August 21, 2008
ABC Wakes Up, Reports Gardasil Dangers

Network finally covers the negative side of the “cervical cancer vaccine” story.

August 20, 2008
Maher Calls Christianity “the Ultimate Hustle” on Larry King Live

Religion-despising comedian promotes his new “comedy” film, calls Rick Warren  “pope of the super-Christies”

August 19, 2008
TIME Writer Objects to Recognizing Life at Conception

Nancy Gibbs suggests McCain’s stance could lead to more abortions.

August 19, 2008
ABC Reporter Implies John McCain Has No Character

Or less character than rival Barack Obama, at least.

August 15, 2008
Ellen to Wed Portia; What about DOMA?

The Hollywood same-sex nuptials give the media a tremendous opportunity to address the issue of same-sex ‘marriage,’ the Defense of Marriage Act and Democratic support of California’s gay marriage ruling.  Will they take it?

August 15, 2008
Red State: Rick Warren Sells Out to Libs on CNN

Evangelical pastor's "Compassionate Leader" forum for Obama, McCain is cohosted by representatives of far-left religion.

August 14, 2008
Pineapple Express: Marijuana Cautionary Tale?

Judd Apatow says his latest movie is anti-drug.  Critics: ‘What are you smoking?’

August 13, 2008
Local ABC Stations Report Gardasil Story Better than ABCNews.com

Concerns over serious side effects prompts CDC to review the vaccine's safety.

August 13, 2008
America’s New Newspaper of Record: the National Enquirer

Why did Big Media ignore the John Edwards affair, a sex and corruption scandal embroiling one of the nation's leading politicians?  Could it be political bias?

August 11, 2008
Edwards Affair Rules the News Cycle for Three Days

After weeks of ignoring the story, networks can’t stop talking about it. 

August 11, 2008
ABC Disparages Pro-Life Pharmacist’s Choice to Have Large Family

World News correspondent Gigi Stone slants her story against pharmacies that refuse to fill certain prescriptions on moral grounds.

August 8, 2008
ABC Article Glamorizes Media Villains, Ignores Price to Society

ABC’s Sona Charaipotra hails villains in entertainment as more “exciting,” “interesting,” and more real, but ignores the damage Hollywood’s obsession with evil can do to children. 

August 8, 2008
NBC Drops the Ball on Teen Sex   

The follow up special for The Baby Borrowers fails to tackle tough subjects in discussions of teen sexuality and pregnancy.

August 8, 2008
Post Writer Says ‘Gay Plague’ Is Fault of ‘Homophobia’

Is lung cancer the fault of tobaccophobes?

August 8, 2008
New York Times Bemoans Killer’s Execution

In its zeal to oppose capital punishment, the Gray Lady suggests Texas should bow to ‘international law.’

August 7, 2008
NYT Explores Strategies for Obama to Win Catholic Votes      

The Times downplays the candidate’s radical pro-abortion record.   

August 6, 2008
Solzhenitsyn: A Prophet Honored in His Own Country, but Not in the U.S. Media

The great writer’s  commencement address at Harvard in 1978 was a powerful indictment of elitist liberalism. 

August 6, 2008
ABC Tells Story of Faith in Tragedy

Good Morning America explores how religious belief is helping the Steven Curtis Chapman family cope with the death of their daughter.

August 5, 2008
WSJ Shines Light on Richmond’s Success at Battling Gun-Related Crime

The treatment is in stark contrast to typical media calls for more gun control.

August 5, 2008
Let’s Talk About Sex

Newsweek provides great tips for parents on how to talk to young teens about sex but needs to emphasize parental monitoring of teens’ entertainment choices.

August 4, 2008
Washington Post Uses Unitarian Shooting to Demonize Conservative Christians, Talk Radio

Given the Post’s one-sided account, could the paper be contributing to a climate of hate against conservative talkers and orthodox religious believers?

August 4, 2008
Washington Post Spins CDC AIDS Blunder 

Media solution for increased HIV infection rates:  throw more money at the problem.

August 4, 2008
Media Silent on Pelosi Intent to Kill DOMA

If Obama becomes President, the Speaker of the House will support his efforts to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, opening the door to same-sex marriage throughout the nation.

August 1, 2008
Hushing Rush after 20 Years

Liberals in Congress view talk radio as a profound threat to their power.  They intend to do whatever they can to reduce the impact of conservative talkers, First Amendment be damned. 

August 1, 2008
Jerry Springer, Opera Man? 

This spectacle’s defenders suggest this isn’t a mockery of Christianity. That’s about as plausible as a Klansman saying the burning cross is merely for roasting marshmallows.  

July 31, 2008
WaPo ‘News’ Article Slams Measure Protecting Conscience of Health Care Workers

The Bush proposal would uphold the right of pharmacists, for example, to refuse to fill prescriptions for contraceptives that kill babies.   

July 31, 2008
No Increased Risk of Divorce, so Living Together Must Be Okay

USA Today fails to look at other ways cohabitation damages people and relationships.    

July 30, 2008
ABC Covers Medical Marvels Extended to the Unborn

World News with Charles Gibson highlights the “tiniest, most fragile of patients” imaginable - unborn babies.

July 29, 2008
The Media Fix Is In on Key Gay Issues

A columnist smears a witness testifying against permitting open homosexuals in the military, and the media ignore a California official abusing her office to advance same-sex marriage.

July 29, 2008
The Media Fix Is In on Key Gay Issues

A columnist smears a witness testifying against permitting open homosexuals in the military, and the media ignore a California official abusing her office to advance same-sex marriage.

July 28, 2008
Living and Dying with Character and Integrity

Professor Randy Pausch, whose ‘Last Lecture’ made him a YouTube phenomenon loses his battle with cancer.

July 28, 2008
ABC’s The View Plays Kissyface with Katy Perry

The ladies ask some hard questions of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, but gush over the lesbian-experimenting pop star.

July 25, 2008
A Lady Under Fire

A Washington Post columnist claims a supporter of the ban on gays in the military exhibited "rage" in Congressional testimony -- but The Hill reveals that the rage was on the other side.

July 25, 2008
WaPo Snickers as Sacrilegious Show Comes to D.C.

Even as a Catholic group protests the premiere of “Jerry Springer: The Opera,” The Washington Post raises little concern over the show’s content.

July 23, 2008
CW’s Gossip Girl Takes No Prisoners in New Ad Campaign

Network pokes fun at concerned parents, boasts that culture watchers are condemning the ads.

July 22, 2008
WaPo Whacks McCain’s Wife, Grandfather

Articles emphasize Cindy McCain’s drug addiction rather than her accomplishments, describe grandfather as a gambler and bootlegger.  

July 21, 2008
ABC, CBS Spotlight Suffering Illegal Immigrants

Both networks provide rare favorable reports about churches—churches that offer sanctuary to the ‘undocumented’ in acts of “nonviolent civil disobedience.”   

July 19, 2008
ABC’s Stossel Sees No Evil in Sexually ‘Liberated’ Culture

The 20/20 host suggests that society may even benefit from sexual libertinism, but his articles don’t give both sides of the story. 

July 18, 2008
ABC’s The View Gets Hot and Heavy

Barbara Walters and her fellow panel members on waded knee-deep into sex this week, moving from porn to vibrators to S&M Barbie.

July 18, 2008
DC Flouts Supreme Court on Guns, as Washington Post Advised

Progressive values trump Constitutional rights in certain journalistic circles. 

July 17, 2008
WaPo Slams U.S. Census Bureau for Upholding Federal Marriage Law

Same-sex marriages will not count as marriages in the 2010 census, in accordance with the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.  The Post report quotes three people who oppose the decision but only one supporter.

July 17, 2008
Media Ignore Pro-Family Protest of McDonald’s ‘Hate’ Smear

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July 16, 2008
Media Obituaries Expose Political Bias 

Why did the media treat Tony Snow so much more respectfully than Jesse Helms and Jerry Falwell?

July 16, 2008
ABC’s Faith Freak Show

Nightline’s “Faith Matters” series zeroes in on religious eccentricities. 

July 15, 2008
Seventeen Mag Assumes Teen Sex, Ignores Morality

The latest issue encourages teen girls to insist on condoms, and never explains why it’s right to just say no. 

July 14, 2008
Washington Post Tells Kids Homosexuality Is Fine

Article cites pro-homosexual groups, but includes no opposing views or information about health risks associated with the lifestyle.

July 11, 2008
NBC’s Today Promotes Nude Vacations

Co-anchor Kathie Lee Gifford offers a novel take on what constitutes a “family vacation.”

July 11, 2008
Catfighting  ‘Uber-Divas’ Get a Reality Show

N Network’s Queen Bees features “mean girls” in need of a personality makeover -- and makes bad behavior the focus of entertainment.

July 9, 2008
Hollywood’s Teen Sexploitation

The entertainment industry cashes in on teen pregnancy, at great cost to society.

July 9, 2008
The Early Show Normalizes Illegitimate Births

CBS’s Lara Spencer announced with equal exuberance new births to celebrities in and out of wedlock.   

July 9, 2008
Political Correctness Run Amok

Toddlers who are picky eaters are “racists?”

July 8, 2008
RIP Sir John Templeton

CMI mourns the death of our benefactor, a great and humble man.

July 8, 2008
Jesse Helms and Mangled Manners

Leftwingers in the news media and the blogosphere embarrassed themselves with meanspirited slurs directed at the fallen American patriot.

July 8, 2008
CBS Reality Show Goes Blue

Big Brother recruited a Hooters waitress, a body builder and a gay cowboy for the new season.

July 7, 2008
CBS, NBC Downplay Serious Gardasil Side Effects

Should the government force sixth grade girls to risk death to protect them against a sexually transmitted disease?

July 7, 2008
C-Word Dropped on C-Span’s Washington Journal -- No Bleep Button?

Caller uses obscene word while repeating unconfirmed McCain tale; leftist Web sites cheer.

July 7, 2008
Washington Post Addresses Obama's Faith -- with NO Wright

How can responsible journalists explain the candidate's beliefs and ignore his lengthy relationship with a politically and theologically radical preacher?

July 3, 2008
Weeds and Marijuana Chic

Hollywood is glamorizing pot smoking, despite the evidence of the drug's danger.

July 2, 2008
Washington Post Tells the Truth about ‘Safe Sex’ -- Then Ignores It

A guest columnist exposes PC ideologues jeopardizing an effective morality-based AIDS prevention program in Uganda, while a house editorial calls for more of the failed condom approach here in the U.S.

July 2, 2008
CBS Lashes Out at Pro-Gun Rights Ruling

A Sunday Morning reporter confronts the lawyer who won the Supreme Court case, and a commentator blasts the decision. 

July 1, 2008
The Expatriots

What do you call a person whose heart has long since departed these shores, but who lacks the courage, integrity or self-awareness to renounce his citizenship, and continues to bedevil his countrymen with his noxious presence? 

July 1, 2008
CNN Joins the Choir Touting Obama Outreach to Evangelicals

No mention on American Morning that the religious leaders flocking to Obama are far from the evangelical mainstream.

June 30, 2008
Media Silent on Far-Left Anti-Abstinence Alliance

The ACLU and Planned Parenthood are teaming up to take down federally funded abstinence education.

June 30, 2008
Celebrating the Second on the Fourth

America's Founding Fathers sharply disagree with opponents of the right to keep and bear arms. Just read the quotations.

June 30, 2008
CMI Urges Media Not to Fire from the Hip on Gun Ruling

Will journalists pack their stories with anti-gun zealots, or report the story with objectivity and balance?

