Liberal Media Push Their Political Agenda by Not Reporting Crucial

VOLUME 13 ISSUE 6 JUNE 2006 www.MediaResearch.org The Media Research Center’s Monthly Members’ Report Liberal Media Push Their Political Agenda INSIDE By Not Reporting Crucial Facts PAGE 3 Dear Friend, ABC’s Charles Gibson: Did you know that the immigration bill the facts — show that crime rates across-the- Another Liberal recently passed by the Senate and supported board are lower in those U.S. cities where law- Anchor by the White House, but emphatically opposed abiding citizens are allowed to own or carry by the House, would allow legal immigration guns. That’s a fact. But the elite liberal media ● into this country to double to 40 million over don’t talk about it much, if at all – not ABC, PAGE 4 the next two decades? That’s right, 40 million NBC, CBS, the New York Times, you name it. Bits & Pieces: more legal immigrants – that’s the number from Nor do the liberal media talk about how NYT Publisher the Senate and the abortion has affected Pushes Radical White House. (The Social Security since Roe Left Agenda, venerable Heritage v. Wade. More than 50 ‘Swift Boating’ of Al Gore? Foundation pegs the million children have number at 103 million.) been killed by abortion ● Yet polls show that only since 1973. That’s PAGE 6 17 percent of Ameri- horrible. And while the CNSNews.com: cans want immigration liberal media celebrate the Climate Change to increase while 77 “right” to abortion, they and the Art percent oppose more won’t discuss how those of Denial immigration. 50 million people, if alive ● Liberal bias by omission: Neither CBS, So what’s going ABC, NBC, nor CNN informed Americans today, would be PAGE 7 on? Why did the Senate that a Senate-approved immigration bill contributing to Social MRC In The News would increase legal immigration by at vote for what 77 Security and helping to ● percent of Americans least 40 million, and possibly 103 million, benefit those liberals who oppose? And why people over the next 20 years. support that program. PAGE 7 didn’t you and I and most other U.S. citizens Nor do the liberal media talk about how Avoid a Big Tax Bill! hear about the alarming immigration numbers? abortion kills more black children in America Because the Senate knew the liberal than any other action, that it has decimated the media wouldn’t and didn’t tell us. They black family, and that more blacks have been deliberately kept those vital facts out of their slaughtered by abortion – 12 million – than were stories. Not reporting important points or ever brought to this country as slaves. crucial facts in order to frame a story a certain The examples are endless. How about way – i.e., a liberal way – is bias by omission: that Catholic priest pedophilia scandal? Well, Don’t tell the people what they need to know actually, the Catholic laity-run National when it would hinder your cause. That’s the Review Board set up to address the problem liberal “news” business for you. concluded that 81 percent of the cases America’s Media For instance, don’t tell Americans that nationwide involved homosexual priests Watchdog more guns equals less crime. The statistics – Continued on page 2 MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER FLASH • JUNE 2006 Continued from page 1 oil would have to hit $86.99 (in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars) sexually abusing post-pubescent boys, that is, young men – per barrel to be a “record high.” For gasoline, the national 12, 13, 14 years old. A problem? A scandal? Of course. But average would have to exceed $3.12 per gallon. It never did it’s not a pedophilia problem, as the liberal media claim. It is a that, and has, in recent weeks, dropped to around $2.87 per homosexuality problem. gallon on average nationwide. In inflation-adjusted dollars, gas Exposing that bias by omission and neutralizing it is what was more expensive in 1981 than it has been in 2006, period. we do at the Media Research Center. And thanks to our excellent And what of those reporters who know this? Well, the personnel and the gracious financial support of our donors, Washington Post’s David Montgomery said the facts didn’t the MRC is the best at what it does. America’s Watchdog. matter in this case: “Never mind the inflation-adjusted nerds No one comes close to the success of this organization. who point out that regular unleaded gas today is still cheaper Let’s look at a few more examples of bias by omission in than the $3.11 it cost in today’s dollars in 1981.” That’s liberal detail. The 40 million immigration number, cited above, was in bias by omission – deliberate omission. the Senate bill and in the proposal backed by the White House. The liberal media