News Analysis Division

The Leader in Documenting, Exposing and Neutralizing Liberal Media Bias.

Since 1987, the News Analysis Division has worked to bring political balance to the nation's news media by documenting and countering liberal bias from television network news shows and major print publications.

Leadership:

• Brent H. Baker, Vice President for Research and Publications and the MRC's Steven P.J. Wood Senior Fellow
• Tim Graham, Director of Media Analysis
• Rich Noyes, Director of Research

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Daily BiasAlerts track the latest instances of media bias and alert readers to stories the major media are ignoring. Readers can receive, via e-mail, the daily CyberAlert compilation of the newest BiasAlerts by subscribing here.

Occasional reports and mini-studies documenting distorted coverage and/or media omissions.

A bi-weekly compilation of the most outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes in the liberal media. Best of Notable Quotables annual year-end awards issue. Sign up to get NQ every other week via e-mail.

Read MRC President L. Brent Bozell III’s latest take on the media and entertainment.

The MRC's blog launched in the summer ofr 2005, NewsBusters is dedicated to exposing and correcting liberal media bias through timely postings 24/7 -- often illustrated by video clips.

Devoted to documenting and exposing the liberal political agenda of the New York Times, TimesWatch is a one-stop source for all the latest proof of bias in America's most influential newspaper. Readers can receive, via e-mail, the daily Tracker compilation of the newest TimesWatch articles by subscribing here.

A regularly updated collection of clips illustrating instances of liberal media bias or other humorous incidents in the media.

All of the Media Research Center’s television appearances, including interviews with MRC President Brent Bozell.

“See & Hear the Bias” archive, with additional video clips of media bias from previous years.

Special Reports are studies that focus on the media's coverage of specific issues.

News Analysis Division media advisories and statements from MRC President L. Brent Bozell III.

The annual Dishonors Awards highlights the worst instances of liberal media bias from the previous year. The section includes video of prominent conservatives who act as Accepters and Presenters at the event and every quote that was nominated in a given year.

These profiles document the biased comments and actions of prominent journalists. Includes sections on Dan Rather, Katie Couric, Meredith Vieira, Bryant Gumbel, George Stephanopoulos and former New York Times Executive Editor Howell Raines.

A compilation of 25 years of scholarly research into the beliefs, attitudes and political agendas of journalists. Sections include: How the Media Vote, Journalists’ Political Views, How the Public Views the Media, Admissions of Liberal Bias and Denials of Liberal Bias.

As part of the MRC’s "Tell the Truth!" 2004 campaign, the Worst of the Week award singled out the worst media bias of the preceding week. Most of these weekly report cards on the media’s liberal bias also included a video excerpt of the offending stories.

These special features document the media’s biased coverage – or their lack of coverage – of topics that seem to dominate the news agenda for a short time and then fade from sight. There are sections on prescription drug coverage, Vice President Dick Cheney’s links to Halliburton and former President Jimmy Carter’s trip to Cuba.

MRC Op-Ed pieces are written by the MRC staff and appear as they were published in newspapers and magazines including the Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily and National Review.

A retired MRC publication. It reviewed news coverage from Time, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report.

Published from 1988 through May 1999, MediaWatch was the original MRC newsletter dedicated to exposing and documenting liberal bias in news coverage.

-- News and analysis about what the media are telling, and not telling, Americans about the free market system.

This is a group of disparate MRC publications and compilations that have been completed over the past 10 years. It includes the Gulf War II Resource Page, an Enduring the Media section on the post-September 11 War on Terrorism coverage, sections on celebrities, op-ed pieces from the MRC staff, speeches from MRC President L. Brent Bozell and an excerpt from the MRC’s 1994 book How to Identify Liberal Media Bias.