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PAGE 3 Get George Bush ABC Skips Bush Lead ● Dear Member, PAGE 4 April was “Get George Bush” month for information that terrorists “might be targeting Graham and Noyes Are Now Radio the liberal media. a building in lower Manhattan.” Regulars Whether the story was the 9-11 Except the PDB made no such claim and ● Commission or President Bush’s press the two men who wrote the story knew it. conference or Bob Wood- The document doesn’t PAGE 5 MRC Special Report ward’s latest book, the even contain the word Finds Networks mainstream media tossed “Manhattan,” nor does it Hostile to Religion objectivity aside last month suggest that any buildings ● and lit into President Bush had been targeted. It does PAGE 6 with a partisan viciousness state that there had been Rooney Insults not seen since the Reagan suspicious activities American Soldiers years. around federal buildings in ● When 9-11 Commis- New York. These activi- PAGE 8 sioner Bob Kerrey, the CBS’ John Roberts told ties turned out to be, as CNSNews.com liberal former Democratic viewers that the Presidential the Post duo noted later Confronts Ted senator from Nebraska, Daily Briefing memo should in the story, tourists Kennedy used National Security have set off “alarms” at the taking pictures. Oops. ● White House and quoted a Adviser Condoleezza Rice’s Clinton official to prove it. This story was so PAGE 8 testimony on April 8 to biased that a week later the Inside the MRC effectively declassify what had been a top- Post’s ombudsman, Michael Getler, ● secret Presidential Daily Briefing (PDB), the condemned it as misleading and wrote that Page 10 media storm really started to roll. critics who see political bias in the story MRC In the News The media did their best to play up the “make a fair point in my view.” dramatics, suggesting this vague, largely The Post wasn’t the only outlet trying historical document was somehow the to mislead the public. CBS’ John Roberts “smoking gun” that proved the President had took a similar tack in his report on the CBS been terribly negligent in the days prior to 9- Evening News on April 12. After admitting 11. that there was “nothing specific as to time The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank and and place” in the PDB, Roberts still claimed Walter Pincus led the charge, writing in the that “counter-terrorism experts say [it] should lead paragraph of their April 11 front-page have raised a deafening alarm at the White America’s Media story in the Post that the PDB contained House.” Watchdog Continued on page 2

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And who were these counterterrorism “experts”? Roberts Former Clinton adviser Stephanopoulos was also shocked interviewed only one, and he was a former Clinton official. by the revelation, telling World News Tonight viewers that the As bad and as slanted and as misleading as the PDB reporting oil passage was the “most explosive” charge in the book. was, it just a warm-up for the outright attack White House MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, a man given to exaggerated reporters launched at the April 13 presidential press conference. attacks on the Bush administration, thought the book raised Reporter after reporter hounded President echoes of Watergate. Bush, insisting he take personal respon- As you expect, the MRC sibility for what these journalists had confronted these media rantings head determined were the many failures of his on. MRC Vice President Brent Baker administration. The President was asked wrote an op-ed for the April 21 New six questions, one after the other, urging, York Post, the nation’s eighth largest begging or demanding that he admit to newspaper, that exposed the networks mistakes in Iraq or apologize for 9-11. misleading and slanted coverage of the There was “almost an insistence” Woodward book. I appeared on Fox on the part of reporters for the President News Channel’s Fox & Friends the next admit mistakes, ABC’s Peter Jennings day to defend the President and point noted in his post-press conference out that the book is a generally positive ABC’s Peter Jennings acted innocent wrap-up. “Why are reporters pushing after President Bush’s April 13 press portrayal of the Bush administration and so hard on this issue?” he asked his conference, wondering why reporters that it’s listed as recommended reading sidekick, former Clinton aide George were insisting that the on the President’s campaign Web site. Stephanopoulos. President admit a mistake. The MRC also had other Answer: Because they want this comments to make. Research Director President to be defeated, as Jennings well knows. The liberal Rich Noyes discussed CBS’ 60 Minutes recent trend of hyping national press corps is opposed to practically everything this anti-Bush books with the Associated Press and the story was President has done, from the War on Terrorism to tax cuts to picked up in more than a dozen newspapers, including such his judicial appointments, and they desperately want him out of prominent national papers as the Denver Post, San Francisco office. Forcing him to admit a mistake in front of a national Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times and Miami Herald. television audience would provide them with a weapon that they The MRC was also busy on other fronts, releasing a could use against him for the next six months. religion study during Holy Week that found network news Five days after the press conference, Bob Woodward’s coverage is hostile to organized religion. More than 70 new book about the Bush administration was released and it newspapers and Internet news sites ran stories on this study quickly became another media firestorm. Just as they had done alone. with the PDB, journalists insisted on grabbing snippets of These efforts illustrate that the MRC is a lively, active information and spinning them into indictments of the President. organization that is effectively combating liberal media bias CBS’ anchor Dan Rather read a passage about military on a daily basis. Needless to say, we could not do this without budgeting and a supposed conversation between the Saudi your support. ambassador and President Bush about reducing oil prices and And, as always, I thank you for it. decided that it was major news. “Explosive new allegations Until next time, against President Bush: manipulating gas prices and military money!” Rather bellowed as he opened the April 19 CBS Evening News. L. Brent Bozell

