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All organizations have some slant and I think it's best to read and hear points of view from all sides however, MSNBC, CNN and ABC did not run a newspaper ad accusing Fox of ignoring or over-reporting something near and dear to MSNBC, CNN or ABC's heart.
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It's unclear as to what the motivation was for over-reporting of cancer statistics.
Cancer Stats Deliberately Altered aka TBTAM 2008
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The reason to require this type of over-reporting is so that the government can more accurately assess the amount of VAT that can be generated.
Obamacare Surprise: Paperwork Octopus for Small Business | RedState 2010
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So: it's just barely possibly that the women in 1972, 1978, 1980, I'm just saying, were over-reporting their happiness; that women since then have become more able to report their actual feelings about how things are kind of the way men do?
Oh Woe is Feminism! delagar 2009
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The census reinforces it with the over-reporting of whites by reclassifying people who put down such things as “Arab” and “Jew” as white.
The Volokh Conspiracy » (Not Just) Another DOMA Challenge: 2009
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The Hill reports that Representative Jim Gerlach (R-PA) has reached a settlement with the Federal Elections Commission, agreeing to pay a $120,000 fine for over-reporting contributions by over $2 million in his 2004 and 2005 reports.
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ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN are certainly guilty of over-reporting celebrity stories, behaving as shills for corporate interests, all the while snuggling up too closely to the politicians they should be objectively monitoring.
Allison Kilkenny: Planet FOX Stokes the Right's Delusions of Persecution 2009
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Now it could be there was some other reason less than 1 in 1000 of the readers clicked on the link, or it may be that these sources are over-reporting the influence of TechCrunch.
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As noted before, It is more to do with the media hyper-reporting and over-reporting than with anything else.
Michael Phelps Speaks, and Swims - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Instead, it seems men are over-reporting or women are under-reporting.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Virginity Among Unmarried Heterosexual 25-to-45-Year-Old Americans 2009
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