Augusta Free Press (Waynesboro, VA)
“Views on the News” (no byline)
September 30
…This in spite of a barrage of criticism of the network and its star news reader from conservative pundits who have been efforting to pin the two as being just to the left of Lenin.
That would be the positive spin. For the other side of the story, we turn to Brent Bozell, the oft-quoted founder of the GOP-friendly Media Research Center, who told USA Today, among other things, that "41 percent of the people not believing you is trouble in paradise." …
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National Review Online
"Changing the Story: Liberal-media types were "surprised by Kerry," by Tim Graham
October 1
... candidate a better chance of winning. -- Tim Graham is director of media analysis at the Media Research Center and an NRO contributor.
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Bogalusa Daily News
"Can the media be trusted?" by Andie Cook, Cook's Brew
September 30
...I have a more difficult time believing the reporting lacked "favoritism." According to Media Research Center, the documentary in question was at least the fourth anti-Bush documentary shown on CBS' "60 Minutes" in the last few months. The Center also pointed out that the network promoted three anti-Bush books, aired an extended promotional clip of Fahrenheit 911, and filmed a pro-Kerry interview by Leslie Stahl.
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Men's News Daily
"Kerry Claims Fatigue 'Inarticulate Moment' Spawned Infamous Iraq funding Comment," by Jimmy Moore, Talon News
September 30
... Chad Clanton, a Kerry campaign spokesman, told CNSNews.com that the Democratic candidate "simply got the time of day wrong.". "Campaigns ...
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ConWebWatch.com
"Swiftly Slanted, Part 4: No Questions Asked," by Terri Krepel
September 30
... Corsi.). CNSNews.com was also uncritical of the ad, but its Sept. ... discredited.". At CNSNews.com, Winter Soldier-bashing started early. ...
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San Jose Mercury News
"Presidential debate could turn into slugfest," by William E. Gibson
September 29
..."What it probably will do is move the campaign debate away from what we're talking about now - CBS, the National Guard and Swift boats - and back to issues that get the public engaged," said Richard Noyes, research director and political analyst for The Media Research Center. "That would purge the side issues that are driving the campaign now, which most people would be grateful for.
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LifeNews.com
"Americans Say Media Coverage Favors John Kerry Over President Bush,” by Steven Ertelt
September 27
A Media Research Center report cites a recent Gallop poll in the wake of a campaign reporting scandal at CBS News. Gallop determined that "just 44 percent of Americans express confidence in the media's ability to report news stories accurately and fairly.”
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TAEMag.com
”What is the Truth?” by Eli Lehrer
September 27
... more errors, because I think that there have always been quite a few fakes going around," says Brent Baker, vice president of the Media Research Center. ...
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Men’s News Daily
““Buckhead” vs. Dan Rather: Internet David Slays Media Goliath,” by Nicholas Stix
September 27
... On Tuesday, the Republican watchdog, the Media Research Center, noted that Rather had yet to apologize to those who had exposed him, whom he had impugned as ...
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Enter Stage Right
September 26
DetNews.com (Detroit, MI)
“Rather: Another Sign of A Wider Crack-up,” by Thomas Bray
September 26
…Viewers of CBS and the other traditional networks may have noticed the same thing, which could be one reason CBS lost 50 percent of its viewers between 1981 and 2001, as recounted in a timely new book, “Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media,” by conservative media critic L. Brent Bozell III. Bozell argues that Hillary Clinton’s invention of a “vast right-wing conspiracy” was actually a pre-emptive strike designed to scare the press into hewing to the liberal line. …
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Concord Monitor
“Partisan watchdogs show their muscle in unraveling CBS National Guard story,” by David
Bauder, The Associated Press
September 25
... stories. The Media Research Center has voluminous files on the networks, and keeps a particularly close eye on ABC's Peter Jennings.
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News-Journal (Longview, TX)
“Watchdog Group Sees Vindication in CBS Scandal,” by Julia Malone
September 24
After years of tracking what he sees as liberal bias in the nation's network news media and at CBS-News in particular, L. Brent Bozell III is having an "I told you so" moment.
His Media Research Center, where staffers scour 80 hours of television news daily, has amassed thousands of examples that Bozell says bolster his long-held contention that the news media favor Democrats and liberal causes. …
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The Union Leader (Manchester, NH)
“Jonah Goldberg: Big media apologists ignore bias,” by Jonah Goldberg
September 29
…Such soaring assertions are weighted down by the ballast of too many inconvenient facts. Mary
Mapes, the very liberal producer whose career is going the way of the dodo, has been working on the Bush Air National Guard (BANG) story for five years — more than a year longer than Bush has been President. That’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon. Meanwhile, as Tim Graham of the Media Research Center has documented, Dan Rather has a long history of saying Vietnam is irrelevant when it hurts Democrats and very relevant when it hurts Republicans. For example, in August — when John Kerry was getting shellacked by the Swift Boat Vets for Truth — he told Broadcasting & Cable: “In the end, what difference does it make what one candidate or the other did or didn’t do during the Vietnam War? In some ways, that war is as distant as the Napoleonic campaigns. What’s far more import is this: Do they have an exit strategy for Iraq? If so, what is it? How will they address the national deficit? And what are the chances their plans will work?” …
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Election 2004: Media Monitor Sniffs out Signs of Bias,” by Julia Malone
September 28
Alexandria, Va. --- After years of tracking what he sees as liberal bias in the nation's network news media and at CBS News in particular, L. Brent Bozell III is having an "I told you so" moment.
His Media Research Center, where staffers scour 80 hours of TV news daily, has amassed thousands of examples that Bozell says bolster his long-held contention the news media favor Democrats and liberal causes.
In a book called "Weapons of Mass Distortion," Bozell warned that newscasters, especially CBS anchor Dan Rather, regularly deny having biases and yet allow their views to "seep" into coverage.
He welcomes the arrival of the cable outlet Fox News, which has come under fire from the left. But Bozell said the newcomer is still a "bit player" compared to the viewership of the big three broadcast networks.
At a northern Virginia headquarters, a half-dozen analysts gaze into TV monitors, listening for anything they believe to be tainted by liberal bias. They enter questionable passages into computers equipped with red, white and blue mousepads that say "Don't believe the Liberal media." …
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USA Today
“Poll: CBS' memo story an 'honest mistake'," by Peter Johnson
September 27
… Brent Bozell, founder of the Media Research Center and a frequent critic of Rather, said that neither CBS News nor the media in general should be heartened by the findings.
