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DESMOG STEVEN FUCKING MOORE

April 24, 2019

Phil Kerpen wrote an article at CNSNews.com suggesting that Stephen Moore—who is also listed as a board member of the American Commitment Foundation—would be the best pick for the Federal Reserve.⁴⁵

“Stephen Moore would bring to the Fed decades of original economic thinking and an impressive track record of getting it right when so many others got it wrong. That’s why he’s the most qualified person for the job. And the most independent, too,” Kerpen claimed in the article.⁴⁶

Phil Kerpen. “Stephen Moore Does Not Lack Independence, Is Best Pick for Fed,” CNSNews.com, April 24, 2019. Archived June 5, 2019. Archive.fo URL: https://archive.fo/OhtxI

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Weekly update ⋅ December 29, 2023

Climate policies pose threat, not climate change: Marc Morano | Fox Business Video

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ClimateDepot.com executive editor Marc Morano weighs in on the left's climate fear mongering and failed climate policy push on 'The Bottom Line.'

Climate policies pose threat, not climate change: Marc Morano

ClimateDepot.com executive editor Marc Morano weighs in on the left's climate fear mongering and failed climate policy push on 'The Bottom Line.'

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Marc Morano on Fox Business: 'Go After the Entire Net Zero Agenda' - Newsbusters

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Marc Morano on Fox Business: 'Go After the Entire Net Zero Agenda'

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Climate Depot founder Marc Morano eviscerated leftist climate propaganda pushed by elites during an appearance on Fox Business Tuesday.

Morano pointed out the undeniable damage caused by climate policies on a Dec. 26 segment of Fox Business’s The Bottom Line. During the segment, he reacted to the latest apocalyptic musings of South Park star Al Gore. Morano shredded elites who speculated about damage from “climate change” while ignoring damage from climate policy.

The Climate Depot founder warned that Al Gore is pushing for a future where Gore “and his friends at the United Nations, at the World Economic Forum and now at the World Health Organization are going to control our food and agricultural decisions, our transportation decisions whether it's the gas-powered car bans and, of course, all of our energy decisions.” Morano added, “So make no mistake, it's the climate policy that poses a threat, not climate change.” Later in the segment he unequivocally urged viewers to “go after the entire net zero agenda.”

Morano highlighted the insane fear-mongering spewed by climate activists like Gore. “When you see all those headlines and all the media at the end of the year, what they're doing is they're selling fear no different than what they did during COVID because when you’re afraid you make poor decisions and you allow authoritarians to take over. That's exactly what we're witnessing here with–juiced scientific claims as well.”

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He brought up Gore’s fear of a “billion climate refugees” noting that there may be migration but again pointed out that: “It’s climate policy not climate change that is going to drive migration.” He noted the catastrophic effects of such policies. “What we’re finding is people in Sri Lanka followed climate policy to the collapse of their government–their presidential palace was overrun. The farmers in the–Netherlands were subjected to climate policy, and they almost crushed all the small family-run farms.”

Morano urged Fox Business viewers to question whether environmentalists’ goals should be implemented at all and asked viewers to question whether extreme measures like giving up the gas-powered car and eating meat are actually necessary. He encouraged listeners instead to reject the net zero movement entirely, “I'm arguing we need to challenge this entire premise. They are using climate fear to literally restrict and collapse energy, agriculture, transportation, go right after our freedom of movement.”

Morano further demonstrated just how extreme the implications of the climate change movement really are when he referenced a study claiming that human breathing contributes to climate change. If it was not clear before, humans are one of the carbon sources that many of these elites wish to reduce.

Morano also emphasized the undemocratic nature of this environmental movement decided by “executive orders, mid-level bureaucrats, corporate government collusion” and “executive agencies.”

He called out billionaire leftists such as Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos by name for buying up vast amounts of American farmland. After detailing Bill Gates’ push for “synthetic lab-grown meat” and funding of crackpot “climate change” solutions, Morano compared the restrictions championed by the climate cult to elite support for COVID lockdowns. Morano added, “You have billionaire evil players at all these organizations, and they're saying we can't be saved unless we give over more of our freedom to these billionaires.”

Conservatives are under attack! Contact ABC News (818) 460-7477, CBS News (212) 975-3247 and NBC News (212) 664-6192 and demand they report on millionaires like Al Gore and billionaires like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Michael Bloomberg push to damage American agriculture and energy.

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Key findings

The top 100 Facebook posts with the most interactions (likes, comments, shares) that contain climate change and energy-related misinformation earned 5.2 million interactions.
Only 2 posts had a misinformation fact-checking label for failing to provide context and misusing the term “energy independence.” These posts earned 176,000 interactions combined.
Among the top 100 posts, 37 other posts made similarly false arguments about “energy independence,” yet none were labeled. These posts earned a total of 1.5 million interactions.
High gas prices were the key driver of misinformation for 41 out of the top 100 posts. These posts accounted for 1.8 million interactions.
- Among these, 14 posts (34%) argued for increased fossil fuel extraction, production, and infrastructure in addition to misusing the term “energy independence.”

## Misinformation fact-checking labels were applied to only 2 of dozens of “energy independence” posts
For years, Fox News has used the term “energy independence” to describe a situation where the U.S. could increase domestic fossil fuel production enough to isolate itself from the volatility of oil and gas prices caused by geopolitical instability. Recent misinformation on Facebook adopts these talking points, claiming that the U.S. was previously energy independent and is now dealing with high gas prices due to the Biden administration’s policies.

In reality, the U.S. was a net exporter of energy in 2021 and produced more energy than it consumed while Biden was president, fitting a widely accepted definition of energy independence. But whether or not a country is a net exporter of energy, gas prices are shaped by global supply and demand, not the actions of a single government.

The misinformation we found on Facebook prevents users from obtaining a full understanding of this concept, especially when there is no readily available fact check that users can access. Out of the top 100 misinformation posts Media Matters examined, just 2 had fact-checking labels. These posts earned 176,000 interactions combined.

One of the posts was from the page of climate denier Franklin Graham, who has argued that humans have a God-given right to increase resource extraction.

Graham’s labeled post claims that “the United States had the strongest economy in over 70 years — and we were energy independent. Now we are dangerously dependent on other countries again — buying 7 percent of our oil from Russia.”The post earned 132,000 interactions and was the fifth-most popular post out of the 100 Media Matters looked at between September 1, 2021 and April 1, 2022.

Facebook’s label indicates that the post has missing context, specifically that it “misled on energy independence.” The fact check links to an article by Agence France-Presse, one of Facebook’s fact-checking partners.

The other post which also has a missing-context label is a video from the Facebook page Media Research Center TV. The title of the video, “Killing Keystone: How Biden and The Far Left Destroyed American Energy Independence,” is a false claim in and of itself. Media Research Center, which describes itself as a right-wing media watchdog, has long denied the scientific consensus on climate change and receives funding from the fossil fuel industry. The Facebook label on the post cites misleading information on energy independence, linking to the same AFP article. The post has 44,000 interactions....

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Media Research Center (MRC) was founded in 1987 by L. Brent Bozell. The MRC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that describes itself as “the nation’s premier media watchdog” with its mission to “to expose and neutralize the propaganda arm of the Left: the national news media.”1

According to founder Brent Bozell,the MRC’s mission is to “bring balance and responsibility to the news media by documenting and exposing liberal media bias.”2

The MRC and its subsidiary, the Business & Media Institute (BMI),3 have opposed mainstream science behind climate change (featuring climate change deniers in their news coverage, for example)4. The BMI website, businessandmedia.org,was not online as of December, 2015.5

The MRC’s other projects have included CNSNews.com, the NewsBusters blog, TimesWatch, the Culture and Media Institute, and the MRC Action Team. The Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com) is a conservative news website that claims to put a “higher premium on balance than spin.”6 7

The Parents Television Council, founded in 1995, also started as a MRC project, however split off in 2000 to become a separate entity. Brent Bozell resigned as presidentof the Parents Television Council in 2006.8

Stance on Climate Change

The Media Research Center has listed global warming as a “Media Myth,” suggesting that global cooling may be the issue:9

“Reality is not cooperating with the network news’ global warming theme, yet reporters are unwilling to even discuss the possibility that the Earth is cooling.

