Word: bias
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...possible to get the punch line and not laugh. Last year Coulter wrote a column in which she joked, "Like many of you, I carefully reviewed the lawsuits [alleging bias] against the airlines in order to determine which airlines had engaged in the most egregious discrimination, so I could fly only those airlines ... Imagine the great slogans the airlines could...
...friend Lucianne Goldberg come to mind--into obscurity. But Coulter's second book, Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, an assault on the media, spent eight weeks at the top of the Times best-seller list and rekindled the debate on whether reporters show a liberal bias. Slander was followed in 2003 by Treason, and by then Coulter had inspired an industry of debunkers, people who scour her every utterance for mistakes large and small. Entire websites were devoted to this purpose...
...defiance toward the would-be raider. Before a crowd of 300 shareholders and 80 reporters, Wyman lashed out at Fairness in Media, a North Carolina-based conservative group and potential Turner ally that wants to see CBS taken over in order to end what it sees as a liberal bias in the network's news division. Declared Wyman: "Those who seek to gain control of CBS in order to gain control of CBS News threaten its independence, its integrity--and this country...
...listen stonily to most congressional critics, recently admonished Humphrey, "Come off it, Senator.") As NBC Correspondent John Cochran explained on Today (but had not made clear in his profile), he had confined his reporting to people who had actually met Gorbachev. His profile was thus unrounded, not from liberal bias but from something more endemic to television, a visual preference for personalities rather than analysis...
Rothman said that he was guilty of this very bias in his left-leaning youth, but has become more conservative with...