"CBS' credibility problem is much deeper than Dan Rather," Bozell said. "Forty-one percent of people not believing you is trouble in paradise." And, he said, when 47% of Americans "don't trust the media, you've got a credibility issue — everyone in the media is being punished." …
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The Desert Sun
September 29
TAEmag.com (The American Enterprise Online)
“What is Truth?” by Eli Lehrer
September 27
…Even observers who take a slightly more optimistic attitude tend to agree lying is too widespread in today's media culture. "It could be only that people are finding more errors, because I think that there have always been quite a few fakes going around," says Brent Baker, vice president of the Media Research Center. "But there is certainly a perception that fakes are on the rise, and it has some truth to it." …
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Media Matters for America
“Media Matters, More Than Ever,” by David Brock
September 27
…As I wrote at our launch in early May, for three decades now the conservative movement has lavishly funded efforts like Brent Bozell's Media Research Center to attack the media for alleged "liberal bias" -- and the result has been a mainstream media cowed by such orchestrated criticism and increasingly accommodating of the conservative agenda. At a symposium in late July sponsored by the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, NBC anchor Tom Brokaw publicly acknowledged the conservative pressure tactics. "But these are the pressures that come with the business, they've always been there," Brokaw said. "It's just now that there are all these tools that make them a kind of tsunami, if you will, when they want to have it happen. Also, there are organized interest groups out there. There is a guy by the name of Brent Bozell who makes a living at taking us on every night. He's well organized, he's got a constituency, he's got a newsletter, he can hit a button and we'll hear from him. …
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CBS Market Watch
“Lessons from the CBS News Failure,” by Marshall Loeb
September 24
Heed the Internet
Another lesson is for journalists to pay attention to chatter on the Internet. Within hours of CBS making its charges -- basically that Bush was a laggard in the National Guard -- bloggers and other commentators on the Net expressed doubt over the veracity of documents that CBS used to back its story (and later posted on its Web site). Less than a day after the broadcast, the Cybercast News Service, a division of the Media Research Center in Arlington, Va., had picked up on the chatter and backed -- with its own interviews with independent experts -- the
bloggers' contention that the documents were phony. The rest of the mainstream media took note, and quickly followed. But CBS was slow to pay attention. Jay Rosen, chairman of New York University's Department of Journalism, asks, "Why doesn't CBS have someone reading the Internet?"
National Review
“No BANG for Dan,” by Jonah Goldberg
September 24
…Such soaring assertions are weighted down by the ballast of too many inconvenient facts. Mary
Mapes, the very liberal producer whose career is going the way of the dodo, has been working on the Bush Air National Guard (BANG) story for five years--more than a year longer than Bush has been president. That's not a sprint, it's a marathon. Meanwhile, as Tim Graham of the Media Research Center has documented, Dan Rather has a long history of saying Vietnam is irrelevant when it hurts Democrats and very relevant when it hurts Republicans. For example, in August--when John Kerry was getting shellacked by the Swift Boat Vets for Truth--he told Broadcasting & Cable: "In the end, what difference does it make what one candidate or the other did or didn't do during the Vietnam War? In some ways, that war is as distant as the Napoleonic campaigns. What's far more import is this: Do they have an exit strategy for Iraq? If so, what is it? How will they address the national deficit? And what are the chances their plans will work?" …
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The Stamford Advocate
“Author Tells Stamford, Conn., PR Group Bush Memo Flap May Undo CBS Credibility,” by Richard Lee
September 24
The apparent gaffe committed by CBS Sunday news program "60 Minutes" and anchor Dan Rather in a story questioning President George W. Bush's National Guard service has dealt a blow to its credibility from which the network may not
recover.
That is the opinion of L. Brent Bozell III, founder and president of Media Research Center, a conservative news watchdog organization, who yesterday addressed a luncheon meeting of the Fairfield County Public Relations Association at the Stamford branch of the University of Connecticut. Despite questions about the validity of documents purportedly written by one of Bush's commanders in the Texas Air National Guard regarding the president's failure to take a physical, Rather chose to go ahead with the report. …
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Investor’s Business Daily
“Lessons from the CBS News failure,” by Marshall Loeb
September 24
... Less than a day after the broadcast, the Cybercast News Service, a division of the Media Research Center in Arlington, Va., had picked up on the chatter and ...
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Cox News Service “Watchdog Group Sees Vindication in CBS
Docu-Scandal,” by Julia Malone (in Washington, General News section and National Political sections)
September 23
After years of tracking what he sees as liberal bias in the nation's network news media and at CBS-News in particular, L. Brent Bozell III is having an "I told you so" moment.
His Media Research Center, where staffers scour 80 hours of television news daily, has amassed thousands of examples that Bozell says bolster his long-held contention that the news media favor Democrats and liberal causes.
In a book called "Weapons of Mass Distortion," Bozell warned that newscasters, especially CBS anchor Dan Rather, regularly deny having biases and yet allow their views to "seep" into coverage. Unless that changes, he warned, "the liberal news media are headed for a meltdown," he warned. …
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News-Journal.com
September 23
NewMax.com
“Swift Boat Veterans’ Ad Hits Kerry for Meeting With Vietnamese Communists,” by Melanie Hunter, CNSNews.com
September 23
As CNSNews.com previously reported in May, the 1970 meeting between Kerry and North Vietnamese communists might have violated several US laws, according to an ...
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Newsday
“Eye on the Media; Hit Squad; An Attack Machine Grinds up Rather; The CBS Newsman Falls Prey to Those Well Practiced at Art of Personal Destruction and Media Distraction,” by Danny Schechter
September 21
…The irony is that he doesn't fit the stereotype. Rather has a superpatriotic persona. A day after 9/11 he went on the David Letterman show to proclaim his willingness to do whatever his president ordered. On Sept. 22, 2001, he said he would give the administration the benefit of every doubt. When a pre-war interview with Saddam Hussein in Baghdad raised eyebrows, he tacked hard right in his war reporting, for which he later won the conservative Media Research Center's top prize for best network coverage.
Don't write Rather off. He has had more media lives than the Republican Guard that wants to bury him. He is just this week's poster boy for the sins and screw-ups of an imagined liberal media. …
Fox News Network
“The Big Story with John Gibson (17:00)” with John Gibson, Molly
Henneberg, Brent Bozell, and Marvin Kalb
September 21
JOHN GIBSON, HOST: Hi, everybody. This is THE BIG STORY. I'm John Gibson.
CBS anchor Dan Rather 'fessing up to a big mistake. He's finally breaking the story about those apparently phony documents and the so-called "unimpeachable" source he used to question the President's National Guard service. And now there's a new uproar over contact between Dan Rather's secret source and the Kerry campaign.
Fox News Correspondent Molly Henneberg live in Washington.
Hi, Molly.
MOLLY HENNEBERG, FOX NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Hey, John.
Dan Rather has apologized, CBS has apologized, and now the network wants an independent panel to review the matter. But the story keeps developing. Apparently the CBS producer on the story helped connect Bill Burkett, the man who gave the suspect documents to CBS, with Joe Lockhart, a senior advisor to the John Kerry campaign.
Lockhart, a former press secretary for President Bill Clinton, says CBS Producer Mary Mapes called him the weekend before CBS aired the story on the documents and gave him Burkett's phone number. Lockhart says he called and Burkett offered campaign advice about how to counter ads by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. That was the extent of the brief call, Lockhart says, which began with a CBS producer giving Burkett's number to him.