Global warming alarmists repeatedly link weather phenomena like tornadoes, hurricanes, ice melt, droughts and wildfires with global warming and the media embrace the stories. Yet, when cities or regions are buried in snow like the city of Chenzhou, China was in February 2008 there wasn’t a word about climate change in the cooling direction,” Julia A. Seymour, Assistant Managing Editor for MRC Business writes.

In the above article, MRC cites a long list of well-known climate change skeptics to back up that claim. Those skeptics include the following:10

Other sources they mention include:

Kyle Swanson — University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Brit Hum — Fox News anchor

Comments Surrounding 2021 Capitol Insurrection

The Media Research Center was among dozens of the individuals and organizations profiled in DeSmog’s Disinformation Database who posted online or gave interviews about the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol insurrection. Some posted claims of election fraud, similar to those that drove the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6. Some circulated dubious information about the insurrection itself. DeSmog has preserved a selection of notable posts related to the events of Jan. 6, 2021, including some that were later deleted or removed.

The Media Research Center also posted retweeted a message from @BrentBozell on Jan. 6, 2021, in the wake of the failed Capitol insurrection....[twt, table $]

Funding

Scaife Funding

According to publicly available 990 forms, the MRC has received over $4.5 million from the oil money-backed Scaife Family Foundations (breakdown below).11

Year Sarah Scaife Foundation Allegheny Foundation Grand Total

2001 $242,000 $242,000

2002 $150,000 $150,000

2003 $350,000 $350,000

2004 $350,000 $350,000

2005 $350,000 $350,000

2006 $200,000 $200,000

2008 $325,000 $325,000

2009 $250,000 $250,000

2010 $250,000 $250,000

2011 $300,000 $50,000 $350,000

2012 $400,000 $400,000

2013 $400,000 $400,000

2014 $300,000 $300,000

2015 $300,000 $300,000

2016 $300,000 $300,000

Grand Total $4,467,000 $50,000 $4,517,000

Mercer Funding

According to data from publicly available 990s and the Conservative Transparency Project, the Mercer Family Foundation has given at least $20,466,420 to MRC between 2008 and 2017:12

Year Total

2008 $500,000

2009 $1,000,000

2010 $1,194,000

2011 $1,800,000

2012 $3,000,000

2013 $2,972,420

2014 $3,000,000

2015 $3,000,000

2016 $2,000,000

2017 $2,000,000

Grand Total $20,466,420

All Funders

Below is a breakdown by the Conservative Transparency Project combined with data collected from public 990 tax forms. Note that not all funding values have been verified by DeSmog.13

View the attached spreadsheet for details on Media Research Center funding by year (.xlsx).

Donor Total

Mercer Family Foundation $20,466,420

Sarah Scaife Foundation $4,467,000

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation $2,650,000

Ed Uihlein Family Foundation $2,120,000

DeVos Urban Leadership Initiative $2,100,000

*DonorsTrust $1,895,670

Schwab Charitable Fund $1,623,745

Hickory Foundation $1,100,000

John Templeton Foundation $1,055,000

Bradley Impact Fund $800,000

Diana Davis Spencer Foundation $768,000

Dorothy D. and Joseph A. Moller Foundation $721,725

Thewes Family Foundation $507,000

Joe R Lee Family Foundation $500,000

*Donors Capital Fund $456,520

William H Donner Foundation $434,746

Armstrong Foundation $420,000

Edgar and Elsa Prince Foundation $407,500

Exxon Mobil $362,500

F.M. Kirby Foundation $280,000

National Christian Charitable Foundation $268,300

Castle Rock Foundation $225,000

Adolph Coors Foundation $220,000

National Philanthropic Trust $202,000

Dodge Jones Foundation $182,500

Charles and Ann Johnson Foundation $162,301

The McWethy Foundation $156,500

Robert S. and Star Pepper Foundation $130,000

Leadership Institute $92,818

The Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation $70,000

The TWS Foundation $70,000

JM Foundation $60,000

John M. Olin Foundation $60,000

The Whitcomb Charitable Foundation $50,500

Allegheny Foundation $50,000

Kickapoo Springs Foundation $37,500

The Roe Foundation $34,000

PG Beil Foundation $33,000

Deramus Foundation $30,000

Charles Maxfield Parrish and Gloria F Parrish Foundation $30,000

Same Line Foundation $30,000

The Randolph Foundation $25,000

Barney Family Foundation $25,000

Marcus Foundation $25,000

Claude R Lambe Charitable Foundation $14,030

The Hamlin Family Foundation $13,500

American Values $10,500

Holman Foundation $10,000

Thomas W Smith Foundation $10,000

Albert and Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation $10,000

Family Research Council $7,500

Arthur N. Rupe Foundation $7,000

Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty $5,000

Eric Javits Family Foundation $4,450

Richard Seth Staley Educational Foundation $4,300

Robert and Marie Hansen Family Foundation $3,750

John P and Kathryn G Evans Foundation $3,100

True Foundation $2,800

Joyce and Donald Rumsfeld Foundation $2,500

Wodecroft Foundation $2,000

Dunn’s Foundation for the Advancement of Right Thinking $2,000

Gilder Foundation $2,000

Chiavacci Family Foundation $2,000

Orville D & Ruth Merillat Foundation $1,000

The Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation $1,000

The Vernon K. Krieble Foundation $1,000

Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation $975

The Howell Foundation $400

The A William and Eileen Pratt Foundation $70

Grand Total $45,526,120

*Donors Trust (DT) and its sister organization, Donors Capital Fund (DCF) have been described as the “dark money ATM” of the conservative movement, and are known for concealing the original donor information of conservative groups.14

ExxonMobil Funding

According to Greenpeace’s ExxonSecrets project, the Media Research Center also received at least $412,500 from ExxonMobil since 1998.15

Other Funders

The Media Research Center lists funders in their annual reports.

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some notable corporate and foundations who have funded MRC (listed in the MRC annual reports). View attached .xls spreadsheet for a complete list of funders.

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February 2022

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MRC launched an initiative titled CensorTrack to monitor what The Daily Caller described as “acts of censorship across online platforms.” The Daily Caller claimed the project had tracked flags of Covid misinformation including the Great Barrington Declaration, as censorship.17

“Big Tech set up a system where you can’t disagree with ‘the science’ even though that’s the foundation of the scientific method,” MRC’s Dan Gainor told The Daily Caller. “If doctors and academic journals can’t debate publicly, then it’s not science at all. It’s religion.”

“We tallied 32 different doctors who were censored, including mRNA vaccine innovator Dr. Robert Malone,” Gainor said. “Censoring views of credentialed experts doesn’t ensure confidence in vaccines, it undermines faith in government COVID-19 strategies.“

Some of the issues CensorTrack tracks included “Pro-Life,” “LGBTQ Issues,” and “Hate Speech” among others.

March 23, 2020

As reported at DeSmog,18 Life:Powered sent a letter to Congress critical of the COVID-19 stimulus package for including “tax incentives and spending for unreliable ‘green’ energy programs.”19

The letter, to which the Media Research Center is a signatory, concludes:20

“This is no time for political games. Climate change is not an immediate threat to humanity. Climate-related deaths have declined 98.9% in the last century, and humanity is growing more and more resilient thanks to the availability of affordable, reliable energy. On behalf of all Americans, we urge you to oppose any stimulus proposals that carve out special treatment for or bail out any energy companies and focus instead on stopping COVID-19.”

