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Jul 21, 2010	White House Offers Apology to Official Accused of Bias QUOTE: The White House and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack apologized profusely and repeatedly on Wednesday to a black midlevel official [Shirley Sherrod--Ed.] for the way she had been humiliated and forced to resign her Agriculture Department job after a conservative blogger put out a misleading video clip that seemed to show her admitting antipathy toward a white farmer.	New York Times
Jul 16, 2010	Can We Talk? QUOTE: On July 7, CNN fired its senior editor of Middle East affairs, Octavia Nasr, after she published a Twitter message saying, “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah,” one of the most prominent Lebanese Shiite spiritual leaders who was involved in the founding of the Hezbollah militia.	New York Times
May 14, 2010	Semantic Minefields QUOTE: IF the Obama administration takes out a radical Muslim cleric hiding in Yemen, would it be a “targeted killing” or an “assassination?” Was the flooding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina a “natural disaster” or a “man-made” one? Should new construction authorized by Israel in East Jerusalem be called Jewish “housing” or “settlements”? Times journalists juggle such questions daily as they try to present the news in clear and evenhanded language.	New York Times
Apr 24, 2010	Jon Stewart’s Punching Bag, Fox News QUOTE: It is true that the often-left-leaning “Daily Show” deals with a wide array of topics, but Fox is one that Mr. Stewart is overtly passionate about; he said on the show this week that he criticizes the network a lot because it is “truly a terrible, cynical, disingenuous news organization.”	New York Times
Apr 08, 2010	Complicating Relationships in Media: Apple, NY Times Dealings Raise Questions QUOTE: By appearing on stage at the Apple event and by launching an iPad app that the Times wants to monetize in every possible way — an app from which Apple will likely make money as well — the Times is becoming more of a business partner with a company it covers incessantly.	MediaActive
Sep 18, 2009	Fox Ad on Protest Coverage Draws Rivals’ Fire QUOTE: Fox [News Channel] accused its competitors of missing the story of the so-called antitax protests in Washington last Saturday.	New York Times
Aug 27, 2009	What’s Next in National Security Pentagon Probes War-Reporter Screening (Danger Room) QUOTE: The Pentagon is looking into reports that the military’s public affairs apparatus in Afghanistan has been rating reporters according to their degree of sympathy to U.S. war aims.	Wired
Jan 26, 2009	MPs call on BBC to air Gaza film: A Commons motion criticising the BBC and Sky for refusing to broadcast a plea for humanitarian aid funding for Gaza has been backed by 112 MPs. QUOTE: The BBC's explanation that airing the film would threaten its impartiality was described by Labour MP Richard Burden's motion as "unconvincing"....John Ryley, head of Sky News, said that broadcasting the film would be "incompatible" with its objective role.	British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Dec 08, 2008	Google cranks up the Consensus Engine: Manufacturing isn't dead - it just went to Mountain View QUOTE: That Google was impartial was one of the articles of faith. For if Google was ever to be found to be applying subjective human judgment directly on the process, it would be akin to the voting machines being rigged....This week Marissa Meyer explained that editorial judgments will play a key role in Google searches.	Register
Oct 15, 2008	Online Watchdog Sniffs for Media Bias QUOTE: the future of truth-squadding may lie. Any attempt to judge news articles could rely on experts, a broad audience of readers or a set of formulas. SpinSpotter combines all three, but for now the formulas are still being adjusted, the audience is not yet big enough, and it remains to be seen how unbiased or effective the experts are.	New York Times
Sep 02, 2008	The Caucus: Talk Radio Host Slams Media on Palin Coverage QUOTE: “The American media has hit a new low in tabloid journalism,” he declared. “They’ve taken a 17-year-old girl and they are trying to use the crisis pregnancy she finds herself in as a battering ram, a club, to damage her mother, her family. It’s outrageous. It’s tabloid journalism and they ought to be ashamed of themselves.”	New York Times
Jun 13, 2008	Media Charged With Sexism in Clinton Coverage QUOTE: Angered by what they consider sexist news coverage of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, many women and erstwhile Clinton supporters are proposing boycotts of the cable networks, putting up videos on a “Media Hall of Shame,” starting a national conversation about sexism and pushing Mrs. Clinton’s rival, Senator Barack Obama, to address the matter.	New York Times