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JOE LOCKHART, SENIOR ADVISOR, JOHN KERRY CAMPAIGN: All I know is that she called and said, "This gentleman is interested in talking to you." She gave me the number, I talked to him, and we talked about the things that I just mentioned. Certainly there was no discussion at all with Mr. Burkett about National Guard documents, and certainly there's no basis for any of the White House claims that somehow the Kerry campaign or the Democratic Party has anything to do with this.
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HENNEBERG: In an interview with the "USA Today," Burkett says he did have an arrangement with CBS. He would give them the documents if CBS would arrange for him to talk to someone at the Kerry campaign. Both CBS and Joe Lockhart say there was no deal. But the Republican National Committee chair says this story is becoming, quote, "An increasingly tangled web."
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ED GILLESPIE, CHAIRMAN, REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE: Are we really to believe that at a time when CBS thought they had one of the hottest stories of the campaign in these documents, and in the conversation with senior Kerry campaign aides they didn't discuss that? And the senior Kerry aides didn't call Bill Burkett at the request or the suggestion of CBS' "60 Minutes"? They didn't discuss on their call, as well? I think there's some reason to be skeptical here.
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HENNEBERG: Meanwhile, there were some protesters today outside of CBS' Washington bureau.
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PROTESTERS CHANTING: Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Rather, Nixon, Hayward got to go! Hey, hey! Ho, ho!
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HENNEBERG: People from "Accuracy in Media" and "Free Republic," two conservative groups, protested in front of CBS today here in Washington. As you heard, they're calling for the resignations of CBS Anchor Dan Rather, Producer Mary
Mapes, and CBS News President Andrew Hayward.
As for CBS putting Bill Burkett in touch with an advisor to the John Kerry campaign, a CBS spokesperson said today that it is, quote, "Obviously against CBS News' standards to be associated with any political agenda." She said that is, quote, "One of many issues the independent review panel will be examining."
Live in Washington, I'm Molly Henneberg. John, back to you.
GIBSON: OK, Molly. Thanks a lot.
CBS is having an independent panel look into the reporting of the President's National Guard service. Is that enough? Can the network be trusted on political stories?
Joining me from Washington, the President of the Media Research Center, Brent
Bozell, and Senior Fellow at the Shorenstein Center, Marvin Kalb.
Hartford Courant
“CBS Admits Making Error; Rather: Source Misled Network,” by Liz Halloran
September 21
…"There should be firings of those responsible," said Tim Graham, director of media analysis for the conservative Media Research Center, who called Rather's apology "too little too late."
"This suggests to me a degree of audacity, a degree of desire -- they really wanted this story to be true," he said. "Favoritism is what this story is all about." …
The Hotline
“CBS: Lucy, You Got Some 'Splaining to Do!” (no byline)
September 21
…Media Research Center's Brent Bozell: "Dan Rather and CBS suggest they were 'misled' as if they are the victims here. They were not misled. Their sources were dubious at best -- so much so that their primary source was never cited publicly – and they were certainly partisan with a political agenda against the
Presdient. ... This issue will only be resolved when the public knows not just why CBS fell for this fraud but who exactly was behind this smear" (release, 9/20). …
The Washington Times
“Press Organization Finds Rather, CBS Unethical,” by Jennifer Harper
September 21
…"CBS is not the victim here; the victims are the president, his family and the general public that was misled. This issue will only be resolved when the public knows not just why CBS fell for this fraud, but who exactly was behind this smear" cautioned Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center. …
Agape Press
“ ‘RatherGate’: Was It Incompetence—Or Was It Bias?” by: Jody Brown and Chad Groening
September 23
... have dubbed the "Rathergate" controversy. Rich Noyes of the Media Research Center believes someone is going to be held accountable.
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ChronWatch
“The CBS News Tradition: Last-Minute Sneak Attacks in Election Years,” by Wanda Valmora
September 23
Dan Rather maintains that his use of fraudulent documents while attempting to discredit President Bush was just an honest mistake, and that he and CBS News are committed to aggressive investigative journalism with no
favortism. If that makes you want to gag, or at least laugh out loud, you and columnist Tim Graham are in agreement.
In fact, as Graham notes, Rather's partisan approach to news is well-known to anyone whose brain is connected to his ears. And regarding the above-mentioned forgeries, Rather surely is the last journalist in America to realize that he was dealing with fakes. We have excerpted Graham's column below and have provided a link to the full article following that. …
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Boston Globe
“Lockhart Contacted Memo Scandal Figure,” by Mark Jurkowitz
September 22
… ''I think it is clearly and unmistakably a blind bias that took over at CBS," said L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Media Research Center, a conservative watchdog group. ''Unfortunately CBS is going to suffer the most, but I think it's going to have a ripple effect across journalism." …
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National Review Online
“Partisan Dan,” by Tim Graham
September 22
Never shy about declaring his deep reverence for the notion of journalistic objectivity, Dan Rather has contended over the years that he is one journalist who has no "political agenda, inside, outside, downside, upside." He has presented himself as an "honest broker of information" who "plays no favorites and pulls no punches."
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Newsday
“Eye On The Media,” by Danny Schechter
September 22
... Saddam Hussein in Baghdad raised eyebrows, he tacked hard right in his war reporting, for which he later won the conservative Media Research Center's top prize ..
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Agape Press
“CBS 'Eye' Blinks; Network Apologizes -- but Not to Bush, “ by Chad
Groening, Bill Fancher, and Jody Brown
September 21
... Rich Noyes of the Media Research Center says CBS is trying to paint itself as a victim. "CBS does not say that the documents are ..
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The Washington Times
“Press organization finds Rather, CBS unethical,” by Jennifer Harper
September 21
… "CBS is not the victim here; the victims are the president, his family and the general public that was misled. This issue will only be resolved when the public knows not just why CBS fell for this fraud, but who exactly was behind this smear" cautioned Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center. …
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Boston Herald
“It May Be Time for Him to Retire,” by David Guarino
September 21
… ``Given the fact that he impugned so many people who he said were lying about him, he owes a very public apology to everyone,'' said Brent Baker, vice president of the Washington-based Media Resource Center. ``CBS ought to consider how this man has hurt their credibility, not by doing the stories, but by his intransigence. It may be time for him to retire early.'' …
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Hartford Courant
“CBS Admits Making Error,” by Liz Halloran
September 21
"There should be firings of those responsible," said Tim Graham, director of media analysis for the conservative Media Research Center, who called Rather's apology "too little too late."
"This suggests to me a degree of audacity, a degree of desire - they really wanted this story to be true," he said. "Favoritism is what this story is all about."
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PR Week
“Two DC Firms Ramp up Efforts over Latest Presidential Controversies,” by Douglas Quenqua
September 20
…CRC worked with CNS and the Media Research Center, another media watchdog client, to push the story into the mainstream press.
Frontpagemag.com
"Who is Dan Rather?" by Lowell Ponte
September 20
...Please join us for an evening with DAN RATHER read the invitations that, as Brent Bozell of Media Research Center reported at the time, arrived with ...
