MRC DisHonors Awards and Gala

Sad news came Sunday (January 8) that Tony Blankley, the long-time leading conservative thinker, author and columnist, who served House Speaker Newt Gingrich and later ran the editorial pages for the Washington Times, passed away at age 63. Back on Thursday, March 27, 2003 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC, Blankley pitched in at the last-minute to help us when a planned speaker (…

“A Tribute to the Media,” a ten-minute video, honoring television coverage of the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. This was shown at the Media Research Center’s “DisHonors Awards” held in Washington, DC on January 17, 2002 when we took a time-out for a few minutes to pay tribute to the patriotic work of journalists during the national crisis.

At the MRC’s “DisHonors Awards” last month I got a pretty good reaction to a compilation of those humorous clips Bret Baier plays at the end of his FNC show, usually drawn from funny takes and edited news video produced by the late night comedy shows. (For that “funny clips” compilation, scroll down on this page.) So, I thought I’d bring the concept to NewsBusters with occasional weekend…

With “Cal’s High Honor” as the on-screen tag, the Fox News Channel on Saturday highlighted video of Fox News Watch panelist Cal Thomas receiving the Media Research Center’s “William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence” at the MRC’s May 7 annual Gala featuring the “DisHonors Awards.” After the jump: Video of what Fox News Watch showed of MRC President Brent Bozell introducing Thomas and…

The Media Research Center was saddened to learn on Friday of the passing of the Honorable Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Ambassador to the United Nations for the Reagan administration and a leading conservative author and thinker. (Earlier NewsBusters item with Reuters story.) She had been serving as a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, which has a posted biography of her many…