June 27, 2008
Life Savers vs. Gun Nuts

Nets react sourly to the Supreme Court decision finding that individual Americans have the right to keep and bear firearms.

June 26, 2008
ABC Keeps Flacking Obama’s Outreach to Evangelicals

Good Morning America hosts follow up the Obama story with interviews of a leftwing minister and a radical priest.   

June 26, 2008
Babies Raising Babies

NBC responds to the rising teen birth rate with a show that uses children, infants through teens, as human guinea pigs. 

June 26, 2008
CMI Urges Media Not to Fire from the Hip on Gun Ruling

Will journalists pack their stories with anti-gun zealots, or report the story with objectivity and balance?

June 25, 2008
ABC, CBS Journalists Celebrate Acceptance of All Religions as Path to Salvation

Theologically informed commentators on CBS and NBC, however, point out the down side of a Pew poll's finding that 70% of Americans believe their faith is not the only way to God.   

June 25, 2008
CBS Allows Theologian to Defend Belief

The Early Show’s Maggie Rodriguez interviews Father Thomas Williams, whose new book debunks atheism. 

June 23, 2008
ABC: Evangelicals ‘Buzzing’ Over Obama

World News Sunday promotes “unprecedented” campaign to woo “millions” and highlights importance of the abortion issue in the process.

June 20, 2008
NBC’s Today Showcases Edgy Singer Rihanna

Kathie Lee Gifford called Rihanna an “absolute doll.” What about the sexually suggestive songs she performed before an audience peppered with children? 

June 19, 2008
AP Suggests Christians Oppose Faith-Affirming License Plates

Article quotes three pastors who oppose “I Believe” license plates in SC, but no pastors in favor.

June 19, 2008
CNN Portrays The Da Vinci Code Movie as Sin ‘Too Grave to be Forgiven’

Like ABC, CNN sides with Hollywood against Rome.

June 18, 2008
ABC Reporter Sides with Hollywood against Rome

Good Morning America’s Nick Watt sneers at the Vatican for refusing to allow a Catholic-bashing movie to be filmed in historic churches. 

June 17, 2008
Forget Facts, Media Sell Same-Sex 'Marriage' with Emotion

The societal ramifications offer our friends in the press quite a lot to write about, if they’d just take off those party hats.

June 16, 2008
Battlefield ‘Habeas Corpus’

The Supreme Court’s decision granting rights to enemy combatants will make life for our soldiers much tougher.  For the enemy, combat may become even deadlier.

June 16, 2008
CBS Lauds Latest Jolie-Pitt Pregnancy

Early Show message: you don’t need to be married to raise a family. 

June 13, 2008
Courage in Face of Deadly Tornado Spawns Rare Positive Coverage of Boy Scouts

Will the media apply the lessons the Iowa Scouts have taught them to the beleaguered Scouts in Philadelphia?

June 13, 2008
Disrobing His ‘Honor’

Judge Alex Kozinski should consider resigning from the bench.

June 13, 2008
Nightline Attacks DOJ Official Emphasizing Character in Fight against Juvenile Delinquency

ABC’s Brian Ross follows up a disgruntled employee’s accusation of “cronyism, waste, fraud, abuse” by gratuitously identifying the alleged culprit as ‘a former prosecutor and devout born-again Christian.’

June 12, 2008
Media ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ about Key Ruling

Court’s affirmation of military policy goes unreported even by AP, which instead exhorts Democrats to rescind ban on homosexuality.

June 11, 2008
Media Ignore that Gagging Sound from Canada

U.S. journalists are failing to report on an effort to censor a columnist prominent in Canada and the U.S.  

June 11, 2008
ACLU Targets Heartland, Sets Off CMI’s Grinch-o-Meter

UPI seems ecstatic about the news.

June 10, 2008
New CMI Special Report: 'Unmasking the Myths Behind the Fairness Doctrine'

America doesn't need the government to regulate political speech on the airwaves. Politicians need more respect for the First Amendment.

June 10, 2008
Los Angeles Times Misses Max Hardcore’s Obscenity Conviction

Hometown paper yawns as a jury cracks down on a prominent pornographer.

June 10, 2008
ABC’s Nightline Guest Advocates ‘Taking Risks’ with Kids’ Internet Safety 

Reporter Nick Watt does not discuss the harm children can suffer when allowed to surf the Internet without tight parental supervision. 

June 10, 2008
Media Ignore Impending Collision: Gay Rights vs. Religious Liberty

'Fascism has come to Canada,' writes a Canadian priest.  Is America next in line?

June 9, 2008
Pregnant ‘Man’ Photos Make Morning Shows Squeamish

ABC, NBC use "she," "he" and "it" to describe Thomas Beatie.

June 6, 2008
Media Downplay Calif. Judges’ Refusal to Stay Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Ruling

Don’t they understand the importance of this story for the entire nation?  Or are they trying to avoid triggering a backlash?

June 6, 2008
Nightmare on Prom Street

Since when do principals ask their students not to simulate anal sex in public dances?

June 5, 2008
Media Hype CBS Wife-Swapping TV Series “Swingtown”

The press is praising the show’s artistic qualities and ignoring the social costs of broadcasting sexually explicit content and promoting sex outside of marriage.

June 4, 2008
Shielding Obama with the Power of Ridicule

How do you protect your candidate from a dangerous revelation?  Attack the messenger.

June 3, 2008
California Voters to Decide on Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ - Where’s the Media?

Only ABC’s Good Morning America reports that Californians will have an opportunity to overrule the state Supreme Court.

June 3, 2008
Is Obama Off the Hook?

The man is out of Jeremiah Wright’s radical church. Is the church out of the man? Inquiring media minds don’t want to know.

June 3, 2008
Sex and the Skittish

Newsweek seems to lament how the movie isn’t outrageous enough. The headline is Girls Gone Mild.

June 2, 2008
CBS: Universal Health Care a “Moral Imperative”

Reporter Priya David discounts the social and economic cost in promoting the Massachusetts mandatory health insurance plan

May 30, 2008
Media Black Out Discussion of California Same-Sex ‘Marriage’ Implications 

The First Amendment is in jeopardy.  Why isn’t the press rushing to its defense?

May 30, 2008
Another Cost of Celebrity Obsession

Should we restrict the paparazzi or curb the appetite for celebrity Mcnews?

May 29, 2008
Media Shove Boy Scout Story under a Tent

Boy Scouts face eviction by the city over no-homosexuals policy.

May 29, 2008
Kirk Cameron’s Faith Embraced on The View

Evangelical Christianity is okay when it’s proclaimed by a heartthrob.

May 29, 2008
LA Times Writer Whacks Columnist for ‘Shivving’ Sebelius Over Abortion

Media critic Tim Rutten attacks Robert Novak for using "guilt by association" against the Kansas governor, then plays the same card against Novak.

May 28, 2008
Any Stick’s Good Enough to Beat Abstinence Education

NBC’s Nancy Snyderman uses an uptick in teen pregnancy rates to challenge morally based sex ed.

May 28, 2008
Tennis Pro Harkleroad Poses for Playboy; Reuters Hails ‘Glamorous Coup’

Article quotes star Serena Williams praising Georgia girl’s “courage,” but cites no critics of pornography.  

May 27, 2008
Why Was Parsley a Problem for McCain?  Media PC

ABC can't distinguish between criticizing a religion and hating its believers.

May 22, 2008
USA Today Spotlights Program to Honor World War II Vets

Honor Flight Network brings vets to D.C. to see the World War II Memorial.

May 22, 2008
McCain’s Media-Manufactured ‘Pastor Problem’

ABC tries to link McCain to a controversial preacher, as Newsweek did two weeks ago. 

May 21, 2008
Will Good Morning America Report THIS Sex and the City Story?

Woman says SATC inspired her to have sex at 14.

May 21, 2008
Band Opening for Obama in Oregon Frequently Uses Soviet Anthem 

Another link to radical leftism for the Democratic presidential candidate goes unreported in the media.

May 20, 2008
Media Hype Sex and the City: The Movie

Journalists continue to worship at the altar of sexploitation. 

May 19, 2008
Media Cover Up Obama’s Malaise Speech

Sounding like Jimmy Carter, the presidential candidate told an Oregon audience Americans have to make major sacrifices to fight global warming, or we’re ‘goners.’

May 16, 2008
Media Follow Gay Script on Marriage Ruling

News coverage celebrates the California Supreme Court's creation of a new 'right,' but ignores the moral concerns and the infringement on the public's right to self-government.

May 15, 2008
TIME’s Campaign Coverage in Question

CMI report exposes editor’s political agenda: persuading religious voters to support Democrats.

May 14, 2008
Junking the Real Meaning of Art: RIP Mr. Rauschenberg

Inspired by Rauschenberg’s success and unbound by considerations of skill or beauty, a generation of artists was freed to slap together virtually anything and call it Art.

May 13, 2008
ABC’s Good Morning America Exploits Sex… Again

The premiere of Sex and the City, The Movie gives rise to another salacious news story.

May 13, 2008
Librarians Against, and For, Censorship

Challenging libraries to provide titles they’re not stocking would turn the tables and make people realize that librarians can also be censorious in the titles they choose not to display. The mere act of selecting some books and excluding others is a "censorious" act.

May 12, 2008
TIME: Have a Baby, Wreck the Environment

If you have to have kids, at least reduce their carbon footprint.

May 9, 2008
Planting the Seeds of a Demographic Winter

If a two-person household is that bad, what does that make families with children? Environmental criminals, at the least, and maybe earth wreckers.

May 8, 2008
CBS Evening News Touts Financial Discipline Expert, but Omits Her Faith Motivation

Reporter Richard Schlesinger is surprised by the notion of giving 10% to charity, the Biblical principle of tithing.

May 7, 2008
Walters Makes Light of Adultery in Autobiography

News of Barbara Walters’ cheating past gets a free pass from Oprah and The Washington Post.

May 7, 2008
Applauding ‘Grand Theft’

Yes, young lads, you can visit strip clubs and get lap dances, pick up prostitutes, go on assassination missions and conduct gangland-style executions. The New York Times applauded the game’s “winsome procession of grifters, hustlers, drug peddlers and other gloriously unrepentant lowlifes.”

May 7, 2008
Stars and Stripes, Newsweek Tut-Tut Concerns about Porn on Military Bases

The big newsweekly suggests Congressman's motive for proposing a ban is re-election, not the welfare of the troops.

May 6, 2008
Taboo-Busting ABC Touts Sister-Brother Love

Good Morning America jolts viewers awake with a puff piece on incest.

May 6, 2008
Newsweek Helps Obama Four Different Ways

Magazine spares no efforts to help Obama over the Wright hurdle.

May 6, 2008
Left Wing and Wright Brained?

Liberal media pundits are trying to excuse Barack Obama’s 20-year ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright by suggesting that Wright’s ravings are no worse than a single comment by Jerry Falwell. 

May 2, 2008
Profiles in Cowardice, Unreported

Smith College allows militant lesbians to silence a speaker; APA, pressured by gay activists, cancels a panel on therapy for homosexuals.  Liberal media ignore both stories.

May 1, 2008
CBS May Day Bouquet to the Castros

On The Early Show, correspondent Liz Palmer describes Fidel Castro as “Cuba’s revolutionary hero” and lauds new dictator Raul Castro’s efforts to “improve workers’ lives.” 

May 1, 2008
A May Day for Feminism at the Post

Women belong in combat, and mothers don't need husbands.

April 30, 2008
Obama’s ‘Pastor Souljah’ Moment

Media hope Obama has put the Wright controversy behind him, but important questions yet unasked must be answered first.   

