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Message from L. Brent Bozell III 1 News Analysis Division 2 NewsBusters.org 4 TimesWatch 5 Business & Media Institute 6 CNSNews.com 8 Culture and Media Institute 10 MRC Internship Program 11 “Tell The Truth” Campaign 12 MRCAction.org 12 FightMediaBias.org 13 Publications 14 Inside the MRC 15 Impact: TV, Radio, Print & Web 16 The MRC’s 2006 Gala 18 MRC’s 2006 Board Meeting 19 MRC Leadership 20 Honor Roll of Major Benefactors 22 The Light of Truth Campaign 23 2006 Financial Report 24 A Message from L. Brent Bozell III

In 2006, the liberal media did what we here at the Media Research Center predicted: During wartime and in an election year, the liberal media skewed the news and increasingly relied on personal attacks, instead of facts, to undermine conservative ideas and help liberals win the elections. We did our part in 2006. The MRC cannot, and will not advocate anyone’s election or defeat. But we can, and did expose the liberal media’s agenda, spreading the truth to an average 60 million Americans each week. The MRC reached so many people because we are the leading source on liberal media bias for the New Media, such as Fox News Channel, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and The Drudge Report, among so many others. We also continued to regularly provide intellectual ammunition to conservative activists, arming them with the weapons to fi ght the leftist press. The MRC documented and exposed the political biases of the “news” media through our divisions and programs: News Analysis Division, Business & Media Institute, CNSNews.com, NewsBusters blog, TimesWatch, MRC Action Team, and our newest venture, the Culture & Media Institute, founded in 2006 to counter the liberal media’s assault on traditional values. We exposed the liberal media’s defeatist attitude toward the war on terrorism. This was documented in late 2005 in an oft-cited MRC Special Report, TV’s Bad News Brigade, and follow-up documentation was posted throughout 2006 by the MRC divisions and in another Special Report, The Media vs. The War on Terror. These efforts generated national and international press coverage. CNSNews.com’s reports, particularly on the war, were cited by countless media, including The Drudge Report with its 15 million readers daily, and in best-selling books in 2006 by David Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. When The New York Times published a story blowing the cover of an anti-terrorist fi nancial-tracking program, the MRC responded with a press release denouncing the treachery, along with analyses of the scandal on TimesWatch, on the MRC Web site, and on NewsBusters. Our actions led to extensive coverage, including appearances on Fox & Friends, Hannity & Colmes, Your World with Neil Cavuto, the Mark Levin Show and the USA Radio Network. While the liberal media pandered to the far left on illegal immigration, the MRC documented their biased coverage and produced Election in the Streets: How the Broadcast Networks Promote Illegal Immigration. This also garnered widespread attention, including a full report on CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight. Ongoing analysis of the liberal media’s promotion of global warming misinformation was provided by the Business & Media Institute, which produced a Special Report on the issue that was cited on the fl oor of the U.S. Senate. BMI’s director also testifi ed about this issue before a Senate committee. The liberal media distorted the facts about the strong economy in 2006, resorting to fl oating actual conspiracy theories about gas prices and the federal defi cit, for instance, as well as downplaying low unemployment fi gures and consistent job growth since 2003. MRC analyses of the slanted coverage were discussed on Fox’s Special Report with Brit Hume, CNBC’s Kudlow & Company, CNN’s Paula Zahn NOW, in the Chicago Sun-Times, The Washington Times, The Limbaugh Letter, and The American Spectator. A series of MRC reports on Hollywood’s portrayal of U.S. businessmen were cited in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and The Chicago Tribune. MRC’s blog, NewsBusters, continued to grow in infl uence, with 80,000 readers a day and in less than two years has the No. 4 ranking among “The Most Popular Conservative Blogs.” Also, the MRC’s work with grassroots conservatives saw tremendous growth, recruiting now more than 400,000 members to the MRC Action Team, which takes direct action against the liberal media through petitions, telephone calls, and e-mail campaigns. The liberal media made a laughingstock out of the term objective journalism in 2006. They were instead the microphones for the Democratic Party and liberalism. The MRC — unique in its mission and under constant attack by liberals — anticipated this bias and provided abundant evidence and intellectual ammunition to fi ght against it. The conservative movement must stay vigilant and on the offensive against liberalism and its media propagandists. The MRC is proud to be in the vanguard of this battle. Sincerely,

L. Brent Bozell III Founder and President

1 The News Analysis Division of the Media Research Report, Election in the Streets: Center, launched in 1987, is America’s leader in exposing How the Broadcast Networks Pro- and neutralizing liberal media bias. No other organization mote Illegal Immigration, which Brent Baker, the MRC’s can do what the News Analysis Division (NAD) does. It included on-air comments from Steven P.J. Wood Senior Fellow and Vice President provides the quotes, the clips, the research – the ammunition the report’s author, MRC Director for Research and Publica- – to combat the liberal media from wherever they operate. of Media Analysis Tim Graham. tions, oversees the daily This is why NAD is also the leading source of information ■ Research Director Rich operation of the News Analysis Division. about liberal media bias for the New Media: the Internet, Noyes published a Special talk radio and cable television. Report, The Media vs. The War on Terror, The NAD’s voluminous output is accom- which received massive – and continuing plished with the help of a sophisticated Digital – coverage, including an editorial devoted Video Recording system (DVR), which is to the report’s fi ndings in The Wall Street connected to 42 MRC computers. The DVR Journal, which has a daily circulation of 1.8 records up to 100 news programs every million people. Another Special Report on day, which are “burned” onto DVDs. More Katie Couric’s liberal bias garnered much than 330,000 hours of news programs attention and was quoted extensively in Cal have been recorded, which makes the Thomas’s nationally syndicated column, which MRC’s digital and video library the Every day, MRC research is is carried by more than 430 newspapers and largest broadcast news archive in the world. cited, directly and indirectly, by reaches millions of Americans. In 2006, NAD produced 541 products. numerous media outlets – print, ■ CyberAlert, written by MRC Vice These included the CyberAlerts posted on television, radio and the Internet. President for Research and Publications the MRC Web page, weekly op-eds from Brent Baker, is regularly picked up by the MRC President Brent Bozell, the bi-weekly national media and reaches millions of Notable Quotables, audio-video clips of Americans through such outlets as Fox’s The liberal media bias, and in-depth Special O’Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, MSNBC’s Reports. (Note: More than 8,000 items were Scarborough Country, Fox News Watch, posted, or blogged, on NewsBusters, the Rush Limbaugh’s MRC blog, in 2006. That information along radio show, the with all the MRC divisions reached, on aver- Washington Times, age, 60 million Americans every week.) and the Pittsburgh In 2006, MRC experts and NAD products were cited Tribune-Review, among other media. more than 1,600 times in about 800 diff erent media out- lets, including 67 national television programs and more than 600 newspapers. Some of the highlights, illustrating the eff ectiveness and sweep of the News Analysis Division, include the following: ■ In an October report about Senator John Kerry’s insulting remarks about the U.S. military and the power of blogs, ABC’s World News (audience: 9 million) broadcast an on-screen photo of the MRC blog, NewsBusters.org. This blog was also shown on-screen on Fox News Channel by Michelle Malkin on Election Day, Nov. 7, and was described as “one of the leading mainstream media blogs.” ■ CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight devoted an entire story to the Special

2 ■ A nationally syndicated column in September by MRC President Brent Bozell on the ABC TV movie Path to 9/11 led to interviews on CNN’s Showbiz Tonight, FNC’s Fox & Friends, the Lars Larson Show, Your World w/ Neil Cavuto and MSNBC’s Scarborough Country. ■ A Hear & See the Bias! clip about the movie The Da Vinci Code was carried by The Drudge Report (audience of 15 million), driving tremendous Web traffi c to the MRC Web site. ■ A national press release demanding that the New York Times be investigated and potentially prosecuted for treason because it exposed a secret anti-terrorist program received widespread media attention, including interviews of MRC President Brent Bozell on FNC’s Fox & Friends and Hannity & Colmes. ■ When Dan Rather left CBS in June, MRC material on the News Anaylsis Division, 2006 former Evening News anchor was cited by the Washington Times, (Standing) Scott Whitlock, Brad Wilmouth, Kristine Looney, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, and USA Today, the No. 1 paper in Michelle Humphrey, Karen Hanna, Mike Rule, the USA (daily circulation 2.5 million). Justin McCarthy and Michael Chapman. ■ NAD’s research on media coverage of oil and gas prices (Sitting) Rich Noyes, Brent Baker and Tim Graham. was quoted by columnist and radio newscaster Paul Harvey, who regularly reports the MRC’s fi ndings. His broadcasts are carried on 1,200 radio stations and 400 Armed Forces Network stations around the world, reaching millions of people. ■ A press release about Oliver Stone’s movie, World Trade Center, led to coverage for the MRC in the New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Variety, and other infl uential media. ■ At year’s end, NAD produced the Best Notable Quotables of 2006: The 19th Annual Awards for the Year’s Worst Reporting. The winning quotes were posted online with audio-video, which enabled dozens of prominent radio shows to play them on-air. The New York Post, the No. 11 paper in the country (691,000 daily readers), published the winning quotes, which were also cited in other prominent print, radio and Web venues.