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Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN.com)
“Weapons of Mass Distortion: A View of the Liberal Media” w/ Lee Webb and LBB
September 20
CBN.com – Brent Bozell, a staunch conservative, is the founder and current president of the Media Research Center, the largest media watchdog organization in America. Established in 1987, the MRC has made "media bias" a household term, tracking it daily and printing the compiled evidence biweekly in its well-known "Notable
Quotables." Bozell recently spoke with The 700 Club's Lee Webb concerning the liberal media and how they distort the truth.
LEE WEBB: Joining us now is Brent Bozell, founder of the Media Research Center, the leading media watchdog group in the country. And he's just written a book about media distortion and bias. The book is titled "Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media." Brent, good to have you with us.
BRENT BOZELL: Hi, Lee. How are you doing?
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Winston-Salem Journal
“Becoming the Story: Questions about Bush Memos Dog CBS,” by David Bauder
September 20
… "CBS is now clinging to a new and pathetic defense based on the opinion of an 86-year-old woman that she believes her boss believed something," said Brent
Bozell, the president of the conservative watchdog Media Research Center. "Sentiments about the spirit of forged documents are utterly irrelevant, but in the tradition of Bill Clinton's classic denials, it all depends on what CBS's definition of 'truth' is." …
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The Washington Times
“Schlafly’s Tenacity Praised,” by Christina Ianzito
September 20
…The high profiles of her well-wishers — Jack Kemp, Bob Novak, John Fund, Brent Bozell and Grover Norquist , among them — said as much about her drawing power as a conservative activist Republican as their tributes to a woman whose vast influence and deep understanding of political issues allowed her to take on any foe. …
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
“Dan Rather’s Forgery Fit,” by L. Brent Bozell, III
September 19
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Associated Press Online
“Dispute on Bush Memos Hovers Over Rather,” by David Bauder
September 19
…Conservative-oriented Web sites such as NewsMax.com and Worldnetdaily.com also have a heavy concentration of media stories. The Media Research Center has voluminous files on the networks, and keeps a particularly close eye on ABC's Peter Jennings. …
The Associated Press State & Local Wire
“Partisan Watchdogs Show Their Muscle in Unraveling CBS National Guard Story,” by David Bauder
September 17
…Conservative-oriented Web sites such as NewsMax.com and Worldnetdaily.com also have a heavy concentration of media stories. The Media Research Center has voluminous files on the networks, and keeps a particularly close eye on ABC's Peter Jennings. …
The story ran in the following:
Chattanooga Times Free Press
September 20
The Associated Press Worldstream
September 19
National Journal
Talking Heads- "Gunga Done?" by Vaughn Ververs
September 17
The Media Research Center, a conservative media watchdog, calls Rather a "a longtime liberal advocate masquerading as a journalist," and the organization produced a greatest-hits compilation on the occasion of Rather's 20th anniversary as CBS anchor.
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Tewksbury Advocate on TownOnline.com
"When the fonts don't fit...Wilmington expert finds himself in a national debate," by Franklin B. Tucker/Staff Writer
September 15
While the debate grew on line, some reporters decided to start calling experts in the field. Haley received a call around noon last Thursday from CNS reporter Rober
Bluey, who was referred by three type experts from across the country. They told the reporter there was one person he needed to contact: Haley.
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Baltimore Sun
“CBS’ Rather again at eye of the storm,” (no byline)
September 17
... He finds himself at the center of a very different storm today, however ... The Media Research Council, a conservative watchdog group, and the Web site RatherBiased ...
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Christian Broadcasting Network
“Weapons of Mass Distortion: A view of the Liberal Media,” (no byline)
September 17
... who assisted Barry Goldwater with writing "Conscience of a Conservative." He is also founder and current president of the Media Research Center, the largest ..
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Michnews.com
“Dan Rather’s suspicious alliance with the Kerry campaign,” by Doug Schmitz
September 17
... Brent Bozell, director of the Media Research Center and author of the now-prophetic book, Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal ...
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The Frontrunner
“Burkett, Possible Source Of Suspect CBS Documents, Avoids Media,” (no byline)
September 17
…The AP (9/17) reports CBS News is "trying to restore its credibility after a week of questions about its report on President Bush's National Guard service - yet it may never conclusively know whether it was duped by fake documents." The news division "has acknowledged for the first time questions about the authenticity of documents used to support the story, and it has promised a stepped-up effort to get at the truth." Charlotte Grimes of Syracuse University said, "They could have saved themselves a good deal of negative publicity and attacks if they had said that from the beginning." The AP adds, "While backing away slightly from the documents, CBS has always maintained - and Rather repeated on 60 Minutes Wednesday - that no one has disputed the substance of the story: Bush received preferential treatment to get into the National Guard and didn't fulfill his requirements." The network has "done little to mollify its critics." Brent Bozell of the conservative Media Research Center said, "CBS is now clinging to a new and pathetic defense based on the opinion of an 86-year-old woman that she believes her boss believed something. Sentiments about the spirit of forged documents are utterly irrelevant, but in the tradition of Bill Clinton's classic denials it all depends on what CBS's definition of 'truth' is." The AP adds, "If CBS did rely on false documents, it would be a major blow for Rather." …
The Washington Times
“Rather Rumble Likely to Cost CBS,” by Jennifer Harper
September 17
…Media Research Center director Brent Bozell called CBS' latest defensive efforts "pathetic," adding, "Sentiments about the spirit of forged documents are utterly irrelevant, but in the tradition of Bill Clinton's classic denials, it all depends on what CBS' definition of 'truth' is." …
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Philadelphia Inquirer
“CBS Defends Its Reporting While Easing Stand on Memos,” by David Bauder
September 17
…"CBS is now clinging to a new and pathetic defense based on the opinion of an 86-year-old woman that she believes her boss believed something," said Brent
Bozell, president of the conservative watchdog Media Research Center. "Sentiments about the spirit of forged documents are utterly irrelevant." …
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The New York Times
“Familiar Roles for Rather and His Critics,” by Jim Rutenberg
September 17
…Now, in the superheated era of cable television and
blogs, criticism of Mr. Rather -- like that of other mainstream journalists -- fills its own media universe. There is a Web site devoted to his supposed biases,
''Ratherbiased.com,'' and the conservative Media Research Center regularly runs commentary about Mr. Rather on its Web site. …
The Associated Press
“CBS News Fights to Restore Credibility,” by David Bauder
September 16
… "CBS is now clinging to a new and pathetic defense based on the opinion of an 86-year-old woman that she believes her boss believed something," said Brent
Bozell, president of the conservative watchdog Media Research Center. "Sentiments about the spirit of forged documents are utterly irrelevant, but in the tradition of Bill Clinton's classic denials it all depends on what CBS's definition of 'truth' is." …
The article was also discussed on the following:
WJXX- Jacksonville, FL, September 16
ABC News, September 16
Agape Press
“MRC Says Anti-Bush Reports Costing CBS Credibility,” by Chad Groening
September 16
... Rich Noyes of the Media Research Center believes CBS has done false and misleading reporting about George W. Bush's National Guard service. ...