May 20, 2008	White House Says NBC Distorted Bush Response QUOTE: "This deceitful editing to further a media-manufactured storyline is utterly misleading and irresponsible," Gillespie wrote, adding that NBC should air Bush's responses "in full."	Washington Post
Apr 20, 2008	Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand QUOTE: To the public, these men are members of a familiar fraternity, presented tens of thousands of times on television and radio as “military analysts” whose long service has equipped them to give authoritative and unfettered judgments about the most pressing issues of the post-Sept. 11 world. Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance...	New York Times
Mar 01, 2008	On the Press Bus, Some Questions Over Favoritism QUOTE: As the two Democratic candidates shuttled between Ohio and Texas this week before Tuesday’s potentially decisive nominating contests, questions over whether reporters were giving each candidate an equally fair shake were thrust into the center of the campaign itself.	New York Times
Feb 29, 2008	Did 'SNL' Go Beyond the Pale With Fauxbama? Lorne Michaels Defends Casting Of Non-Black Man in Sketch QUOTE: The Obama portrayal has given critics a chance to make a second claim about "SNL": that it under-employs African American performers. When it began looking for someone to play Obama, the show had few alternatives..."It's not about race," [producer Lorne] Michaels insisted via phone. "It's about getting a take on Obama, where it serves the comedy and the writing..."	Washington Post
Dec 04, 2007	Does U.S. tolerate anti-Muslim speech? The latest flap: Radio-show host says Muslims should be deported, sparking a backlash. QUOTE: But the comments by host Michael Savage in October – and previous anti-Muslim speech – have not created the furor that knocked radio icon Don Imus off of MSNBC and CBS Radio after he denigrated a black women's basketball team. That leaves many Muslims-Americans – and non-Muslims like Mr. Gronseth – suspicious that Americans have a double standard when it comes to Islam.	Christian Science Monitor
Nov 06, 2007	Cable Channel Nods to Ratings and Leans Left QUOTE: Having a prime-time lineup that tilts ever more demonstrably to the left could be risky for General Electric, MSNBC’s parent company, which is subject to legislation and regulation far afield of the cable landscape. Officials at MSNBC emphasize that they never set out to create a liberal version of Fox News.	New York Times
Oct 15, 2007	What Do Herbert and Marion Sandler Want? Investigating the funders of ProPublica, the new investigative journalism outfit. QUOTE: ProPublica's Web site claims that the business crisis in publishing has put a crimp in investigative units across the land, and philanthropy is needed to fill the gap....What do the Sandlers want for their millions? Perhaps to return us to the days of the partisan press.	Slate
Oct 10, 2007	In U.S. Poll, Most Fail a Quiz on Global Causes of Child Deaths QUOTE: Federal spending has soared in recent years to combat AIDS on a global level, and it has risen substantially to combat malaria. But spending has stagnated for many other child killers that have become overshadowed, in part because the cures and treatments for them are old news.	New York Times
Sep 24, 2007	New York Times Says It Violated Policies Over MoveOn Ad QUOTE: After two weeks of denials, the New York Times acknowledged that it should not have given a discount to MoveOn.org for a full-page advertisement assailing Gen. David H. Petraeus.	Washington Post
Jul 12, 2007	Cubans risk raids to get satellite TV: Police in Havana to close these illegal windows on the world. QUOTE: Pedro, a young underground entrepreneur, gets his nightly news from Channel 23 (Univision), "because Cuban TV doesn't give me unbiased coverage of world news...” But in recent months, the Cuban government has stepped up efforts to curb this booming underground industry.	Christian Science Monitor
Jul 04, 2007	Hero's tale is 'too positive' for the BBC QUOTE: The [BBC] has cancelled the commission for a 90-minute drama about Britain's youngest surviving Victoria Cross hero because it feared it would alienate members of the audience opposed to the war in Iraq. The BBC's retreat from the project, which had the working title Victoria Cross, has sparked accusations of cowardice and will reignite the debate about the broadcaster's alleged lack of patriotism.	Daily Telegraph
Jun 24, 2007	The gender buzz: Studies that support traditional roles for women get swarmed on by the media, while more nuanced research just can't seem to generate any noise QUOTE: It seems that a researcher can garner more press just by publishing a study with results that social conservatives wish to hear. And if the research doesn't suit conservatives' worldview, they can always find a way to twist it. ... The popularized message [is] that feminism makes you sick.	Dallas Morning News