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MEDIARESEARCH CENTER 2 FLASH APR/MAY 2004 MRC Study Finds Network Morning Shows Ignore 9-11 Families That Are Pro-Bush A mid-April study of network morning shows found that the families of 9-11 victims who were critical of President Bush received far more air time than those who supported him. MRC analysts reviewed every interview with 9-11 family members on ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS’ The Early Show and NBC’s Today from March 23, when the 9-11 Commission’s public hearings began, through April 15, when the public hearings ended. They found Bush critics were inter- viewed 20 times, while Bush sup-porters were interviewed on only three occasions. ABC and CBS were the worst offenders. Neither net-work conducted a single interview with a pro-Bush relative on their morning shows during the three-week period. The study, which was published in a Media Reality Check and sent to outlets across the nation on April 15, also found that the morning programs focused on a narrow group of 9-11 relatives. Kristen Breitweiser, a Bush critic whose husband died in the World Trade Center, was on NBC’s Today four times during the three-week period and six other anti-Bush relatives made a total of seven appearances on the program. None of the relatives, pro- or anti-Bush, received tough questioning, but the imbalance in the guest lists means that the theories of those hostile to Bush prevailed. While these relatives Throughout the hearings, the are certainly entitled to their views, network viewers are also networks favored a handful of entitled to a balanced presentation. 9/11 relatives who fault Bush

Good Morning America Refuses to Report Bush Lead Add ABC’s Good Morning America to the ranks of reported some of the poll’s findings – news reader Robin network news programs who have decided to play Roberts noted that 59% think the U.S. is bogged down politics with their poll reporting. in Iraq – but didn’t mention a word about Bush’s lead. In early March, an ABC News/Washington Post poll Good Morning America’s decision to spike its poll put Sen. John Kerry ahead of President Bush by four numbers comes on the heels of similar scandals, as points and Good Morning America highlighted the FLASH has reported, at the CBS Evening News and finding in two morning news updates. ABC’s World News Tonight. Fast forward six If we were cyni- weeks to April 20 and a cal, we would almost new ABC News/Washing- think that these three ton Post poll found examples are proof President Bush was ahead that the networks are of Kerry by five points. spiking pro-Bush Good Morning America numbers on purpose.

MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 3 FLASH APR/MAY 2004 TUNE IN... The MRC’s Graham and Noyes Are Radio Regulars in San Diego, Atlanta and Monterey Tim Graham MRC members and other radio listeners in San Director of Media Analysis Diego, Atlanta and Monterey, Calif. can now hear the MRC’s Rich Noyes and Tim Graham comment on the latest instances of liberal media bias every week. Graham, the MRC’s Director of Media Analysis, makes two regular appearances. He appears on The Tom Hughes Show on WGST in Atlanta at 6:50 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesdays and on The Mark Larson Show on WCBQ in San Diego at 4:30 p.m. Pacific time on Wednesdays. Noyes, the MRC’s Research Director, is a Tuesday regular on The Karen Grant Show at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time. The program is Rich Noyes broadcast on KION in Monterey, California. Director of Research

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MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 4 FLASH APR/MAY 2004 MRC Special Report Proves Networks Hostile to Religion