April 29, 2008
Miley Media Mania

This picture spoke more than 1,000 words.

April 28, 2008
On Sunday, ABC, CBS Showcase Atheist Suing Army

Co-plaintiff gets unchallenged platform to claim military services have become ‘government-paid missionaries.’ 

April 28, 2008
Media Take Sides in OK Lawmaker’s ‘Homophobia’ Flap

An anti-Sally Kern rally of 300 made the New York Times. Almost no press mentions of the pro-Kern rally numbering at least 1,500.

April 25, 2008
NYT: Gay Bishop is ‘Normal,’ Opponents Are ‘Conservative’

Reporter Laurie Goodstein never labels the Episcopal hierarchy, which has rejected Biblical teaching on homosexuality, as 'liberal.'

April 24, 2008
Hollywood Director: Jesus ‘Probably’ Fathered by Roman Rapist

Filmmaker Paul Verhoeven is about to publish a ‘realistic’ biography of Christ, and hopes to follow with a movie.

April 24, 2008
Abstinence Education: Bias on the Hill and in the Press

Neither the LA Times nor Reuters reported that "comprehensive" sex education -- condoms and contraceptives -- receives 12 times more funding than no-sex-before-marriage programs.

April 23, 2008
Gaiag Me with a Spoon

No subject, not even Barack Obama and the New Camelot, inspires reporters to drop any pretense of balance and objectivity like the Environment. 

April 23, 2008
Expelled Opens with a Bang

Big Media's reviewers panned the movie, but the public had the last laugh.

April 23, 2008
They Read the Articles? Playboy Piece Wins Science Prize

Skin mag staff writer gets ‘Honorable’ Mention for the Wistar Institute Science Journalism Award.

April 21, 2008
My Big Fat Green Wedding and Other Media Nonsense

National Public Radio kicked off Earth Week with “a series of conversations about food’s footprint.” That’s right. Put down that cheeseburger and listen.

April 21, 2008
The Art of the Non-Apology

TIME and HBO offend veterans and Catholics in the name of environmentalism and comedy. Too bad.

April 18, 2008
Character Questions

ABC was right to ask about Obama’s judgment and patriotism, and Hillary’s honesty. 

April 17, 2008
Ben Stein vs. Sputtering Atheists

I went into the screening of Expelled bored. I came out of it stunned.

April 17, 2008
Right Diagnosis, Wrong Remedy

Condoms don't protect against HPV.

April 17, 2008
When Media Aren’t Ignoring Controversial Evolution Movie, Expelled, They’re Hostile

New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times discussed Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth at least three dozen times before the documentary was released.  Ben Stein’s Expelled?  Two mentions.

April 16, 2008
CNN’s ‘Compassion’ Forum Needed Ben Stein

Why didn't Campbell Brown and Jon Meacham ask the tough questions?

April 16, 2008
What They Like

If you are the parent of a kid who plays video games, this site’s for you.

April 16, 2008
CosmoGirl! as a Religious Guide?  Hardly

Article discusses religion without a clear understanding of what religion really is. 

April 15, 2008
Bias, Bias Everywhere as Media Ponder Pontiff

There were too many examples of anti-Pope bias to list before Benedict even set foot on American soil.

April 15, 2008
Evergreen Gore’s New TV Ad Is Holocaustic

When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power. - Alston Chase

April 14, 2008
Obama’s Retiring Pastor: Jefferson a Pedophile 

The Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s explosive accusation against Thomas Jefferson was not reported by the Associated Press and the Chicago Sun-Times, though the audio is on the newspaper’s Web site.

April 14, 2008
For Obama, How Bitter It Is

ABC, NBC soft-pedaled the candidate’s remark lumping religion in with racism, and ignored the message about his values.

April 14, 2008
Bill Maher Slanders Pope Benedict XVI

Comedian's HBO-sponsored hate speech is nothing new.

April 10, 2008
No Forgiving Charlton Heston

Some media figures think it’s okay to hate somebody because he disagrees with their political beliefs.

April 9, 2008
YouTube’s Great Influence, for Good and for Ill

Inspiring ‘Last Lecture’ and vicious cheerleaders both go viral.

April 7, 2008
Charlton Heston’s ‘Controversial’ Life

Many journalists discount the late actor’s character because they disagree with his views.

April 7, 2008
ABC Features Teen ‘Confessionals’

Story explains why parents should “just say no” to Spring Break.

April 7, 2008
Controlling Kids with a ‘Raised Eyebrow?’

Washington Post columnist Marguerite Kelly advises a mother to ‘flee’ from her husband because he spanks their son.

April 4, 2008
Oprah Redefines Normal with Pregnant ‘Man’

Media ignore the simple reality: Thomas Beatie is a woman.

April 3, 2008
While Covering Lies by Hillary and Obama, Couric Smears McCain 

CBS ‘balances’ a story about whoppers told by the Democratic candidates by falsely depicting a McCain policy prediction as a lie.

April 3, 2008
The Revolt Against Sincerity 

America is mired in the Snark Ages.

April 2, 2008
Networks Ignore Revealing Obama ‘Baby’ Gaffe

Candidate doesn’t want daughters “punished with a baby.”

April 2, 2008
Soldiers ‘Experiencing God’ a Problem for Newsweek

The Beliefwatch column suggests we can’t have thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan reading a Christian devotional book, lest people think the government favors a certain religion.

April 2, 2008
Expelled Encounters Hostility from the Liberal Media

Documentary exposes the academy’s emotional and ideological commitment to evolution, and its anti-scientific exclusion of evidence for intelligent design.

March 28, 2008
ABC’s View Girls Skip Down the Yellow Brick Road with Obama

Most panelists choose to coddle the candidate, not examine his character and values. 

March 28, 2008
CBS Early Show Gives Planned Parenthood Star Treatment

Kate Walsh plays a doctor on TV.  Who cares what she thinks about abstinence education and STDs?

March 28, 2008
ABC Follows ‘Born Gay’ Script to a T

Good Morning America promotes the latest gay gene study, and marginalizes the opposing scientific voice by labeling him as religious.

March 27, 2008
NBC Touts New Do-It-Yourself Paternity Test

Today Show fails to address the moral implications.

March 26, 2008
Washington Post Swoons over Hollywood Leftists Come to D.C.

News media helps entertainment media 'progressives' spread message about the separating church and state.

March 26, 2008
All They Need Is Love?

ABC’s Good Morning America fails to ask hard questions when a transgendered ‘man’ announces ‘his’ pregnancy. 

March 24, 2008
Networks Spurn Clinton-Obama Spat over Character and Values

Reporters are more concerned about Democratic prospects in November than in telling the American people who Clinton and Obama really are.

March 24, 2008
Spreading the Gospel of Godlessness

The media gave atheism a free ride - and at times, outright promotion - in 2007.

March 21, 2008
FaithShatters: ABC Takes an Ill-Informed Whack at Creationists

During Holy Week, the Nightline series “FaithMatters” ridicules Biblical literalists.

March 21, 2008
Beyond Bunnies and Jelly Bellies: USA Today Explores True Meaning of Easter

Article challenges popular definition of sin and allows Christians to cite the correct definition. 

March 20, 2008
ABC’s Raddatz Recoils from True Political Leadership

Reporter is appalled that Cheney refuses to base Iraq strategy on public opinion polls, as network coverage of the war’s fifth anniversary emphasizes costs, ignores benefits.

March 20, 2008
Scoring Points by Demonizing Falwell

Unlike Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jerry Falwell was no hater.

March 19, 2008
Obama Can Run, but He Can’t Hide Without Media Help - and They’re Helping

The networks gloss over the candidate’s failure, in a crucial speech, to explain why he remained in a church that preaches hatred of America. 

March 18, 2008
Obama’s Church of Slurs

Barack Obama looks phony either way. Either he missed all of these sermons or he sincerely thinks that hateful, race-baiting, America-bashing sermons are part of a pleasant Sunday worship experience. The press has an obligation to pursue this.

March 17, 2008
Keeping ‘Pigs’ Out of Your Parlor

The Supreme Court will rule on "fleeting expletives" and broadcast indecency.

March 17, 2008
Media Silence on the Myth of ‘Safe Sex’

Here’s what the networks refuse to report: condoms are only partially effective, even when used perfectly, in preventing a host of STDs.

March 14, 2008
Here They Go A-Whoring: Media Pander Prostitutes, Pimps

ABC’s World News is the first to go beyond titillation stories to report painful facts about the sex trade. 

March 12, 2008
Couric Shocked, Shocked! That 50% of Teen Girls Are Sexually Active, and 25% Have STDs

An expert interviewed by CBS misses the link between ‘comprehensive’ sex ed and runaway rates of HPV.

March 12, 2008
Thanks, “Kristen”

The girl behind the Spitzer scandal deserves some media attention too.

March 11, 2008
Reporting the Spitzer Scandal: The Good, the Bad and the Outrageous

Jeff Greenfield tells it like it is; Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz says sweep it under the rug.

March 11, 2008
Stand By Your Womanizer

Hopefully, the Spitzer family will experience forgiveness and reconciliation. That takes time and work. But exploitation of the family by the one who broke the trust is hardly the right catalyst.

March 10, 2008
ABC, NBC Continue to Ignore Personal Responsibility for Foreclosures 

Four months after CMI released a study on debt coverage,only CBS addresses the character question in mortgage crisis stories. 

March 10, 2008
ABC Highlights Gambler Suing Casinos for Enabling Addiction

Good Morning America ditches character, personal responsibility.

March 7, 2008
Washington Post Targets Mother in Tangled Tango Reporting

A Virginia school system employee and her children have been exposed to retaliation for opposing a pro-gay children's book.

March 7, 2008
Sermon from Mt. Obama Raises Big Questions

Barack Obama has expounded his revised standard version of the Sermon on the Mount, but the MSM couldn’t care less if Obama waxes theological from here to eternity.

March 6, 2008
ABC Spotlights ‘Woman’ Who Is Husband and Dad

Good Morning America portrays transgenderism as just one of those “complicated choices.”

March 6, 2008
Today Show Features Author Who Excuses Lying

NBC host Meredith Vieira fails to stand up for character and truthtelling.

March 6, 2008
Rape Films at Yale

Pornographer runs afoul of a force more powerful than Christianity, at least in Ivy League precincts: feminism.

March 5, 2008
Runaway Bridal Coverage

Nets ignore crucial California Supreme Court case on same-sex 'marriage.'

March 4, 2008
Media Spike Story on Obama Citing Jesus to Justify Same-Sex Civil Unions

Not a single paper or network covers Obama rejecting the Book of Romans’ teaching on homosexuality.

March 3, 2008
Clueless in Obama Nation

On Sunday, at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sen. Obama promoted homosexual legal civil unions in answer to a question posed by a pastor, and then threw out this challenge: “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans.”

March 3, 2008
The Sunday Washington Post on Satanic Rock: 'Two Horns Up!'

This underlines how low the Post will go for Internet traffic numbers.

February 29, 2008
Network Jailbreak

NBC, ABC and CBS loose their America-bashing impulse in stories on the U.S. incarceration rate.

February 29, 2008
ABC Addresses ‘Moral Hazard’ of Government Bailouts

Taxpayer-funded rescues for people facing foreclosure could encourage even greater financial risk-taking.

February 29, 2008
NBC Focuses on Quality Family Time

Today Show hosts highlight low-cost, low-tech ways for families to spend time together.

February 29, 2008
GMA: Is Victoria’s Secret Too Sexy?

ABC un-coverage crams dozens of semi-dressed models and naked body parts into two minutes of morning television news.