The full list of signatories is below:21

Name Title Organization

Jason Isaac Senior Manager & Distinguished Fellow Life:Powered/Texas Public Policy Foundation

Myron Ebell Director, Center for Energy and Environment Competitive Enterprise Institute

Bette Grande CEO Roughrider Policy Center

Ellen Weaver President & CEO Palmetto Promise Institute

Isaac Orr Policy Fellow Center of the American Experiment

Bethany Marcum Executive Director Alaska Policy Forum

David T. Stevenson Director, Center for Energy and Environment Caesar Rodney Institute

Donald van der Vaart Senior Fellow John Locke Foundation

Jason Hayes Director of Environmental Policy Mackinac Center for Public Policy

John Droz, Jr. Founder Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions

George K. Rasley, Jr. Managing Editor ConservativeHQ.com

Becky Norton Dunlop Former Secretary of Natural Resources Commonwealth of Virginia

James L. Martin Founder/Chairman 60 Plus Association

Saulius “Saul” Anuzis President 60 Plus Association

Ken Blackwell Senior Fellow Family Research Council

Eunie Smith President Eagle Forum

Jenny Beth Martin Honorary Chairman Tea Party Patriots Action

Jon Caldara President Independence Institute

L. Brent Bozell, III Founder and President Media Research Center

Jason Pye Vice President of Legislative Affairs FreedomWorks

Jameson Taylor Vice President for Policy Mississippi Center for Public Policy

Carol Platt Liebau President Yankee Institute

Mike Stenhouse CEO Rhode Island Center for Freedom & Prosperity

Daniel Erspamer CEO Pelican Institute for Public Policy

Christian N. Braunlich President Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy

Todd Myers Environmental Director Washington Policy Center

April 23, 2018

The Media Research Center, represented by Saulius “Saul” Anuzius, was among 22 groups signed on to an open letter asking President Trump to ignore recent criticism of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt.22

In a speech to the U.S. Senate, a group of Democratic senators identified the organizations as front groups for the Koch Brothers and other wealthy donors, nicknamed the “Web of Deceit.” The senators outlined how, in addition to funding from the Koch network, many of the groups use untraceable “dark money” funneled through groups like Donors Capital Fund and Donors Trust to influence legislation, particularly with regards to climate and pollution.

Senator Whitehouse outlined it as “a web of deceit conceived and bankrolled by the Koch brothers and other self-interested billionaires to advocate for very selfish and unpatriotic policies.” Whitehouse added: “This web of deceit has infiltrated and populated the Trump administration, and it is swamping the interests of everyday Americans.23

The full list of pro-Pruitt signatories and their respective organizations is as follows:

Saulius “Saul” Anuzius – 60 Plus Association

Fred Birnbaum – Idaho Freedom Foundation

L. Brent Bozell III – Media Research Center

Amy Oliver Cooke – Independence Institute

Wesley Denton – Conservative Partnership Institute

Viv Forbes – The Carbon Sense Coalition

Frank J Gaffney – Center for Security Policy

Steve Goreham – Climate Science Coalition of America

Phil Kerpen – American Commitment

Andrew Langer – Institute for Liberty

Lisa B. Nelson – American Legislative Exchange Council

Rick Manning – Americans for Limited Government

Jenny Beth Martin – Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund

William Perry Pendley – Mountain States Legal Foundation

Thomas Pyle – American Energy Alliance

George Rasley – ConservativeHQ.com

Sandy Rios – American Family Association

Craig Richardson – Energy & Environment Legal Institute

Craig Rucker – Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT)

Dr Jameson Taylor – Missisippi Center for Public Policy

Kyle Wingfield – Georgia Public Policy Foundation

July 28, 2015

The MRC Business reported that James Hansen’s recent study about rising sea levels had “zero credibility,” citing an unnamed geologist as their source.24

MRC Busines salso quotes Climate Depot‘s Marc Morano as saying “The world needs to take a collective yawn at Hansen’s latest claims and ask how in the world was this man ever allowed to be in charge of the NASA temperature datasets.”25

June, 2004

The Media Research Center raised $2.8 million for newspaper ads in 15 markets, billboards in 40 cities and a talk-radio blitz aimed at countering what he sees as a “liberal jihad” that is unfair to President Bush, writes The Washington Post. The MRC’s uses the slogan “Don’t believe the liberal media!”26

“This is a media that in the last year has gotten out of control,” MRC President Brent Bozell says. “They’re so blatant in the way they slant the news. […] It’s as if people in newsrooms have just taken off the gloves, whether it’s foreign policy, economic news or political news, there’s a spin on everything that’s said.”

March 2008

The Media Research Center’s project, Business & Media Institute (BMI), released a “special report” titled “Global Warming Censored” where they claimed that news networks were one-sided and not giving climate change skeptics enough coverage in mainstream media.27

“[T]here are hundreds of scientists from around the world who question the global warming ‘consensus’ – but in the news the latter half of 2007 you had to look hard to find them,” Dan Gainor and Julia A. Seymour write in the article.28

2007

The MRC’s Business and Media Institute published its first special report on global warming, titled “Fire & Ice,” which it claimed “exposed the media’s warnings about impending climate doom during four different times in the last century switching from worries over global cooling to warming to cooling to warming again.” 29 30

In the “Recommendations” section of the BMI report, Dan Gainor questions mainstream climate science:

”[…] Most scientists do agree that the earth has warmed a little more than a degree in the last 100 years. That doesn’t mean that scientists concur mankind is to blame. Even if that were the case, the impact of warming is unclear.”31

Related Organizations

CNSNews.com

NewsBusters

TimesWatch

Culture and Media Institute

MRC Action Team

Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com)

The Parents Television Council32

Social Media

@theMRC on Twitter.

“Media Research Center” on Facebook.

“Media Research Center” on LinkedIn.

Other Resources

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Research_Center

Media Research Center (MRC), formerly known as Culture and Media Institute (CMI), is an American content analysis group based in Reston, Virginia, founded in 1987 by L. Brent Bozell III.^[2] It characterizes itself as a media watchdog.^[2]

The CMI promoted its mission through editorials and research reports. Among its viewpoints include opposition to the Fairness Doctrine^[3] and same-sex marriage.^[4] In March 2007, the CMI published a "National Cultural Values Survey" and concluded from its results that most Americans perceived a decline in moral values.^[5] One study released by the organization in June 2007 claimed that television viewing time correlated directly with one's liberal attitude, even possibly degrading to moral attitudes.^[6]

The nonprofit MRC has received financial support primarily from Robert Mercer,^[7] but with several other conservative-leaning sources, including the Bradley, Scaife, Olin, Castle Rock, Carthage and JM foundations, as well as ExxonMobil.^[8][9][10] It has been described as "one of the most active and best-funded, and yet least known" arms of the modern conservative movement in the United States.^[11] The organization rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, and criticizes media coverage that reflects the scientific consensus.^[9][12]

Foundation and funding

bozell and a group of other American conservatives founded the MRC on October 1, 1987. Their initial budget was at US$339,000.^[13] Prior to founding the MRC, Bozell was the chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee; he resigned from that position a month before establishing MRC.^[14] A wealthy donor whose name has been kept anonymous helped set up the MRC.^[15] The MRC has received financial support from several foundations, including the Bradley, Scaife, Olin, Castle Rock, Carthage and JM foundations.^[8] It also receives funding from ExxonMobil. The organization rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, and criticizes media coverage that reflects the scientific consensus.^[9][10][12] The MRC received over $10 million from Robert Mercer, its largest single donor.^[7]

As of its 2015 reporting to the IRS, the organization had revenue approaching $15 million and expenses in excess of $15 million. Bozell's salary during this year was reported as close to $345,000, with nearly $122,000 in additional compensation from the organization and related organizations.^[16]...

In its mission to show that there is a "strident liberal bias" ^[42] in the national news media, the Media Research Center frequently criticizes media reports for discussing the relevance of climate change to current extreme weather events. In September 2018, MRC criticized Katy Tur for reporting on the science connecting Hurricane Florence to climate change.^[43] In 2017, MRC sponsored a conference by the Heartland Institute, a climate change denial organization known for its effort to cast doubt about the scientific consensus on climate change,^[44] In November 2021, a study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate described Media Research Center as being among "ten fringe publishers" that together were responsible for nearly70 percent of Facebook user interactions with content that denied climate change. Facebook disputed the study's methodology.^[45][46]

In 2002, MRC said CNN was "[Fidel] Castro's megaphone."^[47] In 1999, the MRC said that network news programs on ABC, CBS, and NBC largely ignored Chinese espionage in the United States during the Clinton administration.^[48]

In MRC reports released from 1993 to 1995, it was claimed that such programs made more references to religion each later year, most of which became more favorable.^[49] In 2003, the MRC urged advertisers to pull sponsorship from The Reagans, a miniseries about President Ronald Reagan to be shown on CBS. The network later moved the program to its co-owned premium cable network Showtime.^[50]

The MRC has been a critic of the video game industry, arguing that there is a link between violent videogames and real-world violence; in this capacity, they (along with the Parents Television Council, a subsidiary) were invited to President Donald Trump's 2018 summit on video games and gun violence.^[51][52]

