Rich
Noyes, the MRC’s Research Director and a senior editor at
NewsBusters.org, is
responsible for supervising media analysts and researching and
writing MRC Special Reports. He is also one of the editors of
Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of
the latest outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes in the liberal
media, and the
Media
Reality Check, MRC's regular report on stories that
the media distort or ignore.
After joining the MRC in 1999,
Mr. Noyes co-edited, with economist Stephen Moore,
Dollars & Nonsense: Correcting the News Media's Top Economic
Myths, a book of essays by
leading economists designed to illustrate and correct the
economic illiteracy pervading much of the liberal media. He has
written several in-depth studies on media bias, including:
Mr. Noyes has discussed the
media’s liberal bias on the Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC and a
variety of radio talk shows, and has authored articles which
have appeared in the New York Post, Investor’s
Business Daily and Human Events.
Before he arrived the Media
Research Center, Mr. Noyes studied the media at the Center for
Media and Public Affairs, where he co-authored two books:
The Video Campaign:
Network Coverage of the 1988 Primaries, and
Good Intentions Make Bad News: Why Americans Hate Campaign
Journalism, published in 1995. He has also written
for the Journal of Political Science, the American Enterprise,
Forbes MediaCritic, and Roll Call, a Capitol Hill
newspaper.
A native of Agawam, Massachusetts, Mr. Noyes obtained a bachelor’s degree in political science from the George Washington University in 1987, and earned a master’s degree from Georgetown University in 1990. He currently lives in Falls Church, Virginia.