Number of NAD Products in 2006 CyberAlert ...... 218 Bozell’s Syndicated Column ...... 52 Media Reality Check ...... 19 Notable Quotables ...... 26 Press Releases ...... 45 Special Reports ...... 5 See & Hear the Bias! ...... 164 Flash News/The Watchdog ...... 12 The MRC Web site, www.MRC.org, is updated throughout the day and contains the latest examples and analyses of Total:...... 541 liberal media bias and links to the MRC divisions, reports, products and archives. The Web site averaged 36,000 visitors per day in 2006, about 1.1 million per month.

3 Conservative talk-radio giants Rush Limbaugh, Sean During the elections, Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, and FNC’s Michelle Malkin described NewsBusters many others, as well as Internet giants The Drudge Report as “one of the leading and Michelle Malkin, are but some who now regularly use mainstream media NewsBusters, the Media Research Center’s blog, or Web blogs.” log. This sends news of liberal media bias from the MRC to millions of people every single day. ■ On Aug. 29, NewsBusters had its most-read article NewsBusters has become one of the most popular of all time, over 400,000 reads. The Drudge Report (which conservative blogs on the Internet, averaging over 80,000 has a daily readership of 15 million people) and other unique visitors to its site in a single day. It is ranked prominent sites linked to an item about Kyra Phillips, a regularly in the top ten “Most Popular” conservative and CNN anchor who accidentally spoke into her wireless political blogs. NewsBusters is also unique in that it is the microphone during a speech by President Bush. fi rst political blog to combine a community of activists, ■ On Feb. 16, 390,000 people read a story linked to think tank staff , and outside experts into a single, powerful NewsBusters by The Drudge Report about Bryant Gumbel, force for change and information. And, according to the who had crassly claimed there were so many white athletes Web monitoring fi rm Technorati, NewsBusters is the 61st at the Olympics it made the “Winter Games look like a most popular blog in the world, more read than millions GOP convention.” of other blogs. ■ A May 19 NewsBusters item about the liberal political Not bad for an operation that began only 18 months background of a USA Today reporter, who mis-reported ago. the facts about telephone com- NewsBusters has two primary panies’ involvement with the goals: to provide a “war room” National Security Agency’s anti- facility for the MRC to respond to terrorist monitoring, was cited media bias in almost real time, by Rush Limbaugh on his radio and to engage a new generation show, reaching 3 million listeners. of online readers, keeping the ■ A June 13 NewsBusters MRC on the cutting edge of post concerning MSNBC journal- technological evolution. As more ist David Shuster’s inaccurate and more people move online reporting that Karl Rove would to get their news, NewsBusters is be indicted received massive there to help them learn the truth attention, drawing thousands of about left-wing misinformation readers and leading to a mention that often passes for news. Some on ABC’s World News, which of the NewsBusters highlights for reaches 9 million people. 2006 include the following: ■ On July 12, 2006, News- ■ During coverage of the Busters Executive Editor Matthew Nov. 7 elections, Fox News Sheffi eld appeared on MSNBC’s Channel featured NewsBusters Tucker to discuss Dan Rather’s on-screen and conservative retirement from CBS. author-blogger Michelle Malkin ■ On October 9, MSNBC’s described the site as “one of Countdown host Keith Olbermann the leading mainstream media denounced NewsBusters by name blogs.” and included it among his “Worst ■ On Oct 31, ABC’s World Persons in the World” segment. News highlighted, on-screen, the role NewsBusters played in In November, NewsBusters ranked publicizing Sen. John Kerry’s No. 4 among “the Most Popular insulting remarks about the Conservative Blogs,” according to education and intelligence of Sitemeter.com. Also, according to the Web monitoring firm Technorati, U.S. troops in Iraq, sending the NewsBusters is the 61st most popular NB blog image to an audience of blog in the world, more read than more than 9 million people. millions of other blogs. 4 The MRC’s TimesWatch project is dedicated to documenting and exposing the liberal bias of The New York Times. This project is the leading authority on Times bias, and it covered myriad instances of such bias throughout the election year 2006. TimesWatch analyzes the paper on a daily basis and exposes its bias through daily Web and e-mail publications. Led by Director Clay Waters, TimesWatch produced an average of four critiques every weekday, as well as the bi-weekly feature “Quotes of Note,” and the year-end Special Reports “Quotes of Note, Worst of 2006” and “Top 10 Lowlights of The New York Times in 2006.” TimesWatch also produced a Special Report on the Times’s coverage of Sen. Hillary Clinton, and Mr. Waters’ op-ed based on the report was published in Human Events Online. TimesWatch upgraded its Web site in 2006 with photo, audio, and video capability and introduced new features, such as interviews with prominent Times critics and guest-posting capability. Praise for TimesWatch continued last year. WABC host Mark Levin called TimesWatch “a great Web site,” and American Enterprise Institute scholar James Rubin lauded the site on National Review Online. TimesWatch material appeared on the highly popular blog run by Michelle Malkin, on the Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web, several times at National Review Online, on the grand- daddy of all political blogs, Instapundit, and on the major gossip Web site for journalists, Romenesko’s Media News. TimesWatch Director Clay Waters was also interviewed twice on FNC’s Your World with Neil Cavuto, reaching more than 3 TimesWatch analyzes The New York Times every day and posts its findings and commentary throughout the day on its million Americans with the MRC message. popular Web site, www.TimesWatch.org.

“The old joke about The Times — that if a Republican walked on water, The New York Times would headline that he couldn’t swim — remains true. The folks over at www.TimesWatch.org do a very good job of pointing out lapses in The New York Times’s journalistic integrity, both in the case of Linda Greenhouse and across the newsroom.” Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute, on National Review Online’s The Corner, Oct. 8, 2006

TimesWatch Director Clay Waters made “…the great Web site TimesWatch.org….” several major television appearances in 2006, including MSNBC’s Coast to Coast Host Mark Levin on WABC Radio, Oct. 12, 2006 and FNC’s Your World with Neil Cavuto. “As races tighten, the folks over at TimesWatch are doing a masterful job of parsing the Gray Lady’s election coverage.” Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute, on National Review Online’s The Corner, Oct. 25, 2006

“Clay, You were fantastic! Great job on my show and great reaction too! Thanks for joining me!” Neil Cavuto, host of FNC’s Your World with Neil Cavuto, Nov. 29, 2006