MRC released a report in 2007 claiming that the network morning shows devoted more airtime to covering Democratic presidential candidates than Republican ones for the 2008 election. Producers for such shows criticized the MRC's methodology as flawed.^[53] During the 2008 US presidential election, MRC claimed that the vast majority of news stories about Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama had a positive slant.^[54] MRC president Bozell praised MSNBC for having David Gregory replace Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann as political coverage anchor beginning September 8, 2008, but MSNBC president Phil Griffin disputed the statements by Bozell and others who have accused the network of liberal bias.^[55]

ThoughtCo has named MRC one of the top 15 conservatives to follow on Twitter.^[56]

Bozell was an outspoken critic of Donald Trump during the 2016 Republican primaries, describing him as "the greatest charlatan of them all", "a "huckster" and "shameless self-promoter".^[15] He said, "God help this country if this man were president."^[15] After Trump clinched the Republican nomination, Bozell attacked the media for their "hatred" of Trump.^[15] Politico noted, "The paradox here is that Bozell was once more antagonistic toward the president than any journalist."^[15] Bozell singled outJake Tapper for being "one of the worst offenders" in coverage of Trump. However, several senior MRC staff toldPolitico that they considered Tapper a model of fairness,^[15] although even that viewpoint has since changed.

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Extra!, the magazine of the progressive media watch group FAIR, criticized the MRC in 1998 for selective use of evidence. MRC had said that there was more coverage of government death squads in right-wing El Salvador than in left-wing Nicaragua in the 1980s, when Amnesty International stated El Salvador was worse than Nicaragua when it came to extrajudicial killings. Extra! also likened a defunct MRC newsletter, TV etc., which tracked the off-screen political comments of actors, to "Red Channels, the McCarthy Era blacklisting journal."^[57]

Journalist Brian Montopoli of Columbia Journalism Review in 2005 labeled MRC "just one part of a wider movement by the far right to demonize corporate media", rather than "make the media better."^[58]

On December 22, 2011, Media Research Center president Bozell appeared on Fox News and suggested U.S. President Barack Obama looks like a "skinny ghetto crackhead".^[59]

The Media Research Center has also faced scrutiny over the group's $350,000 purchase in 2012 of a Pennsylvania house that a top executive had been trying to sell for several years.^[60]

In 2013, Media Research Center president Bozell appeared on Fox News to defend a Fox interview in which Fox journalists conducted almost no research into the background of Reza Aslan to prepare for its interview with him, and its putative biases.^[61]

Progressive media watchdog group Media Matters for America has repeatedly criticized the MRC, charging they view the media "through a funhouse mirror that renders everything--even the facts themselves--as manifestations of insidious bias".^[62]

When the Media Research Center bestowed an award named for William F. Buckley to Sean Hannity, neoconservative columnist for The New York Times, Bret Stephens, wrote an editorial in which he lamented, "And so we reach the Idiot stage of the conservative cycle, in which a Buckley Award for Sean Hannity suggests nothing ironic, much less Orwellian, to those bestowing it, applauding it, or even shrugging it off. The award itself is trivial, but it's a fresh reminder of who now holds the commanding heights of conservative life, and what it is that they think."^[63]

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Trump Cites MRC Research While Taking Action On Social Media Censorship

President Donald Trump took at swing at Big Tech bias by signing an "Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship" in the Oval Office on Thursday. And he relied on information from the MRC ...

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MRC Study: News Bias Against Trump Even WORSE Than We ... - The Daily Wire

The Media Research Center's extensive study of evening news coverage of President Trump by the broadcast news networks found an overwhelmingly negative bias against the Republican president. Among the big takeaways of the analysis is that the media covered the president more in his first 8 months than they covered President Obama during the entirety of his final two years in office, and a ...

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(CNS News) -- A new survey conducted by The Polling Company for the Media Research Center (MRC) found that major media censorship of certain vital stories left voters in the dark, particularly Biden voters, and prevented President Donald Trump from winning a second term. "This lack of information proved crucial," said the MRC in a report on the poll.

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Media Censoring Negative Biden News May Have Cost Trump The Election ...

The Media Research Center polled Biden voters across various swing states and found that if they were made aware of various news stories the media buried, votes would have changed enough to give President Donald Trump a second term. ... five were about Trump successes that the media largely suppressed, according to the MRC. Without the alleged ...

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The Biden administration is being protected by a veil of censorship being carried out by Big Tech giants, a two-year study carried out by the Media Research Center has found. "Big Tech's campaign to protect President Brain-Dead Biden and his agenda has continued unabated," MRC reported.

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Biden Won Because Media Buried China Scandal, Poll Finds - PJ Media

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Media Research Center (MRC) is a think tank founded in 1987 by political activist Brent Bozell.54 It bills itself as “America’s Media Watchdog” and attacking “leftist bias in the news media and popular culture”.55 The group has attacked media coverage of climate science.56 MRC’s revenue comes from contributions, gifts, and ad revenue. According to tax documents, it earned over $11 million in revenue in 2019, including $604,000 from ads.57

Between 2010 and 2017, MRC received nearly $19 million from hedge fund billionaire and Republican donor Robert Merceraccording to tax documents.58

In 2017, MRC sponsored a conference by climate denier think tank the Heartland Institute, which was also attended by Robert Mercer.59 Other funders include fossil fuel giant ExxonMobil, which has a record of donating to climate sceptic organizations.60 MRC uses its NewsBusters website to criticize media coverage of climate science.61 The site often uses the phrase “climate alarmist” to refer to people who highlight the threat of climate change.62

MRC also operates the media outlets CNSNews.com and MRCTV.63

[eg pix] this NewsBusters article brands climate science as “alarmism” and promotes the suggestion that “so-called ‘hottest year’ claims… are political statementsdesigned to persuade the public that the government needs to take action on man-made climate change.”64 This article has carried Google ads for the tech giant’s own Chrome web browser.

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Crucially, this recording sets in context the claim by a senior Trump campaign source that “we have three major voter suppression operations under way”,made to Bloomberg in October 2016. By then Cambridge Analytica was working simultaneously with the Trump campaign; the Defeat Crooked Hillary Super PAC, overseen personally by Rebekah Mercer; an underground platform doing psychographic microtargeting of congregations and religious communities;the far-right Media Research Center; theNational Rifle Association; and a massive, secretively funded campaign by the National Sports Shooting Federation of gun companies.

How to make black youth not vote

promoted to primary 3/14, just because of number and importance of connections to usual suspects

see CNS for older?

carribean cruise 8/15

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https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/hans-bader/liberal-ags-climate-change-witchhunt-expands-include-more-innocent-victims

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Liberal AG’s Climate Change Witch-Hunt Expands to Include More Innocent Victims

By Hans Bader | June 22, 2016 | 3:35 PM EDT

A climate-change witch-hunt is expanding to include conservative groups that have never received a penny from Exxon. Attorney General Maura Healey is part of a multistate investigation of “climate change deniers” brought by 20 Democratic state attorneys general. As the Daily Callernotes, last week she issued a sweeping broad subpoena that

“demands decades worth of records from prominent conservative think tanks, including the Heritage Foundation and activist group Americans for Prosperity, and also from smaller, lesser known state-based right-leaning groups, such as Boston’s Beacon Hill Institute and the Acton Institute … At least two of the groups the subpoena demands records from have not received any money from Exxon. Beacon Hill and Americans for Prosperity have not gotten any Exxon funding, but are still being targeted.”

This is revealing, because, as Zero Hedge notes, all of these subpoenas are “anchored in the claim that Exxon has lied to shareholders and consumers about the risks of global warming in its communications and shareholder filings.” That rationale obviously provides no justification for a subpoena aimed at the Beacon Hill Institute, which has no connection to Exxon. Instead, it looks like a pretext for harassing conservative non-profits like the Beacon Hill Institute, whose free-market views make it a dissenter in a state whose legislature and judiciary are dominated by leftists.

The investigation is brought by people who are know-nothings when it comes to the First Amendment.

