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MRC in the News

2005 Archive


2006 Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

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 are links to a sampling of MRC making news in the media. Links to the full story are provided when available, and were active when posted.

  • Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, July 31, 2006. Media Monday: The Times and Hillary, Quotes TimesWatch Study
  • Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, July 30, 2006. Media fall flat on Fannie Column by BMI Director Dan Gainor
  • The Independent, London, July 29, 2006, Politics and Hollywood: How Stone won over the Right, by David Usborne. "In the audience were several opinion-makers from the conservative right, including writers from the National Review as well as Cal Thomas, a syndicated columnist and pundit of Fox Television, and Brent Bozell, the president of the highly conservative Media Research Center, which has led the campaign against violence in Hollywood."
  • Washington Times, July 29, 2006. Inside Politics: Lefty TV Critics, by Greg Pierce. ""When Fox News Channel Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes spoke to the Television Critics Association Monday night at the group's gathering in Pasadena, about two-thirds of the 150 attendees in the room walked out in protest," the Media Research Center reports, citing the Miami Herald's Glenn Garvin."
  • WBAL, Baltimore, MD, July 29, 2006. CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer Randy Hall discussed this week's top stories
  • Accent Radio Network, Greg Allen's The Right Balance, July 28, 2006. Greg Allen's The Right Balance, CNSNews.com Editor-in-Chief David Thibault discussed the week's top stories
  • Human Events, July 28, 2006. Bozell: TV Journalists Owe Roger Ailes an Apology, by Rob Bluey. Blog quotes letter from MRC President Brent Bozell. "Their decision to stage a walkout, writes Media Research Center President Brent Bozell in a letter to Television Critics Association President Rob Owen, demonstrates that the journalists are "nothing more than cynical hypocrites.""
  • Wonkette, July 28, 2006. Original Wonkette: Special Jealousy Edition, by David Weigel. Blog links to NewsBusters story. "The hip cats at the Media Research Center:"
  • Calgary Herald, Calgary, Canada, July 27, 2006. Pundits Eat Words Over Stone's 9/11 Film, by Paul D. Colford. Quotes MRC President Brent Bozell. "In a press release, Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, called it "a masterpiece [that] must be seen by as many people as possible.""
  • FrontPage Magazine, July 27, 2006. Terrorist News Network, by Michael Reagan. Discusses NewsBusters story. "According to NewsBusters’ Rich Noyes: "Robertson touted his ‘exclusive’ exchange with a Hezbollah propagandist who led him on a tour of a bombed-out block of southern Beirut."
  • New York Times, July 27, 2006. Odd Bedfellows Align to Market Film About 9/11, by David M. Halbfinger. Quotes MRC President Brent Bozell. "L. Brent Bozell III, president of the conservative Media Research Center and founder of the Parents Television Council — best known for its campaigns against indecency on television and for stiffer penalties on broadcasters — called it "a masterpiece" and sent an e-mail message to 400,000 people saying, "Go see this film.""
  • Right Balance, July 27, 2006. MRC Research Director Rich Noyes discussed PBS' tribute to Walter Cronkite
  • Times Union, Albany, NY, July 27, 2006. 9/11 Charities to Share in Box Office. Quotes MRC President Brent Bozell. "L. Brent Bozell III, head of the conservative Media Research Center and founder of the Parents Television Council, called it "a masterpiece.""
  • United Press International (UPI), July 27, 2006. Oliver Stone Gets Unexpected Praise. Story by national press syndicate. "He has more noticeably drawn glowing kudos from such conservative voices as L. Brent Bozell III, president of the conservative Media Research Center, columnist Cal Thomas and the National Review."
  • Yahoo! News, July 27, 2006. Olbermann Seeks Oddballs. Column by MRC President Brent Bozell.
  • Air America, Thom Hartmann Show, July 26, 2006. CNSNews.com Editor-in-Chief David Thibault discussed the minimum wage
  • New York Daily News, July 26, 2006. Oliver's Twist: Right Loves WTC, by Paul D. Colford. Quotes MRC President Brent Bozell. "In a press release, Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, called it "a masterpiece [that] must be seen by as many people as possible." He added: "It's more than a movie - it's a vivid reminder of the love, heroism, faith and patriotism that comprise the fabric of our country.""
  • Salon.com, July 26, 2006. The Fix: Oliver Stone, Right-wing Heartthrob. Quotes MRC President Brent Bozell. "Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, writes on Townhall.com that he expected a "tiresome, loathsome, Bush-lied-thousands-died production designed to titillate the Michael Moore left-wing fringe," but the movie changed his mind: "Let me be unequivocal. Stone has delivered a masterpiece.""
  • National Review Online, July 25, 2006. Media Blog: CNN's Cooper: Hezbollah Media Events "Heavily Orchestrated" by Stephen Spruiell. Quotes MRC Research Director Rich Noyes. "Rich Noyes notes an interesting report from CNN's Anderson Cooper on the way Hezbollah manages the media:"
  • NRANews, July 25, 2006. CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer Jeff Johnson discussed security on the National Mall on syndicated radio show
  • Rush Limbaugh.com, July 25, 2006. Rush read part of a NewsBusters post on air (uncredited) and gave credit on his web site