Jun 19, 2007	How the News Media Handicap Those with Disabilities: Be careful with language, and avoid "feel good" stories about overcoming disabilities. Here's an example. QUOTE: It's a good month when the usual reporting on disability is balanced by even a single good story .... Journalists need to stop "confining" their coverage of people with disabilities to the old formulas.	Poynter Online
May 07, 2007	Locked Out: The Lack of Gender and Ethnic Diversity on Cable News Continues QUOTE: During the recent controversy over [Don Imus' remarks], some cable-news viewers may have noticed something unusual: the presence of significantly more African-Americans .... did these guests have any lasting effect on the networks' booking practices, or did they return to their old ways as soon as the Imus issue disappeared?	Media Matters
Apr 25, 2007	Dobbs: Big media hide truth about immigration QUOTE: Instead of asking and answering important questions about why our immigration laws aren't being enforced and why we're permitting pervasive document fraud, the national media seem hell-bent on trying to obfuscate the issue, shamelessly playing with language...	CNN (Cable News Network)
Nov 30, 2006	Is Iraq a civil war? Scholars say yes. Media debate it. QUOTE: Sensitive to bias charges, news outlets have avoided the term 'civil war,' [for Iraq--Ed.] but now that's changing.	Christian Science Monitor
Nov 30, 2006	Color Commentators: Why are sports broadcasters always making racial gaffes? QUOTE: there are certain aspects of sports and sports broadcasting that make it a breeding ground for hate speech.	Slate
Sep 30, 2006	In Taking On Fox, Democrats See Reward in the Risk QUOTE: Though Fox News maintains that its reporting is down the middle, Democrats have long complained that the news channel operates like a public relations outpost of the Bush White House. But never before has that anger built into a mad-as-hell-and-not-going-to-take-it-any-more moment, and spilled over in such naked and sustained fashion onto Fox News itself.	New York Times
Sep 13, 2006	History by miniseries: Too fast, too loose? ABC's 'Path to 9/11' ignited a furor over political meddling – and how it will play in an election season. QUOTE: The controversy over "Path" boiled over even before its première Sunday. Several officials in the Clinton administration publicly complained that the dramatization distorted their actions to track down Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.	Christian Science Monitor
Aug 30, 2006	The Press, Race and Katrina: In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, did African Americans get fair treatment from the media? QUOTE: Where journalism failed [in its coverage of Katrina--Ed.] is not in any lack of emphasis on how disproportionately blacks were affected, but in how “too many people were making the surface observation that there were lots of blacks affected without spending the time parsing the facts that would make it meaningful or informative.”	Poynter Online
Aug 29, 2006	Discussions about race difficult but constructive QUOTE: These kinds of stories push the dialogue about race beyond rhetoric. They push us to a place we aren't comfortable going because of the fear of being labeled a racist. That fear often produces silence, said Woods.	Poynter Online
Jul 27, 2006	Liberals and Israel QUOTE: most of the lefty blogs are avoiding the Middle East war...conservatives are ramping up the argument that there's a game of camouflage going on, and the back-and-forth is revealing.	Washington Post
Jun 23, 2006	On TV, There's a Killer Corporate Image Problem QUOTE: On the heels of last month's conviction of top Enron Corp. executives comes this nugget from the Media Research Center, a conservative television watchdog group that examines programming to determine how certain groups are portrayed. In this study, the group claims that Hollywood unfairly and overwhelmingly casts businessmen and women as "criminal CEOs and murdering MBAs."	Washington Post
Mar 24, 2006	Of Media Mistakes and Explanations QUOTE: As Ronald Reagan said, trust but verify. This is particularly unfortunate since the Times admitted six days ago buying a bill of goods from a former Abu Ghraib prisoner...	Washington Post
Feb 22, 2006	Same-sex birth notice QUOTE: ...[the local newspaper-Ed.] declined to publish the free announcement with both of the women's names, saying that the paper publishes only the names of the biological parents if the couple is not married.	Poynter Online