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Michnews.com
“NAVY Contradicts John Kerry on Release of Military Records,” by Marc
Morano, CNSNews (CNSNews.com)
September 16
The US Navy released documents Wednesday contradicting claims by Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry that all ..
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The Hotline
“The Guard: Hot Enough to Peel House Paint” (no byline)
September 15
…Media Research Center's Brent Bozell: "I've never seen anything like this in my career. I have never seen a news outlet, a) be so slipshod in its investigation; b) have so many experts who then go on camera on other news sources and say, 'I'm not an expert. I don't authenticate this'; and, No. 3, for them now to be standing by this story when everyone has blown the lid off this"
("Hannity & Colmes," FNC, 9/14). …
University Wire
“Just the Same Old Media,” by Whitney Blake, Cavalier Daily; Source: U. Virginia
September 15
… Barone surmised that the Old Media covered significantly less of the Swift Boat Veteran attacks on Kerry than controversy over Bush's National Guard service. The Media Research Center tallied up the number of news stories, and before Aug. 19, the Swift Boat Veterans were featured nine times in all of the network news broadcasts, while 75 stories covered Bush's National Guard records. …
Agape Press
“Bush-Bashing Broadcaster Needs to Come Clean, Critics Say,” by Bill
Fancher, Rusty Pugh, and Jody Brown
September 15
…Three Things
Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center is convinced CBS has an agenda -- and that the whole situation is making the network look pretty bad. CBS, he says, has still refused to acknowledge the fraud, even when its own experts proclaimed the documents to be fakes.
"This [has] CBS just tied up in a pretzel with their defense games here," Bozell says. "This is just terrible. This just goes from bad to worse."
The MRC spokesman says if CBS ever wants credibility again, it must do three things. "I think it's quite simple," he says. "Number one, not only apologize to the American people [but] first and foremost, an apology is owed to the president of the United States. This was a smear campaign on him. Number two, they have to have an investigation on this -- an independent one, not [one by] the fox guarding the henhouse."
The third step, Bozell says, involves Dan Rather himself. The network, he says, needs to "suspend Dan Rather and everyone else involved this while they are doing this investigation because no one can believe a word Dan Rather says."
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Media Matters for America
“DRUDGE, NY Post spread Mark Hyman's false anti-Kerry accusations,” (no byline)
September 15
... The founder and president of Cybercast News Service is L. Brent Bozell III, founder and president of the right-wing Media Research Center
(MRC). ...
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Cavalierdaily
Just the same old media,” by Whitney Blake
September 15
... Bush's National Guard service. The Media Research Center tallied up the number of news stories, and before Aug. 19, the Swift Boat.
News Hounds
“Slash & Burn Politics,” by Eleanor
September 15
…This was followed by a long interview in two parts of Brent Bozell, President of Media Research Center, who says that CBS should apologize and expose the people behind the memos. Bozell said this "gets uglier and uglier." No doubt it's a fraud. CBS knew it was fraudulent, or at least questionable, so they are complicit. E.D. noted that CBS had two people authenticate the documents. Bozell said that CBS won't say who they are. It's bad to worse. They need to "apologize to the American people, and the President, and conduct an independent investigation." No one will believe a word Dan Rather says. When other media scandals were exposed, they took their medicine. E.D. again: "Are you saying that CBS intentionally put something bogus on the air to get rid of the president?" Bozell: They were bogus. At the snap of a finger, people have been able to destroy the story. …
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San Jose Mercury News
“Michaels Makes It Clear: He Roots for Rice's Team,” by John Ryan
September 15
… Mark Mandel, vice president of media relations for ABC Sports, said Michaels didn't receive any instructions to tone down his comments. Mandel said: ''She was a legitimate subject to talk about. Here she was, a senior member of our government who happens to be a huge football fan. And Al got some very interesting information out of her that was germaine to football.''
That wasn't the clip that got our attention, though. What we didn't find Monday afternoon (apologies), but saw Tuesday on the conservative Web site Media Research Center, was video of a November 2000 broadcast in which Michaels calls Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris an ''American heroine.''
(www.mediaresearch.org/)
Family News in Focus
“Media Bias Obvious on Economy, Too,” by Steve Jordahl
September 14
…Some observers—like Clay Waters of the group Times Watch—say the bias could even influence the November elections.
"It is suspicious that were coming on a run up to an election, and when you see a front page story in the Times with a headline that's saying 'Economic Bad News' it does make you wonder," he said. "By putting headlines and biased economic stories up front," he noted, "media does help Kerry." …
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About U.S. Politics
“Focus on CBS,” by Kathy Gill
September 14
The focus on whether or not the documents in a CBS news story aired last week are genuine or fake is shifting to CBS itself. NY Times columnist William Safire calls for an independent investigation, and Media Research Center Brent Bozell insists that CBS should apologize.
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News Hounds
“Time for Finger Pointing,” posted by Deborah
September 14
…Alan Colmes raised the point that Killian's secretary said that she wasn't sure if the memos were forged but she felt the content was correct.
Bozell did not want to deal with that concept. "I don't care to discuss the contents of a fraudulent memo." …
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The Washington Post
“Expert Cited by CBS Says He Didn't Authenticate Papers,” by Michael Dobbs and Howard Kurtz, Washington Post Staff Writers
September 14
…Prominent conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh are insisting the documents are forged. New York Times columnist William Safire said yesterday that CBS should agree to an independent investigation. Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, called on the network to apologize, saying: "The CBS story is a hoax and a fraud, and a cheap and sloppy one at that. It boggles the mind that Dan Rather and CBS continue to defend it."
AlterNet
“From Bozell to the bozos at Newsweek,” posted by Evan
September 13
…The first mention of forgery is in Brent "Conservative Victory Committee" Bozell's Cybercast News Service. This is black helicopter news, pure and simple. They employed "experts" who questioned some of the formatting and text specifics used in the document, wisely concluding that it "might" be a forgery. Why "wisely?" Because the assertion of doubt rather than straight accusation gives it the patina of objectivity or moderation. …
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Family News in Focus
“Media’s Credibility Questioned,” by Stuart Shepard
September 13
…Tim Graham, director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, said there hasn't been this much blatant promotion since another President Bush was campaigning back in 1992.
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MSNBC (WashingtonPost.com highlights section)
“Expert cited by CBS didn't verify papers,” by Michael Dobbs and Howard Kurtz
September 13
…Prominent conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh are insisting the documents are forged. New York Times columnist William Safire said yesterday that CBS should agree to an independent investigation. Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, called on the network to apologize, saying: "The CBS story is a hoax and a fraud, and a cheap and sloppy one at that. It boggles the mind that Dan Rather and CBS continue to defend it."
