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.
Fox News Channel
Special Report with Brit Hume
April 30, 2004
Washington Times reporter Bill Sammon on controversy over "The Fallen" episode of ABC's
Nightline: "ABC News has been described by conservative Media Research Center as being the most anti-war of the three broadcast networks."
CNN
Anderson Cooper 360
April 30, 2004
(EXCERPT)
ANDERSON COOPER: Richard, let me start out with you. Apparently viewers have been calling these stations not airing the broadcast in protest. Did Sinclair overreact?
RICHARD NOYES, MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER: I don't know if they overreacted. They were given a choice by ABC, which was either run Ted Koppel's program the way Ted Koppel wants to put it together or don't run anything at all. I think, if timing permitted, it would have been very nice to put together a more balanced program, one that does more than just...
COOPER: So you think there's a political agenda here?
NOYES: Oh, I think it's pretty obvious that Ted Koppel has a political agenda. You know, he chose May 1 to do this. He chose the anniversary of the president making the declaration that combat was over. Liberals have been trying for the last year to make Bush eat his words. This is Ted Koppel, I think, lending a bit to that argument. I think it's a perfectly wonderful thing to remember those who died, if he picked a politically neutral day like Memorial Day or March 20, the anniversary of the wars beginning, there wouldn't be this fuss. But instead, he tried to do it on a politically sensitive day, one that sort of gives a little fuel to liberal critics of the president. And probably does more to clutter, if it was intended as a tribute, does more to clutter it up, than to really actually give tribute to those who served.
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Fox News Channel
Your World with Neil Cavuto
April 30, 2004
MRC President Brent Bozell discussed ABC
Nightline's decision to read the list of war dead from Iraq.
The Ken Hamblin Show
April 30, 2004
MRC Research Director Rich Noyes discussed ABC
Nightline's decision to read the list of war dead from Iraq.
Noyes also discussed the issue on the following radio stations and programs:
WVLK-Lexington, Ky, April 30.
WLW-Cincinnati, Ohio, April 29.
Accent Radio Network, April 30.
Metro News (WV)
April 30, 2004
MRC Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham discussed ABC
Nightline's decision to read the list of war dead from Iraq.
The Marshall Democrat-News (Mo.)
"Nightline List is Something More -- And Also Less," by Mark Lile
April 30, 2004
"...How about the other side? Brent
Bozell, president of Media Research Center, said, "I think it's intellectually dishonest to deny the partisan nature of this broadcast. Of course, it's partisan! What's the purpose? There's only one goal in mind: It's to turn public opinion against the war..."
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Boston Globe
"Nightline to Honor Fallen GIs," by Frazier Moore, AP
April 30, 2004
"...I think it's intellectually dishonest to deny the partisan nature of this broadcast," said
Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center. "Of course, it's partisan! What's the purpose? There's only one goal in mind: It's to turn public opinion against the war...."
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The story ran in the following papers:
Lexington Herald-Leader (Ky.),
April 30.
Longview Daily News (Wash.),
April 30.
Pittsburgh
Tribune-Review,
April 30.
Charleston
Gazette,
April 30.
Winston-Salem
Journal,
April 30.
Miami Herald,
April 30.
Billings Gazette (Mont.),
April 30.
Kansas City
Star,
April 29.
Raleigh News &
Observer,
April 29.
Akron Beacon-Journal (Ohio),
April 29.
Wilmington Morning Star (N.C.),
April 29.
Charlotte
Observer,
April 29.
This AP story also ran on the following Internet news sites:
The
BostonChannel.com,
April 30.
NBC
SanDiego.com,
April 30.
The
NewOrleansChannel.com,
April 30.
The JacksonChannel.com (Jackson, Miss.),
April 30.
Local6.com (Orlando, Fla.),
April 30.
The
NewMexicoChannel.com,
April 30.
TheHawaiiChannel.com,
April 30.
TheHometownChannel.com,
April 30.
WJACTV.com (State College, Pa.),
April 30.
NBC4.com (Washington, D.C.),
April 30.
WHIOTV.com (Dayton, Ohio),
April 30.
WSBTV.com (Atlanta, Ga.),
April 30.
Newsnet5.com (Akron-Cleveland, Ohio),
April 30.
WRAL.com (Raleigh-Durham, NC),
April 30.
ChamplainChannel.com (New York),
April 30.
Local10.com (Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.),
April 30.