As I previously explained, the attorney general spearheading the multistate investigation, New York’s Eric Schneiderman, has publicly gotten basic First Amendment principles wrong (such as citing a dissenting view rejected by the Supreme Court as if it were the law), and Exxon does not appear to have told any lies about climate change (a company’s prudence in taking into account worst-case climate scenarios in hedging against future risks, and planning for the future, does not prove its belief in such scenarios, anymore than buying fire insurance proves you know that your home will burn down in the future). And speech by nonprofits funded by Exxon remains protected, as does Exxon’s decision to fund them, under court rulings like Pfizer v. Giles (1994)

Subjecting a person, or a non-profit like the Beacon Hill Institute, to burdensome document demands based on its viewpoint violates the First Amendment. Such demands violate free speech when they are in retaliation for the target’s viewpoint or past speech. (See Taoh v. Freeh (1994)). They also violate free speech when they are so burdensome that they would chill the speech of a reasonable person. (See White v. Lee (2000)). And they violate the First Amendment by demanding sensitive internal communications. (See Perry v. Schwarzenegger (2009)).

Shortly after Healey’s subpoena, 13 mostly conservative state attorneys general such as Luther Strange of Alabama and Craig Richards of Alaska sent a June 15 letter to their fellow attorneys general, arguing that “this effort by our colleagues to police the global warming debate through the power of the subpoena is a grave mistake.” Quoting Justice Jackson’s concurrence in Thomas v. Collins (1945), they noted that our “‘forefathers did not trust any government to separate the true from the false for us.’” They also pointed outthat the 20-state investigation of “climate change deniers” reflects viewpoint discrimination, since “’clean energy’ companies have funded non-profits who exaggerated the risks of climate change,” yet this “fraud” is not being investigated, only the purported “fraud” alleged against non-profits that have supposedly minimized the risks of climate change. The Supreme Court has said that even unprotected speech should not be regulated in a viewpoint-discriminatory fashion, in its decision in R.A.V. v. St. Paul (1992), which ruled that a city could not ban even unprotected “fighting words” based on the speaker’s viewpoint.

As part of the multistate climate-change investigation, an incredibly burdensome subpoena was sent to CEI on April 7, demanding 10 years of its records relating to a wide range of topics (CEI’s First Amendment objections to that subpoena are found here). We received that subpoena shortly after CEI’s Myron Ebell and I had publicly criticized the investigation. (The subpoena came in just as I was drafting an even longer commentary criticizing the investigation, which is found here).

Last month, CEI filed a motion for sanctions against the attorney general who sent us that subpoena, Claude Walker of the U.S. Virgin Islands, under the District of Columbia’s anti-SLAPP law. The attorney general had belatedly withdrawn the DC version of the subpoena, but reserved the right to reinstate it at any time (the underlying Virgin Islands subpoena remains in place), essentially forcing CEI to live under a sword of Damocles. On June 2, the attorney general filed his opposition to our motion for sanctions, along with a transparently lame demand for sanctions against CEI unsupported by facts and caselaw. A hearing is pending in DC Superior Court next week, but it is not yet clear whether that hearing will adjudicate the merits of our motion, or defer its resolution until a later date.

Hans Bader practices law in Washington, D.C. After studying economics and history at the University of Virginia and law at Harvard, he practiced civil-rights, international-trade, and constitutional law.

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, the Media Research Center will now be “fact-checking the fact-checkers”: “In an era of ‘fake news’ and inaccurate reporting, it is important now more than ever that the fact-checkers themselves are exposed for their biases. MRC routinely finds instances when fact-checkers bend the truth or disproportionately target conservatives. We are assigning our own rating to their judgments and will expose the worst offenders.”

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Acc in media set up to defend RMn VN and watergate p5

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July 2004 kennedy school symposium; Brokaw says Bozell has it wired w/ news ltr, aud --> immed response p 5

David Brooks Wkly Std rw has dazzlingly efficient ideological delivery system that swamps liberal efforts to get their ideas out" p6 around 2003?

22% get news from talk radio

Rob Stein Democ Alliance 2004

Peter Lewis progressive insurance funded brock

Imus and Dobbs end up on Fox biz

Fox rept 2012

Beck target Kevin Jennings; rove lied nambla 19

Beck ad boycott

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Palin defended beck on his show

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Eco-Terrorists Attack Conservatives in New Film

Enviro film ‘Greedy Lying Bastards’ opens in more theaters after box office flop.

By Mike Ciandella

April 4, 2013 - 2:10pm

“Greedy Lying Bastards” follows “An Inconvenient Truth” in the climate change alarmism documentary film genre. The difference is this film lacked Al Gore’s name to give it momentum, although it has gotten some help from CNN [1].

The film is the creation of former eco-terrorist Craig Rosebraugh and actress Daryl Hannah [2] of “Splash,” “Kill Bill” and “Bladerunner” among others. The film made a mere $45,000 its March 8 opening weekend, according to Box Office Mojo [3], which rated it the 400th movie of the past 365 days, and the 46th movie its March 8 opening weekend.

The documentary [1] says it “investigates the reason behind stalled efforts to tackle climate change despite consensus in the scientific community that it is not only a reality but also a growing problem that is placing us on the bring of disaster,” according to the official website [4]. The trailer, website and reviews for the film all make it out to be a collage of tried and true lefty climate change claims, complete with storm footage and villainization of the Koch brothers and the oil industry.

The Los Angeles Times [5] said that “longtime followers of this hyper-partisan topic may not find much terribly new or revealing here.” After an initial limited showing, the film was released in more theatres on March 29.

Rosebraugh, the film’s director, has been an outspoken activist for both the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front, both of which are classified as domestic terror groups by the FBI [6]. In a press release on both groups, the FBI stated that “eco-terrorists and animal rights extremists are one of the most serious domestic terrorism threats in the U.S. today.”

One of the movie’s main targets is U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. Inhofe told The Tulsa World [7] that he was not surprised that the film targeted him, and he was proud of it on March 28. Inhofe was formerly the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. An outspoken conservative, Inhofe was also a winner of the Family Research Council [8]’s “True Blue” award for a consistent conservative voting record.

"As I said in July 2003, when I first called global warming the greatest hoax perpetrated on the American people, science has been co-opted by those who care more about peddling gloom-and-doom fear tactics to drive their own broader political agenda," Inhofe told The Tulsa World.

"Just by watching the trailer, that's exactly what this video seems to do as well, leveraging the unknown to incite fear and raise money to make people like Al Gore even wealthier," he continued. Since his first speech on the topic, Inhofe has been surprised by how organizations have credited him as being “capable of singlehandedly bringing about the end of the world.”

Director Rosebraugh claimed that the media was biased in favor of “climate change deniers,” even comparing global warming skeptics to Holocaust deniers in an interview with The Huffington Post [9]:“Fox [News] is far and away the extreme example. They’ll have a known Holocaust denier debating a Holocaust survivor. Or a tobacco industry representative still arguing that smoking isn’t linked to cancer.”

The Business and Media Institute has demonstrated the opposite, exposing the liberal media’s bias against climate change skeptics over [10] and over again [11].

Rosebraugh also called out Republicans in the same interview, saying that as “long as they continue to publicly question the science of climate change, so will the media.” Just like Gore has said, Rosebraugh claims the debate about climate change is “already over.”

Rosebraugh’s Holocaust statements echo CBS’s Scott Pelley [12] from 2006, who argued against including climate change skeptics on the news, saying that “If I do an interview with [Holocaust survivor] Elie Wiesel, am I required as a journalist to find a Holocaust denier?”

The film’s list of scientific “experts” included NASA scientist James Hansen [13] who’s predictions have failed to come true. In 1988, he warned that global temperatures would rise by 0.45 degrees Celsius. This was not the case [14]. However, Hansen began an August 2012 opinion piece for the Washington Post by saying that his predictions that year were too optimistic.

Hansen also called for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for “high crimes against humanity [15]” in a 2008 speech to Congress, according to the U.K. news outlet the Guardian [16].

The film has gotten some publicity from the news media. During a March 9 CNN interview [1], the film’s executive producer, Daryl Hannah, was able to slam "false information" by the Koch brothers, compare herself to Martin Luther King, and call for the "eradication" of Citizens United during the interview. CNN completely ignored that the director and writer of the film, Rosebraugh, was a former spokesman for eco-terrorist groups for years before abandoning his work.

