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Peter's Gay-Inclusion Solution;
"Record-High" Gas Price Hype
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 
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The
so-called mainstream media never admit their liberal tilt, so the
news analysts at the Media Research Center tirelessly document the
media's bias and expose their left-wing agenda. The "awards" for
last week's lowlights:
| » Peter's Gay-Inclusion Solution.
The Big Three networks hailed "gay marriage" in Massachusetts on May 17, but ABC's Peter Jennings was the strongest. He equated gender-neutral marriage licenses to racial desegregation, citing the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education
ruling: "Two of our main stories tonight are about the struggle for rights and inclusion — one of them in the 20th century, the other right now in the 21st." |
Peter
Jennings equated "gay marriage" with desegregating
public schools in the 1950's. |
Jennings tarred the rest of America as discriminatory: "[F]or the first time in U.S. history, the civil marriage laws of a state do not exclude gays." But then ABC virtually excluded opponents of the gay agenda — social conservatives got just ten seconds of air time.
For more, see the May
18 CyberAlert.
» "Record" Price Hype v. Inflation.
Reporters are pounding home the bad news of "record-high" gas prices. There's Peter Jennings ("certainly a record"), Dan Rather ("record highs"), Tom Brokaw ("record-high gas prices"), CNN anchor Aaron Brown ("rising to records"), CNN's John King ("certainly a record"), NBC's Carl Quintanilla ("record-high gas prices"), CBS's Julie Chen ("record gas prices"), and ABC's Jake Tapper ("record-high prices"), who found a man on the street to lament, "It's going to kill us. These prices are going to kill us, man."
A Reuters dispatch on May 19 also cited "record prices," but then added the correct context: "While high in nominal terms, gasoline prices still fall short of the inflation-adjusted peak of $2.99 a gallon reached in March 1981, according to the U.S. Department of Energy."
For more, see the
May 20 CyberAlert.
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