February 27, 2008
Bill Buckley Made It Okay to Be a Conservative

I was a conservative as a kid, but fell under the sway of liberal profs and the New Age culture.  But Buckley was a key force in pulling me back to reality. 

February 26, 2008
Religion in America and on the Network News

It’s always interesting to see how different news organizations report the exact same information.

February 26, 2008
Oscar’s a Grouch this Year

The Oscars flopped this year, along with all those anti-military, anti-Iraq War movies.  Even Michael Moore went belly-up.

February 22, 2008
It’s Sweeps Week -- ABC News to Focus on Sex Tonight

For 20/20 it’s infidelity, for Nightline it’s the merits of porn.

February 22, 2008
CBS Evening News Acknowledges that Premature Babies Feel Pain

The network leaves one question unanswered: why do some physicians still say infants don’t feel pain?

February 22, 2008
Doves vs. Oscars

What do the Academy Awards -- and mainstream media movie critics -- have against family-friendly films? 

February 21, 2008
The New York Times, John McCain, and the Abuse of Ethics Reporting

By playing politics with a story, America's 'paper of record' has made it more difficult for journalists to keep politicians accountable for their moral conduct.

February 20, 2008
Dear Abby, or Dear Dr. Ruth?

A mother should accept her daughter making a living by running porn sites? 

February 20, 2008
‘Dumb’ Americans

Author Susan Jacoby attacks conservatives and religious believers while promoting new book.

February 19, 2008
Nets Ignore Michelle Obama’s Lack of Pride in America 

News shows do cover Barack Obama’s insignificant “plagiarism” spat with Hillary Clinton. 

February 19, 2008
Sex Education Veers the Wrong Way

The Washington Post steers parents to a perfectly awful book about sex, Robie Harris's It's Perfectly Normal.

February 18, 2008
Nets Slam Gun Rights

Following the Valentine’s Day shootings at NIU, the network tom-toms pounded out the familiar anti-Second Amendment beat - even taking whacks at Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. 

February 18, 2008
Kids, Courage and Character

Sometimes facing your fears can have unexpected results.

February 15, 2008
ABC Goes to Yale for Sex Week

Nightline co-anchor to moderate debate on porn.

February 14, 2008
Hillary, Queen of All Media

How top American journalists kowtowed to Candidate Clinton.

February 14, 2008
Morning Media’s Valentines to Vulgarity

Jane Fonda drops the C-bomb on NBC’s Today Show, and ABC’s The View trots out bare-chested Chippendales and condoms.    

February 14, 2008
Liar, Liar, Who’s the Liar?

Baseball great Roger Clemens and his former trainer testify before Congress.  While the media and America wonder which one lied, the real issue is what the scandal says about our culture.

February 13, 2008
CNN Headline News Backs Transgenderism - For an 8-Year-Old

Prime News host Richelle Carey’s piece was so biased, the TransYouth Family Advocates are using it to raise money.

February 13, 2008
Washington Post Sends Big Valentine to Multi-Partner ‘Relationships’ 

Polyamory.  It’s not about sex, it’s about loving yourself.  Really?  It may also be about redefining marriage.

February 8, 2008
Obama, Thomas and Liberal Bias 

The media paint the Supreme Court Justice's autobiography as "angry," but ignore the rage in the presidential candidate's autobiography.

February 7, 2008
Character, Personified

Marine Sean Stokes exemplified courage, patriotism and selflessness in winning the Silver Star in Iraq.

February 6, 2008
Race, Class, Gender and the News

Coverage of Super Tuesday shows how deeply the far-left world view is influencing the media and the entire nation.

February 6, 2008
CosmoGirl’s Pot Calls the Kettle Black

The teen-oriented glossy takes a shot at Hollywood and Madison Avenue for pushing sex on young girls.  Have they read their own magazine?

February 5, 2008
Media Stack the Deck for McCain and Obama on Culture Issues

Journalists give their favorite candidates a pass when they play race, religion or gender cards, but jump on the rest.

February 4, 2008
ABC Casts Stones at Evangelical Financial Advisers

Anchor Dan Harris challenges the ‘quality’ of advice proffered by counselors who apply Biblical principles to money, mortgages, and credit cards.

February 4, 2008
Who Knew?  CBS Develops a Conscience on Britney

Maggie Rodriguez announces The Early Show “will show extreme restraint” regarding paparazzi photos. 

February 1, 2008
Choose-Life Movie Plots? They're Fictions, 'Consoling' and 'Cutesy'

Only pro-abortion movies are honest about the lives of women, in the view of Washington Post movie reviewer Ann Hornaday.

January 31, 2008
CBS’s Couric Unloads Both Barrels at Religion

Don’t trust those flock-fleecing televangelists - and keep that Bible far away from me!

January 30, 2008
CBS Reveals: John Edwards Influenced by Soviet-Linked Marxist I.F. Stone

What book would the former Vice Presidential nominee bring into the White House?  A book by a man so radical he blamed South Korea for starting the Korean War.

January 30, 2008
America’s Tabloid Coliseum

During the Roman Empire days, people would cram into coliseums to be entertained by gladiators fighting to the death.  Have we created a modern American counterpart? 

January 29, 2008
Take Two Pills and Reserve Your Place in Rehab

NBC highlights prescription drug abuse, but only in the wake of tragedy.

January 28, 2008
Building Character One Boy at a Time

NBC Nightly News spotlights one man’s effort to chart a new course for troubled boys.

January 28, 2008
ABC News Pimping for Ratings

For insight on Nevada presidential politics, most national journalists might turn to political science profs at UNLV or perhaps some local ink-stained wretches. Not ABC World News Saturday. They sent their fearless camera crews into a whorehouse.

January 28, 2008
Judging Churches for Being Judgmental

The Wall Street Journal runs a hostile, one-sided article about church discipline.

January 25, 2008
Does Katie Couric Believe in Time Travel? 

CBS Evening News suggests the 2006 teen birth rate spike is somehow ‘connected’ to pro-life films released in 2007. 

January 25, 2008
'Recession' Presumption Leads to Stories on Thrift and Savings

ABC’s Good Morning America highlights Biblically-based financial counseling.

January 24, 2008
With the Digital Revolution, We Need to Rethink Privacy

Society’s rules seem to be changing faster than people can keep up.

January 23, 2008
PBS Scoops ABC, NBC, CBS - Notices Thousands of Protesters Filling D.C. Streets

Only Jim Lehrer’s NewsHour mentions the 35th Anniversary March for Life.

January 22, 2008
ABC’s Pregnant Priorities

Good Morning America presents a thoughtful look at a trio of teens who have had to grow up real fast.

January 21, 2008
To the Washington Post, Bill Clinton is a Man of Character

The article gives an overall impression of a good man wronged, but still fighting for his valiant, equally wronged wife’s name and campaign prospects. It’s not that the Clintons lack character, the article implies, it’s that their opponents are out to get them.

January 19, 2008
NBC Painfully Faces an Inconvenient Truth: Men and Women are Different

In a series on distinctions between the sexes, Nightly News anchor Brian Williams demonstrates how facts can be controversial to the liberal mind.

January 18, 2008
Evangelists for Teen Sex

The Midwest Teen Sex Show is a series of infomercials for 'comnrehensive' adolescent indulgence.

January 18, 2008
Washington Post’s Bias Seeps Into Sex Ed Story

Paper equates the Southern Baptist Convention with 'religious fundamentalism,' media shorthand for 'extremists.'

January 17, 2008
Abortion Rates Drop, Bias Doesn’t

Washington Post quotes three pro-choice sources, but only one pro-life source.

January 16, 2008
NBC Repeats CBS Piece Challenging U.S. Version of Strait of Hormuz Incident

Are the networks so hard up for good America-bashing stories that they have to recycle something a rival ran five days before?

January 16, 2008
The ABCs of Entertainment News

Why was Good Morning America unprepared when Diane Keaton dropped the f-bomb?

January 15, 2008
MySpace Announces New Safety Measures to Protect Children from Online Predators

NBC shows parental involvement is still needed.

January 15, 2008
Media Mania Over Chump Change

Most of us won’t allow a hairstylist to “change” our do without an in-depth explanation. But a lot of us are buying into undefined promises of “change” from presidential contenders.

January 14, 2008
ABC: Three-Way, Alone, It’s All Okay

The View’s ‘Hot Topics’ devolves into a raunchy game of truth or dare, minus the dare. 

January 14, 2008
Eureka! Media Discover Fairness, Balance!

Talking heads won’t take sides in Hillary-Obama race argument.

January 14, 2008
‘You Have to Try to Fix It Yourself’

ABC features an 11-year-old boy taking it upon himself to help feed Florida’s hungry.

January 11, 2008
CBS Discredits Pentagon Version of U.S.-Iran Strait of Hormuz Incident  

A prime example of the globalist mentality infecting the elite media. Whatever happened to patriotism? 

January 10, 2008
CBS Uses Teen Pregnancy Stats to Promote Midwest Teen Sex Show

Calls explicit internet program a “popular health podcast.”

January 10, 2008
Poll: Character of Candidates is Key to Voters

Media virtually ignore survey results.

January 10, 2008
The NBCs of Blasphemy

Unrepentant comedienne Kathy Griffin to be showcased on Dateline

January 10, 2008
“F” is for Falsehood, Not Feminism

CosmoGirl tries to rally young women to the feminist movement, using propaganda long ago debunked. 

January 9, 2008
The Politics of Childbirth at ABC

GMA's Juju Chang asks conservative The View co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck if her “views” have changed now that she’s a mom.

January 8, 2008
Are Connecticut Justices, Hartford Courant Courting Same-Sex Marriage?

The state’s largest newspaper, and the oldest in the nation, The Hartford Courant, hasn’t covered the case on its news pages since it was argued last May. But that doesn’t mean the paper has kept its bias in the closet.

December 21, 2007
Grinch-o-Meter Update

NBC's story slants to the left, but at least they covered the War on Christmas.

December 21, 2007
The B-Word Book Craze

If it wasn’t so commercially calculated, it might sound like Tourette ’s syndrome.

December 21, 2007
The Question is Infidelity

CBS’s Katie Couric gives us insight into how the presidential candidates view character. 

December 20, 2007
Whoopi and Joy Spar Over Huckabee Christmas Ad

ABC The View co-host Joy Behar takes offense when a Republican Christian politician appeals to ‘the Christian right base of the Republican party.’

December 19, 2007
Jamie Lynn Spears Pregnant - What About the Father?

Media ignores the fact that it takes two to create a baby, not just a girl. 

December 17, 2007
60 Minutes Salutes Homosexuals in Uniform 

CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl devotes 10 minutes in a 12 minute segment to arguments in favor of homosexuals serving openly in the United States military. 

December 17, 2007
Christmas Hero: The Philanthropic Secret Santa

CBS’s story is a gift for the season.

December 14, 2007
Who's Scared of Christmas?

Our First Amendment forbids the establishment of a state religion, but many of our governing elites are taking it a step further, outlawing its very existence from the public conversation.

December 11, 2007
Nets Focus on Colorado Heroes, not Killer

Mornings shows draw attention to the people who stopped the shooter, and allow them to give credit and glory to God. 

December 11, 2007
MSNBC News Reader on Church Shootings: 'Inane' To Think Armed Citizen Can Make a Difference

The value of the Second Amendment is exemplified by a volunteer armed guard, but the significance of the story is lost on Mike Brzezinski.

December 10, 2007
Will The Golden Compass Keep Going South?      

The heavily promoted 'blockbuster' failed to produce box-office gold during its first weekend.