screamed about ExxonMobil’s The numbers were there, but as Newsweek columnist Robert “excessive” and “obscene” profits. Yet they didn’t report that Samuelson noted several days after the Senate vote, journalists ExxonMobil’s profit was 10.6 percent of its revenue while “failed” to “inform the public about what our political leaders Gannett, the parent company of USA Today and 90 daily are doing.” Samuelson’s post-vote column reached, through newspapers, enjoyed a profit of 16.2 percent. Newsweek’s circulation, about 3 million Americans. Yet In another area, the liberal media have been flogging the Samuelson’s important analysis, for which he deserves kudos, President’s low approval rating for months. A Harris poll in was not picked up by a single major network. It was discussed February found that only 25 percent said they have a “great on talk radio and on Fox News, but that’s about it. deal of confidence” in the White House. But what about the Samuelson noted further that Sen. Jeff Sessions held a public’s view of the news media? From the Harris poll, only news conference about the 40 million immigration number 19 percent had great confidence in TV news and only 14 prior to the Senate vote but the national media did not cover percent for “the press” in general. the conference. That’s bias by omission. The liberal media won’t talk about that truth, but we are. Then there are those “record high” gas prices. Since We’re giving you and the millions of Americans who visit our Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the Big Three – ABC, Web site and read our reports the facts, the truth Americans CBS, and NBC – have run almost 100 stories on “record high” need to make informed decisions and to battle liberal media gas prices. And the Big Three have been wrong nearly 100 bias. Let us carry on this good fight. times. It’s a basic fact and a simple measure when reporting Ever forward, on economic data over time that a journalist always uses inflation-adjusted numbers. But not always, it turns out, if it threatens to neutralize L. Brent Bozell III your argument. The U.S. Department of Energy confirms that Founder and President WHAT’S SO FUNNY? Watch key moments of the MRC Gala & DisHonors Awards online at www.MRC.org Save the date: March 29, 2007 • The MRC’s 20th Anniversary Gala • Washington, D.C. YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS IT! MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 2 FLASH • JUNE 2006 ABC’s Charles Gibson Yet Another Liberal Anchors World News Tonight As Elizabeth Vargas left World News Tonight on Bush Knew About 9/11 Plot maternity leave, ABC News had a chance to staff its evening “This is interesting news that we get now, and it may put news desk with a politically balanced anchor, but it didn’t. the President under a lot of heat today as the public learns ABC once again chose a liberal, Charles Gibson, to present that he knew, through his daily CIA intelligence briefings, the evening news to some 7 million Americans every that bin Laden had potential terror attack plans under weeknight. In so doing, ABC chose to hammer another nail way....It also calls into question what happened when Andy in its own Old Media coffin. Card, Andrew Card, the White House chief of staff, that Charles Gibson, ABC’s longtime co-host of Good morning went and whispered in the President’s ear, as the Morning America, took to the anchor chair at World News Tonight on May 29. What should conservatives expect from President was talking to a group of school students in Florida. him? More liberal bias. The selected quotes below exemplify Was the President really surprised?” Gibson’s conventional liberal approach on political issues. — Gibson’s introduction and question to White House For a complete set of Gibson’s quotes, see the MRC’s “Profiles correspondent Terry Moran on ABC’s Good Morning America, in Bias” section at www.MRC.org. May 16, 2002. Fawning Over Jimmy Carter Republican Platform Failed to Please Liberals “And now we turn to this morning’s awarding of the Nobel “The platform is, again, very strongly pro-life and rejects Peace Prize to Jimmy Carter. To his supporters who abortion rights, and the platform specifically comes out nominated him seven times over the last 25 years, it was against gay unions, and against legal protections based on an honor long overdue....He was the unlikely President, sexual preferences. So is this really an open, compassion- who came out of nowhere. He has become, in the opinion ate, tolerant party?” of many, the greatest ex-President of modern times.” — Gibson to Lynne Cheney, August 2, 2000 Good Morning — Good Morning America, Oct.

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