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Right-wing media are increasingly and uniformly pushing the ” personhood ” position in their anti-choice attacks, an absolutist argument that equates fetuses with persons and goes beyond repealing Roe v. Wade to banning all abortions

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Evening news coverage throughout April touched upon several economic issues, including income inequality, deficit reduction, and entitlement cuts. A Media Matters analysis of this coverage reveals that many of these segments lacked proper context or necessary input from economists, while some networks ignored certain issues entirely.

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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Fox News have come to the same conclusion — describing the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya as an “act of terror” is different, and somehow less accurate, than describing them as a terrorist attack

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The Wall Street Journal debunked the false equivalency of its editorial page that insists the current GOP blockade on President Obama’s judicial nominees is unremarkable “turnabout” and merely follows “filibuster precedent” set by Democrats. In a May 13 article , the WSJ ‘s Washington Bureau Chief Gerald F. Seib detailed the unprecedented Republican obstructionism of the president’s agenda, which not only attempts to nullify his policy initiatives by hamstringing executive agencies, but more seriously by filibustering his picks for the federal courts.

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Fox News anchor Bret Baier complained that President Obama’s description of his administration’s response to attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya attempted to rewrite history

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Fox News reporter Todd Starnes claims to offer “culture war news,” but several of his recent stories have turned out to be false or misleading. Starnes’ Story: Military Undergoing “Christian Cleansing” Under Obama Starnes’ Story: Lesbian Role Play At Middle School Starnes’ Story: Pentagon Blocks Access To Southern Baptist Website Starnes’ Story: Track Team Disqualified For Praising God Starnes’ Story: “Saudi National” Involved In Boston Bombing Starnes’ Story: Military Undergoing “Christian Cleansing” Under Obama Starnes: Christians “Under Significant Attack” By Obama Administration

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Rich Lowry and Jennifer Rubin complained that President Obama used the term “women’s health” and did not mention the word “abortion” while speaking in front of Planned Parenthood on April 26, despite the fact that abortions only make up a small portion of the women’s health services that Planned Parenthood provides. On the May 5 edition of Meet the Press , host David Gregory quoted a May 2 blog post by National Review editor Rich Lowry that appeared in Politico in which he wrote : President Barack Obama was proud to become the first sitting president to address Planned Parenthood last Friday.

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Fox News editor-at-large Peter Boyer previewed the network’s special on the Kermit Gosnell murder trial by falsely claiming the trial illustrates “what abortion is,” and that Gosnell’s alleged crimes were the natural response to Roe v.

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A  Wall Street Journal  article debunked the myth that federal disability benefits are to blame for the shrinking labor force, “exaggerated” claims that have previously been pushed by the paper itself. An April 29 Journal article headlined “Real Culprit Behind Smaller Workforce: Age” explained that the recent decrease in the labor force — the number of employed and unemployed Americans who are currently seeking work — “has more to do with retiring baby boomers than frustrated job seekers abandoning their searches.” The article noted that claims that Americans are voluntarily leaving the workforce to receive Disability Insurance instead of working, for example, “may be exaggerated,” and explained that retirees and students made up a far more significant portion of those leaving the labor force. The article included the following graph, showing disability was the least common reason for individuals leaving the workforce in March 2013: However, the Journal has previously pushed the myth that Disability Insurance accounted for much of the dropping labor force participation rate

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A series of new polls indicate that the media was wrong to suggest that legislators who oppose strengthening guns laws would not pay a political price for their actions. Following the Senate’s failure to pass stronger gun laws earlier this month, political reporters suggested that Senate opponents of those laws had been wisely reacting to the political environment. According to those reporters, Democrats “got gun control polling wrong” because while surveys indicated that an overwhelming majority of Americans supported reforms like expanding the background check system to cover more gun sales, they may not feel as passionately about the issue as their opponents  and thus for politicians: “Voting against gun control measures may well carry less negative political consequence than voting for them — even though the poll numbers suggest the opposite is true.” Contrary to this theory, several polls conducted since the gun votes earlier this month indicate that more voters are likely to oppose senators who voted against stronger gun laws than they are to support them: Sen.

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