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  • Fox News Channel, The O’Reilly Factor, July 24, 2006. MRC President Brent Bozell discussed the media's coverage of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah

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  • Ocala.com, July 24, 2006. Fire, or Ice? By William Rusher. Article commented on BMI's Fire & Ice Study. "All of the above quotations can be found in a wonderful new booklet by R. Warren Anderson and Dan Gainor of the Business & Media Institute, a division of the Media Research Center in Alexandria, Va."
  • Radio Factor, July 24, 2006. MRC Research Director Rich Noyes discussed bias on Hezbollah
  • WDUN, Martha Zoller, Atlanta, GA, July 24, 2006. CNSNews.com Jerusalem Correspondent Julie Stahl discussed the Israel-Hezbollah Conflict
  • Atlanta Journal Constitution, July 22, 2006, Should Journalists Restrain Their Reporting in the Interest of National Security? by Shaunti Feldman and Diane Glass. "As conservative media watchdog Brent Bozell said in an interview, "When you consider that leaders across the ideological divide told the New York Times that printing the story would do grave harm to our nation, one has to conclude that the paper did this knowing and not caring about the damage it was doing to the country.""
  • Fox News Channel, Fox & Friends, July 22, 2006. BMI Director Dan Gainor discussed the American Businessman study
  • Melbourne Age, Melbourne, Australia, July 22, 2006. Corporate Crimewave, by Martin Daly and Kenneth Nguyen. Article on BMI's American Businessman Study. "The research, titled Bad Company: For American Businessmen, Primetime is Crimetime, argues that fictionalised American business people commit so much crime and have so much illicit sex on TV that this false image of business undermines traditional American values."
  • Sydney Morning Herald, Syndey, Australia, July 22, 2006. The Devil Carried a Briefcase by Martin Daly. Article on BMI's American Businessman Study. "The study, Bad Company: For American Businessmen, Primetime is Crimetime, says that fictionalised American business people commit so much crime and have so much illicit sex on TV that this false image of business undermines traditional American values."
  • USA Radio Network, US, July 21, 2006, Topic: World Trade Center, Point of View, MRC President Brent Bozell discussed the movie World Trade Center
  • USA Radio Network, July 21, 2006, Topic: Oil/Gas hype, , BMI Director Dan Gainor discussed oil/gas hype
  • Buffalo News, July 20, 2006, TV's Bad-guy Businessmen, by Clarence Page. Nationally syndicated columnist commented on BMI's American Businessman study. "Titled "Bad Company," the study looked at the dozen top-rated TV dramas during last year's May and November ratings months and found almost all of the businesspeople were doing something unethical, cruel or criminal."
  • Orlando Sentinel, Orlando, FL, July 20, 2006, TV's Bad Guys - Businessmen, Clarence Page, Nationally syndicated columnist commented on BMI's American Businessman study, Titled "Bad Company," the study looked at the dozen top-rated TV dramas during last year's May and November ratings months and found almost all of the businesspeople were doing something unethical, cruel or criminal.
  • Townhall.com, July 20, 2006, Fire, or Ice?, William Rusher, Article commented on BMI's Fire and Ice Study, All of the above quotations, and many more, can be found in a wonderful new booklet by R. Warren Anderson and Dan Gainor of the Business & Media Institute, a division of the Media Research Center in Alexandria, Va.
  • WIBA, Madison, WI, July 20, 2006, Topic: World Trade Center, CNSNews.com Staff Writer Nathan Burchfiel discussed the movie World Trade Center
