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.
The Charlie Warren Show
WMAL, Washington, DC, April 30, 2002
MRC Director of Communications Liz Swasey on major media’s financial contributions to the far-left People for the American Way.
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The New York Post, April 24, 2002
“Media Watch”
When Jews Don’t Show Up On Film by Brent Baker (Excerpt)
A pro-Palestinian protest in Washington, D.C. on Saturday... a gathering which CBS News pegged at drawing “upwards of 20,000" generated full stories on ABC’s World News Tonight and the CBS Evening News, but ABC ignored and CBS only gave a few seconds six days earlier to a hastily arranged pro-Israel rally which drew more than 42,000 to Washington, D.C.
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The Washington Times, April 24, 2002
“Inside Politics” by Greg Pierce (Excerpt)
Leftward tilt
"Another liberal has joined the CNN on-air team," Brent Baker writes at the Media Research Center Web site....on Monday CNN welcomed Jeffrey Tobin aboard as its new 'legal analyst.' .... "Last year, Tobin penned 'Too Close to Call: The Thirty Six Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election,' a book in which he argued Bush stole the presidency. He charged in it: 'The wrong man was inaugurated on January 20, 2001, and this is no small thing in our nation's history. The bell of this election can never be unsung and the sound will haunt us for some time.' "Back in early 2000, he wrote 'A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of a Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President.' On ABC at the time, he maintained he considered Hillary Clinton's claim about a 'vast rightwing conspiracy' to be 'more right than wrong' ....”
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020424-98664600.htm
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The Washington Times, April 23, 2002
“Inside Politics” by Greg Pierce (Excerpt)
In the 'Crossfire'
CNN "Crossfire" hosts James Carville and Paul Begala joined top Democrats and liberal interest groups earlier this month in promoting a new organization that would thwart the Bush administration agenda by orchestrating "critical stories planted in friendly media," Paul Bedard reports in U.S. News & World Report. .... Meanwhile, the Media Research Center reports that Mr. Begala, in an April 18 "Crossfire" segment, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had a "more legitimate" hold on his office than does President Bush, who "didn't win anything more than a 5-to-4 vote on a Supreme Court that his daddy helped pick." All of the above should make for interesting conversation among the media and politicians at the CNN-sponsored cocktail party tomorrow at Washington's West End to celebrate the new look of "Crossfire."
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The Herald-Sun (Durham, N.C.), April 23, 2002
“This bias is real” by Jack Granger (Excerpt)
Some 70 million Americans rely on network television for their news. The public forms opinions based on what they hear and see, and to a lesser extent, what they read. If the information on which the public depends is distorted, citizens cannot cast informed votes or make knowledgeable decisions on matters of public policy. The Florida election fiasco is a good example. Many members of the media and the left continue to deny a liberal bias, especially at election time. Dan Rather of CBS News is a classic example. Can anyone deny that Dan Rather personally caused the Florida election mess by calling Florida for Gore before the polls closed? According to the Media Research Center, network journalists are 3-1 in favor of liberal positions such as elimination of the death penalty. Yet, according to the latest polls, the electorate favors the death penalty by at least 70 percent, with a strong majority favoring shorter appeals and certain justice for cold-blooded killers. The liberal media are out of touch with predominant American and Christian values.
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The Washington Times, April 22, 2002
“Inside Politics” by Greg Pierce (Excerpt)
Those darn white men
The Media Research Center notes that George Stephanopoulos, the former adviser to President Clinton, received an apparent tryout recently as host of ABC's This Week. "But having as the solo host a liberal political operative who could very well end up interviewing former political colleagues and officials he fought to keep out of office isn't what concerned USA Today's Peter Johnson. No, he was most upset that Stephanopoulos is male: 'If Stephanopoulos is tapped, every Sunday public affairs show on network and cable will once again be hosted by white men, reinforcing what many women have complained about for years: Power in this country rests with white men.' "I trust Johnson will soon be resigning so a woman can have his job since 100 percent of the TV reviewers and reporters at nationally distributed general interest newspapers are white men," Brent Baker writes at the Media Research Center Web site.
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The Washington Times, April 21, 2002
“Democrats complain about news media” by Dave Boyer
Brent Baker, vice president of the conservative Media Research Center in Alexandria, said there has been "a TV bias in favor of the president" for the past 35 years or more, regardless of party. He said that Mr. Clinton used the cable networks to his advantage during the government shutdown in 1995, and that not all of the coverage of President Bush has been favorable.... He also said the combined viewership of daytime cable news is "miniscule" — less than 2 million daily, compared with about 3 million for the CBS "Early Show," the lowest-rated network morning show.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20020421-186853.htm
The Los Angeles Times, April 21, 2002
“Press Clips; Reading from Left to Right” by Gale Holland (Excerpt)
Conservative media watchdog L. Brent Bozell III savaged Brock and Bill Clinton in the same breath. "Clinton earned his bad reputation, and Brock has cemented his with this sloppy, bitter, vengeful little book," Bozell said on his Web site mediaresearch.org....
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The Oliver North Show
Radio America, syndicated, April 18, 2002
MRC Director of Media Analysis Rich Noyes on media coverage of the Middle East conflict.
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Fox and Friends
Fox News Channel, April 16, 2002
MRC Director of Media Analysis Rich Noyes on media coverage of the Middle East conflict.
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The Morning Meeting
KMOX- St. Louis, MO, April 15, 2002
MRC Director of Media Analysis Rich Noyes on media coverage of the Jesse Dirkhising case.
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Dateline Washington
Radio America, syndicated, April 12, 2002
MRC Director of Media Analysis Rich Noyes on media coverage of the Middle East conflict.
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The Randy Renshaw Show
KSCJ-Sioux City, IA, April 11, 2002
MRC Director of Media Analysis Rich Noyes on media coverage of the Middle East conflict.
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Focus on the Family
American Family Radio, syndicated, April 9, 2002
MRC Director of Media Analysis Rich Noyes on Peter Jennings’s coverage of the Middle East conflict.
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The Daily Oklahoman, April 8, 2002
“Gumbel's Fumble” (Excerpt)
"And we can't let Justice Thomas pass on this. There's no opinion of his in here, he doesn't ask questions in court. Does he do anything beside vote and rubber stamp Scalia?" - Bryant Gumbel
At last week's end there was much speculation on why Gumbel is soon to be gone from his $ 5 million job anchoring CBS' "The Early Show." His take: Time to move on. His boss' take: Ratings were, after all, very bad. Our take: Viewers can't stand him.
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The Mike Gallagher Show
Salem Radio Network, syndicated, April 5, 2002
MRC Director of Communications Liz Swasey on CBS’s Byrant Gumble.
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Evening Drive
KSLR-San Antonio, TX, April 4, 2002
MRC Director of Media Analysis Rich Noyes on media coverage of the Middle East conflict.
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The Washington Post, April 1, 2002
“For the Two-Home Demographic, a Duplication of Effort/ Bumping Rights” (Excerpt) by Howard Kurtz
Right-wing media critic Brent Bozell and left-wing media critic Jeff Cohen seem like perfect debating partners. But Bozell has been refusing to appear on television with Cohen -- or anyone else from the group Cohen founded, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting -- and producers are going along.... Why the freeze-out? "I've seen too many studies of theirs I've found to be claptrap," Bozell says. "I'm not going to debate an organization I believe to be intellectual lightweights. . . . When someone is making charges that he can't back up, after a while I say I'm not going to debate you anymore."
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