December 7, 2007
As Teen Pregnancy Rates Rise, Times and Post Blame Abstinence Education. 

Both papers took the standard, biased media approach by challenging federal funding of abstinence education while ignoring the far greater funding of condom-based sex education.

December 6, 2007
Movie Reviewer Not Satisfied by Presence of ‘Choice’

Entertainment Weekly film critic bemoans the absence of pro-abortion propagandizing in Juno, even though the pregnant protagonist seriously considers abortion.

December 5, 2007
Cantwell Aide’s Sex Scandal Gets Little Press Coverage

Media bury news of a Democratic congressional staffer snared in a police pedophile sting.

December 4, 2007
AIDS: The Questions They Won’t Ask

Here are some of the questions that the media probably won’t ask the professional HIV/AIDS lobby, which grows ever fatter while the human tragedy rises

December 4, 2007
Going Off a Cliff at the Chronicle

A San Francisco columnist explains why he loves The Golden Compass -- because he hates religion and religious people.  Why does an ostensibly mainstream newspaper like the Chronicle publish such venomous hate speech?

December 3, 2007
NBC Claims, Hopefully, That Young Evangelicals Are Turning Away from Politics

Tom Brokaw uses carefully crafted images, leading questions and selective quotes to reinforce the appearance of a generational divide among evangelicals.    

November 29, 2007
ABC Spanks Spanking 

World News with Charles Gibson runs propaganda piece supporting a proposed ban on the tried and true method of parental discipline.   

November 29, 2007
ABC Highlights Pregnant Cancer Patient Who Rejected Abortion

Shazam!  Reasonable treatment of a social issue by a major network twice in the same day!

November 28, 2007
Abstinence Gets Fair Treatment from Today Show

NBC's Meredith Vieira is skeptical, but at least she isn't hostile.

November 28, 2007
Newsweek Writer Enjoys Atheist Denouncing the Conservative 'Nitwit'

At this point a critic must ask: as much as he enjoyed the denunciation of Donohue, did Gordon check out Pullman’s assertion of having no greater agenda than telling a rip-roaring tale? Even Snopes.com thinks Pullman’s hostility to religion is no urban legend.

November 27, 2007
ABC's Sawyer: Huckabee's 'Heavy Handed' Ad Plays 'Religion Card'

Did Huckabee 'cross the line' with an ad calling himself a 'Christian Leader?'

November 26, 2007
TIME Covers a Sunday School for Atheists     

Why do the media need to provide an atheist rebuttal to every God-centered holiday?

November 21, 2007
'Revolutionary' Stem Cell Research Breakthrough Gets Skeptical Treatment from ABC

"Holy Grail" story gets buried half-way through the newscast.

November 21, 2007
Glamour's Women of the Year Lean Left

Focusing solely on inspirational liberal women short changes conservative women looking for role models.

November 20, 2007
Post Sugarcoats Thuggery Against Philadelphia Boy Scouts

The Post's description is a classic example of moral equivalence, in which aggressor and victim are co-belligerents.

November 15, 2007
There She Goes Again

Newsweek’s religion writer gets it wrong on Jefferson, Reagan, statistical analysis…

November 14, 2007
Bill Press: Liberals Have No TV Network, No Op-Ed Pages

Apparently liberal radio gabber Bill Press has never read the New York Times, or watched a single TV news program.

November 13, 2007
Did Someone Say “Pray?” Bring on the Atheist Rebuttal!

ABC ridicules Georgia governor Sonny Perdue for asking God to relieve a drought.

November 13, 2007
Beware Hillary's Whitewash

How is it that the wife of an impeached president, the policy architect of a 1300-page left-wing health-care fiasco, and the document-shredding stonewaller of a welter of scandals turn her controversial career and bizarre First Marriage into assets, and not liabilities? How is that Team Clinton, disgraced and disgraceful, is back for another presidential run? Credit the national "news" media.

November 13, 2007
Media Claim Business Owes Debt to Society

Lenders and related companies are blamed for borrowers’ debt troubles six times as often as borrowers, according to a new study of network media coverage.

November 12, 2007
CNN Uses Wounded, Homeless Vets to Indict Bush, U.S.

On Veteran’s Day, the cable network says America’s treatment of retired servicemen is “a national shame.”

November 12, 2007
Two Nets Salute Vets

Fox, NBC honor American military veterans without playing politics.

November 8, 2007
Does AP Stand for ‘Anti-Abstinence Propaganda?’

Associated Press slams abstinence-only education as Congress considers funding.

November 8, 2007
CBS Features “Drastic” City Plan to Slim Down Residents

Forget personal responsibility, it’s all about fast food restaurants.

November 6, 2007
A Pro-Life Media Trifecta

The Washington Post and ABC cover pro-life stories … fairly!  And Bella continues her box office success.

November 5, 2007
The Singing Revolution Celebrates Freedom

How many of us knew that Estonia, one of the smallest countries on the face of this earth, is responsible for one of the most extraordinary, and certainly the most unique revolutions in modern history? How many of us knew that this tiny Baltic nation defeated the Soviet Union - with a song?

November 2, 2007
Institutionalizing Journalistic Bias

The reporter’s ‘bible’ decrees the use of terms that favor abortion.

November 2, 2007
Shameless in Massachusetts

Reporter, paper stick with story about an assault that wasn’t, even after the account was proven wrong in court.

November 1, 2007
AP Misrepresents Public Attitude on School Distribution of Birth Control Pill

Less than a third of the public actually agree that the Portland, Maine school board should allow a middle school health center to provide birth control pills to its students without informing parents

October 30, 2007
Media Silent on Boycott as Ford’s Sales Continue to Plunge

The automaker’s sales have declined for 17 of the 19 months since AFA declared its morally inspired boycott.  September sales dropped by 21 percent.  Still, Big Media refuses to say 'boo' about it. 

October 29, 2007
Bella to Anti-War Movies: Show Me the Money!

The independent pro-life film trounced Hollywood's anti-war movies in per-theater revenues, in spite of hostile mainstream media reviews.

October 26, 2007
What Would Jesus Download?

GodTube’s video of the little girl reciting Psalm 23 has been viewed four million times.

October 24, 2007
‘Easily Terrified, Mindless Fundamentalist Evangelical Christian Lemmings’

Columnist links religious belief and ‘dumber than dirt’ generation of teens.

October 19, 2007
Mainers and No-Brainers

The lesson from the anything-goes crowd is so illogical it borders on the obscene. In order to “protect the youth” from unsavory sexual messages, we should provide them with all the technology so they can have “safe sex” - even at age 11.

October 19, 2007
CBS, ABC Embrace Left-Wing Christians, Greet Conservatives with Skepticism

Funny.  The liberal media are quick to tout the faith and religious convictions of Democrats and “progressive Christians,” but treat the religious beliefs of Republican candidates as something “uncomfortable.”

October 18, 2007
‘Middle School Kids are Having Sex!’

Rather than a call for contraception, shouldn’t that be a wakeup call to our culture?   

October 16, 2007
Media Covers Innocuous Education Stories, Skips Incendiary Stories

It's nice to hear good news for a change, but we also need to know about schools becoming radical indoctrination centers, or handing out the pill to junior high students.

October 15, 2007
NBC, Matt Lauer Taking Larry Craig Interview Into Prime Time

The bias is clear: NBC's Today show led with Republican Sen. Larry Craig six times in seven days, but mentioned Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's bribery scandal only once.

October 12, 2007
Miller, the Jesus-Mocking Beer

Miller Brewing Company sponsors an attack on Christianity.

October 11, 2007
Banning Tango

The "most challenged" book on the American Library Association's Banned Books Week list, a pro-same sex marriage picture book targeting 4- to 8-year-olds called And Tango Makes Three, wasn't actually removed from a single library. 

October 10, 2007
Rush Limbaugh, Vindicated

The liberal media refuse to report about Jesse Macbeth or any of the "phony soldiers" who have misrepresented their military experience to attack the Iraq war policy.

October 9, 2007
Bias by Omission: Media Silent on Nationwide Pro-Life Protest, ‘Gay’ S&M Street Fair, National Boycott of Miller Beer

So much for “if it bleeds, it leads.” 

October 5, 2007
ABC Airs Two Segments Blaming Guns, Not Criminals

However, the story takes an unexpected twist when an infamous killer accepts personal responsibility for his crimes.

October 4, 2007
C’mon Britney, Turn it Around

Spears is ruining her life and the media are feasting on the spectacle.

October 3, 2007
Film of Abortion Aftermath Too Hard for 'Angry' Film Critic to Take

"I suggest the faint of heart skip the rest of this paragraph," warned New York Times movie reviewer Manohla Dargis before relaying the graphic details of the aftermath of an abortion. "My initial and admittedly angry first thought about these images was that the director, Tony Kaye, was just resorting to shock tactics."

October 3, 2007
Two Lewd Tuesdays

Oprah promotes, Whoopi volunteers for irresponsible sex.

October 1, 2007
60 Minutes Changes Tune on Thomas

The CBS news magazine treats the conservative black Supreme Court Justice with unprecedented respect, in contrast to Thomas’s Senate confirmation hearings

September 28, 2007
Was Blind, but Now She Sees - Thanks to a U.S. Soldier

ABC World News profiles an Army sergeant who took responsibility to help a suffering Iraqi girl.

September 28, 2007
TIME Plays TV Doctor: Suggests Vatican Gave Pope John Paul II A Push Into Death

TIME promotes the views of an Italian doctor who did what the magazine condemned Senator Bill Frist for doing: diagnosing a patient from video footage.

September 25, 2007
Will the Media Cover THIS Story?

Will public nudity and sexual acts performed in broad daylight in San Francisco streets, while police stand by doing nothing, generate headlines on national newscasts?

September 18, 2007
Media Can’t Disguise Disgust for Pro-Marriage Maryland Ruling

Coverage might be summed up this way:  “That ~!@#$!@ Court! Hey Maryland Legislators! Do Something!”  

September 18, 2007
Embarrassing Celebrity Pundits

A key measure we have for punditry in our political culture is fame, not a display of any brains.

September 14, 2007
Rutgers Fans’ Abuse of Navy Players Elicits Media Yawn

Journalists leaped to the defense of the Rutgers women's basketball players, but Navy men's football players seem to be fair game.

September 12, 2007
Running for President While Running from Marriage

The media must make candidates take clear positions on whether to amend the Constitution to protect one-man, one-woman marriage. 

September 11, 2007
Opposing 9/11 Remembrance

Commemorating the victims of al-Qaeda’s sneak attack is growing tedious, even annoying, and may play into the hands of the Bush administration, according to NPR and The New York Times.

September 10, 2007
Anti-Patriotism: the Press Undermines the Iraq War Effort UPDATED!!

Newspapers attacked military commander General Petraeus on the day he delivered his much-anticipated progress report on the war in Iraq. 

September 10, 2007
Snarky Celebrity ‘News’ Show Premieres Tonight

Yet another television show draws attention to the antics of the rich and irresponsible.  Whatever happened to programming that builds character?

September 6, 2007
Newsweek, MSNBC Rely on Atheist Critic to Discuss Mother Teresa’s Spiritual Troubles

It’s like asking the head of Hamas for insights into the Jewish mind.

September 6, 2007
NBC’s Williams:  “A Lesson in Courage and Character”

Nightly News highlights an upcoming documentary on wounded vets.

September 4, 2007
ABC News Anchor Admits Media Irresponsibility, Bias on Duke Rape Case

Chris Cuomo: “Be careful what you hear from the media.” 