  • American Family Radio, July 19, 2006. MRC Research Director Rich Noyes discussed Katie Couric's most recent comments
  • Chicago Tribune, July 19, 2006. TV's Bad-guy Businessmen, by Clarence Page. Nationally syndicated columnist commented on BMI's American Businessman study. "Titled "Bad Company," the study looked at the dozen top-rated TV dramas during last year's May and November ratings months and found almost all of the businesspeople were doing something unethical, cruel or criminal."
  • Human Events, July 19, 2006. Katie's Charities: A Conflict? Column by MRC President Brent Bozell.
  • Salt Lake Tribune, July 19, 2006, History of Climate Stories, by Sheila Thompson. Letter to the Editor mentions Fire & Ice. "On May 17 Business and Media Institute writer R. Warren Anderson published an article titled "Fire and Ice." It chronicles 110 years of print media reports on four different periods of climate change."
  • WAAM, Detroit, MI, July 19, 2006. BMI Director Dan Gainor discussed "Fire & Ice," a global warming Special Report
  • Powerblog, July 18, 2006. Businesspeople are Evil! by David Michael Phelps. Blogger commented on BMI's American Businessman Study. "A very, very interesting piece in WSJ this week detailing a study by the Business and Media Institute that looks at how businesspeople are portrayed on television:"
  • Human Events, July 17, 2006. Oliver Stone Winning Praise on the Right, by Rob Bluey. "My former boss, Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center, is praising Oliver Stone's new movie, "World Trade Center.""
  • WIBA, Madison, WI, July 17, 2006. MRC Research Director Rich Noyes discussed Katie Couric's most recent comments
  • WLAC, Nashville, TN, July 17, 2006. BMI Deputy Editor Amy Menefee discussed gas prices
  • Chicago Tribune, July 19, 2006, TV's Bad-Guy Businessmen Article on BMI's American Businessman Study.
  • Washington Times, July 18, 2006, The ‘Dictator.’ MRC CyberAlert cited in Inside Politics by Greg Pierce.
  • Hannity.com, July 14, 2006, www.Hannity.com now links to MRC Web site
  • Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2006. TV's Killer Capitalists. Article on BMI's American Businessman Study. "Mr. Gainor believes that the business-bashing on TV may reflect the political mindset of its writers."
  • KAHL, San Antonio, TX, July 14, 2006. MRC Research Director Rich Noyes discussed the MRC Study "Touting Military Misdeeds, Hiding Heroism
  • Baltimore Sun, July 13, 2006. Media Mistreat American Troops, by Thomas Sowell. Cites the MRC Study, "Touting Military Misdeeds, Hiding Heroism." "A recent study by the Media Research Center found that the three big broadcast news networks -- CBS, ABC, and NBC -- ran 99 stories in 3 and 1/2 hours about the investigation of charges against Marines in the death of Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November."
  • National Review, July 13, 2006. Media Blog: Rather in Mapes Land, by Stephen Spruiell. Links to NewsBusters story. "Brent Baker has the video and relevant transcripts."
  • Real Clear Politics, July 13, 2006. Media Mistreat American Troops, by Thomas Sowell. Cites the MRC Study, "Touting Military Misdeeds, Hiding Heroism." "A recent study by the Media Research Center found that the three big broadcast news networks -- CBS, ABC, and NBC -- ran 99 stories in 3 and 1/2 hours about the investigation of charges against Marines in the death of Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November."
  • Investor's Business Daily, July 13, 2006. Turning Good News into Bad. Op-Ed cites MRC research. "As noted by the Media Research Center, a journalism watchdog group, coverage of this "good news" was spun in an overwhelmingly negative fashion by the nation's big media."