5 The Business & Media Institute works to expose and correct media bias against the business community and the culture of free enterprise. Formerly the Free Market Project, the division’s name was changed in March 2006 to the Business & Media Institute (BMI) to more accurately refl ect its mission. Last year, BMI completed and distributed 468 products exposing the media’s bias against business and free enterprise. That output generated widespread notice and the research and information infl uenced the national debate on a wide variety of issues. BMI’s senior staff and National Chairman Herman Cain were cited and interviewed in major and national newspapers and magazines, on talk radio, on the Web, and on television throughout the year, on topics ranging from gas prices and the economy to obesity and to taxes. Some of the highlights of BMI’s eff ectiveness in 2006 include the following: ■ On Dec. 6, BMI Director and Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow Dan Gainor Number of testifi ed about media coverage of cli- BMI Products in 2006 mate change before the Senate Environ- ment and Public Works Committee, Media Myths reports ...... 6 chaired by Sen. James Inhofe and Special Reports ...... 4 broadcast by C-SPAN. Press Releases ...... 6 ■ Newsweek magazine, weekly circula- Op-Eds/Commentary ...... 56 tion of 4 million, published a clarifi - The Balance Sheet ...... 50 cation in October of its climate change Daily Articles on Website ...... 346 reporting from over the years in response to a Senate fl oor speech by Total Products ...... 468 Sen. James Inhofe, which relied heavily on BMI’s Special Report, Fire & Ice. ■ In May, BMI Director Dan Gainor was interviewed on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes – audience 2 million – about Al Gore and global warming. ■ BMI Director Dan Gainor was interviewed in September about alleged gas price conspiracies on CNN’s Paula Zahn NOW, reaching 530,000 viewers. ■ MRC President Brent Bozell was interviewed on CNBC’s Kudlow & Company in October about BMI’s Bad News Bears report, reaching 500,000 viewers. ■ Also in October, Fox’s Special Report with Brit Hume, with 1.5 million viewers, cited BMI’s Bad News Bears report. ■ Nationally syndicated columnist Clarence Page wrote a column that cited BMI and Director Dan Gainor on Hollywood’s treatment of business characters. This op-ed was carried in numerous papers, including The Chicago Tribune (680,000 readers), The Baltimore Sun (300,000 readers), and the Orlando Sentinel (258,000 readers). ■ In November, The Limbaugh Letter published a full-page story about liberal media coverage of the economy and cited extensively from the BMI Special Report, The MRC’s Business & Media Institute enjoyed a spectacularly influential year Bad News Bears. in 2006 with numerous national media ■ The Chicago Sun-Times, the No. 13 appearances, including spots on the Fox News Channel, CNN, C-SPAN, paper in the country with a daily circulation CNBC and on more than 500 talk of 480,000 readers, published an op-ed radio programs. 6 in September by BMI Director Dan Gainor about the liberal media promoting conspiracy theories about gas prices. ■ The American Spectator magazine ran a lengthy article in October on media mis-coverage of the economy, written by BMI Director Dan Gainor. ■ A BMI op-ed in April about gas prices was published by The Washington Times, and then cited by Sean Hannity on his radio program and read in its entirety on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show. BMI Director Dan Gainor was also interviewed twice about the topic on Liddy’s program. ■ The Special Report, Bad Company, about Hollywood’s portrayal of businessmen, was cited in The Wall Street Journal (circula- Business & Media Institute, 2006 Communications Director Scot Christenson, Staff Writer Ken tion 1.8 million) and The Washington Post (750,000 readers). Shepherd, Assistant Editor Julia A. Seymour, Deputy Editor As 2006 came to a close, BMI had more than doubled its Amy Menefee, Researcher Paul Detrick, and Director and Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow Dan Gainor. media presence from 2005. The operation added an assistant editor in September. And to increase its impact, BMI streamlined BOARD OF ADVISERS its new Web site, www.BusinessandMedia.org. Herman Cain BMI was also active in reaching out to other organizations, BMI National Chairman especially to journalists. Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow Dan Former President and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza, Inc. Gainor and well-known economist Brian Wesbury participated President and CEO of T.H.E. New Voice, Inc. in a panel discussion on business reporting at the Society of Bruce Bartlett Professional Journalists conference. BMI also hosted a panel Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Treasury Department on energy reporting including Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), Jerry Taylor from the Cato Institute, Bob Slaughter from The National John Berthoud Petrochemical & Refi ners Association and Quin Hillyer from The President, National Taxpayers Union American Spectator. Dr. Donald Boudreaux Chairman, Department of Economics, “The Business & Media Institute knows what George Mason University many of us have forgotten: a true free market and John Drescher Executive Director, TechNet Northwest capitalism are the only economic philosophies that Dr. Richard Ebeling will permanently lift people out of poverty. BMI President, Foundation for Economic Education keeps us on track and holds our elected officials’ David Goodnow feet to the fire. The left likes to say that they Columnist; Former CNN anchor ‘speak truth to power.’ BMI is truth to power.” Dr. Jeff rey Herbener Chairman, Department of Economics, Grove City College Martha Zoller, conservative talk radio host, Sept. 20, 2006 Dr. Felix Livingston Professor of Economics and Business, Flagler College

Dr. Daniel J. Mitchell McKenna Senior Fellow in Political Economy, The Heritage Foundation Dr. Elizabeth Whelan President, American Council on Science and Health Dr. Walter E. Williams John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics, George Mason University Dr. Gary Wolfram Munson Professor of Political Economy and Professor of Economics, Hillsdale College

7 Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com), launched in ■ Reporter Nathan Burchfi el was interviewed on Fox’s 1998, is the division of the MRC that provides politically Hannity & Colmes (2 million viewers) about anti-war balanced news for consumers, news organizations and, activist Cindy Sheehan, and two stories by reporter Kevin increasingly, alternative media: cable, talk radio and the Mooney were cited on Hannity & Colmes. Web. The division puts a high premium on balance and ■ Fox’s Special Report with Brit Hume (1.5 million seeks news that’s ignored, under-reported or misreported viewers) cited multiple CNSNews.com stories; Fox’s Dayside by the liberal news media. cited a story; and reporter Jeff Johnson was interviewed on CNSNews.com employs a full staff of credentialed Fox & Friends about how state and local governments had journalists at its Alexandria, Virginia undermined federal laws to prevent headquarters, staff s bureaus in identity theft by posting confi dential Jerusalem and the Pacifi c Rim, and Total number of personal information on the Internet. works with credentialed correspond- people who viewed Among the potential victims of this ents in London, Paris, Moscow and information theft were U.S. Secretary Nairobi. A CNSNews.com corre- CNSNews.com’s materials of State Colin Powell and former CIA spondent, embedded with U.S. in 2006 topped Director Porter Goss. troops in Iraq, also fi led a series of ■ Ann Coulter’s 2006 book, news articles for the organization. Godless: The Church of Liberalism, 2006 saw a tremendous increase 40 MILLION made reference to CNSNews.com’s in the output and eff ectiveness of two-part expose in January focusing CNSNews.com. The total audience — the total number on anti-war critic U.S. Rep. John Murtha. She also cited a of people who viewed the division’s materials — topped June news article by investigative reporter Marc Morano, 40 million, a 40 percent increase over the 2005 audience. titled “Flush Toilets Called Environmental Disaster by This includes a constantly growing list of Web sites that Greens,” which examined another hypocritical eff ort by carry our Headline News Service (HNS) ticker or RSS feed, enviro-activists to limit the modern lifestyle. including major market radio affi liates in Los Angeles, ■ David Limbaugh’s 2006 book, Bankrupt: The Intellectual Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, Cleveland and Minneapolis. and Moral Bankruptcy of Today’s Democratic Party, cited Some of the highlights from 2006 include the following: CNSNews.com’s continuing coverage of the controversies ■ The Drudge Report (15 million readers a day) ran involving Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and the U.S. headlines and provided links to 13 stories by CNSNews. invasion of Saddam Hussein’s regime. Limbaugh referenced com reporters, which, in turn, drove more than a million reporter Melanie Hunter’s article from June 2006 — readers to the CNSNews.com Web site. “Document Details WMD Recovered in Iraq, Santorum Says” ■ On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh (3 million listeners — as well as a Susan Jones dispatch, “Murtha Democrats a day) cited and/or quoted from dozens of CNSNews.com Believe America Can’t Win.” stories. For one article about DNC Chairman Howard ■ Limbaugh’s best-selling book cited several other Dean, Mr. Limbaugh placed the story on his Web site’s news articles published by CNSNews.com, including one in front page, along with an artistic parody of Dean as a which Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard left-over hippie. Dean asserted that America was about to return to the

Reporters and editors for CNSNews.com made more than 700 media appearances in 2006, reaching tens of millions of people in the U.S. and abroad. Some of the highlights included Jeff Johnson (left) discussing identity theft on Fox & Friends, Nathan Burchfiel (center) being inter- viewed about activist Cindy Sheehan on Fox’s Hannity & Colmes, and Marc Morano discussing the Rep. John Murtha on CNN’s Reliable Sources. 8 Cybercast News Service — CNSNews.com, 2006 (Standing) Managing Editor Patrick Goodenough, Communications Director Craig Bannister, Senior Editors Susan Jones and Melanie Hunter, and Staff Writer Monisha Bansal. (Sitting) Staff Writers Fred Lucas, Randy Hall, Kevin Mooney and Nathan Burchfiel. (Not pictured: Editor-in-Chief David Thibault, Jerusalem Bureau Chief Julie Stahl, and Staff Writers Jeff Johnson and Marc Morano.) “CNSNews.com stands out for getting it right, in contrast to many old media sources that still put bias above the actual story itself. We use them every day in our show prep, because they give us great, breaking news stories and original content.” ~ Sean Hannity