Source URL: http://www.mrc.org/articles/eco-terrorists-attack-conservatives-new-film

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is CNN, where environmental activists can launch their blistering attacks on man-made global warming skeptics without much of a challenge. On Tuesday's Starting Point, actress and activist Daryl Hannah promoted her new documentary "Greedy, Lying Bastards" that hits the funding and supposed falsehoods behind global warming skepticism.

Hannah was able to slam "false information" by the Koch brothers, compare herself to Martin Luther King, and call for the "eradication" of Citizens United during the interview. CNN completely ignored that the director and writer of her film, Craig Rosebraugh, was a fomer spokesman for eco-terrorist groups for years before abandoning his work.

At least The Oregonian newspaper took the trouble to provide such background context for the film that CNN ignored.

Man-made climate change skeptics have fared much worse than Hannah on CNN. For instance, on December 4 CNN host Piers Morgan teamed up with scientist Bill Nye against skeptic Marc Morano. Morgan even lectured his guest that "I respect that you have views. I don't think they're facts, and there are many scientists who would take issue with you about the use of the word 'fact.'"

On November 1, Morgan defended New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's "very pertinent point" that Hurricane Sandy was probably brought about by global warming, and he again lectured skeptics that "it depends whether you believe the science or not."

Such hostility was nowhere to be found on Tuesday's Starting Point. Host Soledad O'Brien even promoted Hannah's documentary. "That's one of the most powerful lines.'They're in the business of selling doubt,'" she marveled at a movie line on global warming skeptics. "And it's that doubt that keeps this conversation, I think, about global warming going."

O'Brien prodded Hannah to deliver her activist message. "What was your personal interest in this? I mean, why climate change and environmental issues overall for you? You've gotten arrested because of your passion for some of these topics."

That teed up Hannah to compare her cause to that of Martin Luther King: "Well you know first of all, I don't think that that's something that's really so bad. I mean, Martin Luther King was arrested 30 times before he was the age of 39 to right incredible wrongs. And we're at a time of extreme crises. I mean, we are facing a possible threat to our very life support systems."[note defense v mrc attack on actress and activist]

Hannah also claimed the Koch brothers spread falsehoods about global warming. "But then, yet, they will still funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to make sure that climate legislation isn't passed. That there's false information put out about the climate crisis and also about clean energy and its possibilities."

Those were only some of many claims Hannah made during the interview that CNN mostly left unchallenged. "It opens nationwide in theaters on Friday," O'Brien closed the segment promoting the film.

A transcript of the segment, which aired on Starting Point on March 5 at 8:49 a.m. EST, is as follows:

SOLEDAD O'BRIEN: Daryl Hannah has been with us all morning. She's also the executive producer of a new movie which is called "Greedy, Lying Bastards". It's causing some major buzz, not just for the name. The film takes a look at campaigns that deny climate change. Let's play a little clip.

(Video Clip)

MARC MORANO: We actually have had no significant warming.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The breakup of the ice at the North Pole is not unusual.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right. There is no scientific basis for alarm.

RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC host: Are you guys funded in part by Exxon?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Verily, but why did you imagine that Exxon give you money?

Rep. HENRY WAXMAN (D-Calif.): The fossil fuel industries have an enormous amount of clout.

The Koch Brothers, for example, gave millions and millions of dollars to Republican efforts to not do anything to fight climate change.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They basically are in the business of selling doubt.

(End Video Clip)

O'BRIEN: That's one of the most powerful lines. "They're in the business of selling doubt." And it's that doubt that keeps this conversation, I think, about global warming going.

DARYL HANNAH, actress, activist: It's true because there is actually a consensus that it is happening. And that it is also human caused. However – and even, what's really interesting, is even Rex Tillerson from Exxon now has finally acknowledged that climate change is actually happening. Even the Koch Brothers I mean, you know, they will publicly come out and acknowledge it.

But then, yet, they will still funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to make sure that climate legislation isn't passed. That there's false information put out about the climate crisis and also about clean energy and its possibilities.

So while they – they want to, you know, not seem like idiots and say, well, nothing is happening when you can obviously it's so clear now. We've got epic droughts. I mean, unprecedented droughts in the Midwest, in our bread basket of our country. We've got wildfires and superstorms and floods. And I mean, Arctic ice sheets melting in unprecedented fashions, et cetera. It's impossible to deny those facts, simple facts. Like you put the pH strip in the ocean, it's 30 percent more acid than it ever it has been.

O'BRIEN: What was your personal interest in this? I mean, why climate change and environmental issues overall for you? You've gotten arrested because of your passion for some of these topics.

JOHN BERMAN: Many times.

O'BRIEN: Yeah. A handful of times.

HANNAH: Well you know first of all, I don't think that that's something that's really so bad. I mean, Martin Luther King was arrested 30 times before he was the age of 39 to right incredible wrongs. And we're at a time of extreme crises. I mean, we are facing a possible threat to our very life support systems.

I mean, a week and a half ago, the World Bank – the World Bank – who financed most of these large fossil fuel projects, you know, mega dams, et cetera, put out their own report on the climate crisis. And it was, like, the worst horror film I've ever seen in my life. It was the scariest scenario.

They said that if we raise the temperature of the earth four degrees Celsius, essentially it's total systems collapse, mass starvation, mass extinctions, disease. I mean the picture that they portray in their report was so horrifying that they had no choice but to make urgent recommendations to make radical changes, to stop fossil fuels immediately.

O'BRIEN: Do you think you're getting –

HANNAH: And that's from the World Bank.

CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY, Wall Street Journal: You know what's the takeaway here? What do you want people who watch the film to do when they leave the theater?

HANNAH: Well, to -- to hold these fossil fuel companies accountable. Because, see, I believe that they're – first of all, I believe Citizens United needs to be eradicated. This ruling that gave corporations the right of a person – because now politicians are doing the bidding of corporations and not doing – not doing representing us, we the people.

They're representing the corporations, because now corporations can give them money to their campaigns. They can, you know, basically send hundreds of lobbyists to make sure that they keep the pressure on so that the politicians are doing their will. And when that's all the messaging that they get, they're going to do it. You know, what did Upton Sinclair say? You know you can't – a guy is not going to do something when his salary depends upon him doing it.

ROLAND MARTIN, CNN contributor: Daryl how do you – how do you counter though, the economic argument. Because what happens in this country any time you try to propose any change, folks will say oh it's going to cost us billions. It's going to wreck the economy. We're going to lose jobs. And that all this causes somebody to go –

(Crosstalk)

O'BRIEN: Are you picking the environment over human beings and livelihood?

(Crosstalk)

MARTIN: Right, people go, oh, my God. We can't lose jobs.

HANNAH: Well here's – here's the deal. What we're talking about is protecting our ability to survive and our – and our vital life support systems. Now, there's a way to do that and still create jobs that are domestic jobs with safe, clean energy. And that's where we should be putting all of our resources. Not just allowing these companies who are essentially raping and pillaging our ecosystems because they are making record profits. Even in this economy.

The oil – the fossil fuel industry is the wealthiest industry in the history of money. In the history of money, and yet we're still paying, you know, through the roof just for our gallons of gas to go to, you know, to take our kids to school. It is unethical, it's wrong. And now we're going to extreme forms of extraction just to get that fuel because we've run out of the easy-to-get stuff. We have to blow up entire mountain tops. We're just decimating our oldest mountain range in the Appalachians.

MARTIN: I take it you're against Keystone.

HANNAH: The Keystone which is a – this is something I think we would all be united on because it's not a polarizing issue. It's a foreign company coming into our country, taking our farmers' and ranchers' lands through eminent domain, which is supposed to be only used for national security. But in this case, this pipeline which is going to be carrying corrosive tar sand sludge, it has to be pushed through at 150 degrees with toxic chemicals, is only going down to the Gulf of Mexico so that they can export it. They say that in their own documents. This is not for energy security for America. This is not going to affect our gasoline prices except for possibly to raise them, because the price per barrel that they can get down in the Gulf of Mexico to export is $20 higher a barrel.

O'BRIEN: The issue is a tough one.

HANNAH: And they try to confuse you. That's what it is.

O'BRIEN: Well that is –

(Crosstalk)

MARTIN: You're slightly passionate about this.

HANNAH: It's very infuriating. I mean, it's outrageous. It should be illegal to do what they do. It should be illegal.

