MRC in the News -- July 2003 -- Media Research Center

July 2003

Many media outlets — radio, television and print — regularly feature MRC guests on their programs, quote MRC spokespeople in their articles, and cite MRC research in their stories. Below is a sampling of MRC making news in the news media. Links are provided when available, and were active when posted.

Rush Limbaugh.com
Rush's Total Stack of Stuff...
July 31, 2003

Media Research Center
(“Thoughtful” & “Better Educated” Iraqis Don’t Want Saddam Killed)
(ABC Delivers Another Story About Poor Missing Child Credit)

More on these topics here and here.

Washington Times
"Inside Politics," by Greg Pierce
July 30, 2003

Misleading viewers
The latest complaint regarding the habit of television news networks describing liberal political lobbyists as typical retirees complaining about the cost of prescription drugs comes from one of the lobbyists herself.

Barbara Kaufman, president of the Minnesota Senior Federation, was featured on ABC's "World News Tonight" on Friday, complaining about the high cost of prescription drugs. But there was no mention of her affiliation with organizations advocating a federal prescription drug entitlement, according to a Media Research Center transcript of the program.

Miss Kaufman calls ABC's decision "misleading...."

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Washington Times
"Homosexuality seen as accepted by media," by Julia Duin
July 29, 2003

...Last night, "Boy Meets Boy," a dating game for homosexual men where some straight men are thrown into the mix, aired on NBC's Bravo cable channel. This came on the heels of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," another new Bravo show that last week got bumped up to prime time Thursday, the same night that NBC airs its homosexual-themed sitcom "Will & Grace."... But there has been a backlash against homosexuality, according to a poll released yesterday by USA Today....opposition to same-sex "marriages" had risen to 57 percent, the most opposition since the question was first posed in 2000. "People feel there is a wave coming, so there's a resistance," said Tim Graham, an analyst with the Media Research Center. "People ask if anyone is going to fight. This White House won't. The Bush administration knows what the media hot buttons are."

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RushLimbaugh.com
Rush's Total Stack of Stuff...
Wednesday July 23, 2003...

Read the wide array of articles that the EIB staff puts together and that El Rushbo reads for show prep....

Media Research Center
(ABC and NBC See Celebrating Iraqis in Baghdad, CBS Not So Sure)
(Dan Rather Chokes Up as He Recites John Denver Lyrics)
(Washington Post Again Champions “Mainstream” Anti-War Groups)

[Ed. note: Rush also played the audio of the Dan Rather, video of which was posted on the MRC home page.]

National Review Online
Guest Comment
"Cut from the Raines Cloth; No change at the Times," by Clay Waters
July 16, 2003

Attorney General John Ashcroft talks like an ayatollah, Republican Sen. James Inhofe is an intolerant, xenophobic ultrapatriot, and retired Republican Sen. Phil Gramm is just plain mean. And, oh yeah, Al Gore won the 2000 election but had it snatched away by Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. That's the mindset of newly appointed Times executive editor Bill Keller, based on the reading of two years' worth of Keller columns for the Times....

Clay Waters is director of Times Watch, a project of the Media Research Center.

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Opinion Journal.com
Best of the Web Today
by James Taranto
July 15, 2003

Did Anyone See This Coming?
"NYT Picks Another Liberal to Succeed Raines"
--headline, TimesWatch.org, July 14

Washington Times
ON MEDIA
"Columnist new N.Y. Times chief; Keller takes reins as top editor in wake of Blair scandal," by Jennifer Harper
July 15, 2003

...[Keller's] recent columns have included "Why Colin Powell Should Go," and "God and George W. Bush," which asked, "Is President Bush a religious zealot or does he just pander to that crowd?"
Little has changed at the paper, according to some.
"The New York Times replaces one liberal executive editor with another one," observed Brent Baker of the Media Research Center yesterday.

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Chuck Harder Show
July 15, 2003

Times Watch Director Clay Waters on the appointment of Bill Keller a the New York Time's new executive editor.

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WROL (MA)
Don Feder Show
July 14, 2003

MRC Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham on the appointment of Bill Keller a the New York Times' new executive editor.

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RushLimbaugh.com
July 10, 2003

Rush's Total Stack of Stuff...
Read the wide array of articles that the EIB staff puts together and that El Rushbo reads for show prep. Note: some websites change or deactivate stories after we link them here. Plus, news outlet name and cover pictures link to homepages.

Media Research Center
(ABC and NBC Paint Bush Concession as Undermining Case for War)
(Peter Jennings, "Raised with Anti-Americanism," Now U.S. Citizen)
(ABC's Bury Scolds Bush's Remark, "Pretty Macho, Almost a Taunt")
(Couric Prompts Mother of Killed Soldier Who Denounces Bush)

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WCME (NY)
July 10, 2003

MRC Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham on MSNBC’s firing of host Michael Savage.

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New York Post
Media Watch
"Savage Liberals," by L. Brent Bozell
July 9, 2003

MSNBC was right to fire host Michael Savage for wishing death to a caller into his show over the weekend. His comments have no place in civilized debate. But neither did comments that have come from liberal icons of television such as Bryant Gumbel, Nina Totenberg and Julianne Malveaux -- all of whom have said hateful things about conservatives, and none of whom has had to answer for it.... Not one of these hatemongers ever apologized, nor did the networks they were affiliated with take any action.

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Boston Globe
THE MEDIA
"More fallout for Savage; Fired MSNBC host suspended by WRKO," by Mark Jurkowitz
July 9, 2003

Boston's WRKO-AM (680) suspended talk-show host Michael Savage from its airwaves yesterday, as the remarks that ended his MSNBC career rippled through the media universe, sparking debate about the boundaries of taste and decency in the raucous talk-radio culture.

Savage's controversial four-month career as a Saturday afternoon host on the cable news channel ended on Monday, when he was fired for referring to a caller as a ''Sodomite'' and declaring ''you should only get AIDS and die.'' WRKO has carried his widely syndicated radio show since last November.

....Mike Lofrano, chief operating officer of Talk Radio Network, said he was not aware of any other station taking action against Savage. ''It's unfortunate that it occurred, but on the radio side, almost all the affiliates have shown their support,'' he said. But it was hard to find anyone willing to defend Savage yesterday. While such ardent foes as the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation were applauding MSNBC's decision, the conservative Media Research Center watchdog group also issued a release saying his remarks ''have no place in civilized debate.'' (The MRC did, however, assail the ''hypocrisy'' of a media culture that does not exact punishment from liberals who say ''hateful things about conservatives.'')

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WOOD (MI)
July 9, 2003

MRC Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham on MSNBC’s firing of host Michael Savage.

See Bozell's statement

KFTK (MO)
July 9, 2003

MRC Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham on MSNBC’s firing of host Michael Savage.

See Bozell's statement

Mark Bernier Show
July 9, 2003

MRC Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham on MSNBC’s firing of host Michael Savage.

See Bozell's statement

USA Radio Networks
July 9, 2003

MRC Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham on MSNBC’s firing of host Michael Savage.

See Bozell's statement

KFTK (MO)
July 8, 2003

MRC Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham on MSNBC’s firing of host Michael Savage.

See Bozell's statement

WMUZ ( MI)
Flashpoint with Mike Duko
July 8, 2003

MRC Director of Communications Liz Swasey on media bias.

2003 Archive