CNSNews.com is respected and used by many top media personalities and outlets The CNSNews.com audience totaled 40,062,585 in 2006, by far the largest audience in the organization’s eight-year history. The average weekday audience for the entire year of 2006 was 125,635. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL morals of the1960s, and another featuring Julian Bond, The Washington Post chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), alleging that Republicans had The Washington Times intentionally blocked assistance to victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. ■ New books by Freedom Alliance President Thomas Kilgannon (Diplomatic Divorce: Why America Should End Its Love Aff air with the United Nations) and Federalist Society chapter President Mark Smith (The Offi cial Handbook of the Vast Right–Wing Conspiracy: The Arguments You Need to Defeat the Loony Left) referenced stories from CNSNews.com. ■ Nationally read publications like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, Human Events, and Business Week also used CNSNews.com news articles as reference materials in 2006. DRUDGE In all, CNSNews.com reporters and editors appeared REPORT on more than 700 nationally broadcast or major-market related radio programs in 2006, discussing numerous political and cultural issues that had already been reported on CNSNews.com. Simply put, 2006 was the most successful year ever for CNSNews.com. The New York Times

9 In October, the MRC proudly launched a new and unique ■ In December, CMI, division: the Culture and Media Institute (CMI). The mission in conjunction with the of CMI is to advance, preserve, and help restore America’s polling fi rm Fabrizio, culture, character, traditional values, and morals against McLaughlin & Associates, the assault of the liberal media. CMI is special in that it is conducted a National the only organization in the country doing this work and it Cultural Values Survey has the benefi t of utilizing the MRC’s unparalleled media to determine what the archive and technologically advanced research tools. American people believe, A three-year, $1 million challenge grant from the John how these moral beliefs Templeton Foundation provided the funds to start CMI, aff ect their opinions on and the program is headed by Robert Knight, a veteran key cultural issues, and newsman and long-time culture analyst. how Americans feel about While CMI worked to get its operation running – its Web the news and entertain- site, www.cultureandmediainstitute.org, debuted Dec. 15 ment media’s role in cor- – it achieved some signifi cant and immediate successes in roding morality. Slated its fi rst few months of operation in 2006. Among these are for release on March the following: 7, 2007, “America: A ■ Concerning the debate over gay marriage and media Nation in Moral and coverage of Vice President Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter, Spiritual Confusion” will CMI Director Robert Knight was interviewed on numerous CMI Director Robert Knight is a equip Americans to better journalist, author, and long-time national television programs and in print, reaching tens of recognize attacks on faith conservative policy expert. CMI millions of Americans. These media outlets included: USA and personal responsi- media appearances from October Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, bility. to December 2006 reached more than 20 million Americans. CNN’s The Situation Room, Anderson Cooper 360 and Paula In addition to the Zahn NOW, as well as Bill O’Reilly’s The Radio Factor. overall fi ndings of the National Cultural Values Survey, CMI ■ An Eye on Culture report by CMI about the war on plans to publish three subsequent survey-based reports Christmas received coverage on Fox News Live and Fox looking more closely at the role of the media, economic Weekend Live. issues (in conjunction with MRC’s Business & Media Institute) ■ An op-ed by CMI Senior Editor Brian Fitzpatrick about and one on what political candidates need to know about liberal media attempts to discourage conservative voters what inspires the American people. was cited by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show, reaching 3 CMI will also publish a weekly Culture & Media Report million listeners. online, which will be sent to thousands of opinion-makers, activists and journalists. Further steps for 2007 include establishing a board of advisers and recruiting a national chairman to assist in spreading CMI’s message to the public; and working with like-minded organizations to fi ght and win the culture war in America. CMI Director Robert Knight is a former Los Angeles Times news editor and the author of The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture. He previously worked as director of the Culture & Family Institute at Concerned Women for America, and has been cited, published, or appeared in media such as the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Times, Washington Times, NBC, ABC, CBS, The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, Oprah, National Public Radio and many others. CMI Senior Editor Brian Fitzpatrick is the former editorial director of Salem Communications, the largest religious radio broadcasting company in America. CMI Senior Writer Kristen Fyfe is a former senior writer for the Parents Television Council.

1100 Preparing America’s Youth for the Future “Interning at the MRC really gave me Created to mentor America’s youth to have a positive an opportunity to work hands-on with impact as future reporters, educators, and leaders, the both peers and professionals.” MRC’s Youth Education and Intern Program educates and Philippa Wood trains students to recognize liberal media bias and the need for balanced journalism. Sponsored in part by the “As an intern at the Media Research Center WINREP Foundation, the program off ers students a positive I began to realize the fervor and zeal that is mentoring atmosphere and a supportive environment essential for every journalist to have.” working side by side MRC employees to gain knowledge Kai Sandvig and experience for their future careers. Interns receive hands-on experience in the News “In a city that often expects interns to Analysis Division, Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com), get coffee and run errands for little or no pay, Business & Media Institute, Culture and Media Institute, the the CNSNews.com internship is a diamond Marketing department, and in the Development department in the rough. From day one, interns are given to assist their pursuit of professional careers in journalism, the opportunity to be professional journalists mass media, public relations, marketing and government. covering important current events, but they Interns also attend weekly workshops that include seminars still receive valuable training and mentoring on the MRC, media ethics, and public speaking, as well from seasoned veterans.” as tours of D.C. landmarks, such as the Pentagon and the Nathan Burchfiel White House. In addition to these activities, interns also have the opportunity to attend a variety of outside events at organizations such as the Heritage Foundation, Leadership Institute and the National Press Club. In 2006, the MRC received more than 100 applications from students at more than 40 colleges in 20 states and eight countries. A total of 14 students interned with the MRC in 2006, including spring interns Fatimeh Rajabi, Nathan Burchfi el, and Robert Warren Anderson, all of whom joined the MRC as full-time employees during 2006. Some of the highlights of the 2006 internship program include the following: ■ Summer interns in the News Analysis Division saw their hard work featured on the MRC’s NewsBusters blog 17 times, which included highlights from Matt Lauer’s Sci-Fi SUMMER 2006 INTERNS Channel special on global warming and Chris Matthews’ Philippa Wood, Rachel Waters, Sarah Larkins, biased tirades on MSNBC against President Bush. Kate Monaghan, Eugene Gibilaro, Chadd Clark, Kai Sandvig. (not pictured: Allison Espach) ■ Summer interns at CNSNews.com wrote a combined total of 80 stories that were published online. ■ An intern with the Marketing division, Philippa Wood, designed the covers of three Special Reports and the MRC’s 20th Anniversary logo.

Interns receive hands-on experience in the News Analysis Division, Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com), Business & Media Institute, Culture and Media Institute, the Marketing department, and MRC President Brent Bozell speaks with 2006 summer in the Development department. interns during a weekly workshop. 11 “Tell the Truth!” Campaign MRCAction.org — The Grassfi re Effect

In June 2004, the Media Research Center launched To maximize the eff ect of its work, the MRC needs the largest outreach campaign in its history: “Tell the conservative activists to help hold the liberal media Truth!” 2004. The landmark objectives for this multi-year accountable across the board. Toward that end, the campaign were to expose and neutralize the left-wing media MRC entered into a strategic alliance with Grassfi re.net, through a $2.8 million eff ort to reach more than 50 million a conservative activist group of 1.7 million Americans, Americans weekly. Through aggressive monitoring of the in August 2005 that has been extremely successful up news and the election cycle and a fully integrated campaign to the present day. promoting the MRC’s research through public relations, The goal was to engage conservative activists in paid advertising, Special Reports, and stories covered by each of its four divisions, the MRC met its goal in 2004. The the MRC’s fi ght to expose, document, and neutralize years 2005 and 2006 saw similar success. liberal bias through a two-step process. First, activists With an aggressive push on all media fronts and strong direct appeals to all MRC supporters and readers across America, in fact, the MRC continually met and exceeded its goal to reach 50 million households every week. Throughout 2006, the MRC message reached 60 million Americans on average each week. But media measurement is just half the story. What exactly was the MRC doing in 2006 that resulted in such incredible growth? The answer lies in the momentum of three new programs:

