It’s a small thing, but media bias is usually in the small things. This morning on the Today Show, Mitchell did the main news piece on the debate. She covered the point where McCain and Obama argued about who was more negative. Obama insists that McCain’s ads have been “100% negative” and defends the statement again when McCain says it’s not true. Cut to objective reporter Andrew Mitchell who says something like “independent fact checking organizations say both campaigns have been negative.”

To be sure. But that wasn’t the assertion of fact that cried out for truth-squadding. Going by Mitchell’s report, Obama’s claim could still be true, even though I am sure that no independent fact-checking organizations would back up any such claim.

Update: From a reader:

Jonah,
NBC did its own “truth squading” in its post debate show with Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw. Their reporter said something like 71% of McCain’s ads were negative compared to 63% for Obama. Then even showed McCain’s congratulatory ad after Obama accepted the Democratic nomination.
It looks like Mitchell doesn’t watch her own network’s reporting or deliberately ignores it.