NY Times Runs Only 13 Stories on IRS In Last Six Months

The New York Times’ motto is “all the news that’s fit to print,” but in their eyes it seems as though the IRS scandal isn’t worth printing all that much. Research conducted by the Media Research Center found that in the past 6 months (183 days) the New York Times has published only 13 news items on the IRS’ targeting of Tea Party groups. The study focused on the dates of December 25, 2013 until June 26, 2014 and did not include editorial or opinion pieces published in the Times. Not a single story on the IRS made it onto the front page of the New York Times. MORE: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/ny-times-runs-only-13-stories-irs-last-six-months

CBS Finally Covers House Speaker’s Lawsuit Against Obama Administration

CBS lifted its blackout of House Speaker John Boehner’s planned lawsuit against the Obama White House with a 15-second news brief on Thursday’s CBS This Morning. The network follows in the footsteps of NBC, which first mentioned the story a day earlier on Wednesday’s Today, and ABC on Wednesday’s World News. Altogether, the Big Three networks have devoted just one minute and 18 seconds to the legal development. MORE: http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/cbs-finally-covers-house-speakers-lawsuit-against-obama-administration

Bill O’Reilly Uses MRC Stat to Show Liberal Media ‘Subverting American Democracy’

At the top of his Wednesday show, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly denounced the liberal media for “subverting American democracy.” He cited a particularly glaring double standard: “You may remember New Jersey Governor Chris Christie being pounded by the national media for a controversy on the George Washington Bridge….devoting 112 minutes to the situation in the first week….But when the VA scandal story broke, there was no coverage on the nightly network news broadcast for almost two weeks.”Those numbers were calculated by Media Research Center senior news analyst Scott Whitlock in a May 22 Media Reality Check entitled: “In a Month, TV News Gives Less Airtime to VA Scandal than Christie Controversy Received in Four Days.” MORE:

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