MRC-TV: Bozell on Newspapers' Sloppy Handling of 'Ellie Light' Letters
January 26th, 2010 11:03 AM
Three days ago, NewsBusters contributor Candance Moore wrote about pro-Obama letter-to-the-editor spammer "Ellie Light" who had duped some 40+ papers (the number stands at 68 now), into publishing nearly identical letters that praised the president. In each case, the writer claimed to hail from cities or towns served by the local newspaper's print circulation.Today, Fox News Channel's "America's…
Save the Date: MRC Live with Brent Bozell Wednesday
January 25th, 2010 11:26 AM
Don't forget to mark your calendars to join our MRC Live discussion with MRC founder and president Brent Bozell and CNSNews.com editor-in-chief Terry Jeffrey this Wednesday, January 27 at 7:00 PM ET. To participate, just go to http://live.mrc.org a few minutes before 7 PM on Wednesday. We hope you can join us for this informative session. Please mark this date on your calendar.
MRC's Bozell Commends C-SPAN for Urging Dems to Make Health Care Negot
January 5th, 2010 4:03 PM
"Now that the process moves to the critical stage of reconciliation between the Chambers, we respectfully request that you allow full public access, through television, to [health care] legislation that will affect the lives of every single American."Thus wrote C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb in a December 30, 2009 open letter to congressional leaders, calling for them to "open all important negotiations,…
Olbermann Slams MRC’s Brent Bozell Over Ed Schultz’s ‘Republican
January 5th, 2010 2:37 AM
On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann picked up on an item posted by the far-left Media Matters for America, and slammed Media Research Center founder and President Brent Bozell as "Worst Person in the World" because the MRC founder recently criticized MSNBC host Ed Schultz for accusing Republicans of wanting people to die. Schultz, from the Ed Show last September: "The Republicans…
MRC's Bozell: FCC Diversity Czar Lloyd Is a Liar
December 15th, 2009 10:39 AM
Yesterday in a speech for the Media Access Project, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chief Diversity Officer Mark Lloyd claimed to refute numerous what he called “exaggerations and distortions” of a wide range of his thoughts, positions and policy prescriptions from what he called a “right-wing smear campaign.” What Lloyd did was offer numerous falsehoods and denials about things that are…
Olbermann’s Conniption: 'There is No Liberal Media'; Insists Corpora
December 15th, 2009 2:24 AM
Perhaps there is something obstructing the view overlooking Rockefeller Plaza, where MSNBC broadcasts "Countdown" nightly because the show's host, Keith Olbermann fails to see the existence of a news media with a liberal bias. On MSNBC's Dec. 14 broadcast of "Countdown," Olbermann came to the defense of NBC's "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" executive producer and noted left-winger Dick…
MRC's Bozell Announces Bias Profiles for All Barack Channel (ABC) Anch
December 10th, 2009 11:02 AM
To coincide with the many changes at ABC News that begin today with George Stephanopoulos accepting the offer to replace Diane Sawyer as co-host of Good Morning America, NewsBusters's parent organization the Media Research Center (MRC) has unveiled their freshly updated Profiles in Bias of both left wing icons, as Sawyer will step into the World News anchor shoes of Charles Gibson later this…
Bozell: Nets Cover ClimateGate, But Load Story with Bias
December 7th, 2009 1:48 PM
"Well, NBC, ABC and CBS finally got around to reporting on ClimateGate" but it "wasn’t worth the wait," Media Research Center President and NewsBusters Publisher Brent Bozell said in a statement today. [Click here for the full press release]"NBC and ABC’s reports were so biased, they left their audiences as ill-informed afterwards as they were before. And CBS came about as close to blacking out…
Bozell: Maybe Networks Don't Know About ClimateGate; We'll Send Them N
December 4th, 2009 1:07 PM
For 14 straight days, the three broadcast networks have failed to report on the great and growing ClimateGate scandal on their weekday morning or evening news programs. How to explain this?Perhaps it is that ABC, NBC and CBS have not yet heard of the story, despite two weeks of non-stop reporting on and discussion of ClimateGate in a whole host of media outlets.Perhaps the broadcast networks…
MRC's Bozell Hosts First MRC Action Team Webcast
December 3rd, 2009 11:39 AM
Yesterday at noon, Media Research Center President Bozell hosted the first in a new series of Webcasts entitled "MRC Live! with Brent Bozell," in which the NewsBusters publisher answers questions submitted by members of the MRC Action Team. We expect to hold the next Webcast sometime in mid-January. We'll bring you more details when we have the date nailed down.[Click here for information on how…