■ MRCAction.org, a new Web site comprised of citizens demanding “Truth” in the media. American soldiers in Iraq receive notes and MRC “dog tags” that ■ FightMediaBias.org, an ongoing eff ort to support read, “Don’t Believe the Liberal Media – America Supports Our our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan; and, Troops!” This MRC grassroots campaign, FightMediaBias.org, has been enormously successful with, as of December 2006, more than ■ NewsBusters.org, the MRC blog. 100,000 “dog tags” delivered to U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. were invited to learn more about the MRC. This was Weekly Audience Size accomplished through e-mails of Special Reports, news stories, and the MRC’s best analyses. Once they February – December, 2006 were familiar with the MRC, individuals were asked to 80 become a member of the MRCAction Team and commit 70 to contact the media directly regarding stories that were blatantly biased. 60 By January 2006, the MRCAction Team had 115,000 50 members and had contacted the media on topics ranging 40 from the Supreme Court nominations to the Iraq War, and from ABC’s speculation that Saddam Hussein wasn’t 30 getting a fair trial to the media’s misrepresentation of Millions Reached 20 the U.S. economy. 10 Only 14 months since the inception of MRCAction. org, it has become an army of more than 250,000 0 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Avg Americans who regularly sign petitions, e-mail the media, make phone calls, and pass on the “call to action” to family and friends. The average MRCAction Throughout 2006, the MRC message Team member passes along each e-mail to seven additional people, enabling a message originally sent reached 60 million Americans on to 250,000 members to reach 1.7 million households. average each week. This is termed “the grassfi re eff ect.”

12 By the end of 2006, the MRC had delivered FightMediaBias.org 101,894 “dog tags,” with individual Another outreach program under the “Tell the messages of Truth!” umbrella, FightMediaBias.org is the MRC’s support from all “Dog Tags” initiative, which was originally launched across America. in 2005 as a direct mail campaign to oppose liberal media bias against U.S. troops on active duty in the war against terror. Now online, FightMediaBias.org allows individuals to send a simulated “dog tag” to the troops and receive a matching “dog tag” to wear on a keychain. The initiative is assisted by Maj. Gen Jack Singlaub (USA Ret.), a staunch supporter of the MRC. One tag bears the message “Don’t Believe the Liberal Media — America Supports Our Troops!” and on the other side is a space for the recipient to sign and add a personal message to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. These signed dog tags and accompanying messages of support are then sent to volunteer uniformed service personnel on the front lines who distribute them to individual troops. The second tag is for the responder to keep on his/her keychain, and it features a reminder to pray daily for the troops. Over 450,000 of these packages were mailed out in 2005, with about 30,000 signed “dog tags” sent to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan during this fi rst cycle. By the end of 2006, the MRC had delivered 101,894 “dog tags,” with individual messages of support from all across America.

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Only 14 months since the inception of MRCAction.org, it has become MRC’s Doug Mills and Brent Bozell say “Thank an army of more than 250,000 Americans You” to the MRCAction Team for generating 60,000 who regularly sign petitions, e-mail the grassroots petitions against ABC’s The View in media, make phone calls, and pass on the response to Rosie O’Donnell’s rant that “Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam “call to action” to family and friends. in a country like America.”

13 Publications and Web Products NEWSLETTERS Peter’s Peace Platoon: ABC’s Crusade Against Spinning the Gun Control Debate “Arrogant” American Power Cox Report vs. The Iran-Contra Report The Watchdog [formerly FLASH] Megaphone for a Dictator: CNN’s Coverage of Updated and Revised – Network Apathy Toward Media Reality Check Castro’s Cuba, 1997-2002 Chinese Contributions and Espionage Notable Quotables Clamoring for Kyoto: The Networks’ One-Sided Four Campaigns, Eight Conventions... Coverage of Global Warming But Just One Spin BOOKS Liberal Spin Prevails: How CBS Led the Networks’ Updated and Revised – Roe Warriors: The Media’s Weapons of Mass Distortion: The Coming Charge Against the Bush Tax Cut Meltdown of the Liberal Media Pro-Abortion Bias Pattern of Deception: The Media’s Role in the GOP Convention Conspiracy to Commit Journalism: The Media’s Clinton Presidency Dem Convention Attack on the Scaife Foundation Dollars & Nonsense: Correcting the News Media’s Media’s Top 10 Economic Myths of ‘05 Facts Exempt: Network News and Taxes Top Economic Myths Media Myths: More Hot Air Plain as the News on Your Face: Clinton Lies and How to Identify, Expose and Correct Liberal Media Bias Media Myths: The Housing Bubble Is Bursting Obstruction that TV News Has Ignored And That’s the Way It Isn’t: A Reference Guide to Media Myths: Gas Hysteria – Media Hype Harm Facts Frozen Out: Network News & Global Warming Media Bias of Rising Gas Prices Despite Drop of 45 Cents The Forgotten Five: Important Economic Facts Out of Focus: Network Television and the Per Gallon Missing in the News American Economy Trade Secrets: Lou Dobbs Tonight Hides Good Businessmen Behaving Badly: Prime Time’s World News Behind Negative View of Free Market of Commerce SPECIAL REPORTS Crazy 8s: Live 8, G-8 Coverage Cheerleads Women’s Magazines: Liberal Pipeline to Soccer The Media vs. The War on Terror Sending Billions of U.S. Dollars to Africa Moms Meet the Real Katie Couric Confidence Game: ABC Skips 3-Year High in Addicted to Tobacco Stories: A One-Sided Portrayal Election In The Streets: How The Broadcast Consumer Confidence But Reports Heavily of a Risky Product Networks Promote Illegal immigration on Negative Number The Clinton Economic Plan – Special Amnesia The Trashing of the Christ Tax & Spin: Five Ways the Media Distort Edition TV’s Bad News Brigade Tax Issues The Clarence Thomas Hearings – Special Sore Public Broadcasting: Your Taxes Fund Liberal Bias Biased Accounts Part III: Networks Guarantee Losers Edition The Life of Pope John Paul: Shepherd of Souls or Liberal View of Social Security ~ Partial listing Antiquated Authoritarian? Government-Sponsored Enron: Billion-Dollar Religion on TV News: Secular Orthodoxy Still Scandal Not Ready for Prime Time WEB PRODUCTS Reigns Media Malpractice: Journalists Ignoring Tort www.MRC.org The Ten Worst Media Distortions in Campaign ‘04 Reform to Report One-Sided Stories Against MRC CyberAlert Business Dan Rather in Crisis www.CNSNews.com – Cybercast News Service Double Standard: Times Tars Swift Boat Vets, Plugs Media vs. Swift Vets CNSNews.com E-Briefs False “Bush AWOL” Story The Liberal Media: Every Poll Shows Journalists www.TimesWatch.org Are More Liberal than the American Public The Times Watch “Quotes of Note Worst of 2006” TimesWatch Tracker – And the Public Knows It Top 10 Lowlights of the New York Times in 2006 www.NewsBusters.org Ronald Reagan: Overcoming a Fierce First Draft A Summer of Skewed News: The Liberal Tilt in of History TV’s Economic Reporting www.businessandmedia.org Religion on TV News: More Content, Less Context Back to the “Peaceable” Paradise: Media Soldiers The Balance Sheet Still Liberal, Still Biased for the Seizure of Elian www.cultureandmediainstitute.org Grading TV’s War News Outgunned: How the Network News Media Are ~ Partial listing 14 Inside the MRC

Founder and President: L. Brent Bozell III Business & Media Institute Youth Education & Intern Program Executive Director: Douglas Mills Director: Dan Gainor, Intern Coordinator: Jane Carter Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow Interns: Sarah Larkins, Alison Espach, Kai Sandvig, Executive Assistant to the President: Director of Communication: Scot Christenson Philippa Wood, Kate Monaghan, Rachel Waters, Danette Williams Deputy Editor: Amy Menefee Eugene Gibilaro, Chadd Clark, Christopher Director of Financial Operations: Assistant Editor/Analyst: Julia Seymour Palko, Meghan Mulhern, Aleena Shakeel Cheryl Michener Staff Writer: Ken Shepherd Researcher: Paul Detrick Development News Analysis Division Vice President for Development: Thom Golab V.P. of Research & Publications: Brent Baker, CNSNEWS.COM – Assistant Director of Development: Sara Bell Steven P.J. Wood Senior Fellow Cybercast News Service Director of Foundations: Heather Madden Asst. Finance Director: Lawrence Gourlay Editor-in-Chief: David Thibault Director of Media Analysis: Tim Graham Development Associates: David Bozell & James Nolan Managing Editor: Patrick Goodenough Director of Research: Rich Noyes Development Assistant: Jamie Sullivan Senior Editors: Development Assistant/Receptionist: Beth Standen Director of Communications: Susan Jones and Melanie Hunter Michael Chapman Jerusalem Bureau Chief: Julie Stahl TimesWatch.org Director: Clay Waters Investigative Reporters/Staff Writers: Marketing Senior News Media Analyst: Geoff Dickens Randy Hall, Kevin Mooney, Fred Lucas Director of Marketing: Michelle O’Halloran Monisha Bansal and Nathan Burchfi el Marketing Coordinator: Jane Carter News Media Analysts: Director of Communications: Circulation Manager: Holly Schnitzler Brad Wilmouth, Megan McCormack, Craig Bannister Marketing Asst. & Graphics: Fatimeh Rajabi Mike Rule, Scott Whitlock and Justin McCarthy Culture and Media Institute Information Systems Research Associate: Michelle Humphrey Director: Robert Knight Director of Information Systems: Eric Pairel Archives Assistants: Karen Hanna and Senior Editor: Brian Fitzpatrick Webmaster/Systems Admin.: Ryan Welch Kristine Looney Senior Writer: Kristen Fyfe Webmaster: Michael Gibbons