O'BRIEN: The film is called "Greedy, Lying Bastards".

MARTIN: Cut right to the chase.

O'BRIEN: Yeah, it really does, doesn't it? Nice to have you talk about it. It opens nationwide in theaters on Friday.

-- Matt Hadro is a News Analyst at the Media Research Center

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Global Warming Censored

By Dan Gainor

Source URL: http://www.mrc.org/special-reports/global-warming-censored

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new Cosmos: Writing at the Media Research Center's Newsbusters blog, Jeffrey Meyer critiques a recent Tyson appearance on Late Night With Seth Myers. "Meyers and deGrasse Tyson chose to take a cheap shot at religious people and claim they don't believe in science i.e. liberal causes like global warming," writes Meyer.Over at the pro-"intelligent design" Discovery Institute, they're not happy. Senior fellow David Klinghoffer writes that the latest Cosmos episode "[extrapolated] shamelessly, promiscuously from artificial selection (dogs from wolves) to minor stuff like the color of a polar bear's fur to the development of the human eye." In a much more elaborate attempted takedown, meanwhile, the institute's Casey Luskin accuses Tyson and Cosmos of engaging in "attempts to persuade people of both evolutionary scientific views and larger materialistic evolutionary beliefs, not just by the force of the evidence, but by rhetoric and emotion, and especially by leaving out important contrary arguments and evidence." Luskin goes on to contend that there is something wrong with the idea of the "tree of life." Tell that to the scientists involved in theOpen Tree of Life project, which plans to produce "the first online, comprehensive first-draft tree of all 1.8 million named species, accessible to both the public and scientific communities." Precisely how to reconstruct every last evolutionary relationship may still be an open scientific question, but the idea of common ancestry, the core of evolution (represented conceptually by a tree of life), is not.

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Tim Graham is the MRC’s Director of Media Analysis. He is responsible for supervising media analysts and researching and writing regular Special Reports on the news. In 1997 he created and served as editor of the Media Reality Check, a weekly blast-fax report on national news stories that are distorted or ignored. He now shares those duties with Research Director Rich Noyes.

In 2001 and 2002, Graham served as White House Correspondent for World, a national weekly Christian news magazine. He wrote cover stories on taxes, abortion, cloning, and other issues, asked questions at briefings with Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer, and interviewed members of Congress and administration officials like then-Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill.

Graham is the author of the book Pattern of Deception: The Media's Role in the Clinton Presidency (Media Research Center, 1996), which critiques the media's coverage of Bill Clinton from 1991 through 1995. From 1989 to 1999, he was associate editor of MediaWatch, the monthly and then bi-weekly newsletter of the MRC News Division, where he was responsible for the Study and Janet Cooke Award articles.

Seven of Graham's studies were published in And That's The Way It Isn't: A Reference Guide to Media Bias (Media Research Center, 1990). He also assisted in writing the book How To Identify, Expose and Correct Media Bias (MRC, 1994) and the broadcast news criticism section of Jude Wanniski's 1990 Media Guide. Eight of his essays on public broadcasting appeared in Public Broadcasting & the Public Trust (Second Thoughts Books, 1995). Other articles on media analysis have appeared in National Review, The Wall Street Journal, Reason, Human Events,Diversity & Division, Comint, Chronicles, The World & I, The Washington Times,World, Heterodoxy, and The Detroit News.

Graham is a regular talk-radio spokesman for the MRC and has made television appearances on MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, The 700 Club, and PBS's This is America with Dennis Wholey.

Before joining the Media Research Center, Graham served in Washington and St. Louis as press secretary for the campaign of U.S. Rep. Jack Buechner (R-MO) in 1988, and in 1987, he served as editor of Organization Trends, a monthly newsletter on philanthropy and politics by the Washington-based Capital Research Center. Before coming to Washington in 1986, Graham served as a news reporter for the La Crosse (WI) Tribune and local radio stations in Wisconsin. Graham is a 1986 cum laude Honors Program graduate of Bemidji State University in Bemidji, Minnesota, where he majored in political science and minored in mass communications, and founded and edited the Bemidji Student Review, a conservative student newspaper.

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recall that powell memo called for media monitoring, seems to be a sort of war room for rapid response?

eg attack on RS climate killers: http://www.mrc.org/articles/rolling-stone-attacks-climate-killers-derailing-efforts-curb-global-warming

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commie muppets :

Last week, on the network's "Follow the Money" program, host Eric Bolling went McCarthy on the new, Disney-released film, "The Muppets," insisting that its storyline featuring an evil oil baron made it the latest example of Hollywood's so-called liberal agenda.

Bolling, who took issue with the baron's name, Tex Richman, was joined by Dan Gainor of the conservative Media Research Center, who was uninhibited with his criticism.

"It's amazing how far the left will go just to manipulate your kids, to convince them, give the anti-corporate message," he said.

"They've been doing it for decades. Hollywood, the left, the media, they hate the oil industry," Gainor continued. "They hate corporate America. And so you'll see all these movies attacking it, whether it was 'Cars 2,' which was another kids' movie, the George Clooney movie 'Syriana,' 'There Will Be Blood,' all these movies attacking the oil industry, none of them reminding people what oil means for most people: fuel to light a hospital, heat your home, fuel an ambulance to get you to the hospital if you need that. And they don't want to tell that story."

Indeed, there was no mention of the benefits of oil drilling in the Muppets, but there was also no discussion of any other aspect of the industry. Richman, played by Chris Cooper, was out to destroy the Muppets theater. Kermit and his friends, then, were not committed environmentalists (though one must imagine the frog is concerned with his swampy homeland) but simply puppets looking to save a place they once loved.

Still, Gainor blamed the film, and its predecessors, for Occupy Wall Street and the environmental movement.

"This is what they're teaching our kids. You wonder why we've got a bunch of Occupy Wall Street people walking around all around the country, they've been indoctrinated, literally, for years by this kind of stuff," Gainor said. "Whether it was 'Captain Planet' or Nickelodeon's 'Big Green Help,' or 'The Day After Tomorrow,' the Al Gore-influenced movie, all of that is what they're teaching, is that corporations is bad, the oil industry is bad, and ultimately what they're telling kids is what they told you in the movie 'The Matrix': that mankind is a virus on poor old mother Earth."

The Teletubbies were unavailable for comment. Mahna-Mahna. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/05/fox-news-the-muppets-are-communist_n_1129173.html?ref=mostpopular

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MEDIA FLAKS

http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Media_Bias

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newsbusters #1 gore Inc Truth link

The NewsBusters blog is a project of the Media Research Center (MRC). It has a goal to "provide immediate exposure of liberal media bias, insightful analysis, constructive criticism and timely corrections to news media reporting."[1]

NewsBusters was created in August 2005 with the guidance of Matthew Sheffield and Greg Sheffield, who operated the website RatherBiased.com (now inactive), which criticized former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather.[1] It is a group blog featuring both MRC employees and non-MRC writers.

NewsBusters also hosts a webcast called "NewsBusted," which it calls "the freshest comedy on the Web making fun of liberals and the media."[2]

Contents

[hide]

1 Personnel

2 Contact Information

3 Articles and Resources

3.1 Sources

3.2 Related SourceWatch Resources

3.3 External links

Personnel

Matthew Sheffield - Editor

Brent Baker - Editor At Large

Tim Graham - Senior Editor

Rich Noyes - Senior Editor

Ken Shepherd - Managing Editor

Noel Sheppard - Associate Editor

Contact Information

Website: http://www.newsbusters.org

Email: newsbusters AT mediaresearch.org

Articles and Resources

Sources

? 1.0 1.1 "About NewsBusters.org", NewsBusters, accessed February 2008.

? "Two New Episodes Now Online of MRC's 'NewsBusted' Comedy Show", Media Research Center, November 2, 2007.

Related SourceWatch Resources

Brent Bozell

Cybercast News Service

Mark Finkelstein

External links

Terry Krepel, "NewsBusted", ConWebWatch, September 22, 2005.

Terry Krepel, "Swing to the Right", ConWebWatch, August 29, 2006.