WFTV.com (Orlando, Fla.),
April 30.
Click2Houston.com,
April 30.
These web sites also ran the article:
WPXI.com (Pa.),
April 30.
IowaChannel.com,
April 30.
IndyChannel.com,
April 30.
ChannelOklahoma.com,
April 30.
News4Jax.com (Fla.),
April 30.
FoxReno.com (Nev.),
April 30.
PittsburghChannel.com,
April 30.
KIROTV.com (Wash.),
April 30.
KTVU.com (Calif.),
April 30.
WDIV.com (Mich.),
April 30.
WMURChannel.com (N.H.),
April 30.
CickonSA.com (Texas),
April 30.
KMGH.com (Colo.),
April 30.
LousivilleChannel.com,
April 30.
WSOCTV.com (N.C.),
April 30.
KSBWChannel.com (Calif.),
April 30.
MilwaukeeChannel.com,
April 30.
KCRATV.com (Calif.),
April 30.
KMBCTV.com (Mo.),
April 30.
ChannelCincinnati.com,
April 30.
Cincinnati Post
"ABC News Catches Some Flak," by Rick Bird
April 30, 2004
"Some conservative media critics are calling Ted Koppel's "Nightline" show tonight a stunt, as he will devote the entire show to reading the names of the some 500 Americans killed in Iraq as photographs and footage are flashed on the screen.
"The conservative media watchdog group Media Research Center questions the network's motives claiming ABC's coverage has been anti-war, with director
Rich Noyes saying, "It's fair to wonder whether this is really just another biased attempt to push public opinion against the war by highlighting its tragic costs..."
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Chicago Daily Herald
"Critics Call Today's Nightline Show Anti-War," by Ted Cox
April 30, 2004
"...Conservative groups like the Media Research Center likewise took offense, with
Rich Noyes saying, "ABC's coverage has carried an anti-war slant since before the first shot was fired." It also irked some who said it was timed to humiliate President Bush on the anniversary of his proclaiming the war over in Iraq..."
"...I think it's intellectually dishonest to deny the partisan nature of this broadcast," said Media Research Center President
Brent Bozell. "Of course it's partisan! What's the purpose? There's only one goal in mind. It's to turn public opinion against the war..."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
"Nightline to Read Toll of War Dead," by Frazier Moore, AP
April 30, 2004
“I think it’s intellectually dishonest to deny the partisan nature of this broadcast,” said
Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center. “Of course, it’s partisan! What’s the purpose? There’s only one goal in mind: It’s to turn public opinion against the war..."
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This AP story citing Bozell also appeared in:
Houston
Chronicle,
April 29.
San Francisco
Chronicle,
April 29.
ArizonaCentral.com,
April 30.
Porterville Record (Calif.),
April 30.
Rapid City Journal (S.D.),
April 30.
Marin Independent Journal (Calif.),
April 30.
North County Times (Calif.),
April 30.
Tacoma News-Tribune (Wash.),
April 30.
CTV.ca (Canadian Television),
April 30.
USAToday.com,
April 30.
Montgomery County
Record, Pa.,
April 30.
WJLA.com (Washington, D.C.),
April 30.
San Jose Mercury
News,
April 30.
MichiganLive.com,
April 30.
Tuscaloosa News (Ala.),
April 30.
MSNBC.com
"Nightline: Tribute or Propaganda?" by the Associated Press
April 29, 2004
CNBC
Capital Report
April 29, 2004
MRC Research Director Rich Noyes discussed ABC
Nightline's decision to read the list of war dead from Iraq.
Washington Times
Inside Politics, by Greg Pierce
April 27, 2004
"After Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry on Friday afternoon addressed the convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors,
C-SPAN's cameras caught the group's attorney, who also counsels the White House Correspondents' Association
(WHCA), boasting to Kerry: 'I'd like to say I really hope to be able to sit across from you at the head table next year' at the WHCA dinner 'when they're honoring you' as the new president," the Media Research Center's
Brent Baker reports at www.mediaresearch.org..."
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The Tom Hughes Show
WGST-Atlanta, Ga.
April 27, 2004
Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham discussed the latest liberal bias.
The Mark Larson Show
WCBQ-San Diego, Calif.
April 26, 2004
Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham discussed the latest liberal bias.