Feb 16, 2006	Internet Firms Address China Practices QUOTE: ... companies such as Yahoo Inc., Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp., all of which view China both as a giant business opportunity and a worrying regulatory challenge because of the government's censorship and human rights policies. Members of Congress and human rights advocates said the companies have made unacceptable compromises to advance their business interests.	Washington Post
Feb 04, 2006	On Capitol Hill, Playing WikiPolitics: Partisanship Tests Web Site's Policies QUOTE: As [Wikipedia--Ed.] becomes one of the most heavily visited spots on the Internet, it's testing the limits of collective smarts and integrity. But when it comes to Washington, where intrigue and passions run high, keeping such a public record is a particular challenge. Not only is there the obvious temptation to tinker with an opponent's bio, there's the whole subjective nature of political truth itself.	Washington Post
Jan 24, 2006	Second Careers QUOTE: half the former members of Congress--half!--are now earning many times their Hill salaries by trying to persuade their ex-colleagues to fund a Bridge to Nowhere or some equivalent measure. Every special interest, in other words, is a future employer...	Washington Post
Jan 09, 2006	The Bush Bombshell: Did the president propose to take out Al Jazeera? QUOTE: Bush mooted the idea of taking out the headquarters of Al Jazeera in Doha, Qatar....puts Blair in a good light, in that he dissuaded the president from any such course of action and was assisted in this by Colin Powell, who was then secretary of state.	Slate
Dec 23, 2005	On Opinion Page, a Lobby's Hand Is Often Unseen QUOTE: But organizations like the institute...are facing new and uncomfortable scrutiny over their links to special interest groups after...Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff had paid at least two outside writers for opinion articles promoting the work of his clients.	New York Times
Dec 21, 2005	TV Charity Drives: Toys for Tots, Money for Stations QUOTE: To become "partners" with WUSA and WRC, such entities as SunTrust and the D.C. Lottery pay the stations. The payments buy TV ads that tout the charitable campaigns and the companies' involvement in them. The stations, in turn, often feature their paying sponsors on news reports about the charitable drives, usually without disclosing to viewers that the station is receiving money from the ad buys.	Washington Post
Dec 16, 2005	Time Warner Plans to Sell 5% of AOL to Google QUOTE: Google, which prides itself on the purity of its search results, agreed to give favored placement to content from AOL throughout its site, something it has never done before.	New York Times
Dec 15, 2005	Putting Their Names All Over the News: Banks' Sponsorship of Radio Newsrooms Raises Questions About Journalism Ethics QUOTE: The agreements reflect the proliferation of corporate sponsorships in recent years -- think FedEx Field and MCI Center -- and the pressure many newsrooms feel to boost revenue. Close alliances between companies and news enterprises, however, raise a special set of issues related to journalistic integrity...	Washington Post
Dec 01, 2005	U.S. Is Said to Pay to Plant Articles in Iraq Papers QUOTE: But far from being the heartfelt opinion of an Iraqi writer, as its language implied, the article was prepared by the United States military as part of a multimillion-dollar covert campaign to plant paid propaganda in the Iraqi news media and pay friendly Iraqi journalists monthly stipends	New York Times
Nov 14, 2005	Attack of the Blogs QUOTE: Blogs...are the ultimate vehicle for brand-bashing, personal attacks, political extremism and smear campaigns. It's not easy to fight back: Often a bashing victim can't even figure out who his attacker is....The combination of massive reach and legal invulnerability makes corporate character assassination easy to carry out. Dry treatises on patent law and trade policy don't drive traffic (or ad sales) for bloggers and hosts; blood sport does.	Forbes
Oct 01, 2005	What’s in a Name? Does “refugee” depict the desperate plight of Katrina’s victims, or does it insult U.S. citizens? QUOTE: Does “refugee” depict the desperate plight of Katrina’s victims, or does it insult U.S. citizens?	American Journalism Review (AJR)
Sep 05, 2005	Who's a Looter? In Storm's Aftermath, Pictures Kick Up a Different Kind of Tempest QUOTE: "You see a black family, it says they're looting. You see a white family, it says they're looking for food."	New York Times
Aug 18, 2005	Fair? Balanced? A Study Finds It Does Not Matter QUOTE: Many people also believe that biased reporting influences who wins or loses elections. Economists ask whether the advent of the Fox News Channel, Rupert Murdoch's cable television network, affected voter behavior. They found that Fox had no detectable effect on which party people voted for, or whether they voted at all.	New York Times

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