  • KKLA, Los Angeles, CA, July 13, 2006. MRC President Brent Bozell discussed the NY Times bias on deficit improvements and also its jeopardizing national security
  • MSNBC, Tucker Carlson, July 12, 2006. Newsbusters Executive Editor Matthew Sheffield discussed Dan Rather
  • CBN.com, July 11, 2006. News Blues: Is the Media too Negative? by David Brody. ""I have stopped eating. I have stopped drinking. I rarely breathe any longer because I'm going to hear something on television telling me that I've done something that's about to kill myself," said Brent Bozell, president of the Media Research Center."
  • Human Events, July 11, 2006. Biased Reporting, by Thomas Sowell. Cites the MRC Study, "Touting Military Misdeeds, Hiding Heroism." "A recent study by the Media Research Center found that the three big broadcast news networks -- CBS, ABC, and NBC -- ran 99 stories in 3 and 1/2 hours about the investigation of charges against Marines in the death of Iraqi civilians in Haditha last November."
  • Chattanooga Times Free Press, July 10, 2006. On 'Unprecedented' Warming. "In all, the print news media have warned of four separate climate changes in slightly more than 100 years -- global cooling, warming, cooling again, and, perhaps not so finally, warming," the Business and Media Institute study found."
  • Christian Broadcast Network (CBN), 700 Club, July 10, 2006. MRC President Brent Bozell discussed the Media and its reporting the world is ending
  • Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, July 9, 2006. The Times' Private Interests, by MRC President Brent Bozell.
  • Boston Globe, July 5, 2006. About Our Dictator, by Jeff Jacoby. Op-Ed links to Newsbusters
  • Sun Sentinel, July 5, 2006, Couric Might Hear, But Will She Listen? by Cal Thomas. "The Media Research Center has compiled a record of Couric's liberal pronouncements on various subjects."
  • Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 3, 2006. People in the News: Here's a New 'View' of the Facts, Mentions BMI's American Businessman Study. "The Media Research Center, a conservative group monitoring TV and movies for liberal bias, isn't amused, according to The Washington Post."
  • Washington Times, July 3, 2006. Hill GOP to Put Heat on Bush for More Judges, by Charles Hurt. "The 83 signers of the letter also include such conservative icons as Paul Weyrich, Alan Keyes, Richard Viguerie, Abigail Thernstrom, David A. Keene, L. Brent Bozell III and Bill Donohue."
  • KAHL, San Antonio, TX, July 3, 2006. BMI Director Dan Gainor discussed gas price gouging
  • WIBA, Madison, WI, July 3, 2006. BMI Director Dan Gainor discussed gas price gouging
  • St. Petersburg Times, July 2, 2006. Perspective: In War on Terror, Reporters Wind up in the Cross Hairs, by Eric Deggans. Quotes MRC Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham, "Here you are in a situation where the Republican and the Democratic chairmen of the 9/11 commission are telling you not to run the story ... (and) you're still saying you know better than these people," said Tim Graham of the conservative watchdog group Media Research Center, referring to the fact that administration officials and other politicians asked journalists not to print the banking records story."
  • Investor's Business Daily, July 1, 2006. TV Prime Time is Crime Time for Business. Op-ed by BMI Analyst Charles Simpson
  • Washington Times, July 1, 2006. Where is the Weapons Story? Op-ed by MRC President Brent Bozell
  • WBAL, Baltimore, MD, July 1, 2006. CNSNews.com Editor-in-Chief David Thibault discussed this week's top stories

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