New York Post
"Network Naifs Buy Bogus Buzz," by Brent Baker
April 21, 2004
"On Monday's 'Nightline,' ABC's Terry Moran related how the White House likes Bob Woodward's new book, since 'It portrays a president who's deeply engaged, who is challenging his subordinates, who is very concerned about Iraqi civilians and most importantly politically for the administration, a president who did not distort the pre-war intelligence about weapons of mass destruction, but who was given this intelligence from the CIA.'"
"But those aren't the parts of the book that interested the networks earlier in the day: All led with the supposedly controversial and 'explosive' revelations in 'Plan of Attack,' from how Saudi Arabia's ambassador allegedly promised lower oil prices to benefit Bush's re-election to how Bush 'diverted' funds from Afghanistan to Iraq war planning..."
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MichNews.com
"The State of the (Liberal) News Media," by La Shawn Barber
April 21, 2004
"We already know what they do and why they do it. Whether they realize it or not, liberals in the media expose their biases by the way they cover issues like race, homosexuality, abortion, education and more recently, the war in Iraq.
"The Media Research Center uncovered anti-Bush bias on all three networks as they interviewed relatives of victims during the 9/11 commission hearings. MRC reviewed all interview segments on ABC's
Good Morning America, CBS's The Early Show and NBC's
Today from March 23 through April 15, and found that in 23 interviews, 20 were critical of Bush while only 3 were not..."
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American Progress.org
"Right-Wing Attack Machine: Slamming Victims, Families and 9-11 Panel
April 19, 2004
"...The right-wing 'Media Research Center's' Brent Bozell wrote a column claiming that it is "dishonest" that women whose husbands were killed in the attack are being portrayed as 'just a group of nonpartisan widows with no political axes to grind...'"
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Human Events Online
"9-11 Commission Absurdities," by Brent Bozell
April 20, 2004
"When Condoleezza Rice raised her right hand to begin a much-anticipated TV show on April 8 -- broadcast live for three hours on ABC, CBS and NBC -- the absurdities were already in full swing.
"Absurdity No. 1: Where was the "news" here? The September 11 Commission was learning almost nothing new, since Rice had already testified for four hours in private. All that was left was a political spectacle. The liberal media-Democrat complex wanted to give the impression that the Bush Administration had done something criminally wrong...."
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WDUN-Gainesville, Fla.
April 19, 2004
MRC Research Director Rich Noyes discussed media coverage of 9-11 commissioner Jamie Gorelick memo and
Washington Post editor Bob Woodward's just released book on the Bush administration and the Iraq War.
Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.)
"60 Minutes Incident Spotlights Issue of Corporate Ties and News," by David
Bauder, Associated Press
April 19, 2004
"Many conservatives are suspicious because within four months '60 Minutes' will feature three books that are either critical of Bush or are expected to raise tough questions about his leadership, said
Rich Noyes, research director of the Media Research Center.
"Besides the Clarke book and feature on Woodward's account of the administration's planning for the Iraq war, the newsmagazine in January interviewed former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill about his criticisms of Bush in the book "The Price of Loyalty."
"Noyes said Stahl's interview with Clarke didn't match the "60 Minutes" standard of toughness.
"'60 Minutes' had made it a practice its whole life of telling corporate America to come clean and tell America what is going on," Noyes said. 'They should be held to the same standards themselves....'"
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Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Networking with God," by David Bauder, Associated Press
April 17, 2004
"The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts did 303 stories on religion during the 12 months that ended March 1, compared with 121 stories during a one-year period in 1993, said the conservative Media Research Center, which says its mission is to 'to bring balance and responsibility to the news media.'
"Coverage also increased on the morning news shows (197 in 1993, 331 the past year) and on newsmagazines and Sunday morning interview shows, the media watchdog group said.
"'I think the uptick is notable; I would not predict that it will remain,' said
Tim Graham, the study's author. He was a news reporter at the
La Crosse Tribune and in 1986 graduated from Bemidji State University, where he founded a conservative student newspaper..."
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WorldNetDaily
"Superrich Stand to Profit from Kerry," by John Berlau
April 17, 2004
"Tim
Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center, notes that Soros regularly is described as a philanthropist, whereas no such term ever is affixed to Richard Mellon
Scaife, who gives to conservative causes and is portrayed by the liberal media as an agitator.
"This was so even though the sums he gave to conservative and anti-Clinton groups were a fraction of his giving. Scaife gave mostly to ballet companies and other cultural institutions in his hometown of Pittsburgh, carefully keeping his economic interests separated from his philanthropy..."
