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Third-Party Descriptions

June 2008: "Phil Griffin, senior vice president of NBC News and the executive in charge of MSNBC, a particular target of criticism, said that although a few mistakes had been made, that they had been corrected quickly and that the network’s overall coverage was fair."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/us/politics/13women.html

Relationships

RoleNameTypeLast Updated
Owner of (partial or full, past or present) MSNBC Source Aug 2, 2005
Owned by (partial or full, past or present) Microsoft Corporation Organization May 20, 2005
Owned by (partial or full, past or present) NBC (National Broadcasting Company) Organization May 20, 2005
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Mitch Albom Person
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Rachel Maddow Person Jun 12, 2010
Employee/Freelancer/Contractor (past or present) Rep. Joe Scarborough Person Sep 30, 2006

Articles and Resources

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Date Fairness.com Resource Read it at:
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
Jul 31, 2009 Voices From Above Silence a Cable TV Feud

QUOTE: The reconciliation — not acknowledged by the parties until now — showcased how a personal and commercial battle between two men [Keith Olbermann and Bill O’Reilly] could create real consequences for their parent corporations.

 New York Times
Jul 29, 2009 Unpopular Science

QUOTE: The problem with the decline of science journalism is not just that there is less attention overall to science; it's that the remaining science coverage is less illuminating. Instead, it indulges in a variety of journalistic pathologies that thwart an improved public understanding of science.

 Nation
Oct 16, 2008 ISPs are pressed to become child porn cops: New law, new monitoring technology raise concerns about privacy

QUOTE: New technologies and changes in U.S. law are adding to pressures to turn Internet service providers into cops examining all Internet traffic for child pornography....Privacy advocates are raising objections to such tools, saying that monitoring all traffic would be an unconstitutional invasion....But such monitoring just became easier with a law approved unanimously by the Congress and signed on Monday by President Bush.

 MSNBC
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
Dec 28, 2007 Business on the Border: Arizona gets tough on employers to solve its immigration problem.

QUOTE: The employer sanctions law imposes tough penalties on businesses that knowingly employ undocumented immigrants. First offenders may have their business licenses suspended for up to 10 days and must sign an affidavit promising not to hire undocumented workers in the future. Fail to comply, and companies could lose their licenses to operate altogether. What's more, the law requires all of Arizona's 150,000 companies to run new hires through a free online federal database that checks immigration status.

 MSNBC
Dec 01, 2007 Highway To Hell?

QUOTE: Only it's not true. The main purveyor of this broad conspiracy theory is Jerome Corsi, coauthor of "Unfit for Command," the book that helped Swift Boat John Kerry's presidential ambitions. His latest offering is "The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger With Mexico and Canada," which became a best seller on The New York Times's business list this summer. Corsi plays on growing nationalist fears

 MSNBC
Nov 10, 2007 Injection of Reflection: There's wide support for a death penalty, but those who carry it out are increasingly uncomfortable.

QUOTE: The Supreme Court has imposed a de facto moratorium on lethal injection while it waits to hear oral arguments this January in Baze v. Rees, a case that could determine whether, or under what conditions, lethal injection can be used as capital punishment. It may be that states will resort to giving prisoners a massive dose of barbiturates—the preferred method for putting down sick pets. In theory, at least, the high court will uphold a "better" form of lethal injection, setting off a wave of executions

 MSNBC
Sep 29, 2007 Blood in the Streets: The generals may be able to reassert control, but they are not likely to kill the spirit of resistance shown by the country's brave monks.

QUOTE: Even if the junta regains control of the streets, it has lost its last shred of credibility as the purported defender of national unity and traditional values. Since seizing power in 1962, the generals have enriched themselves while most Burmese have only grown poorer.

 MSNBC
Sep 07, 2007 Land of Raggae and Homophobia: Jamaica's intolerant attitude toward gays runs counter to its unofficial motto, 'No problem, mon.'

QUOTE: Between February and July of this year, 98 gay men and lesbians were targeted in 43 different mob attacks, according to the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays. Four lesbians were raped, four gay men were murdered, and the houses of two gay men were burned down.

 MSNBC
Sep 01, 2007 Baghdad's New Owners: Shiites now dominate the once mixed capital, and there is little chance of reversing the process

QUOTE: Thousands of other Sunnis like Kamal have been cleared out of the western half of Baghdad, which they once dominated, in recent months. The surge of U.S. troops—meant in part to halt the sectarian cleansing of the Iraqi capital—has hardly stemmed the problem.

 MSNBC
Aug 29, 2007 Teresa, Bright and Dark: The nun's leading critic argues that her crisis of faith - revealed in newly published letters - was brought on by the crushing unreasonableness of the Roman Catholic Faith

QUOTE: It seems, therefore, that all the things that made Mother Teresa famous—the endless hard toil, the bitter austerity, the ostentatious religious orthodoxy—were only part of an effort to still the misery within.

 MSNBC
Aug 22, 2007 Iraq Blackouts Get Worse, Fuel Anger

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Jul 23, 2007 Taxing the Super Rich: Private-equity billionaires—the new Masters of the Universe—often pay far lower rates than the rest of us. But Washington is trying to change that. Get ready for a fight.

QUOTE: The very rich in America pay taxes at a lower rate than most working people, and, due to a wrinkle in the tax code, private-equity partners enjoy some of the lowest tax rates of all.

 MSNBC
Jul 20, 2007 When a Comedy is Too Much Fun: The new movie-musical version of 'Hairspray' is bouncy enough, but the high jinks smudge an important history lesson.

QUOTE: So how does one make a musical about segregation "fun"? Quite easily: by totally mischaracterizing the spirit of the civil-rights movement.

 MSNBC
Jul 05, 2007 The Press Faces Climate of Fear in Gaza

QUOTE: Freedom of the press is always a tricky proposition in the Middle East; here, as elsewhere, it belongs only to those who own one…

 MSNBC
Jul 03, 2007 Dan Gross on Bear Stearns's Hedge Fund Bailout: Hey, how come that hedge fund got a bailout and I didn't?

QUOTE: The details of the Bear Stearns rescue may fascinate only those who devour the Money & Investing section of the Wall Street Journal. But...it reinforces the notion that the big boys get pampered when their investments go bad...

 MSNBC
Apr 11, 2007 Calls mount for firing of shock jock Don Imus: The radio host, who made a racist remark about a women's basketball team, has been suspended for two weeks.

QUOTE: After calling the NCAA finalists of the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy headed hos" on his radio show last week, many people believed Imus has crossed the line one too many times. After repeated apologies and appeals for forgiveness and a two-week suspension by CBS radio and MSNBC, the protests and demands that Imus be fired continue.

 Christian Science Monitor
Dec 14, 2005 Is the Pentagon spying on Americans? Secret database obtained by NBC News tracks ‘suspicious’ domestic groups

QUOTE: ...the U.S. military has stepped up intelligence collection inside this country since 9/11, which now includes the monitoring of peaceful anti-war and counter-military recruitment groups....the Pentagon now collects domestic intelligence that goes beyond legitimate concerns about terrorism or protecting U.S. military installations, say critics.

 MSNBC
Aug 22, 2005 Best-seller 'Natural Cures' sparks court battle: Consumer agency cries 'fraud;' infomercial king cries First Amendment

QUOTE: Opinion is one thing, says Santiago, but misleading advertising is another... "When you are doing an infomercial and you say you have the cure for diabetes and you go to the book and there's no cure for diabetes, that's an issue."

 MSNBC

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