August 31, 2007
The Story Stalls Here

Ft. Lauderdale is among the nation’s "leaders" in new AIDS cases, but the media are willfully blind to the consequences of men irresponsibly having sex with strangers in public bathrooms.  Mayor Jim Naugle is trying to stop the practice and cut the HIV infection rate -- and the Miami Herald actually called him a "hate-monger" for trying to save the lives of the people he's supposed to hate.  Is it any wonder people are losing faith in the "mainstream" press?

August 30, 2007
Washington Post Bombards Craig, Shelters Hillary

The obscure GOP senator’s public sex scandal gets five full stories, from the front page to the lead editorial.  The Democratic presidential frontrunner’s brewing campaign financing scandal gets five paragraphs buried on page A-5.

August 29, 2007
Networks Ignore Sparsely Attended Anti-Gun Rallies

Journalists refuse to embarrass activists attacking your ability to responsibly defend your loved ones.

August 29, 2007
God’s Warriors Interviewee Says CNN Misrepresented Him and His Family

Christiane Amanpour reported her preconceived biases about Christians, rather than the facts.

August 28, 2007
God’s Christian Warriors, the Newsweek Version

Story on small evangelical college highlights reporter prejudice.

August 27, 2007
Washington Post Acknowledges Marxist-Guerrilla Inspiration of 'Mexicans Without Borders' Leader

Previous article dismissed a conservative blogger as a ‘crackpot’ for reporting that Ricardo Juarez is influenced by Mexican revolutionaries.

August 27, 2007
Is President Bush Anti-Child, as ABC Suggests?

Still no mention of abortion or abstinence in SCHIP bill coverage.

August 24, 2007
CNN’s God’s Christian Warriors Leaves Viewers…  Scared

Reporter Amanpour says she’s trying to “understand” Christian believers, but her special amounts to a call to arms against them.

August 23, 2007
NBC’s Williams Exposes His Inner Frat Boy

Coverage of senior sex story is downright sophomoric.

August 21, 2007
CNN’s Upcoming Miniseries Equates Christian Activists with Taliban?

Politicking for family values just isn't the same as sending homicide bombers into crowded marketplaces.

August 17, 2007
TIME Falsely Claims the Abortion Pill is ‘Safe’

Report ignores evidence that abortion is linked to numerous health and safety risks, and that the abortion pill may be even more psychologically devastating than surgical abortion. Also, what about the 500,000 pre-born babies killed by RU-486 in the U.S. alone?

August 17, 2007
ABC News Promotes Bisexuality for Young Women

No mention of moral qualms or health risks, just ‘true sexuality.’ 

August 17, 2007
The World According to the TV Critics

Showtime’s new series, Californication, blatantly and obscenely blasphemes Christianity and insults the Catholic Church - and not a single major media critic even notices.

August 15, 2007
Billy Graham With Devil’s Horns?

TIME and 20/20 profile the preacher’s remarkable access to American presidents, but ominously suggest that a religious leader having the president’s ear is a bad idea. 

August 14, 2007
The Daily Kos Bile Fest

How can politicians cooperate across the aisle when their backers are hurling hateful, shocking language at political adversaries?

August 13, 2007
CBS Pumps Over-the-Counter ‘Emergency Contraceptives’

News report dismisses the moral concerns of many pharmacists, and fails to consult medical experts about the controversial “Plan B” drug.

August 10, 2007
Big Media Week for the Homosexual Agenda

Journalists promote the “gay” presidential debate, but ignore a poll suggesting homosexual endorsements are the political kiss of death.

August 9, 2007
Earth to Couric: Personal Responsibility, Not Socialized Medicine, Will Save Lives

CBS promotes universal health care again, but other stories in the news show that common sense and healthy habits are the keys to driving down mortality rates.

August 8, 2007
Are Evangelicals Really Becoming Environmentalists?

Wishful thinking from The Washington Post.

August 7, 2007
Babies and TV Screens Don’t Mix

U. Washington study finds that watching DVDs and television costs toddlers six to eight vocabulary words per hour.

August 6, 2007
Back to School Teen Shoppers Clamor for Luxury Items Sported by Celebs

Entertainment media and advertisers are promoting the wrong values and the wrong role models.

August 6, 2007
The “New” Nicole Richie -- Self-Proclaimed Role Model

ABC asks tough questions about drug abuse, but not about marrying the father of her child.   

August 3, 2007
USA Today Weighs In Against Doctors’ Freedom of Conscience

Religious convictions are trumped by patients' lifestyle preferences.

August 2, 2007
NBC Nightly News Blames the Schism Between Liberal and Conservative Episcopalians on Homosexuality    

The network obscures the broader conflict within a church whose American leadership has repudiated traditional Christian beliefs about God and Scripture. 

August 2, 2007
Big Media Ignore the Devils in the SCHIP Bill’s Details

The House version of the children’s ‘health’ bill attacks abstinence education and promotes abortion.

August 1, 2007
LA Times Backs Away from Bias - But Not All the Way

A story on the House ethics bill paints Capitol Hill corruption as an exclusively Republican problem.  The next day’s revised version injects a little balance, but not enough. 

August 1, 2007
A Radical Silence

Nets either ignore far left professors dismissal, or mischaracterize him as a martyr.

August 1, 2007
Behind Closed Doors

Sometimes it’s good when the news makes you squirm.

July 31, 2007
Schumer Vows to Block Bush Supreme Court Nominees

Media grant a silent pass, even though the New York senator would reject candidates solely because of judicial philosophy, a radical departure from Senate tradition.

July 31, 2007
TIME and Boys

Boys are doing better in America, in spite of the culture wars.

July 31, 2007
A Young Man’s Love, Responsibility Inspire Praise

Quite a contrast to Hollywood’s Pop Tarts, who are covered incessantly by the media.

July 30, 2007
Brooklyn Student Arrested for ‘Hate Crime’: Flushing a Koran

Media overlook the story: hate crimes laws are being used to punish speech.

July 30, 2007
NBC Uses One Mom’s Woes to Argue for More Food Stamps

Emotional manipulation: nice storytelling, terrible reporting.

July 27, 2007
The Gentleman and the Juicer

Cal Ripken Jr. is a striking contrast to Barry Bonds.

July 27, 2007
Media Give Short Shrift to Pro-Illegal Alien Judgment

Nearly every news organization that covered the court decision voiding Hazleton, Penn.’s immigration laws sided with the illegals.   

July 27, 2007
Paying it Forward, One Organ at a Time

ABC’s feature on an organ donor’s generosity brightens a dreary news week.

July 25, 2007
Big Media Ignores Pew Poll’s Good News in War on Terror

Support for bin Laden and suicide bombings is waning in the Muslim world, but the mainstream media fail to tell the story.

July 25, 2007
CBS Ambushes the Second Amendment

Network calls for more gun control and federal spending, but not moral reform, to curb inner city violence.

July 24, 2007
Yes, Virginia.  Sex Sells.

The New York Times gives a naughty site some free publicity.

July 20, 2007
The New Republic Smears the Troops - With a Hoax?

An article written under a pseudonym defames American soldiers in Iraq with dubious, unverifiable stories of cruelty. 

July 20, 2007
New York Times Gives Comfort to Wall Street Journal Reporters Worried about Murdoch Takeover

Liberal journalists seem to fear losing their safe sanctuary for bias.

July 19, 2007
Media Let Parents Off the Hook on Childhood Obesity 

Are Shrek, Sponge Bob, sugary cereal and pleading children really impossible to resist?

July 19, 2007
NBC Justifying Vandalism?

A report on the destruction of a Hummer by radical environmentalists takes a distressingly green turn.

July 18, 2007
Newsweek Takes a Look at Modesty - but Keeps It at Arm’s Length

Shouldn’t the editors know intuitively that modesty is a good thing?

July 17, 2007
NBC Coverage of Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal Puts CBS to Shame

Both networks ask what the Catholic church is doing to prevent further abuse, but only one bothers to find the answer.

July 17, 2007
Vitter Scandal: Media Swallow Larry Flynt’s Line

Quite a contrast to the media hostility when the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth exposed John Kerry as a made-up war hero.

July 17, 2007
Top Medical Events Tell a Sorry Story

Some medical ‘advances’ respond to, excuse or promote irresponsible behavior.

July 16, 2007
Where’s the Abortion?

Washington Post film critic alleges ‘moral hypocrisy’ in pro-life message.

July 13, 2007
Don’t Use the ‘A’ Word

Media tout condom use, ignore increase in abstinence to explain record low teen birth rate.

July 13, 2007
Irresponsibility and the Internet

Miss New Jersey pays a price for juvenile shenanigans.

July 12, 2007
Ads and Condoms and Pigs

CBS and Fox say no to broadcasting Trojan's racy new condom ads -- but what about the rest of their programming?

July 11, 2007
Beating around the Bush

New York Times, Associated Press use former Surgeon General’s charges of censorship to bash Bush, fail to report that Clinton did it too. 

July 11, 2007
Vitter’s Prostitution Scandal: One Network Seeks the Lesson, Another Slams an Ideological Enemy

ABC twists the knife in Vitter, while CNN explores changing public expectations of politicians and morality.

July 10, 2007
Senator Confesses ‘Sin,’ Accepts Responsibility

The behavior was inexcusable, but Vitter refuses to shift the blame.

July 9, 2007
ABC News Targets Guns, Omits Facts

ABC’s World News Tonight blasts away at middle American gun culture with a few rounds of shoddy science and emotional manipulation.

July 9, 2007
A Spoonful of Vulgar Helps the Coffee Go Down

NBC's Today treats viewers to some early morning profanity.

July 6, 2007
Worshiping Gaia and the Goracle

Professionalism goes out the window as Big Media swoons over Al Gore and his Live Earth extravaganza. 

July 5, 2007
ABC Honors the Naturalization of True Immigrant Patriots

161 U.S. military personnel from 54 countries become U.S. citizens in Baghdad on July 4.

July 2, 2007
Pew Poll: Press Promotes Progressive Results, Conceals Conservative Results

Stories focus on de-linking of childrearing and marriage, but ignore growing opposition to same-sex marriage.

July 2, 2007
Pew Poll on Marriage and Parenthood Reflects Narcissism, Cultural Corrosion

Is marriage about fulfilling adults, or is it about raising children?

June 29, 2007
Do The Media Think We’re All Bigots?

Nets, press depict immigration bill opponents as conservative racists stirred up by talk radio.

June 29, 2007
NBC, CBS Slam ‘Conservative’ Court for Race Decision

Networks emphasize Breyer’s dissent, not Roberts’ opinion.

June 28, 2007
Washington Post Trades on Kids' Fears to Sell Pro-Immigration Views

Story emphasizes emotion and downplays or ignores the central issues of lawbreaking and border security. 

June 27, 2007
See Some Evil, Hear Some Evil

Nets cover Capitol Hill NFL violence hearings, turn a blind eye to TV violence hearings.

June 27, 2007
Morality Isn’t That ‘Complex’

CNN headline obscures Ohio policeman’s responsibility for double murder.

June 26, 2007
ABC Only Network to Share Good News on Giving

Americans give more than any other nation in the world, but the media are reluctant to report the good news about our culture.

June 22, 2007
A Convenient Double Standard

Liberals want to impose balance on conservative talk radio but not liberal television news and entertainment.

June 22, 2007
Paris Hilton to Make Pokey Time Pay Off

For 25 days or so of indignity the heiress will turn over a quick million bucks, thanks to checkbook journalism.  Has NBC lost its collective mind? 

June 21, 2007
Bush vs. Science?

Media showcase critics of President’s stem cell veto, ignore supporting scientists.