The MRC released a Special Report entitled Religion supporters and opponents (39 to 45), but the labeling was on TV News: More Content, Less Context on April 6. very imbalanced (42 “conservative” labels for opponents to Produced by Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham, five “liberal” labels for the church or Robinson’s supporters). the study found that while religion receives more news The tone of network TV religion coverage was hostile coverage than a decade ago, the tone of the coverage is to orthodox faiths, and supportive to minority religions overwhelmingly hostile to organized faiths. 4 and progressive fads. Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion of The study examined every religion news story on ABC, the Christ, was by far the largest alleged anti-Semitism story CBS, and NBC news programs in the 12 months from March of the year. News coverage didn’t shift from alleging offenses 1, 2003 through February 29, 2004. Those numbers were to Jews to inspiring Christians until February, when a box- then compared to the MRC’s office boom became apparent. A first religion news study in 1993. much less orthodox product, These are the major findings author Dan Brown’s Vatican- and recommendations of the bashing novel The Da Vinci Code, study. was promoted with the mildest of factual challenges, without any Religion coverage has notion that it was inaccurate or 1 more than doubled in the last anti-Catholic, while Gibson’s film 10 years. Overall, the networks was questioned thoroughly about aired 699 segments in the study its accuracy, its fairness, and its period, up from 336 in 1993. The potentially violent impact. number of evening news stories on the three networks were up The media’s Rolodex of significantly, as were news stories 5 religion experts was on prime-time magazine shows dominated by those hostile to and interview shows. A smaller religious orthodoxy. The networks jump was seen on the morning heavily favored “religious” programs. scholars and journalists who strongly question orthodox The Catholic Church received religion and the accuracy of the 2 the most coverage among Gospels, but did not describe them faiths and coverage of Islam rose as liberals or secularists. dramatically. Pope John Paul II’s 25th anniversary drew significant The MRC Special Report also coverage but the media continued included four recommendations to press stories on Catholic clergy sexual abuse and other for the networks to improve their coverage of religion in the ministerial failings. Coverage of Islam was up dramatically from future: Hire full-time religion correspondents; hire reporters ten years ago, even if it was largely contained to Iraq. The handful who are themselves religious; present the religious dimensions of stories on Islam in America mainly portrayed Muslims as of social issues instead of focusing solely on political elements; victims of discrimination by non-Muslims. and present viewers with a balance of religious experts, not just a few favored (generally liberal) theologians. Reporters often approached religious issues from a 3 secular and political perspective. When the Episcopalian The study generated nationwide media coverage. An Church USA appointed openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson, Associated Press story, complete with comments from reporters focused relentlessly on political, not scriptural or Director of Media Analysis Graham, was picked up by more theological matters. Most of the TV interview time went to 70 newspapers and Internet news sites (the complete list of Robinson and his supporters (ten interviews to just one for a outlets is printed on pages 10-11). Readers with Internet neutral church spokesman and one for an opponent). In news access can read the entire Special Report at stories, the talking heads were almost balanced between www.mediaresearch.org/specialreports.

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CBS’ Rooney Claims Rooney’s words betray the typical Soldiers Aren’t Heroes liberal disdain for military service. Americans risking life and limb in the “Sophisticated” types like Rooney will war on terror are in Iraq and Afghanistan never admit it publicly, but they think because they couldn’t get jobs, according they’re superior to the men and women to CBS gadfly Andy Rooney. in uniform and can’t believe anyone would willingly choose to be a soldier. “Victims,” in this case, is nothing more than a liberal code word for “poor and CBS paired the story of former dumb.” NFL player Pat Hillman’s heroic Notions of sincere patriotism and sacrifice with a story about a service to something greater than one’s “homeless” veteran who wasn’t self are concepts Rooney just can’t really homeless. seem to grasp. But then again, as his Juxtaposing this story with the other recent comments prove, so are Tillman story was atrocious news CBS’ Andy Rooney added ideas such as civility and tolerance for judgment. The story about the America’s fighting men to the list the beliefs of others. of groups he’s insulted. “homeless” veteran was a petty and pointless effort to promote CBS’ liberal In a syndicated column in the April CBS Pairs Tillman worldview and pairing it with the story 12 Buffalo News, Rooney – who Death with Homeless of Tillman, who sacrificed fame and recently also insulted Christians by Veteran Story fortune to selflessly serve – and die for saying he wouldn’t see The Passion of At the top of the April 24 CBS – his country as an anonymous Army the Christ because he didn’t want to Evening News, anchor Mika Brzezinski Ranger, was demeaning to the legacy spend “nine dollars just for a few paired two upcoming stories together, of a true hero. laughs” – claimed that most soldiers calling them “a tale of two soldiers, one CBS News should be ashamed of were forced to join the Army because honored in death, the other homeless itself. of the poor economy. in life.” “We should not bestow the mantle The stories that followed were a ABC Relays Al Jazeera’s of heroism on all of them for simply reaction piece to the death of former Anti-American Coverage being where we sent them,” the CBS NFL player Pat Tillman, who was killed When heavy fighting broke out in newsman wrote. “Most are victims, not in a firefight in Afghanistan, and a story Fallujah in early April, ABC News heroes.” on a 23-year homeless veteran and unquestioningly relayed the anti- single mother who landed on the streets American reporting of the Arab television Get the latest CyberAlert! because her relationship with her own network Al Jazeera mother had “soured.” On April 7, ABC correspondent Reporter Kelly Cobiella noted that David Wright reported from Baghdad Want to stay on top of the woman wasn’t really homeless and that the U.S. military had called in air media bias? Sign up for the that the Veterans Affairs Office had strikes against two mosques in Fallujah CyberAlert e-mail report. found the young lady a place for her because insurgents had been firing from It’s FREE! and her child to live and was even them. To subscribe, just e-mail helping her find work. Over video labeled “al Jazeera [email protected] Cobiella also noted that the Army had exclusive,” Wright then told viewers that a jobs and housing program for those “Arab language TV channels” had Mention that you read leaving the service. But the program is claimed that among the 40 killed in one about the offer in FLASH. voluntary, the CBS reporter lamented, and mosque were those taking part in some “still fall through the cracks.” evening prayers. “The main hospital is