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Springfield News-Sun (Ohio)
"Religion Making News on Network," by Caroline Wilbert, Cox News Service
April 16, 2004
"A new report backs up what is becoming obvious to television watchers: There is more religion on TV news these days.
"The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts did 303 stories on religion during the 12 months that ended March 1, compared with 121 stories a decade ago during a one-year period in 1993, according to the report from the Media Research Center..."
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Family News in Focus (Family.org)
"Is Air America Soon to go Off the Air," by Stuart Shepherd
April 16, 2004
"Rich Noyes, a spokesman for the Media Research Center, said the network has failed to live up to the major media hype surrounding its arrival.
"'This development makes it look like they're really not a powerful new development in radio, but they're really a bunch of small-time operators who can't get their act together,' Noyes said..."
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Washington Times
"Inside Politics" by Jennifer Harper
April 16, 2004
"Media bias can be subtle. In the past three weeks, ABC, NBC and CBS have featured seven times as many interviews with September 11 family members who were critical of
the Bush administration as with those who supported Mr. Bush's policies.
"'Nine guests, with a total of 20 appearances, were critics of the president, compared with only three interviews with two Bush supporters,' the Media Research Center noted in a study released yesterday."
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WARL-Providence, R.I.
April 16, 2004
Research Director Rich Noyes discussed how the media have ignored the Clinton administration's actions in the years prior to 9-11.
National Review Online
"Raines on His Parade," by Clay Waters, Director of Times Watch
April 15, 2004
"Hitting newsstands this week, "My Times" is a litany of complaints, spared only from dullness by the undeniable color of Raines's pungent style — and his apparent eagerness to burn every bridge leading back to 43rd street. He hits at the "calcified front page" he inherited and even attacks the "sometimes mindless job guarantees" of the paper's union, a crack sure to lose Raines whatever rank-and-file affection he retains in his old newsroom...."
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Myrna Blyth, Spin Sisters: How the Women of the Media Sell Liberalism and Unhappiness to the Women of
America. St. Martin's Press, New York, 2004, p. 225.
"...Nobody does it better than Katie Couric. The Media Research Center which painstakingly tracks 'liberal bias' on television, cites what it considers over five hundred examples of Katie's left-leaning point of view, from her frequent defense of the Clintons to her lauding of Senator Jim Jeffords when he left the Republican party..."
Akron Beacon-Journal
"Media Pushed to Disclose Conflicts," by David Bauder, Associated Press
April 12, 2004
"Many conservatives are suspicious because within four months, 60 Minutes will feature three books that are either critical of Bush or are expected to raise tough questions about his leadership, said
Rich Noyes, research director of the Media Research Center.
Besides the Clarke book and upcoming feature on Woodward's account of the administration's planning for the Iraq war, the newsmagazine in January interviewed former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill about his criticisms of Bush in the book The Price of Loyalty.
Noyes also said Stahl's interview with Clarke didn't match the
60 Minutes standard of toughness.
"'60 Minutes had made it a practice its whole life of telling corporate America to come clean and tell America what is going on,' Noyes said. 'They should be held to the same standards themselves...'"
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The AP story with Noyes' comments was also published in the following newspapers and Internet news sites:
Denver Post
April 12, 2004
Charlotte Observer
April 12, 2004
Chicago Sun-Times
April 12, 2004
Tuscaloosa News (Ala.)
April 12, 2004
Ithaca Journal (N.Y.)
April 12, 2004
Jefferson City News-Tribune (Mo.)
April 12, 2004
Burlington County Times (Pa.)
April 12, 2004
Newsmax.com
April 12, 2004
InForum.com (N.D.)
April 12, 2004
New Orleans Times-Picayune
April 11, 2004
Miami Herald
April 11, 2004
San Francisco Chronicle
April 11, 2004
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
April 11, 2004
San Jose Mercury News
April 11, 2004
MichiganLive.com
April 11, 2004
Tacoma News Tribune (Wash.)
April 11, 2004
WJLA.com (Washington, D.C.)
April 11, 2004
New York Times
"G.O.P. Club Supports Conservative Races," by Leslie Wayne
April 11, 2004
"'Our donors are very ideologically driven, more than party driven,' said Stephen Moore, who co-founded the organization in Washington in 1999. 'They are antitax and they feel the Republican Party has dropped the ball.'"