June 20, 2007
‘Trojan Man’ Makes Way for Trolling Pigs

Ad promotes ‘responsible’ condom use, but is casual sex ever responsible?

June 19, 2007
Breaking the Grip of Poverty by Changing Irresponsible Habits

AP cites a critic of NYC's behavior-based anti-poverty experiment but no supporters, though evidence shows these programs really work.   

June 19, 2007
City of Brotherly Love Hates the Boy Scouts

Sexual immorality is now the moral high ground in Philadelphia, and the Boy Scouts are the bad guys. Does anyone with clout in Philadelphia see why this is monstrously wrong?

June 18, 2007
Fermenting Discord

LA Times faults schools, not lazy parents, for students’ cheesy plight. 

June 18, 2007
Condoms are Fine, but Don’t Teach Kids to Say No to Sex

The media trumpet research undermining abstinence education, but suppress favorable data.

June 15, 2007
Networks Ignore Crushing of Marriage Vote in Massachusetts

The media elite don’t want the American people to know that liberals refuse to let the people vote on this crucial issue.

June 15, 2007
South Park Filth Fest

This weekend millions of families will be exposed to South Park’s “most foul-mouthed, sexually offensive” programs, courtesy of Comedy Central.

June 15, 2007
By Abusing the Legal System, Judge 'Pants Suit' Weakens Public Trust in the Law

Plaintiff cries on the stand, and the media seem more sympathetic to him than the defendants whose lives, business and savings he has ravaged.

June 14, 2007
NBC to Expand from News to Education

The network wants to increase its future audience while simultaneously "educating" high school students -- but what do they intend to teach? 

June 13, 2007
Role Models for Girls: Choice of Two, Take Your Pick

The Olympic athlete/Playboy model, or the squeaky clean teen movie star?

June 13, 2007
Judges Throw Up Roadblocks as Communities Struggle to Enforce Laws Against Illegal Immigrants - and the Media Fail to Tell the Story

Networks, press largely ignore that courts are frustrating small town efforts to address illegal immigration. 

June 13, 2007
Judges Throw Up Roadblocks as Communities Struggle to Enforce Laws Against Illegal Immigrants - and the Media Fail to Tell the Story

Networks, press largely ignore court interventions preventing small towns from discouraging illegal immigration, or addressing disorderly conduct and crime committed by illegals.

June 12, 2007
New York Times Showcases Fashionable Cocaine Use

Irresponsible story devotes more space to cocaine advocates than warning about the dangers of the illegal drug.

June 12, 2007
Networks Dance Around Political, Ideological Motives for Blocking Pace Renomination 

Liberals got Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman booted for ‘homophobia’ and backing Libby, not just differences about the Iraq war.

June 12, 2007
Washington Post Ignores Qualifications to Paint Picture of Judicial Cronyism

Immigration judge has extensive legal background, but you wouldn’t know it.

June 11, 2007
Media Dislike Pro-Life Messages in Mainstream Movies

Why is it when Hollywood decides to address the subject of complicated pregnancies, the liberal media have to carp if the directors opt not to promote abortion? 

June 11, 2007
‘It’s Time This Generation Steps Up’

NBC shines spotlight on efforts to help Ugandan orphans.

June 8, 2007
Hilton’s Slammer Syndrome Results in Premature Evacuation

Judge does not like Paris in the springtime.

June 8, 2007
Judges vs. the FCC

The federal judges who ruled against the FCC suggested the agency’s rulings were "arbitrary and capricious." But is there anything more arbitrary and capricious than an egotistical celebrity dropping the F-bomb on national TV? Or the network refusing to administer a tiny delay?

June 7, 2007
#1 Rated Newscast Ignores Major Stem Cell Story

NBC’s Nightly News led with the story.  CBS’s Katie Couric mentioned the development. Both The Washington Post and The New York Times gave it front page, above-the-fold coverage.  But ABC? Not a mention in the June 6 broadcast.

June 7, 2007
Does Watching TV Damage Character?

The Culture and Media Institute's new Special Report, The Media Assault on American Values, reveals that media messages appear to be undermining the pillars of America’s cultural edifice: strength of character, sexual morality and respect for God. 

June 6, 2007
Medved Lauds New Culture Survey

Leading Hollywood critic says quantity, not just quality, of viewing affects TV watchers.

June 6, 2007
Press Release STUDY: TV HAZARDOUS TO MORAL HEALTH

Culture and Media Institute’s New Study Shows Correlation between Viewing Hours and Laxity in Moral Values, Personal Responsibility

June 5, 2007
Press Release: GUMBEL BOASTS OF F-BOMB AGAINST CONSERVATIVE

Confirming his reprehensible personality and CBS's duplicity

June 4, 2007
Press Release: Paris Hilton Goes to Jail

MRC's Culture and Media Institute Applauds Hilton for Finally Taking Personal Responsibility for Actions

June 4, 2007
When Doubling the Money Isn’t Enough: Media Slam Bush AIDS Plan 

Press cites “experts” who say increased spending is insufficient, and savages spending on abstinence education.

June 4, 2007
REAL Simple Life Awaits Paris

Heiress pays consequences with jail stint, finally provides a worthwhile lesson for the public.

June 1, 2007
Home Schooling? How Do You Spell That?

Media virtually ignore national spelling bee winner’s academic pedigree.

May 30, 2007
The Revolving Rehab Door

The cult of celebrity. The politics of victimhood.  Narcissism.  All speak to a complete lack of personal responsibility.  And all serve as great fodder for readers hungry to peek into the messed up lives of celebrities.  Somehow this is “news.”

May 29, 2007
Rosie Bails Out Three Weeks Early

Feisty talker couldn't face the heat after calling U.S. troops "terrorists."

May 29, 2007
CNN Heroes: Focusing the Spotlight on Personal Responsibility and Traditional Values

By promoting such stories and the people behind them CNN has set an inspirational tone that may inspire others to similar acts of everyday heroism. 

May 25, 2007
Memorial Day: It’s Not Just for Heroes, Anymore

Presidential candidate John Edwards is urging people to crash Memorial Day ceremonies with anti-war protests....We're still waiting for the media outrage over this hijacking of a sacred day to honor the war dead.

May 25, 2007
Amnesty at Any Cost: the Media Support Illegals, Disparage Law Enforcement 

Isn’t American culture and sovereignty worth defending?

May 25, 2007
Supporting the Troops by Saving Their Marriages

ABC’s World News Tonight shines spotlight on program aimed at saving military marriages

May 24, 2007
Bill Maher Makes Don Imus Look Like a Saint

Press Release: MRC's Bozell, Knight call for Time-Warner to live up to corporate responsibility and discipline HBO's Bill Maher for vitriolic, lurid, anti-Christian remarks.

May 24, 2007
The Liberal Attack on Freedom of Speech

The American left has adopted a totalitarian mindset; they’re actively working to stamp out dissent.

May 22, 2007
WashPost Media Critic Admits Reporters “Frame” Quotes, “Slice and Dice” Interviews

Irresponsibility and dishonesty are undermining public trust in journalism.

May 21, 2007
TIME Gives Hard Left Filmmaker Forum for Sicko Universal Health Care Pitch

Michael Moore says Americans are ‘persuadable’ - but are Americans really ready to hand over responsibility for their health care to the government? 

May 18, 2007
Liberals Want You Fat Free - Except for Your Head

The fairness nannies and the nutrition nannies make me want to chow down a deep-dish, double-stuffed, double cheese, meat-lovers supreme, extra large pizza, and chase it with a quart of chocolate caramel turtle cheese cake ice cream. On air.

May 18, 2007
Getting a Kick out of Falwell's Death

I guess that openly enjoying the death of a fellow Christian and utterly distorting his Christian message into a caricature of hate is the mark of the nonjudgmental. I think it’s somewhere in the Sermon on the Mount.

May 18, 2007
So, Why Did XM Finally Slap Opie and Anthony?

Were shock jocks held accountable for the “rape Condi” bit, or was XM greasing the skids to get FCC permission for a merger with Sirius?

May 18, 2007
Radio Plays Rape for Laughs

Ask yourself this very simple question: How does the Imus “ho” comment match on the horror scale with this rape-and-murder gag?

May 17, 2007
Media Dance on Falwell’s Grave

Didn’t their mothers teach them not to speak ill of the dead?

May 16, 2007
USA TODAY Ranks “Top” 25 TV Moments

List points out many major culprits contributing to the media assault on traditional values and personal responsibility.

May 15, 2007
CBS: Parents Need Government Help to Raise Kids

Couric showcases expert who claims parents can’t overcome advertising industry influence on children without assistance.

May 15, 2007
Online Dating Battle: Shouldn't Dating Services Reject Unsuitable Suitors? 

People magazine and NBC run ads attacking a service for responsibly rejecting applicants unlikely to make good marital partners.

May 14, 2007
‘Inquisition’ Docudrama Pillories Catholic Church

Is PBS trying to discredit contemporary Christian teachings about morality and personal responsibility by setting up a straw man?

May 11, 2007
CBS Carps About Moms "Opting Out" to Raise Families

Deciding to bring up your own children is a supreme expression of personal responsibility, but CBS attacks moms who choose motherhood just days before Mother's Day.

May 10, 2007
Celebrity Media, Heal Thyself

Back in January, ABC’s 20/20 acted shocked when man-on-the-street interviews revealed that nobody knew who cured polio, but many could name Nicole Richie’s best friend. Earth to ABC: did you ever think this could be your fault? This was the first time Jonas Salk had been mentioned on ABC... in the 21st century.  In the meantime, Paris Hilton has been mentioned in thousands of stories.

May 9, 2007
The Bible According to Fox News

Religion correspondent turns to Scripture on homosexuality, but anchor shies away from the message.

May 8, 2007
Fear or Bigotry? PBS to Reveal 'Truth' of the Inquisition

The Public Broadcasting System is planning to air a documentary certain to offend Catholics scant weeks after canceling a documentary for fear of offending Muslims.

May 8, 2007
Media Ignores Study Revealing Anti-Evangelical Bias

Isn't it newsworthy that a majority of American college faculty members hold unfavorable views of evangelical Christians?

May 7, 2007
The McGreeveys’ Media Week

Manipulation of the media is alive and well in America.

May 3, 2007
ABC World News Uses Scary Footage to Push Hate Crimes Bill

News report avoids the real story: the House hate crimes vote.

May 3, 2007
Russell Simmons' Solutions

Simmons declared, "I think that children, and parents, and everyone else who doesn't really understand the hip-hop community should have a choice....we want people to choose what they want. And if you turn on mainstream radio, you shouldn't have to hear these words."

May 1, 2007
Good Morning America: Sex and Sweeps

ABC makes the most of its ‘exclusive’ on the ‘D.C. Madam’ case

April 26, 2007
Only CBS Covers Rap Mogul’s Call to Clean Up Lyrics

Couric acknowledges that the call to remove offensive words from rap music is a question of social responsibility, not censorship.

April 25, 2007
Rosie Will Quit on a Sour Note

Footage of embarrassing rant precedes announcement that O’Donnell is leaving The View at the end of the season.

April 25, 2007
ABC Attacks Reparative Therapy for Homosexuals

Diane Sawyer delivers hit piece based on the story of one disappointed lesbian.

April 24, 2007
ABC News Distorts Own Poll Showing Culture as Most Culpable in Virginia Tech Massacre

MRC's Culture and Media Institute Calls Discrepancy Evidence of Liberal Bias

April 24, 2007
NY Times Movie Reviewer Ignores Evidence about Effects of Media Violence

Scott irresponsibly ignores decades of social science studies that show a direct correlation between the consumption of violent media (movies, television, video games, and music) and increases in aggressive actions and attitudes.