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of Fallujah, for that matter, if they couldn’t verify it? And why was ABC News relying on video from a militantly anti-American – and dishonest – network?

Katie Praises Saddam’s “Refereeing” Skills As the fighting flared in Fallujah and ABC’s David Wright filed a lengthy elsewhere, NBC’s Katie Couric worried NBC’s Katie Couric longed report about Fallujah and then that Iraq was “spiraling out of control.” for the good old days of admitted there was no way to verify The situation, the Today host claimed, Saddam Hussein. what he had just told viewers. was bad enough to make one yearn for occasionally killed the parents, spouses overflowing,” the Baghdad-based the good old days of Saddam Hussein. or children of those who ran afoul of him. Wright further claimed and “casualties “No matter how deplorable Saddam Couric’s claim was worse than her appear to include many civilians.” Hussein was considered,” Couric said typical liberal bias. It was factually After relaying these reports, Wright in an April 5 interview with Sen. John wrong and suggested to viewers that then told viewers that he really wasn’t McCain, “he was the ultimate referee the U.S. has made the situation so bad so sure. The town was sealed off who kept the Sunnis and the in Iraq that the country was better off completely, the ABC correspondent said, Shiites…from killing each other.” when Saddam Hussein was in charge. and there was “no way to independently Referee? Hussein and his Sunni- And that is not only wrong, it’s verify the facts.” dominated Baath Party were hardly practically slanderous to 100,000 Which begs the question: Why in “referees” in Iraq’s religious conflicts. American soldiers and millions of Iraqis the world was ABC News reporting that Hussein stayed in power for 30 years by who struggle daily to make the country American forces had caused civilian murdering any Shiite who dared to oppose a better place. casualties, or anything else from the city him. For good measure, his goons

☛ “What drives American civilians to risk death in Iraq? In this economy it may be, for some, the only job they can find,” CBS anchor Dan Rather laments. ☛ “Kerry has emerged from the primaries at the philosophical center of his party, if not the country,” claims the Washington Post’s Dan Balz. ☛ The New York Times’ Louis Uchitelle agrees, calling Kerry “a centrist in the Clinton mode” and claiming “fiscal responsibility and deficit reduction, CBS anchor Dan Rather hallmarks of the Clinton years, are bedrock orthodoxy in the Kerry claimed the economy was forcing civilians to ☛ camp.” Disgraced former New York Times Executive Editor work in Iraq. Howell Raines sees evil conservatives everywhere, even at the Times. “A small enclave of neoconservative editors,” Raines claims, “[were] making accusations of political correctness in order to block stories or slant them against traditional social welfare programs.” ☛ NBC’s Katie Couric provides yet another tribute to Hillary Clinton: “Whatever her aspirations these days, she seems to be the life of the party – the Democratic Party.”

MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 7 FLASH APR/MAY 2004 Cybercast News Service – The Official News Service of the Media Research Center

By David Thibault CNSNews.com Managing Editor

CNSNews.com Confronts Ted Kennedy on Memogate

Ted Kennedy has been a U.S. senator for more issued, Bluey confronted Kennedy at a Capitol Hill than 40 years and still benefits from the media’s never- news conference. ending fascination with all things Kennedy. “Senator … two of your former staffers were the But the truth is that the Massachusetts senator, who authors of the April 17, 2002, memo on a judicial has long been protected by loyal staff and liberal special nominee,” Bluey reminded Kennedy. “No,” Kennedy interest groups, is awful at communicating his agenda replied, shaking his head. when caught off-guard. He’s so used to sycophants, Bluey persisted: “I’m wondering, what was your including those in the media, that when you surprise involvement?” him and ask him a tough question, he stumbles into And in true Kennedy fashion, the senator incoherence. responded: “I’m not gonna, uh, re, uh. No. No.” On Kennedy’s inability in 1978 to explain to television that less than profound note, Kennedy was ushered newsman Roger Mudd why he wanted to be President out of the room by his staff. is widely viewed as one of the greatest political gaffes Even before chasing down Kennedy, Bluey had of all time. His extemporaneous skills haven’t reported on an ethics complaint filed by the Center for improved much over the years, as CNSNews.com’s Individual Freedom against Olati Johnson. The Robert Bluey discovered on April 7 when he center’s director, Jeffrey Mazzella, was also anxious confronted Kennedy on the Senate Judiciary to weigh in on Kennedy’s unwillingness to address Committee’s Memogate controversy. the Memogate issue. Memogate revolves around two former Kennedy “He dodged the question. He was obviously aides who wrote the senator a memo urging him to rattled,” Mazzella said. “When asked point-blank, delay the confirmation of one of President Bush’s [Kennedy] couldn’t deny any wrongdoing, either by judicial nominees, Julia Smith Gibbons, in order to himself or by his staff. It just further enforces the need prevent Gibbons from participating in a key affirmative for a complete and full investigation into all the obvious action case on the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ethical wrongdoing that took place here.” The memo, which CNSNews.com published in its The vast majority of newspapers and broadcast entirety on April 7, laid out the liberal strategy in clear- networks have ignored the Memogate story, but not cut terms. CNSNews.com. Since April 7, Bluey has authored six “The thinking is that the current 6th Circuit will stories, either about Memogate, Kennedy’s role in the sustain the affirmative action program, but if a new scandal or the damage to the NAACP’s integrity as a judge with conservative views is confirmed before result of the group’s effort to delay the Gibbons the case is decided, that new judge will be able, under confirmation. 6th Circuit rules, to review the case and vote on it,” If the Senate Judiciary Committee won’t ask the the memo’s authors, Olati Johnson and Melody tough questions regarding the Democrat effort to stall Barnes, stated. or block the president’s nominations, the task will just Amid the conservative outrage over such a have to fall to CNSNews.com’s investigative reporting conspiracy, which successfully kept Gibbons off the team. court until long after the affirmative action ruling was And it’s not a problem. We relish the challenge.

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MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 9 FLASH APR/MAY 2004 A M E R I C A ’ S M E D I A W A T C H D O G Documenting, Exposing and Fighting Media Bias

MRC IN THE NEWS* Media Research Center personnel are interviewed on an almost daily on stories of national importance. In the last month, MRC spokesmen have appeared on, or have been cited in, more than 90 television, newspaper, radio and Internet news stories. The highlights of the month were President Brent Bozell’s appearance on Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends morning show and Associated Press interviews with Research Director Rich Noyes and Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham.

