Five Years After 9/11 Liberal Media Push Anti-War Defeatism on All Fronts

VOLUME 13 ISSUE 8 AUGUST 2006 www.MediaResearch.org The Media Research Center’s Monthly Members’ Report Five Years After 9/11 Liberal Media INSIDE Push Anti-War Defeatism on All Fronts PAGE 3 New BMI Study! Bad Dear Friend, secret national security programs. These two Company: The Liberal September 11 of this year marks the fifth powerful weapons to fight terrorism have Media Assault on the anniversary of the horrendous terrorist been scuttled by the left-wing media. Also, American Businessman attacks on this country, when nearly 3,000 it was revealed that Reuters news service ● innocent Americans were cruelly slaughtered utilized doctored photos to besmirch Israel PAGE 4 by Islamic fascists — a in its war against the Bits & Pieces: time when the American terrorist Hezbollah. That’s Reuters Doctors way of life and our national not just spin anymore. Photos to Besmirch security was radically and That’s deliberate deception Israel; NBC’s Andrea perhaps permanently altered. to aid the enemy. Mitchell Won’t Call Hezbollah Terrorist; Here at the MRC, We still mourn for those ABC’s Charlie Gibson who died on 9/11. We pray we’ve documented the Praises Law-Breaking for their family members and anti-American bias and Illegal Immigrant friends. And we honor the treachery of the liberal media ● since 9/11. With sophisti- brave men and women who PAGE 6 cated Digital Video Record- struggled so valiantly to save L. Brent Bozell’s as many lives as possible on ing and computer software, Syndicated Column and top-notch research, that day. They represent ● America at her best. marketing, and communi- PAGE 7 cations departments, we For the media, they also Since the terrorist attacks have informed millions of MRC In The News showed their best side on of 9/11, the MRC has ● 9/11. Throughout that day consistently monitored, Americans about the media PAGE 8 and in the few days that documented, and exposed the spin against the war on Avoid 15% Capital followed, the elite media in liberal bias of the media and terrorism. We continue to Gains Tax on this country took their particularly its bias against do so every day. the war on terrorism. Appreciated Stock political blinders off and gave Fortunately, there are it to us straight: the facts, the people, the events, still some straightforward and balanced the news. That straightforward reporting, reports from the media, time and again, and however, did not last. Within a week of 9/11, we document those as well. However, the the liberal media were back in gear slashing liberal trend is dominant at ABC, CBS, NBC, and spinning the news to fit their liberal agenda. CNN, and at the highly influential New York That acidic bias has only expanded in the Times and Washington Post. Nearly 50 million last five years and is undeniably crippling Americans get their news from those sources America’s war against terrorism, against the every single day. Since Sept. 11, 2001, the America’s Media forces that struck this great country on 9/11. MRC has been working relentlessly to Watchdog Look no further than the New York Times’s Continued on page 2 disclosures – twice! – of critically important MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER FLASH • AUGUST 2006 Continued from page 1 document the liberal media’s coverage of the war on terror, and In fact, since January of this year alone, the MRC’s to expose their outrages for all Americans to see. analyses of the liberal media’s war coverage has resulted in 10 When 9/11 happened, the MRC’s recording systems were national TV appearances, more than 300 radio interviews, 250 maximized. Using 16 VCRs around-the-clock, the MRC recorded newspaper citations, 17 nationally syndicated columns, 7 press 1,400 hours of broadcast and cable network news coverage of releases, and more than 300 Web/Internet citations. And that’s the attacks and their aftermath. This material, among the most only since January. extensive in the world, shows how the dominant media covered Jumping back to 2004, the MRC released Still Liberal, the events of 9/11, and it is available to researchers and the public. Still Biased, which, among other things, showed how the liberal For the remaining months of media showered skepticism on the 2001, the MRC tracked liberal media elected defenders of American liberty, bias through its daily CyebrAlerts. and not on the tyrants and terrorists Notably, one week after 9/11, CyberAlert who threatened us. Before the war in documented Dan Rather’s praise for the Iraq, for instance, ABC’s Peter leadership of President Bush to bring the Jennings advertised his open hostility terrorists to justice, “dead or alive.” While to President Bush’s policies. During President Bush held fast, CBS’s Rather, the war, NBC had to fire one of its did not. He soon fell back into his liberal correspondents for appearing on