Kristine Looney, Archives Assistant

DEVELOPMENT TEAM: Kristen Fyfe Larry Gourlay, Thom Golab, Beth Standen, Culture and Media MRC News Analyst James Nolan, Heather Madden, David Bozell. Institute Senior Writer Brad Wilmouth (Sitting) Sara Bell and Jamie Sullivan

CNSNews.com Investigative Reporter Nathan Burchfi el

CNSNews.com Managing Editor Patrick Goodenough Brian Fitzpatrick INFORMATION SYSTEMS TEAM: CMI Senior Editor Ryan Welch, Michael Gibbons and Eric Pairel David Bozell MRC Development Associate

MRC MARKETING TEAM: Jane Carter, Holly Schnitzler MRC News Analyst MRC Archives Assistant Sara Bell, MRC Assistant and Fatimeh Rajabi Justin McCarthy Karen Hanna Director of Development 15 IMPACT

Numbers don’t lie. The number of media appearances and citations for MRC experts in 2006 confi rm that the MRC is the leading force in exposing liberal media bias and neutralizing its eff ect. Every week, an average of 60 million Americans learn about liberal media bias from the MRC, on TV, radio, in print and on the Web. No other media watchdog has such an impact. Perhaps no conservative organization, period, generates as much attention. Below is a partial listing of the media hits for the MRC in 2006. TELEVISION Hugh Hewitt Show Investor’s Radio Network CBN Janet Parshall’s America The 700 Club Jerry Doyle Show The New York Times NewsWatch Jim Bohannon Show CNBC John Batchelor Show Kudlow & Co. Lars Larson Show NEW YORK POST CNN Laura Ingraham Show Glenn Beck Show Linda Chavez Program Washington Post Reliable Sources Michael Reagan Show Showbiz Tonight MI Talk Radio Network Lou Dobbs Tonight Money Matters Paula Zahn Now National Public Radio C-SPAN NRA News Fox News Channel Paul Harvey Show Hannity & Colmes Radio Colorado Network Fox & Friends Radio Factor Fox News Watch Relevant Radio The O’Reilly Factor Rightalk Radio Network Fox News Live Your World with Ringside Politics Neil Cavuto Rush Limbaugh Show Special Report Sean Hannity Show with Brit Hume State Government Radio, CO MSNBC State Government Radio, NC Scarborough Country Steve Gill Show Tucker Syndicated Solutions Countdown Talk Radio News Service MSNBC Live! The Core Hour The Right Balance RADIO Tom Hartman Show Tony Snow Show National & Syndicated USA Radio Network ABC Radio Wisconsin Public Radio Accent Radio Network America at Night Other Radio Programs American Family Radio WCHS, Charlestown, SC Ave Maria Radio KPDQ, Portland, OR BizRadio Network WAMT, Orlando, FL Catholic Connection WIBA, Madison, WI Coral Ridge Ministries KTSA, San Antonio, TX Dateline Washington KDKA, Pittsburgh, PA Entertainment USA KOGO, San Diego, CA Faith2Action w/ Janet Folger KCBI, Dallas, TX Faith Broadcasting KWIX, Columbia, SC Family News in Focus WIBC, Indianapolis, IN Financial Sense Newshour WPHT, Philadelphia Focus on the Family WMET, Washington, D.C. Fox Live with Alan Colmes WHO, Des Moines, IA G. Gordon Liddy Show WLW, Cincinnati, OH Home Talk USA KSTE, Sacramento, CA 16 EVERYWHERE

WHAS, Louisville, KY Philadelphia Inquirer WGST, Atlanta, GA Pittsburgh Post-Gazette WERC, Birmingham, AL Pittsburgh Tribune-Review KSFO, San Francisco, CA Reuters WBAL, Baltimore, MD Richmond Times-Dispatch KCOL, Colorado Springs, CO Rocky Mountain News KFNN, Phoenix, AZ San Diego Union-Tribune KAHL, San Antonio, TX San Jose Mercury News WILM, Philadelphia, PA Scripps Howard News Service KVI, Seattle, WA Seattle Post-Intelligencer KSLR, San Antonio, TX St. Louis Post-Dispatch WAAM, Ann Arbor, MI St. Paul Pioneer Press WKBN, Youngstown, OH St. Petersburg Times KGNW, Seattle, WA Sydney Morning-Herald WKTQ, Portland, OR Tampa Tribune WPGP, Pittsburgh, PA The Hill WMUZ, Detroit, MI The Independent NNEWEW YORKYORK POSTPOST WFLA, Tallahassee, FL Toronto Star WBT, Charlotte, NC United Press International WHP, Harrisburg, PA USA Today Washington Times WLFL, Daytona Beach, FL Variety WORD, Pittsburgh, PA Wall Street Journal WTKK, Boston, MA Washington Post WDUN, Atlanta, GA Washington Times KPCC, Los Angeles, CA WRVA, Richmond, VA WSPD, Toledo, OH MAGAZINES WAFG, Ft. Lauderdale, FL American Spectator Broadcasting & Cable Christianity Today PRINT Editor & Publisher Associated Press Human Events Atlanta Journal-Constitution National Review Austin American-Statesman NewsMax Baltimore Sun Reason Boston Globe Slate Charlotte Observer TIME Chicago Sun-Times Weekly Standard Chicago Tribune World China Daily Christian Science Monitor INTERNET Contra Costa Times Agape Press Dallas Morning News Cato.org Denver Post CBSNews.com Detroit News CNN.com Ft. Worth Star-Telegram Drudge Report Globe and Mail Foxnews.com Hearst Newspapers FrontPageMagazine.com Houston Chronicle GOPUSA Investor’s Business Daily Hugh Hewitt blog Jewish Press Human Events Online Kansas City Star Instapundit blog Knight Ridder Newspapers Laura Ingraham.com The Limbaugh Letter LifeNews.com Los Angeles Times Lucianne.com Miami Herald Media Matters Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Michelle Malkin.com New York Post MSNBC.com New York Times National Review Online New York Sun NewsMax.com Newsday RealClearPolictics.com Orlando Sentinel ~ partial listing for all media 17 THE MRC GALA Featuring the DisHonors and the MRC’s Tribute to the American Military March 30, 2006 ● Washington, D.C. Tony Blankley Stan Evans The annual MRC Gala is one of the most popular events for America’s conservative leaders. They join with the MRC in a good-natured roasting of the liberal media as the MRC bestows its annual DisHonors Awards. In 2006, more than 900 people attended the Gala at the Grand Hyatt hotel in the nation’s capital. Master of Ceremonies Cal Thomas led the event, assisted by award-presenters Larry Kudlow, host of CNBC’s Kudlow & Company, Washington Times Linda Chavez L. Brent Bozell III Editorial Page Editor Tony Blankley, and Mark Levin, a nationally syndicated radio talk show host. During the evening, the MRC also presented a Tribute to the American Military, which included a special video honoring U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq and a “Toast to the Fallen Comrade.” The MRC DisHonors Awards, modeled after the Oscars, roasts the previous year’s most outrageously biased liberal reporters. The DisHonors are awarded to those journalists who were the most liberally Major General Jack Singlaub Cal Thomas biased in their comments or reports. Some of the DisHonors “winners” last year included MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, CNN’s Jack Caff ferty, and Ted Turner, who also received the “Quote of the Year” award for his absurd analysis of North Korea’s economy and human rights record. Prominent conservatives accept the awards on behalf of the journalists. The winners are chosen by a panel of distinguished judges, which have included Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, William F. Ken Cribb Buckley Jr., Robert Novak, Ann Coulter, Steve Forbes, Larry Kudlow and Michelle Malkin, among others. Conservatives who have accepted the DisHonors on behalf of the winners have included Laura Ingraham, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Midge Decter, Boone Pickens, Rich Lowry, Judge Robert Bork, and others. The MRC’s Annual Gala is a fun-fi lled evening but it also allows the MRC to make a serious national statement about the liberal media. Mark Levin