● Denver Post, April 12. MRC Research Television Director Rich Noyes was interviewed by ● Fox & Friends, Fox News Channel, the Associated Press for a story on 60 April 22. MRC President Brent Bozell Minutes recent coverage of anti-Bush discussed Bob Woodward’s new book. books. The story also ran in: – Centre Daily Times (State College, Pa.), ● Fox & Friends, Fox News Channel, April 5. Director of Media Analysis Tim April 19. Graham discussed Hollywood’s anti- – Akron Beacon-Journal, April 12. Bush bias. Graham also discussed the – Charlotte Observer, April 12. topic on MSNBC’s Scarborough – Chicago Sun-Times, April 12. Country on April 2. MRC President Brent Bozell discussed – Tuscaloosa News (Ala.), April 12. Bob Woodward’s new book on Fox & – Ithaca Journal (N.Y.), April 12. Friends and Director of Media Analysis – Jefferson City News-Tribune (Mo.), Newspapers & Tim Graham commented on anti-Bush April 12. entertainment programming on Magazines MSNBC’s Scarborough Country. – Burlington County Times (Pa.), April 12. – New Orleans Times-Picayune, April 11. ● New York Post, April 21. MRC Vice – Miami Herald, April 11. President Brent Baker wrote on op-ed – San Francisco Chronicle, April 11. on the media’s anti-Bush slant in its – Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 11. coverage of the Woodward book. – San Jose Mercury News, April 11. ● Minneapolis Star-Tribune, April 17. – Tacoma News Tribune (Wash.), April 11. Director of Media Analysis Tim Graham was quoted in an Associated Press – Newsday, April 11. article about the MRC’s religion study. – Kansas City Star, April 11. The story also appeared in: ● Christian Science Monitor, April 9. Cited – Pittsburgh Tribune Review, April 9. the MRC’s religion study.

– The Straits Times (Singapore), April 7. ● – Porterville Record (Calif.), April 5. Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 8. – Evansville Courier-Press (Ind.), April 7. Interviewed Graham for a story on MRC’s – Montgomery County Record (Pa.), – San Jose Mercury News, April 5. religion study. April 5. – Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 5. – Contra Costa Times (Calif.), April 5. ● Washington Times, April 8. Cited MRC – Springfield News-Sun, (Ohio), April 5. – San Francisco Chronicle, April 5. Vice President Baker’s CyberAlert item that – New Orleans Times-Picayune, April 5. noted the media failed to report that former – Tuscaloosa News (Ala.), April 5. ● Washington Times, April 16. Cited a President Bill Clinton’s final policy paper Media Reality Check that noted the to Congress made no mention of al Qaeda. – Miami Herald, April 5. network morning shows had interviewed – Henderson Gleaner (Ky.), April 5. anti-Bush 9-11 families 20 times in the ● Washington Times, April 8. Vice – North County Times (Calif.), April 5. past three weeks but had showcased pro- President Baker commented on the – Rapid City Journal (S.D.), April 5. Bush families only three times. media’s coverage of former counter-

MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 10 FLASH APR/MAY 2004 terrorism adviser Richard Clarke’s – InForum.com (N.D.), April 12. – KCAU.com (Sioux City, Iowa), April testimony to the 9-11 Commission. – MichiganLive.com, April 11. 6. – WJLA.com (Washington, D.C.), April 11. – KVIA.com (El Paso, Texas), April 6. ● Washington Times, April 5, 2004. – Yahoo.com, April 11. – WTVO.com (Rockford, Ill.), April 6. Cited a CyberAlert item on PBS’ liberal activist Bill Moyers. ● National Review Online, April 7. Times Watch – WAFF.com (Huntsville, Ala.), April 6. Director Clay Waters reviewed disgraced New – ABC28.com (Lubbock, Texas), April ● New York Post, April 5. Cited MRC York Times reporter Jayson Blair’s recently- 6. research on the CBS Evening News released book. – WKBN.com (Youngstown, Ohio), coverage of Richard Clarke’s April 6. ● Crosswalk.com, April 6. Carried the AP story testimony before the 9-11 Com- – WLUCTV6.com (Marquette, Mich.), on the MRC’s religion study. The story about mission. April 6. the MRC’s study also ran on: ● New York Times, April 2. Inter- – KAIT8.com (Jonesboro, Ark.), April – NBC13.com (Ala), April 6. viewed Director of Media Analysis 6. – WHAS11.com (Ky.) April 5. Graham about the rising number of – WHOTV.com (Des Moines, Iowa), – MLive.com, April 5. entertainment programs that have April 6. – Beliefnet.com, April 5. taken aim at President Bush . The – WAVY.com (Norfolk, Va.), April 6. – WJLA.com, April 5, 2004 story also ran in the Los Angeles – WLBT.com (Jackson, Miss.), April 6. – KPVI-TV.com (Pocatello-Idaho Falls, Idaho), Daily News on April 2. – WKYT.com (Lexington, Ky.), April April 5. 6. – Lex18.com (Lexington, Ky.), April 6. – WBAY.com (Green Bay, Wisc.), April – KVUE.com (Austin, Texas), April 6. 6. Internet News – WHBF.com (Quad Cities, Ill.-Iowa), April 6. – WOODTV.com (Grand Rapids, – WALB.com (Albany, Ga.), April 6. Sites Mich.), April 6. – WHNT.com (Huntsville, Ala.), April 6. ● World Net Daily.com, April 17. – WANE.com (Ft. Wayne, Ind.), April 6. In a story on liberal billionarie George – WREG.com (Memphis, Tenn.), April 6. Radio Soros, Director of Media Analysis – WMCStations.com (Memphis, Tenn.) April 6 ● Tim Graham noted that conservative – ArkansasNBC.com (Ft. Smith, Ark.), April 6. WDUN-Gainesville, Fla., April 19. philanthropist Richard Scaife has – WSTM.com (Syracuse, NY), April 6. Noyes discussed media coverage of received unfair media coverage while – KVUE.com (Austin, Texas), April 6. the 9-11 Commission and Bob the liberal Soros has escaped – KESQ.com (Palm Springs, Calif.), April 6. Woodward’s book. criticism. – WOI-TV.com (Des Moines, Iowa), April 6. ● WARL-Providence, R.I., April 16. ● Family News in Focus (Family.org), – WTVM.com (Columbus, Ga.), April 6. Research Director Noyes discussed April 16. Research Director Rich – KWWL.com (Waterloo, Dubuque & Cedar how the media have ignored the Clinton Noyes commented on Air America, Rapids, Iowa), April 6. administration’s actions in the years the liberal talk radio network. – KPLCTV.com (Lake Charles, La.), April 6. prior to 9-11. – WCAX.com (Burlington, Vt.), April 6. ● National Review Online, April 15. ● WRUF-Gainesville, Fla., April 8. – WVEC.com (Norfolk, Va.), April 6. Times Watch Director Clay Waters Graham discussed the MRC’s religion – Team4News.com (Harlingen, Texas), April 6. wrote a review of former New York study. He also discussed the study on: – KTVOTV3.com (Kirksville, Mo.), April 6. Times Executive Editor Howell Raines – WSPA-York, Pa., April 6. – WCNC.com (Charlotte, N.C.), April 6. lengthy Atlantic Monthly article, in – KATC.com (Lafayette, La.), April 6. – The Tom Hughes Show, WGST- which Raines defended his mana- – WRIC.com (Richmond, Va.), April 6. Atlanta, Ga., April 6. gerial style at the Times. – KFOR.com (Oklahoma City, Okla.), April 6. – The Mark Larson Show, WCBQ-San ● SportsIllustrated.com, April 6. – KPHO.com (Phoenix, Ariz.), April 6. Diego, Calif., April 6. The national sports ● Wisconsin Public Radio, April 9. magazine printed an Graham discussed the media’s excerpt from the book coverage of Condoleezza Rice’s The Battle for Augusta testimony to the 9-11 commission. National that quoted Times Watch Director ● WYDE-Birmingham, Ala., April 7. Waters on the role of Graham commented on Hollywood’s web logs such as anti-Bush crusade. TimesWatch.org. ☛ ● The Karen Grant Show, KION- ● Newsmax.com, April 12. Monterey, Calif., April 6. Noyes Carried the AP story discussed the MRC’s religion coverage with Noyes comments and the media’s coverage of Iraq. on 60 Minutes. The story also ran on: * This represents only a partial listing

MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER 11 FLASH APR/MAY 2004 COMING JULY 6, 2004! Weapons of Mass Distortion The Coming Meltdown of the Liberal Media by L. Brent Bozell III

The leading expert on media bias makes the most substantive case yet for the leftward bias of America’s mainstream news organizations, and reveals why the days of the liberal media’s dominance are numbered. As Founder and President of the Media Research Center, L. Brent Bozell III is a leading expert on the issue of media bias. In Weapons of Mass Distortion, he presents the definitive account of the current prevalence and future vulnerability of the liberal media. With a wealth of facts and evidence at his command, Bozell reveals exactly how the major TV, radio, and print news outlets not only distort the news but try to dictate the national agenda as well. Bozell also explains why the liberal media’s audience will continue to defect to the emerging alternative news outlets – outlets more in tune with their perspective on the world – and how this defection will change the slant of mainstream news.

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