April 23, 2007
‘Soft Porn’ in the Sunday Washington Post

Under the guise of promoting feminist art, the Arts section of the April 22 Washington Post featured four images of nude or partially nude women and suggested that pornography is “aesthetic.”

April 20, 2007
Why Abstinence Education ‘Fails’  

The authorities charged with implementing the “abstinence-only” curriculum don't like it, don't believe in it, and have done everything in their power to ensure that it should fail.

April 20, 2007
Drop the Scare Quotes - Call It Partial-Birth Abortion

The next time you hear a reporter use the term “so-called ‘partial birth abortion,’” or “the procedure that opponents call ‘partial birth abortion,’ keep in mind that he’s making an editorial comment in the midst of his “news” report.

April 19, 2007
Liberal Media Use Flawed Study to Attack Abstinence-Only Education

Even though many studies conclude that abstinence-only sex education benefits students, the liberal media are using a newly-released multi-year study questioning abstinence-only education to attack funding for the federal abstinence education program.

April 19, 2007
Media Fret About Abortion “Restriction”

The liberal media were wringing their hands in anguish about the loss of “abortion rights” as they reported the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision Wednesday upholding a ban on partial-birth abortions.

April 17, 2007
Liberal Media Use Flawed Study to Attack Abstinence-Only Education

For every study that disparages the abstinence approach, there are many others that point to its success and suggest that effective, long-term programs should be given more funding—not less.

April 13, 2007
Obscene Material -- Hard-Core Porn -- Is Not Constitutionally Protected Speech

While the ACLU and liberal judges have managed to create a body of distorted case law in which “soft-core” porn has legal protection, the hardcore stuff found in “adult” stores does not.  Hard-core porn has nothing to do with free speech and is an extension of prostitution. It’s also a favorite tool of child molesters. Ask any cop. 

April 13, 2007
Only ABC Addresses Broader Context of Imus Firing Adequately       

Is the story of the firing of radio shock jock Don Imus only about racism, or is it also about hatred and incivility in hip hop culture?

April 13, 2007
Blood, Guts, but No (Box-Office) Glory

The message comes across loud and clear.  Hollywood wants more - more violence, more gore, more blood.  But another message, while a whisper, is just as powerful.  Last weekend’s box office indicates that audiences may think this bar of depravity has slipped too low.

April 12, 2007
Media Cash In on Racism

What is newsworthy about the latest Imus insult in the morning isn’t that liberal and conservative commentators alike expressed moral outrage at Imus’ remarks—it’s that they agreed that Imus shouldn’t be fired for saying it.

April 11, 2007
Shhh! There’s a Boycott Going On!

Since March 2006, the AFA and 18 other pro-family organizations have targeted Ford over the company’s donations to homosexual political groups and advertisements in homosexual-themed magazines. Ford’s sales have fallen in 10 of the last 12 months compared with the year before. The media are ignoring the boycott in spite of Ford's plummeting sales figures.  

April 11, 2007
Bias in the Headlines

Gay “marriage” is not recognized in Florida or California, where Disney’s amusement parks are located.  The ceremonies that will be performed on the company’s properties and cruise ships will not be weddings. 

April 10, 2007
Anderson Cooper Defines Christians…Or Not

Cooper addressed topics apparently chosen to refute Christian faith or draw attention to controversies, not to understand what billions of people believe and why they believe it. 

April 6, 2007
NBC Acknowledges U.S. a “Very Religious Nation,” Promotes Corporate Chaplains

In his lead-in to the last story of Holy Thursday’s NBC Nightly News broadcast, a report on the growing trend of company-provided chaplains in the workplace, anchor Brian Williams acknowledges “we are a very religious nation.” 

April 4, 2007
The Easter "Hit" Parade (a summary) 

Beginning on February 26, the news and entertainment media have fired a stunning barrage of criticism at religious beliefs, religious practice, and religious symbols.  Nothing is too sacred to attack this year, not even the most crucial teachings of Judaism and Christianity.

April 2, 2007
Homosexual Agenda Gets Two-fer in Sunday New York Times

"Coming out" is to be praised, as is attending the "world's largest lesbian party."

March 29, 2007
To Protect Obama, a Journalist Excuses Lies

Cohen even proposes a rationale few philosophers, or journalism professors, would embrace:  that “emotional truth” trumps “intellectual truth.”

March 27, 2007
16 Questions for The New York Times Editorial Board

Given the Gray Lady’s recent eye-opening stands on various issues, CMI Advisory Board member Jan LaRue thought that posing a few questions might help the editorial writers think more clearly.

March 27, 2007
It's All About Being on Television

NY Times article sums up obsession with celebrity.

March 22, 2007
AP Gets It Wrong on Evangelicals and Global Warming

Zoll writes that Cizik has been called on the carpet for trying “to convince evangelicals” about global warming.  In fact, evangelicals leaders are concerned about what Cizik is saying to non-evangelicals. 

March 20, 2007
NBC's Today Show Labels Purity Movement ‘Controversial’

Children abstaining from sex until adulthood appears to be an alien concept in certain media circles.

March 19, 2007
New York Times Movie Reviews: We'll Take Lust over 'Moral Reprimand'

Which movie do you think would get a positive write-up in The New York Times? An inspirational movie about character building, or a comic tribute to lust?  

March 15, 2007
The View from the Bottom

The girls on The View are unanimous: Homosexuality is not only morally right but probably ought to be encouraged if we want to keep our military strong.

March 14, 2007
PBS Alum Robert MacNeil Slams 'Fundamentalism' in Kennedy Center Speech

Attacking religious conservatives is not enough for the Washington Post; you have to slam the Iraq War as well.

March 13, 2007

Newsweek Demonizes Dr. Dobson
Evangelical leader's calm, reasoned letter described as "irate."

March 9, 2007
The Numbers on Moral Decline

Americans look into their television sets, and are getting a high-definition dose of Hollywood’s take on values. Fully 68 percent of Americans in the survey said the media are having a detrimental effect on moral values in America.

March 8, 2007
Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Sabotaging Faith on the Sabbath

March 7, 2007
Madonna’s Dilemma: Survey Shows America in Cultural, Spiritual Confusion

Some 74 percent of Americans believe our nation has suffered a moral decline during the past twenty years, and 64 percent believe the media are a major factor in that decline.

February 27, 2007
Bozell, Knight Call on Discovery Channel to Drop 'Documentary' on Jesus Tomb

Isn't the Discovery Channel supposed to be non-fiction?

February 26, 2007
Will Miracle Baby Change the Abortion Debate?

Little Amillia's survival after being in the womb just 21 weeks may force America to rethink those Supreme Court trimesters.

February 22, 2007
Britney Spears, Anna Nicole Smith and those "Sociopathic" Republicans

Liberal celebrities can have their say. But it’s also fair to remind Americans just what the limousine liberals are saying, and how the likes of ABC and CNN and other media seem to do all they can to accommodate them.

February 22, 2007
The New York Times and the Gospel Truth

The New York Times has been in the forefront of the conservative Christian-bashing, running voluminous pieces that accuse churches of avoiding taxes and warning darkly that the Christian Right is on the verge of turning the United States into a Talibanesque theocracy.

February 21, 2007
"Courageous" Liberal Episcopalians "Painted into a Corner"

Washington Post story slants against the conservative majority of Anglicans.

February 21, 2007
CBS Focuses on Hollywood Money, but No Mention of Hollywood Values

What do Tinseltown activists expect of politicians in return for all that cash?

February 13, 2007

Media Turn Edwards’ Shrill Blogger into Political Martyr
No Presidential candidate should employ a hatemonger on his campaign staff.

February 9, 2007
All the 'Gay' News That's Fit to Print

Homosexual activists knocking a Snickers ad off the air is news, but homosexual activists threatening the life of a political rival isn't?

February 9, 2007
Why Are Heavyweight Republicans Talking to "Has-Been" Falwell?

Reuters implies the Rev. Jerry Falwell is no longer important, but GOP presidential candidates are beating a path to his door.

February 6, 2007
ABC Hits Home Run with New Segment on Faith

Woman who refused an abortion and delivered a child conceived in rape treated with sensitivity.

February 5, 2007
Friends of God Not Friendly to Evangelicals

Why bother trying to "discover" who evangelical Christians are, when all you're really doing is reinforcing tired old stereotypes?

February 1, 2007
Blasphemy Redux

Nightline gives more free publicity to a juvenile media stunt.

January 31, 2007
Media Turn Blind Eye to College's Cross-Spurning Intolerance

The media don't care if William and Mary tolerates intolerance, as long as it's directed at traditional Christianity.

January 30, 2007
Whitewashing the Reds (and the Blues, Blacks and Yellows)

Radical leftists defaced the Capitol during Saturday's anti-Iraq War demonstration, and the media covered it up.

January 29, 2007

TV Critics Smear "Scary" Bible Belt




January 23, 2007
Goth Gotcha

Which children's story does the Post emphasize? The American Library Association's award winners? Or Goth culture and fashion?

January 19, 2007
Saints and Swearing

After zooming in on a woman wearing an obscene T-shirt at an NFL game, Fox apologized - but the network is suing for the right to broadcast the F-bomb any time of day.

January 19, 2007
New York Times Spins Leftist Social Agenda into 'Governing from the Center'

Promoting high-octane social liberalism is not centrist government.

January 17, 2007
NY Times to Marriage: Drop Dead

The New York Times celebrates women's "liberation" from dependence on men and the institution of marriage.

January 11, 2007
More Violence, More Sex, More Troubled Kids

Prime time TV is more violent than ever before, more of the violence is sex-related, and children are paying the price.

January 8, 2007
Of Major News Outlets, Only NBC Gets Amniotic Stem Cell Story Right

A research breakthrough indicates that amniotic stem cells may provide all of the potential therapeutic benefits of embryonic stem cells, but without killing a human embryo.

December 21, 2006
Media Use Premarital Sex Study to Attack Abstinence Funding

Isn't rampant premarital sex a reason to expand federal abstinence programs?

December 20, 2006
The Gospel of Truth? Says Who?

At Christmastime, "U.S. News and World Report" Breathes New Life into Old Errors

December 20, 2006
Newsweek: Jesus is a "nice Jewish boy"

Newsweek offers up the annual Christmas season story undermining orthodox Christian faith.

December 13, 2006
Democrats Shopped Foley Story to Papers

House ethics report finds that Democratic campaign operatives pushed newspapers to write about former Rep. Foley's e-mails to teenage pages to create a scandal before the election.

December 4, 2006
In Chicago, a Fairy and Santa Are In, Jesus Is Out

The Christkindl, or Christmas Fairy, is welcome at a Christmas festival in Chicago. So is Santa Claus. But a film about the birth of Jesus has provoked city officials to lower the boom.

December 4, 2006
Throwing the Book at 'Religious Right'

Halloween and the election are over, but the media's favorite boogeyman is still roaming the land.

December 4, 2006
Mum's the Word on Radical Democrat Social Agenda

Media avoid awakening traditional values voters by ignoring Democrat plans.

December 4, 2006
Media Downplay New Jersey's Gay Marriage Ruling as Election Day Approaches

The major media are soft-selling the New Jersey Supreme Court's Wednesday decision ordering "gay marriage" or its equivalent, lest the ruling become a fire bell in the night for social conservatives two weeks before the election.

December 4, 2006
Tempting Target: Media Try to Persuade Conservatives to Stay Home

With the November elections looming, the biggest players in the mainstream media are casting aside objectivity to mount an all-out effort to discourage values voters from going to the polls.