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Ron Robinson 18 2006 Annual Meeting, Luncheon and Gala Reception

L. Brent Bozell III addresses the MRC annual board meeting Virginia Manheimer Tat Hillman Gayle & Dan Cook

Joan & Major General Jack Singlaub Barbara Lynch & Barbara Hansen Susie & Scott Plakon B.V. Brooks & Brent Bozell

Frank & Dorothy Doug Mills Dr. Susan Carlyle & Dennis Joe & Adrienne Dworak Abby Moff at with Beardsley Carlyle with Larry Gourlay with Brent Bozell Onnie & Dr. Edward Duffi e

Tony Blankley & Brent Bozell William Rusher, Robert Shoemaker A few of the many service men G. Gordon Liddy with with Ron Robinson & Curtin Winsor in attendance at the Gala Maj. Gen. Jack Singlaub

Bill & Barbara Lynch John & Sherry Lawrence Boone & Madeleine Pickens Doris & Norman Rousselot Tat & Bobbie Hillman

William Rusher with Norma & Caitlin Bozell Herman Cain & Boone Pickens Ken Cribb & Father Robert Sirico Barbara Hansen with Reid Buckley with Linda Chavez 19 MRC Leadership BOARD OF DIRECTORS

William A. Rusher L. Brent Bozell III The Honorable Harold Clark Simmons The Honorable Michael L. Keiser Chairman of the Board Founder and President Leon Weil President, Valhi, Inc. Curtin Winsor, Jr. President, Media Research Center Media Research Center Former Ambassador Former Ambassador Bandon Dunes Golf to Nepal to Costa Rica Resorts

BOARD OF TRUSTEES Mr. Patrick Alexander Mr. Norman Duininck Mrs. Linda Kendall Mr. & Mrs. S. Prewitt Semmes, Jr. Mr. George Eli Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Richard D. Eckburg Mr. & Mrs. Donald R. Laskowski Mr. & Mrs. Richard T. Short Mr. William C. Anton Mr. & Mrs. Robert J. Eichenberg Mr. Peter Lawson-Johnston Mr. Abe Siemens Mr. Thomas K. Armstrong Mr. & Mrs. Jim Emery Mr. Joe R. Lee Mr. Henry H. Silliman, Jr. Mr. Richard Ashburn Mr. Worth L. Farrington Mr. Carl H. Lindner Dr. Lawrence Simon Mr. & Mrs. Robert Beall, II Dr. Seymour Fein Mr. & Mrs. Tom Linnen Mr. Harold Simmons Mr. George W. Bermant Mr. Wade Fetzer Mr. Lorance W. Lisle Mr. Merrill G. Smith Mr. Larry Blatterfein Mr. Philip M. Friedmann Mr. Christopher R. Lopez Mr. Thomas W. Smith Dr. Letty G. Lutzker Mr. Albert C. Bostwick Mrs. Jeanne Fudge Mrs. Emily B. Staude Mr. & Mrs. William Lynch Mr. Robert L. Bradley Mr. Martin Galasso Mr. Ralph Stayer Mrs. Virginia Manheimer Hon. Stephen F. Brauer Mr. John W. Galbraith Mrs. Launa Stayer-Maloney Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Matey Mrs. Rebecca Brewer Mr. Robert Garthwait, Sr. Mr. & Mrs. Glen Stonebrink Mr. Ralph P. Mayer Mr. & Mrs. Renton Brodie Mr. John K. Garvey Mr. George W. Strake, Jr. Mr. George D. McClintock Mr. B. V. Brooks Hon. William L. Garwood Mr. Terry A. Strine Mr. William McCreery Mr. Charlie Giff ord Hon. Robert D. Stuart, Jr. Mr. W. Michael Brown Mr. Charles P. McQuaid Mr. Gerald B. Swanson Dr. Robert Browne Mr. Jeff rey W. Goettman Mr. & Mrs. James B. McWethy Mrs. Beverly Thewes Dr. and Mrs. John W. Browning III Mr. Randall Goss Mrs. Suzanne Melin Mr. & Mrs. Joe C. Thompson, Jr. Mr. Prescott S. Bush, Jr. Mrs. Dorothy Griffi n Mr. S. Prosser Mellon Mr. Richard Uihlein Mr. & Mrs. John M. Camp, Jr. Mr. Kenneth Groefsema Dr. Andrew L. Messenger Mr. & Mrs. Charles J. Urstadt Mr. & Mrs. Gerald T. Carden Mr. & Mrs. Henry Haller, Jr. Mr. Roger Milliken Mr. Luther H. Waller Dr. Susan Carlyle Miss Caroline L. Hansen Mrs. Abby Moff at Mr. Richard J. Walsh Mrs. Elizabeth L. Cochran Drs. Ken & Barbara Hansen Mrs. Dorothy Donnelley Moller Mrs. Ingrid Warshaw Mr. Richard Collins Mr. William A. Hauber Mr. David Murphey Mr. Dean K. Webster Mr. Thomas A. Connolly, Esq. Mr. Edwin C. Heikkila, Jr. Mrs. Frances Newell Mr. Richard W. Weekley Mr. & Mrs. Daniel W. Cook III Mr. & Mrs. W. Gibbs Herbruck Mr. Brantley I. Newsom Mr. & Mrs. G. Greeley Wells Mr. Peter C. Cook Mr. & Mrs. Al Hilde, Jr. Mr. Thomas L. Phillips Mr. Al G. Hill Mrs. Marion G. Wells Mr. & Mrs. Lovick P. Corn Mr. Boone Pickens Mr. & Mrs. Tatnall Hillman Mr. Steven E. Wheeler Mr. George G. Daniels Mr. & Mrs. D. Scott Plakon Mr. Conrad Hock, Jr. Capt. Duane L. Whitlock Mrs. Beverly Danielson Mr. & Mrs. Michael Puntillo Hon. Glen A. Holden Mr. Michael R. Wigley Mr. James de Ganahl Mr. Lunsford Richardson Mr. & Mrs. E. Ralph Hostetter Mr. Garret G. Roberts Mrs. Dorothy H. Willey Mrs. Frederick H. Dohmen Mr. E. Mark Hotze Miss Augusta D. Roddis Mr. Chris Winiecki Mr. Joseph W. Donner Mr. W.R. Jackson, Jr. Mrs. Shirley Roe Hon. & Mrs. Curtin Winsor, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Edward Duffi e Mr. Phil Jenkins Mr. & Mrs. Adam B. Ross Mr. Bert F. Winston, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Norman Rousselot Mr. & Mrs. Frank E. Witt OFFICERS OF THE MRC Mr. Harry C. Johnson Col. & Mrs. Robert Rust Mr. Keith C. Wold, Jr. Chairman: William A. Rusher President: L. Brent Bozell III Mr. & Mrs. John C. Kane Mr. & Mrs. Fred Sacher Miss Betty K. Wolfe Vice President: Brent Baker Mr. John Kavooras Dr. Barry A. Schlech Mr. Charles Wyly, Jr. Douglas Mills Treasurer: Mr. Michael L. Keiser Mr. Philip F. Schneider Mr. Wirt A. Yerger, Jr. Secretary: Danette Williams Mr. Thomas L. Kempner Mrs. M. Virginia Schoepe Mr. & Mrs. Edward S. Young 20 ASSOCIATES Michael J. Fedak M.D. Mr. & Mrs. Ellice McDonald, Jr. Mrs. Carmen C. Stuff t Mr. & Mrs. Steven R. Feinstein Miss Joyce L. McMahon Dr. Francis L. Sult Mr. Raymond C. Adamczyk Mrs. Annabelle L. Fetterman Mr. Denman McNear Mrs. Rozene R. Supple Mr. Richard A. Alberti, Esq. Mr. Larry Finger Mr. Richard E. Meeker Mrs. Joseph Sussen Mr. K. Tucker Andersen Mrs. Ruth Fink Mr. & Mrs. Thomas G. Messner Mr. Edmund P. Taylor Mr. Gerald Anderson Mr. William E. Fisher Ms. Mary Michaels Mr. Howard L. Terry Mr. & Mrs. J. C. Armstrong Mr. Langdon S. Flowers, Sr. Mr. Paul Miles Mr. Philip L. Thalheimer Mr. Edmond Bacas Capt. Walter R. Fraser Mr. Michael Miller Mr. Robert J. Theis, Sr. Mr. Frank L. Bain Mr. Kenneth R. Fuller Mr. Andrew J. Missler Mr. Robert E. Thomas Ms. Alice Banderet Mr. W. Lee Gaines Mr. & Mrs. Barton S. Mitchell Mr. William B. Thompson Mr. Harry Barbee, Jr. Mr. Donald Garibaldi Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Mitchell Mr. Hall W. Thompson Mr. Toby Barkman Mr. William Garwood, Jr. Mrs. Brenda A. Moran Mr. Zane Todd Mr. Sid Baron Mr. W. W. Gay Mrs. Bonita J. Morgan Mr. George Tostevin Miss Adolyn C. Bartels Dr. Donald Gaylor Mr. William H. Morgan Mr. Robert L. Treanor Ms. Bernice B. 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22 The MRC Light of Truth Campaign Support the MRC Now and for the Future The Media Research Center is the goal of raising $73.5 million by the end provides alternative and many reliable only conservative organization that of 2007, will allow the MRC to keep pace news outlets for conservatives, is global documents, exposes, and neutralizes with technological advancements in the and seemingly limitless in its possibil- liberal media bias 24 hours a day, fast-paced media world and strengthen ities. The Internet is also rife with liberal seven days a week. When conservative the MRC and its growing professional voices and highly infl uential Search and activists, public leaders, and the conser- staff to fulfi ll the MRC vision: Creating Information sites, such as Google, You- vative alternative media talk about liberal a media culture where truth and liberty Tube, and Wikipedia, which are mainly media bias, it is a virtual given that they fl ourish in America. controlled by liberal gatekeepers. got their information from the MRC. It is an on-going battle. The Light Today, liberal media bias is a house- of Truth Capital Campaign is enabling hold word. Fewer Americans than $1 Million-Plus the MRC to make inroads and ever trust the dominant media because Commitments eff ectively expose and neutralize a of their liberal political agenda. Also more aggressive liberal media, as the today, the New Media – cable TV, talk following data show: radio, and the Internet – are more Richard and Judy Eckburg ■ The Business & Media Institute eff ective in providing politically balanced Anonymous has grown fi ve-fold thanks to a $1.5- news. To a large extent, this is all the million challenge grant from Texas result of the Media Research Center, Tat and Bobbie Hillman businessman and MRC Trustee Boone which has been leading the battle Michael L. Keiser Pickens. BMI Director Dan Gainor was against liberal media bias for 19 years. Andrew Messenger named the Boone Pickens Free Market As NBC’s Tom Brokaw himself said Fellow in 2006. at a Harvard University forum in 2004: Boone Pickens ■ The Culture and Media Institute The MRC and Brent Bozell are “well Sarah Scaife Foundation was launched in September 2006 with organized. He’s got a constituency, he’s a $1-million challenge grant from the got a newsletter. He can hit a button John Templeton Foundation John Templeton Foundation and a and we’ll hear from him.” Betty Wolfe $500,000 grant from philanthropist The MRC’s eff ectiveness is made and MRC Trustee Virginia Manheimer. possible because of the generous help Steven P. J. Wood ■ Through a generous $2.9-million of its supporters. Without them, the bequest from Steven P. J. Wood’s liberal media would be far stronger As of Dec. 31, 2006, the MRC estate, there is an endowed fellowship and far more infl uential than they are. had received commitments totaling for the News Analysis Division’s senior This is why the MRC has launched $42,560,810. This is past the halfway media analyst, Brent Baker, who was several campaigns (and new divisions) mark of the MRC’s goal, but there named the Steven P. J. Wood Senior over the years and why, in particular, it is still much work ahead. The three Fellow in 2006. launched the multi-year Light of Truth networks alone – ABC, CBS, NBC – To support the Light of Truth Capital Campaign in 2003. have billions of dollars and thousands Capital Campaign and help the MRC This on-going capital campaign is of employees. The liberal newspapers in creating a media culture where truth designed to provide fi nancial stability for and liberal cable news groups have and liberty fl ourish, please contact the MRC for the present and the future. The billions more and they reach millions MRC Vice President for Development Light of Truth Capital Campaign, with its more every day. The Internet, which Thom Golab at (703) 683-9733.