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The Hotline
“The Guard: Killian’s Texas Read,” (no byline)
September 13
THIS JUST IN
Salon's Boehlert reports, Arlington, VA-based Creative Response Concepts, run by ex-Pat Buchanan aides Greg Mueller and Mike Russell -- who have "played a crucial role in hyping the inaccurate, secondhand" allegations against Kerry by SBVT -- "sent out a media advisory" on 9/9 "to hawk a right-wing news dispatch," viz. a CNS News item on the then-fledgling controversy, which was picked up by the Drudge Report. CNS is "directed by ... longtime right-wing activist" Brent Bozell, whose Media Research Center "and other similar efforts have been heavily funded by conservative billionaire" Richard Mellon Scaife
(9/13).
The Greenville News (Greenville, S.C.)
Opinion Section, Letters (Scott David)
September 13
There's little evidence of liberal media bias
I would like to respond to two recent letters. The first letter, written about the liberal bias in the media, has one major flaw in it. The Media Research Center is hardly an unbiased organization and is not a reliable source of statistics. It's headed by L. Brent Bozell III, a self-proclaimed conservative and frequent guest on the Fox News Channel.
Media bias for liberals? Democrats could only wish to have their own news network, like the Republicans have the Fox News Channel. Headed by the ultraconservative Rupert Murdoch, the Fox News Channel runs daily "Talking Points," which are directed at improving the image of the Republican Party and our court-appointed president. …
World Magazine
“Split Screen,” by Bob Jones
September 11
…Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center in Washington, isn't surprised by that reaction. "Obviously there is the potential within New York itself for the protests to upset people, but New York and New Jersey aren't exactly swing states," he notes. "The real question is whether people in the other 48 states see the wackos in action."
MSNBC
"Expert cited by CBS didn't verify papers," (no byline)
September 14
... Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, called on the network to apologize, saying: "The CBS story is a hoax and a fraud, and a cheap and sloppy ...
Bloomerang.com
"Not all Economic News Coverage is created Equal," by Caroline Baum
September 14
... A proliferation of web logs has joined media watchdog groups, such as Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting and the Media Research Center, purporting to document ...
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About U.S. Politics
"Focus on CBS," by Kathy Gill
US Politics: Current Events Blog
September 14
NY Times columnist William Safire calls for an independent investigation, and Media Research Center Brent Bozell insists that CBS should apologize. ...
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Family News in Focus
September 14
...Some observers—like Clay Waters of the group Times Watch—say the bias could influence the November elections.
“It is suspicious that were coming on a run up to an election, and when you see a front page story in the Times with a headline that’s saying ‘Economic Bad News’ it does make you wonder,” he said. “By putting headlines and biased economic stories up front,” he noted, “media does help Kerry.”…
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Family News in Focus
“MEDIA'S Credibility Questioned,” (Stuart Shepard)
September 13
... Tim Graham, director of media analysis for the Media Research Center, said there hasn't been this much blatant promotion since another President Bush was campaigning back in 1992.
Media Matters for America
“Forgery evidence dubious,” (no byline)
September 13
On September 9, Conservative media sources including L. Brent Bozell III’s Cybercast News Service, Internet gossip Matt Drudge, The Weekly Standard’s Stephen F. Hayes and Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Brit Hume followed right-wing bloggers in detailing evidence to support the claim that the documents were
forged.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
“Media Monday,” (no byline)
September 13
…"If there were any lingering doubts about whether network reporters are in the tank for John Kerry, Wednesday's newscasts put them to rest," conclude Brent Baker and Rich Noyes of the Media Research Center.
To wit, the MRC found that, from May to August, the networks "ignored or disparaged charges" against Mr. Kerry by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. But last week, ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC "pounced in seeming unison" on claims involving Mr. Bush's National Guard service, some touted by an avowed Democrat partisan, others found in memos whose authenticity are in doubt.
Earlier this summer, MRC founder and president Brent Bozell announced the formation of a "Tell the Truth!" campaign. "The national liberal 'news' media are ... tossing any pretense of objectivity aside, distorting the truth and simply refusing to report real news that doesn't fit their political agenda."
Mr. Bozell doesn't want news stories to be reported with any slant, liberal or conservative. Neither do we. That's for the opinion and commentary pages. But it's hardly too much to ask for fair and balanced reportage that, by and large, does not exist today.
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Michnews.com
“The Mainstream Media Has No Clothes,” by Monte Kuligowski
September 11
…But please give yourself a real treat and review Brent Bozell’s fine and exhaustive work on this subject at MediaResearchCenter.com. …
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The Washington Times
“CBS’ Bomb Turns Blooper,” by Jennifer Harper
September 11
…Much of the media had "no reticence about plowing forward and repeating CBS's loaded charges that they proved President Bush received preferential treatment and disobeyed an order to complete a physical," Brent Baker of the Media Research Center, a media monitoring group, said yesterday. …
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Agape Press
“Media Watchers Expect Anti-Bush Smear Leading Up to Election,” by Bill Fancher and Jody Brown
September 10
…Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the Media Research Center in Virginia, attributes Bush's rise in the polls to a successful Republican convention and the continued inability of the Kerry campaign to effectively respond to the ads produced by the group Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. But Graham says people should not forget what the liberal-leaning media did four years ago when it released a copy of a DUI citation (driving under the influence) given to George W. Bush 25 years earlier.
“You cannot look at the 2000 election without realizing what the left-wing media can do at the last minute," Graham says. "The [media's handling of the] driving-under-the-influence scandal over the last weekend of the 2000 election is really the thing that threw [that] election into a tie."
How did the media handle the report about the two-decade-old citation? "The media ran around," Graham recalls. "And they not only played it up dramatically, they also tried to present it as utterly unpartisan, which of course it clearly, transparently was not." Graham points out that those who released the records in Maine about Bush's 1975 DUI citation had been holding onto them in safekeeping until the right moment.
The MRC spokesman is convinced that without the media reports, Bush would otherwise have won easily over Al Gore. "I think it's clear that Bush probably would have won the race without that thing in the last 72 hours," he says.
In retrospect, Graham issues this warning: "I don't think you go into any election campaign thinking the liberal media can't throw some pretty heavy artillery at you an any point." …
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Salon.com
“Swift Boat flacks attack CBS,” by Eric Boehlert
September 10
By Thursday, the online Drudge Report and the Weekly Standard were also trumpeting the accusations. And Creative Response Concepts sent out a press release to major news organizations stating that the "documents on Bush might be fake."
In the release, Creative Response promoted a Web site called Cybercast News Service, one of several groups directed by Brent Bozell, a longtime right-wing activist who has devoted years to attacking the "liberal bias" of the mainstream press. His Media Research Center and other similar efforts have been heavily funded by conservative billionaire Richard Mellon
Scaife.
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News Hounds
“Memogate- Phase II,” by Deborah
September 10
…After Hannity created the idea of CBS media bias, he brought on two media experts, Brent Bozell and Bruce Shapiro to discuss this theory.Bozell was treated with respect and courtesy by Hannity while Shapiro was insulted and attacked. 9/10/04 9:21 PM ET
Bozell claimed that the memos were done on a word processor and couldn't be authentic. Shocked by the revelations from the interviews in the last segment,he agreed with Hannity about CBS's complicity. …
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The Washington Times
“Inside Politics,” by Greg Pierce
September 10
News judgments
"If there were any lingering doubts about whether the mainstream media are in the tank for John Kerry, Wednesday's news judgments put them to rest," the Media Research Center's Brent Baker writes at
www.mediaresearch.org.