"Special disdain goes to Republicans whom club members call 'RINO's' or 'Republicans in Name Only.' That list features 21 Republican members of Congress who the club feels have gone soft on economic issues."
"'We have no loyalty to the Republican Party,' David Keating, the club's executive director, said in an interview. 'We're willing to get involved with candidates that no one else would touch with a 10-foot pole.'"
"Donors include some of the conservative movement's biggest names: Richard Mellon Scaife, the House majority leader Tom DeLay and the columnist
Brent Bozell, as well as businessmen like the pharmaceutical executive Dan Searle, the cosmetics executive Ronald H. Lauder and the financiers Charles Schwab and Richard Gilder. The conservative economists Arthur Laffer and Lawrence Kudlow advise on policy..."
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Yahoo.com
"60 Minutes to Acknowledge Woodward Ties," by David Bauder, Associated Press
April 11, 2004
"...Many conservatives are suspicious because within four months,
60 Minutes' will feature three books that are either critical of Bush or are expected to raise tough questions about his leadership, said
Rich Noyes, research director of the Media Research Center.
"Besides the Clarke book and upcoming feature on Woodward's account of the administration's planning for the Iraq (news - web sites) war, the newsmagazine in January interviewed former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill about his criticisms of Bush in the book 'The Price of Loyalty.'
"Noyes also said Stahl's interview with Clarke didn't match the '60 Minutes' standard of toughness.
"`60 Minutes' had made it a practice its whole life of telling corporate America to come clean and tell America what is going on,' Noyes said. 'They should be held to the same standards themselves...'"
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This AP story also ran in:
Newsday
April 11, 2004
Kansas City Star
"Hollywood's Anti-Bush Side is Showing," by Jim Rutenberg of the NY Times
April 11, 2004
"...Tim
Graham, an analyst with the Media Research Center, a conservative group that monitors the media for signs of liberal bias, said scripts had not been this political since the 1992 election. Displeasure over 12 years of Republican residency in the White House and Dan Quayle's criticism of the fictitious Murphy Brown for having a child out of wedlock contributed to the outspokenness.
"Graham and other observers said the barbs dwindled during the term of President Bill Clinton, who counted many in the creative community as his friends..."
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USA Radio
April 9, 2004
Research Director Rich Noyes discussed the MRC's Special Report:
Religion on TV News: More Content, Less
Context.
Wisconsin Public Radio
April 9, 2004
Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham discussed the media's coverage of Condoleezza Rice's testimony to the 9-11 commission.
WRUF-Gainesville, Fla.
April 8, 2004
Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham discussed the MRC's Special Report:
Religion on TV News: More Content, Less
Context.
Graham also discussed the report on:
WSPA-York, Pa.
April 6, 2004
WGST-Atlanta, Ga.
April 6, 2004
The Mark Larson Show
WCBQ-San Diego, Calif.
April 6, 2004
Christian Science Monitor
"Religious Book Sales Show a Miraculous Rise," by Ron Charles
April 9, 2004
"Hunger for religious offerings seems to be permeating the television industry as well. Over the past 10 years, TV coverage of religious issues has been rising sharply, according to a study released this week by the Media Research Center. The major networks broadcast 303 stories on religion in the year ending March 1, compared with 121 in the same period last year...."
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
"Religion Stories Multiply in Media," by Caroline Wilbert
April 8, 2004
"...A new report backs up what is becoming obvious to television watchers: There is more religion on TV news these days.
"The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts did 303 stories on religion during the 12 months that ended March 1, compared with 121 stories a decade ago during a one-year period in 1993, according to the report from the Media Research Center.
"Coverage also increased on the morning news shows, newsmagazines and Sunday morning interview shows, according to the study, which did not include cable news networks and PBS...."
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution article also ran in the:
Springfield News-Sun (Ohio)
April 9, 2004
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
"Study Finds Increase in TV News Coverage of Religion," by the AP
April 9, 2004
"TV news coverage of religious issues has risen sharply compared to a decade ago, according to a study released this week.
"The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts did 303 stories on religion during the 12 months that ended March 1, compared with 121 stories during a one-year period in 1993, the Media Research Center said.
"Coverage also increased on the morning news shows (197 in 1993, 331 the past year) and on newsmagazines and Sunday morning interview shows, the media watchdog group said.
"'I think the uptick is notable,'" said Tim
Graham, the study's author. "'I would not predict that it will remain.'"