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The MRC’s Legacy Society is made Dr. C. Richard & Georgia Bowers Paul and Mary Hertenstein up of individuals who have invest- J. Doreen Chadbourne Tat & Bobbie Hillman ed in the future by including the Margaret Davenport Martha W. Jones MRC in their estate plans. Vehicles Chris McDaniel used to accomplish this legacy Harold & Friederika Dorough Mrs. William Sanderson include bequests, charitable trusts, Jim & Melissa Emery Catharine Schieferstein charitable gift annuities, life Dan Fairey estates, or other planned giving Margaret Standley Capt. Walter Fraser vehicles. Their gifts help to ensure Melva Wallace that the MRC is around to fi ght Cecilia T. Giebutowski Dick Walsh media bias not only today but for Caroline Hansen June Weston future generations. Mr. & Mrs. W. Gibbs Herbruck Betty Wolfe

23 “So much progress is 2006 Financial Report made and one of the reasons MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER is Brent Bozell and the Media STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES* Research Center documenting Year Ended December 31, 2006 (With comparative totals for 2005) what these people [liberal media] do. In my case, Temporarily Total Total I would not be Unrestricted Restricted 2006 2005 able to do what Revenue and Support* I do were it not for people Contributions $ 7,977,332 $ 562,681 $ 8,540,013 $ 10,858,541 like Brent.” Subscriptions 8,832 –– 8,832 29,902 RUSH Rental and other 324,607 –– 324,607 325,932 LIMBAUGH Interest/Investment Income 446,497 –– 446,497 37,408 Net assets released from restrictions 2,132,187 (2,132,187) –– –– “Perhaps no Total revenue and support 10,889,455 (1,569,506) 9,319,949 11,251,783 conservative organization Program Services Expenses does work as important as the News Analysis Division 2,071,584 –– 2,071,584 2,852,618 Media Research Cybercast News Service 1,390,372 –– 1,390,372 1,539,438 Center does. It’s Business and Media Institute 800,975 –– 800,975 874,006 an indefatigable Culture and Media Institute 206,351 –– 206,351 –– watchdog, expos- Grassroots 567,578 –– 567,578 –– ing the crudities, Youth Education & Intern Program 195,637 –– 195,637 175,880 omissions, and inequities of our Total Program services 5,232,497 –– 5,232,497 5,441,942 corrupt Fourth Estate.” Support Services RICHARD Resource development 2,912,411 –– 2,912,411 1,851,620 LOWRY General and administrative 535,370 –– 535,370 508,385 Editor, National Review Total Support Services 3,447,781 –– 3,447,781 2,360,005

Total Expenses 8,680,278 –– 8,680,278 7,801,947 “Of course, the proof of Change in Net Assets 2,209,177 (1,569,506) 639,671 3,449,836 the pudding is Net assets, beginning of year 6,432,519 2,935,759 9,368,278 5,918,442 in the tasting, and for tasting Net assets, end of year $ 8,641,696 $ 1,366,253 $10,007,949 $9,368,278 liberal bias in journalism, no one tops the Media The Media Research Center is a research and education organization operating Research Center. under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and contributions are tax- It has become deductible for income tax purposes. an indispensable resource for The Media Research Center participates in the Combined Federal Campaign anyone interested (CFC). MRC’s CFC number is 12489. in how political attitudes shape * Audited fi nancial statements are available upon request, please write: Media news coverage.” Research Center, Attn: Accounting Department, 325 South Patrick Street, JEFF JACOBY Alexandria, VA 22314 Boston Globe 24 “What the MRC does is a national treasure, a national resource!” SEAN HANNITY BALANCE SHEET FNC’s Hannity & Colmes STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION* “The Media Research Center folks don’t December 31, 2006 and 2005 give the media hell; they just tell the truth and the media think it’s hell.”

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