The same media that "ignored the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth for months and then fretted about their connections to the Bush campaign, demanded the group's free speech 'loophole' be plugged and that President Bush condemn their anti-Kerry TV ads, pounced in seeming unison on supposed 'new questions' about Bush's Air National Guard service forwarded by the AP, Boston Globe and CBS News, a record already dissected for more than a week last February," Mr. Baker said.
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GOPUSA
“RATHER Interviews Dem. Fundraiser Regarding Bush's National Guard ...” by Bobby Eberle, Talon News
September 9
... According to Brent Bozell of Media Research Center (web site), the Barnes interview was at least the fourth prime-time anti-Bush piece to be shown on CBS 60 Minutes in recent months.
WorldNetDaily
“EXPERTS suspect damning '70s memos created with modern word ...” by Art Moore
September 9
... But the copies are from faxes sent by CBS News yesterday. The Drudge Report gave the forgery allegation wide play with a link to a story by
CNSNews.com. ..
Akron Beacon Journal
“Kerry’s Vietnam Battles Continue,” by Jim Wooten, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
September 9
…The swift boat story first surfaced, according to the conservative Media Research Center, with a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington and an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by John O'Neill, the Texan who co-authored Unfit for Commandand who began challenging Kerry's tale of atrocities three decades ago.
''The event received scant notice by traditional media,'' according to MRC. ''CBS News mentioned it briefly and tried to tie the group to Bush. The Washington Post and New York Times had short items about it, as did the Boston Globe. The most in-depth coverage came from Fox News Channel.'' …
CNBC
“Capital Report” with Gloria Borger, Brent Bozell, and Hilary Rosen
September 7
So is there too much sex on television, or is it up to parents to keep an eye on what their kids watch? Joining me now to talk about it is Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, and CNBC analyst Hilary Rosen, former president of the Recording Industry Association of America.
Agape Press
“Commentary and News Briefs,” compiled by Jenni Parker
September 7
...A conservative media watchdog says the left wing media did exactly what he expected it would do during last week's Republican National Convention in New York. Last month Tim Graham, director of the Media Research Center (MRC), predicted the mainstream media would treat President George Bush much differently than it treated John Kerry at the democratic convention, and after watching the events in New York, the researcher says the mainstream coverage did not let him down. "They really approached these two conventions in different Ways," the MRC spokesman says. "They approached the Democratic convention as publicists and promoters -- salesmen. They came to the Republican convention to pick it apart, to rip it up -- to expose the 'con game,' to use Tom Brokaw's term." Graham says the biased coverage illustrated that the left wing media was in Boston to make everyone feel good about John Kerry but was in New York to point out all the flaws in George W. Bush. [Chad
Groening]
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Swift Boat Veterans Step up the Fight,” by Jim Wooten
September 7
…The swift-boat story first surfaced, according to the conservative Media Research Center, with a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington and an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal by John O'Neill, the Texan who co-authored "Unfit for Command" and who began challenging Kerry's tale of atrocities three decades ago.
"The event received scant notice by traditional media," according to MRC. "CBS News mentioned it briefly and tried to tie the group to Bush. The Washington Post and New York Times had short items about it, as did the Boston Globe. The most in-depth coverage came from Fox News Channel." …
San Jose Mercury News
“Conservatives’ Field Day” by Edward Wyatt
September 4
…Still, conservatives continue to argue that they are pushed aside, if not ignored entirely.
``There has been a bias,'' said L. Brent Bozell III, a commentator and syndicated columnist, whose new book, ``Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media,'' was published in July by Crown Forum, a new imprint of Random House geared toward conservative readers.
``For years and years and years it was really just one publisher of conservative books, Regnery,'' he said of the publishing house, which began in 1947. ``Others had gotten into it on a smaller scale, but the big boys didn't find it, for whatever reason, acceptable or didn't find it noteworthy or just didn't see the commercial value in conservative books.''…
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Fox News
Fox Special Report with Brit Hume
September 3
New York Democratic Congressman Major Owens told a group of protesters in
Central Park this week that President Bush is taking America, quote, "into a
snake pit of m," after addressing strators from the National
Organization for Women, Owens
told CNS News that the Bush administration, quote, "spits on democracy," and is leading the country, quote, "in the same direction as , Germany."
Owens went on to say the current administration is t because it,
quote, "uses power: military power, money power, all power to override the wishes of those who are
governed.”
Collective Bellaciao (Paris, France)
“The Republican Noise Machine,” by David Brock
September 3
…Mainstream cable news channels employ staunchly rightwing pundits -- like Pat Buchanan and Sean Hannity -- to twist facts and echo Republican talking points, all under the rubric of "balance." Meanwhile, media groups like Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center have spent 30 years convincing the public that the media is, in fact, liberal. As Brock says, it’s all a sham: "I have seen, and I know firsthand, indeed from my own pen, how the organized Right has sabotaged not only journalism but also democracy and truth."
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The New York Post
“Pundits’ Plea: Quell Zell,” by Editors
September 3
Back then (as the Media Research Center recalled), ABC News called Miller's speech part of "the time-honored tradition of attacking the opposition." This time, CNN's Bill Schneider claimed he'd "never heard such an angry speech." And Time magazine's Joe Klein, also on CNN: "I don't think I've ever seen anything as angry or as ugly." …
BACK in 2001, the Media Research Center predicted that, if Miller switched parties to restore control of the Senate to the GOP after Jim Jefford's defection, "The national media will then suddenly find it newsworthy to highlight what they have so far skipped over - his segregationist history."
Good call, if early: It's just what happened after Miller's pro-Bush speech. The Wall Street Journal's Al Hunt (on CNN) and MSNBC's Chris Matthews suddenly found it relevant that Miller had served as chief of staff to Georgia's segregationist governor, Lester Maddox.
Miller "was passionate when he was a racist 30 years ago," said Hunt. Added Matthews:
The Washington Times
“Nation; Inside Politics,” by Greg Pierce
September 3
Zell vs. Matthews
"Sen. Zell Miller fought back against Chris Matthews Wednesday night, leading to a very animated interview session when Matthews pounded away at points Miller made in his convention speech," the Media Research Center reports at
www.mediaresearch.org. …
‘Fascist’ Bush
Rep. Major R. Owens, New York Democrat, warned a crowd of feminist protesters in New York that the Bush administration is taking America "into a snake pit of fascism," Marc Morano reports for Cybercast News Service
(www.CNSNews.com).
Double Play
"On Thursday morning's 'Today,' NBC's Matt Lauer inadvertently invited a shot at Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry when he asked a Bush aide who would play Kerry in the Bush campaign's debate rehearsals," the Media Research Center reports.