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The Associated Press story on the MRC Special Report: Religion on TV News: More Content, Less Context also ran on:
WHAS11.com (Ky)
April 5, 2004
NBC13.com (Ala.)
April 6, 2004
Washington Times
"Inside Politics," by Greg Pierce
April 8, 2004
"Last week when a front-page Washington Post story reported that a speech on threats in the world that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice was scheduled to deliver on September 11, 2001, focused 'largely on missile defense, not terrorism from Islamic radicals,' the networks jumped on it, considering it to be big news,' the Media Research Center notes at
www.mediaresearch.org.
"'But on Tuesday, when a front-page Washington Times story highlighted how 'the final policy paper on national security that President Clinton submitted to Congress — 45,000 words long — makes no mention of al Qaeda and refers to Osama bin Laden by name just four times,' the networks ignored it. CBS on Tuesday instead raised the stigma of Iraq becoming like Vietnam and CNN's 'American Morning' managed to find time for how 'Bill Clinton's foundation will provide cheaper generic drugs to AIDS patients in all needy nations affiliated with the U.N.' "
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Washington Times
"Warrior-Princess Goes to Full Battle Coverage," by Jennifer Harper
April 8, 2004
"...Broadcasters have been infatuated, however, with former White House counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke, says the Media Research Center's
Brent Baker.
"'The nation had moved past blaming either the Clinton or Bush administrations for 9/11. But the media supported Clarke's agenda, focusing on what the Bush White House did in the eight months prior to the attacks,' Mr. Baker said.
"Yet broadcasters virtually ignored the moment when Mr. Clark — asked by the September 11 commission whether the Bush administration could have taken any actions to prevent the attacks — 'simply said 'no' ,' Mr. Baker said.
"'So all this discussion doesn't matter. What matters is what the Bush team is doing now, and whether [presumptive Democratic presidential nominee] John Kerry can do any better,' he said..."
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TownHall.com
"The Sad Paradox of Religion News," by L. Brent Bozell III
April 7, 2004
"Thanks to the historic box-office bonanza of Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ" ($330 million and rising), the topic of religion is "hot" right now. Still, you get a sinking feeling that for the press, it's just another raging fad like the Tickle Me Elmo doll or the Atkins diet.
"The other night, ABC's Peter Jennings took three entire hours of prime-time television to explore the relationship between Jesus and St. Paul -- and that's two more hours than ABC gave Britney Spears a few months ago. Airing this subject matter -- and this much of it, too -- was a radical departure from the norm. But what about the quality? Wouldn't you know it, ABC had to put a negative spin on Paul; he isn't really to be trusted as a writer of the New Testament, and that he can be a force for what Peter Jennings calls "puritanical intolerance." He is somehow a human failure, and the Holy Spirit is nowhere to be found in the Word of God..."
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National Review Online
"Burning Blair," by Clay Waters, TimesWatch Director
April 7, 2004
"Who'd buy a Jayson Blair book? Nobody, judging by the sales figures for Burning Down My Masters' House, his sloppy memoir of life at the
New York Times. Yet House has been reviewed all over the place, probably garnering as many notices (all negative) as actual sales.
"So why do journalists keep washing their hands of Blair, writing reviews that are more like exercises in journalistic hygiene than actual critiques? Because getting irritated over Blair is a perfect outlet for hand-wringing journalists, a group easily made indignant. And Blair provides a deserving target..."
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Ekklesia.co.uk
"Religion Survey Challenges Idea of Secularisation"
April 7, 2004
"Proponents of the secularisation thesis will be challenged by the findings of a new survey in the US which says TV news coverage of religion has increased significantly over the last ten years.
"The conservative orientated, Media Research Center (MRC) has released findings from a new study of how network television news covers religion. The study found growing interest in religious coverage, with significant increases since the MRC’s first religion study was conducted ten years ago.
"The study however suggested that the tone of the coverage was often negative and that most stories were aired in the context of political issues.
"'Religious stories are more prevalent but the prevailing attitude at the networks seems to be it’s only a good story if it casts faith in a negative light, or if it evokes a political controversy,' said
Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center..."
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The Straits Times (Singapore)
"U.S. Newscasters Devoting More Airtime to Religion," by David Bauder of the Associated Press
April 7, 2004
'TV news coverage of religious issues has risen sharply compared to a decade ago, according to a study released Monday.
