FOX NEWS PRESSES ITS CASE ON BENGHAZI, SLAMMING MSNBC

Fox News personalities have struck back in kind at liberals who have accused them of being mouthpieces for the Republican Party. Appearing on Bill O’Reilly’s show Thursday night, conservative pundit Bernard Goldberg accused the liberal-leaning MSNBC of acting like a “public relations firm for the Democratic Party.” His comments came during a discussion of coverage […]

CONFIDENCE IN TV NEWS DROPS TO ALL-TIME LOW

America’s confidence in television reporting has dropped to an all-time low, according to a new Gallup Poll. While last year 27 percent of adults said they had a great deal of confidence in TV news media, this year only 21 percent said they did. That is less than half of the 46 percent who expressed […]

BACHELOR AND BACHELORETTE HIT WITH BIAS LAWSUIT

ABC’s The Bachelor and The Bachelorette are the likely target of a class-action lawsuit by two Nashville men who maintain that the two shows intentionally discriminate against people of color. Nathaniel Claybrooks and Christopher Johnson claim that over 23 combined seasons, neither of the dating shows has ever featured a person of color in the […]

ITALIAN NEWSCAST SLAMMED FOR BIAS

The Italian broadcast regulator AGCOM has fined Italy’s TG1 news program, broadcast on the state-owned RAI Uno network, 100,000 euros ($142,000) for giving government officials, including Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, too much airtime during the current political campaign. Opposition leaders had complained that Berlusconi, whose Mediaset empire owns three TV networks in Italy, was attempting […]

BBC TRUST REJECTS MOST COMPLAINTS ABOUT PRO-ISRAEL BIAS

The BBC Trust, which oversees content on the publicly funded broadcaster, has let the BBC program Panorama off with a rap on the knuckles after its August 1, 2010 investigation of the Israeli commando assault on a ship that was part of a flotilla organized by activists attempting to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. […]