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MRC in the News

September 2002

 

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.

KTSA-San Antonio, TX, September 30th, 2002
Ricci Ware Show

MRC Director of Media Analysis Rich Noyes on Operation: Audit the Media (ATM)

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KIKK - Houston, TX, September 25th, 2002
Houston Business

MRC Director of Media Analysis Rich Noyes on Enron coverage.

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WTVN - Columbus, OH, September 25, 2002
Bob Conners Show

MRC Director of Media Analysis Rich Noyes on Operation: Audit the Media (ATM)

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WFLA - Orlando, FL, September 25, 2002
Shannon Burke Show
 

MRC Director of Media Analysis Rich Noyes on Operation: Audit the Media (ATM)

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Ken Hamblin Show, September 25, 2002

Operation: Audit the Media (ATM)
MRC Director of Media Analysis Rich Noyes on Operation: Audit the Media (ATM)

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KURV-Edinburg, TX, September 24, 2002
Davis Rankin Show

MRC Director of Media Analysis Rich Noyes on Operation: Audit the Media (ATM)

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The Hotline, September 24, 2002
"Media Monitor" (excerpt)

Meet Someone Not Going On Russert's Show
Media Research Center pres. Brent Bozell "chastised" NBC's Tim Russert for "going on a personal campaign to repeal" Pres. Bush's tax cut. Bozell, in a release: "On yesterday's [9/22] show, Tim Russert asked his 41st, 42nd, 43rd, and 44th questions this year about repealing the tax cut -- 44 questions from the liberal point of view. To date he has not asked a single question of any quest about accelerating or expanding the tax cut, which is the conservative point of view. Mr. Russert is usually tough on guests, even-handed on issues, but on the tax cut he has been completely biased" (release, 9/23). 

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Focus on the Family, September 23, 2002 

MRC Director of Communications Liz Swasey on celebrities' advertisement in opposition to war on terrorism.

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National Review Online, September 12, 2002
"The Corner" (excerpt)

WHAT A SOURCE [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
From Brent Bozell of Media Research Center and other fame: “Yesterday we were watching the 9/11coverage and on CBS a reporter came on the air to report breathlessly that a report out of the Middle East 'just in' signals that Osama is dead, the report saying he died during the Tora Bora bombings. After this guy read the report, Dan Rather asked him what the source was. The reporter hemmed a bit, then sputtered that well, you know how these things go, Dan, and there's really no way to confirm the veracity of the report. Where'd it come from, Rather pressed. Well, the guy said, it was a 'reliable' (or words to that effect) internet report based in the Middle East. What's the website? Rather wanted to know. The guy hesitated, then said--I kid you not--www.jihad.net.” You might want to see the link for yourself.
Brent says that CBS did later apologize for their reporter. 
Posted 12:12 PM 

CBS EGG UPDATE [Kathryn Jean Lopez]
The site the reporter was referring to was actually: www.jehad.net, which is in Arabic. However you spell it, though, it seems it was a hoax. Here's the CBS mea culpa: 
September 11, 2002, approx. 1:15 p.m.
Jim Stewart: I think we should clear up a report that we came out earlier in which we said that an al-Qaeda website had, thought to reflect the views of al-Qaeda, was running an eyewitness account of the death of Osama bin Laden in a U.S. bombing raid last December. That account it now appears was a fake and the entire article was a tease. It concluded, in fact, that bin Laden is still alive, according to our translator, and offers no new information on his health or whereabouts....

 

The Washington Times, September 6, 2002
"Inside Politics," by Greg Pierce (excerpt)

Disingenuous "New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines claimed those who say his paper is biased against Bush's Iraq policy are making the accusations 'for ideological reasons,'" Brent Baker reports at the Media Research Center's Web site (www.mediaresearch.org).

"He charged on the PBS 'NewsHour' on Tuesday night: 'When you look at what the conservative columnists are saying, they're expressing a perception of opinion, and they're the best witness on it.'

"Raines also revealed how he sees everything through a Vietnam prism: 'I'm hearing a lot of echoes of the early '60s, when people were saying it was unpatriotic to report the debate over Vietnam.'

"Of course, Raines was being disingenuous," Mr. Baker said, "since critics are not saying it's unpatriotic to accurately report the debate over Iraq policy, but that the New York Times is distorting that debate." See story 

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United Press International, September 4, 2002 
"Sept. 11: Living in Pentagon's bull's-eye," by Pam Hess, UPI Pentagon correspondent (excerpt)

.... That the Pentagon has always been a target is indisputable to men and women in uniform, but the suggestion that it was a "legitimate" target for terrorists got ABC News President David Westin in deep trouble last October when he spoke at the Columbia Journalism School in New York. 

"The Pentagon as a legitimate target? I actually don't have an opinion on that and it's important I not have an opinion on that as I sit here in my capacity right now," he said on Oct. 23. His speech was carried on C-SPAN four days later. 

It caused outrage, especially in the conservative Media Research Center, which posted this e-mail message from Westin on its website. 

"I was wrong. I gave an answer to journalism students to illustrate the broad, academic principle that all journalists should draw a firm line between what they know and what their personal opinion might be. Upon reflection, I realized that my answer did not address the specifics of September 11. Under any interpretation, the attack on the Pentagon was criminal and entirely without justification."... 

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