'The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts did 303 stories on religion during the 12 months that ended March 1, compared with 121 stories during a one-year period in 1993, the Media Research Center said.
'Coverage also increased on the morning news shows (197 in 1993, 331 the past year) and on newsmagazines and Sunday morning interview shows, the media watchdog group said.
''I think the uptick is notable,' said Tim
Graham, the study's author. 'I would not predict that it will remain.'"
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Report
The Associated Press story on the MRC's Special Report: Religion on TV News: More Content, Less Context, also appeared in:
Asia Pacific Media Network
April 7, 2004
Evansville Courier-Press (Ind.)
April 7, 2004
San Jose Mercury News
April 5, 2004
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
April 5, 2004
MLive.com
April 5, 2004
Beliefnet.com
April 5, 2004
Springfield News-Sun (Ohio)
April 5, 2004
New Orlean Times-Picayune
April 5, 2004
WJLA.com
April 5, 2004
Tuscaloosa News (Ala.)
April 5, 2004
Miami Herald
April 5, 2004
Henderson Gleaner (Ky.)
April 5, 2004
North County Times (Calif.)
April 5, 2004
Rapid City Journal (S.D.)
April 5, 2004
Porterville Record (Calif.)
April 5, 2004
Montgomery County Record (Pa.)
April 5, 2004
Contra Costa Times (Calif.)
April 5, 2004
WYDE-Birmingham, Ala.
April 7, 2004
Director of Media Analysis Graham commented on Hollywood's anti-Bush crusade.
The Karen Grant Show
KION-Monterey, Calif.
April 6, 2004
Research Director Rich Noyes discussed the MRC's
Special Report on religion coverage and the media's coverage of Iraq.
Crosswalk.com
Latest 'Jesus' Special Denigrates Christianity, Groups Say," by Jody Brown and Ed Vitigliano
April 6, 2004
"Television coverage of religious issues is up sharply compared to a year ago -- that according to a study from the Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog. A study released on Monday finds the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts did 303 stories on religion during the 12 months that ended March 1, compared with 121 stories during a one-year period in 1993. ..."
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"Taking on the Times," an excerpt The Battle for Augusta National, by Alan Shipnuck
April 6, 2004
"Goldberg's polemic had even more resonance because it echoed a similar dissatisfaction that had been gurgling up from the World Wide Web. In an era when the left-leaning Village Voice is owned in part by Goldman Sachs, the turn of the century had ushered in a radical new alternative media, the web log. Blogs offer a broad spectrum of political bents, but one thing is clear: Liberalism is as rare in the blogosphere as it is on the PGA Tour. "It is a fundamentally conservative/libertarian medium because liberals already have their own media outlets," says Clay Waters, the founder of the blog TimesWatch, which is dedicated to "documenting and exposing the liberal political agenda of
The New York Times" at timeswatch.org..."
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"Study Finds More Religion Coverage on TV," By David Bauder, Associated Press
April 5, 2004
"TV news coverage of religious issues has risen sharply compared to a decade ago, according to a study released Monday.
"The ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts did 303 stories on religion during the 12 months that ended March 1, compared with 121 stories during a one-year period in 1993, the
Media Research Center said.
"Coverage also increased on the morning news shows (197 in 1993, 331 the past year) and on newsmagazines and Sunday morning interview shows, the media watchdog group said.
"'I think the uptick is notable,' said Tim
Graham, the study's author. 'I would not predict that it will remain.'"
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"Inside Politics," by Greg Pierce
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"There are only a few months to go before Bill Moyers retires from PBS, but he's not going quietly," the Media Research Center's (MRC)
Brent Baker writes at www.mediaresearch.org.
"Last week on his Friday night show, he delivered a another left-wing 'commentary' in which he claimed President Bush's 'credibility has been shredded' because of his 'deception' over Iraq, warned that 'there will come a time when the president will have no one to rely on except his most rabid allies in the right-wing media,' lamented how privates in Afghanistan and Iraq earn less than $16,000 dollars a year 'while here at home the rich get their tax cuts' and recommended 'a wartime Cabinet to serve a wartime nation' with 'Al Gore as head of homeland security' and John McCain as secretary of state.
"Sounds like a quote in the MRC's April Fools edition of
Notable Quotables, but he really said it."
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Fox & Friends
April 5, 2004
Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham discussed Hollywood's anti-Bush bias on the Fox News morning show.