bias, pushed the Abu Ghraib scandal and enemy-controlled Iraqi TV to declare then pushed too far with his bogus the “failure” of the U.S. war plan. National Guard memos story. That cost Then, after the war, journalists him his reputation and ultimately his job, equated the alleged “quagmire” in Iraq a dour legacy fully documented in the An Army report declassified in to Vietnam. The networks delighted MRC’s CyberAlerts, Media Reality June 2006 confirmed that Iraq held in bad news. On the day of Saddam’s Checks, Profiles in Bias, and in the news weapons of mass a destruction, capture, the late Jennings pessimis- reports from CNSNews.com, an MRC a fact the liberal media tried tically declared that “there’s not a division. to downplay. good deal for Iraqis to be happy about During the run-up to the war in at the moment.”! Iraq in 2003, the liberal media derided the Department of Finally, in late 2005, the MRC published Bad News Brigade, Homeland Security, the PATRIOT Act, and the Terror Alert which documented ABC, CBS, and NBC’s defeatist coverage system. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann even suggested that the of the war in Iraq. A follow-up report, examining cable TV’s alert system was a conspiracy to distract attention from bad coverage of the war, will be released this fall. news that affected the White House. There are literally thousands of other examples of how The liberal media decried that the U.S. did not get U.N. and where the MRC has documented, exposed, and neutralized approval for the Iraq invasion. Then, when the major offensive the liberal media’s bias against the war on terrorism since 9/ ended after about three weeks, the liberal media whined that 11. In addition to the CyberAlerts and Special Reports already there were no weapons of mass destruction and no evidence mentioned, the MRC regularly produces Media Reality Checks, that Iraq was tied to al-Qaeda. Notable Quotables, press releases, a nationally syndicated The White House, of course, never claimed that Hussein’s column, and a grassroots email-petition program called MRC Iraq was responsible for aiding al-Qaeda in the 9/11 attacks; Action, which reaches tens of millions of Americans. Further, the government had said – and it’s now documented — that the MRC’s TimesWatch has produced more than 60 analyses Iraq had a history of contacts with al-Qaeda. The liberal media, on liberal media war coverage this year, and the MRC’s nonetheless, ran the Iraq-al-Qaeda-9/11 spin. This was CNSNews.com has posted more than 1,000 stories on the documented and publicized by the MRC in a Special Report, The war and terrorism – all since January 2006. This material can Ten Worst Media Distortions of Campaign 2004. This report be viewed at the MRC Web site, www.MRC.org. also showed how CBS in particular was promoting fears of a The struggle goes on, as the war is not over. America did new military draft – another irresponsible liberal media canard. change on 9/11. We know it and you know it. The liberal And the WMD? Well, an Army report declassified in June media may not want to know it or accept it. And that’s partly 2006 confirmed that since 2003 U.S. forces have discovered why we do what we do. We’re fighting on and we thank you more than 500 shells of ordinance containing sarin or mustard for your generous support in this great cause. gas, i.e., WMD. It is now a definitive fact that there were Sincerely, WMDs in Iraq, and that Saddam Hussein lied to the world when he said Iraq had no WMD. The liberal media tried to spin that fact away. Here at the MRC, we told Americans the truth, and provided them with L. Brent Bozell III the documentation. Founder and President MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 2 FLASH • AUGUST 2006 The Liberal Media Assault on the American Businessman BY DAN GAINOR • THE BOONE PICKENS BUSINESS & MEDIA INSTITUTE FELLOW Only Hollywood would turn successful everyday murder, and an international conspiracy to overthrow a heroes into villains, criminals and murderers. And that’s nation’s government. exactly what the entertainment elite did to American Three of the films were blatant propaganda attacks businessmen throughout 2005. Through their movies and on whole industries. George Clooney won an Oscar for TV shows, Hollywood executives disparaged every industry Best Supporting Actor in “Syriana,” a move so anti- but their own, and the MRC’s Business & Media Institute business that it depicted oil company executives involved has the numbers to prove it. in an assassination and one Earlier this year, the MRC businessman reveling in the very decided to take a year-long look at ...Businessmen also idea of “corruption.” how the media depict one of the committed crimes five The TV section of the pillars of the free enterprise system American Businessman series – the American Businessman.

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