"Playing off the 'two John Kerrys' theme from the convention speeches, White House Communications Director Dan Bartlett deadpanned: 'We're going to get a couple of people to play him.' "
WorldNetDaily
“Congressman: Bush’s U.S. like Nazi Germany” by CNSNews.com
September 2
Tells feminists president leading Americans into ‘snake pit of fascism’
WorldNetDaily
“Bush 2000 victory compared to ‘savage rape’” by CNSNews.com
September 2
Featured performer at NOW rally lambastes president
The New York Sun
“Fair & Balanced vs. Fair & Biased,” by James Bowman
September 2
In a way the very existence of a book like Brent Bozell's "Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media" (Crown, 272 pages, $25.95) is an admission of defeat. If you've got to write a book making your best case for the obvious - and if those who most need to hear what you have to say have been denying the obvious for decades - what difference is the book going to make?
Well, we can but hope. The bias of the press, and especially the broadcast media, toward liberal Democrats and against conservative Republicans has been well-documented by Mr. Bozell and his associates at the Media Research Center for many years now, and this book is for any open-minded person a persuasive distillation of their most recent findings. I highly recommend it, but with one reservation.
Human Events
“'All the News That's Fit to Slant' NY Times Stays Busy Smearing GOP and Bush,” by L. Brent Bozell, III
September 2
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The Hotline
“Web Watch: Breaking News and Making News” (no byline)
September 1
…The bloggers broke news, made news, and were the topic of news on day two of the Convention. Tommy Franks gave his endorsement to President Bush yesterday and he did it on the blogs. In truth, he had promised the big announcement to Sean Hannity. But before he hopped in front of the microphone for his scheduled 5:20pm interview, he typed the words "Consistency, persistency, character ... George W. Bush," Power Line, Captain's Quarters, Blogs for Bush, WizBang, and Slant Point were quick to break the embargo. By the time Sean Hannity asked the General (Ret.) what was new ... it was already old news. The top performers of the day were the boys from RedState . They snagged interviews with Bobby Jindal, Bret Schundler, and Brent Bozell, the head of the Media Research Center and author of Weapons of Mass Distortion. RedState.org also got the scuttlebut on Santorum. …
Human Events
"NYC Hometown Paper Sulks," by L. Brent Bozell III
September 2
The official boosters of New York City couldn't
be happier that the Republican Party brought their show to the city that
never sleeps. ...
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OpinionJournal.com
Best of the Web Today
September 2
We began the evening with cocktails at the home of William F. Buckley, at a party attended by a who's who of political journalists and commentators, among them Peter Beinart, Brent Bozell, Mona Charen, Rita Cosby, Midge Decter, Franklin Foer, David Frum, Jeff Jacoby, Mickey Kaus, Rich Lowry, Bill McGurn, Kate O'Beirne, Uma Pemmaraju, Norman Podhoretz and Ramesh Ponnuru. Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, was also on hand.
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National Review Online
"Here Comes The Umbrage," by Tim Graham
September 2
... against the liberal media's heroes. - Tim Graham is director of media
analysis at the Media Research Center and an NRO contributor.
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KOA-Denver, CO
September 2
Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham discussed the Republican National Convention.
New York Post
"Media Monitor: Dick and Double Standards," (no byline)
September 2
... The Media Research Center contrasts the sour approach to Miller's speech
with all the giddy excitement the same journalists showed a few months
ago at the ...
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Collective Bellaciao
"Protesters Denounce Fox News for 'Twisted View' of World,” by Marc Morano
September 2
CNSNews.com. New York (CNSNews.com) - About a thousand
protesters descended on Fox News Channel's headquarters ...
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ChronWatch.com
“New York Times Just Can't Stand That Nasty Republican Convention,” by Isaac Strahl
September 2
…Media commentator Brent Bozell writes that the Times has greeted the convention with ''about as much as enthusiasm as a first-grader greets the measles.'' The coverage is biased and slanted--you are surprised?--and the commentary snide and snotty. We have excerpted Brent Bozell's column below. …
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The Washington Times
“Fox Tops Second Night’s Ratings,” by Jennifer Harper
September 2
…"It's amazing that network anchors get 30 minutes every night for four years to whack away at this president, and they can't tolerate one hour of rebuttal," said Brent Bozell of the conservative Media Research Center (MRC) yesterday.
"If they hate the convention's success this much, perhaps they ought to pick up a sign and take their protests out to the streets, and let someone who can report the news straight take their place," Mr. Bozell said. …
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The New York Times
“Conservatives Cry Foul in Publishing Scrum,” by Edward Wyatt
September 2
Still, conservatives continue to argue that they are pushed aside, if not ignored entirely.
"There has been a bias," said L. Brent Bozell III, a commentator and syndicated columnist, whose new book, "Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media," was published in July by Crown Forum, a new imprint of Random House geared toward conservative readers.
"For years and years and years it was really just one publisher of conservative books, Regnery," he said of the publishing house, which began in 1947. "Others had gotten into it on a smaller scale, but the big boys didn't find it, for whatever reason, acceptable or didn't find it noteworthy or just didn't see the commercial value in conservative books."
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Mother Jones
“The Republican Noise Machine,” David Brock interviewed by Bradford Plumer
September 1
... twist facts and echo Republican talking points, all under the rubric
of "balance." Meanwhile, media groups like Brent Bozell's Media Research
Center have spent ...
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National Review Online
“A Good Start,” by Jim Geraghty
September 1
…Tuesday night was an "odds and ends" night for the Democrats, an evening which featured a true rarity: the candidate's running mate as the headline act. Tim Graham put it well:
Since the networks stayed away from the Fleet Center hijinks yesterday, it's likely that Tuesday night will be remembered as . . . well, it just won't be remembered. For the most part, this is a good thing for the Democrats. Ted Kennedy seemed so dated that even David Gergen was suggesting on CNN that he was past his prime. Howard Dean's speech clearly seemed like he'd been sedated, and CNN analyst Bill Schneider (on CNN's blog, at least) said it was his "worst speech ever," worse than The Scream speech. Teresa Heinz Kerry provided an entirely different flavor, but that's not always good. It could be the rhetorical equivalent of taking the uneasy down-home folks out for Portuguese cuisine.
The speeches most likely to be remembered from Tuesday are Barack Obama's keynote address and Ronald P. Reagan's oleaginous infomercial for the "miracles" of embryo-destroying stem-cell research. …
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USA Today
“Right, Left Use Books to Outflank Each Other,” by Bob Minzesheimer
September 1
…L. Brent Bozell, author of Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media, says conservative authors get no respect from "the established media. ... Conservatives have to swim upstream; liberals have softball (questions) thrown at them." The rise of talk radio, he says, created a "connection between conservative listeners and conservative readers." …
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National Review Online
"A Good Start," by Tim Graham
September 1
... Tim Graham put it well: Since the networks stayed away from the Fleet
Center hijinks yesterday, it's likely that Tuesday night will be remembered
as . . . ...
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