Retrieved from "http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=NewsBusters"

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Media Research Center Inc. (MRC) is a conservative media watchdog group run by president and founder Brent Bozell. In 2006 the MRC had total revenue of $10.8 million[1] and 50 full-time staff members. It is predominately funded by larger right-wing foundations (see below) with other comparatively minor sources of income from rental income and investments. In it's 2006 annual report, the group's founder wrote that MRC "continued to regularly provide intellectual ammunition to conservative activists, arming them with the weapons to fight the leftist press."[2]

The MRC operates a number of subsidiary projects including the Business & Media Institute (formerly known as the the Free Market Project); CNSNews.com, a conservative news service; the NewsBusters blog; TimesWatch, a website focusing on the New York Times; the Culture and Media Institute and the MRC Action Team.

(The Parents Television Council was founded in 1995 as a MRC project but, in 2000, was split off to become a separate legal entity. Brent Bozell, who founded the MRC, was president of both organisations until January 2007, when he resigned as President of the PTC but remains a member of the board of directors.[3])

Contents

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1 Mission statement

2 Controversies

3 Criticism

4 Key personnel

5 Subsidiaries

6 Funding

7 Non-MRC media contact

8 Contact information

9 Articles and resources

9.1 Related SourceWatch articles

9.2 References

9.3 External resources

9.4 External articles

Mission statement

From MRC's website: "The mission of the Media Research Center is to bring balance and responsibility to the news media. Leaders of America's conservative movement have long believed that within the national news media a strident liberal bias existed that influenced the public's understanding of critical issues. On October 1, 1987, a group of young determined conservatives set out to not only prove - through sound scientific research - that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values, but also to neutralize its impact on the American political scene. What they launched that fall is the now acclaimed --- Media Research Center (MRC)."[4]

Controversies

In November of 2000, MRC and a subsidiary, Parents Television Council (an advocacy group also founded and run by Mr. Bozell), were sued by World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). MRC/PTC settled out-of-court for $3.5 million. See Parents Television Council for more information about this lawsuit.

In 1994, the MRC first printed the following excerpt from Howell Raines' book, Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis:[1]

Then one day in the summer of 1981 I found myself at the L.L. Bean store in Freeport, Maine. I was a correspondent in the White House in those days, and my work -- which consisted of reporting on President Reagan's success in making life harder for citizens who were not born rich, white, and healthy -- saddened me....My parents raised me to admire generosity and to feel pity. I had arrived in our nation's capital [in 1981] during a historic ascendancy of greed and hard-heartedness....Reagan couldn't tie his shoelaces if his life depended on it.

But the quotes were cobbled together from two different sections of the book; the span of the ellipsis between "hard-heartedness" and "Reagan couldn't tie" is 28 pages. Further, the statement "Reagan couldn't tie his shoelaces if his life depended on it" refers in context to Reagan's fly-fishing skills, not his IQ.[2] The MRC later appended a "clarification" putting the statements in their proper context.[3]

Criticism

Extra!, the magazine of the progressive media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, has criticized the MRC for selective use of evidence--the MRC had complained, for example, that there was more coverage of government death squads in right-wing El Salvador than in left-wing Nicaragua, without mentioning that there were roughly a thousand times more extra-judicial killings in El Salvador. Extra! also characterized the MRC as wanting to force out of the media any opinions that it disagreed with, even tracking the off-screen political comments of actors in a project that the magazine said "bore an uncomfortable resemblance to Red Channels, the McCarthy Era blacklisting journal." [4]

The liberal media watch group Media Matters for America has also repeatedly criticized the MRC, charging that they view the media "through a funhouse mirror that renders everything--even the facts themselves--as manifestations of insidious bias." [5]

Key personnel

Brent Bozell, President and CEO

Tim Graham, Director of Media Analysis

Brent Baker, Vice President for Research and Publications, Steven P.J. Wood Senior Fellow

Terry Jeffrey, CNSNews.com Editor-in-Chief

Dan Gainor, Vice President of Business & Culture, T. Boone Pickens Fellow

Subsidiaries

Business & Media Institute (formerly the Free Market Project)

CNSNews.com

NewsBusters

TimesWatch

Culture and Media Institute

Funding

Exxon Mobil[5]

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.

Sarah Scaife Foundation

Castle Rock Foundation

John M. Olin Foundation, Inc.

The Carthage Foundation

JM Foundation[6]

Non-MRC media contact

The May 11, 2006, MRC press release "Public Demands Networks to 'Tell the Truth!' about Iraq War. Media Research Center delivers over 140,000 petitions demanding fair media coverage" directs inquiries to either Colleen O'Boyle or Tim Scheiderer at 703-683-5004 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 703-683-5004 end_of_the_skype_highlighting, which is the phone number for Creative Response Concepts of Alexandria, Virginia.

Contact information

Media Research Center

325 S. Patrick Street

Alexandria, VA 22314

Ph. (703) 683-9733 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (703) 683-9733 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

http://www.mediaresearch.org/

Articles and resources

Related SourceWatch articles

Brent Bozell

Parents Television Council

References

? Media Research Center, "2006 Annual Report", Media Research Center, accessed February 2008.

? L. Brent Bozell III, "A Message from L. Brent Bozell III", 2006, Annual Report, Media Research Center, accessed February 2008, page 3.

? Parents Television Council, "PTC President Bozell Announces Decision to Step Down and Welcomes Tim Winter as New President", Media Release, September 1, 2006.

? Media Research Center, "About the Media Research Center: Bringing Political Balance to the Media", Media Research Center, accessed February 2008.

? "Factsheet: Media Research Center", ExxonSecrets website, accessed October 2009.

External resources

"Media Research Center, Inc." profile at Media Transparency.

External articles

Howard Kurtz, "Bias Watch," Washington Post, June 28, 2004 (scroll down to mid-page): Bozell's Media Research Center has raised $2.8 million for newspaper ads in 15 markets, billboards in 40 cities and a talk-radio blitz aimed at countering what he sees as a "liberal jihad" that is unfair to President Bush. The slogan (also on T-shirts and mugs) is not exactly subtle: A finger-pointing Uncle Sam declares: "Don't believe the liberal media!"

Jeff Jarvis, "FCC -- and Media -- Duped by Brent Bozell's Complaint Factory," Buzz Machine, December 6, 2004.

Bill Berkowitz, "Media Research Center Takes on The West Wing: Conservative Philanthropy-Supported Group Claims Show Had Liberal Bias", Media Transparency, May 22, 2006.

Peter Hart and Steve Rendall, "Meet the Mythmakers", Extra!, July/August 1998.

Paul Waldman, "MRC Studies That 'Prove' Media's 'Liberal Bias' Collapse Under Scrutiny", Media Matters for America, May 11, 2005.

Terry Krepel, "Fairly Unbalanced", ConWebWatch, May 2, 2007. Details how appearances by MRC representatives on Fox News Channel tend to be solo, unbalanced, and the MRC spokespeople unidentified as conservative.

Matthew Balan, "CNN Bashes Conservative Ads With 'Industry Insider,' Omits His Far Left Affiliation," Media Research Center, July 2, 2009.

Laurie Bennett, "Conservative media monitor attracts the big bucks," Muckety.com, August 11, 2009.

Retrieved from "http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Media_Research_Center"

Categories: Media | Politics (U.S.) | Conservatives

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Cybercast News Service

From SourceWatch

Cybercast News Service (CNS) is a subsidiary of the conservative news monitoring group, the Media Research Center (MRC). Originally calling itself the "Conservative News Service," CNS changed its name to Cybercast in 2000.[1]

Contents

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1 History

2 Personnel

2.1 Washington News Staff

2.2 Foreign Bureaus

2.3 Regular Columnists

3 Controversies

3.1 Iraqi Intelligence Service documents

3.2 False claim about Paul Begala

3.3 Attack on John Murtha

4 Contact details

5 Related SourceWatch Resources

6 References

7 External links

7.1 2002

7.2 2004

7.3 2005

7.4 2006

7.5 2007

7.6 2008

7.7 GOPUSA News Service

History

CNS was launched on July 16, 1998, by founder Brent Bozell, as an "alternative news service" to mainstream news sources which reports by MRC claim have a "liberal bias."

CNS says it strives to "cover stories that are subject to the bias of omission and report on other news subject to bias by commission," and "endeavors to fairly present all legitimate sides of a story."[2]

In September 2007, Terry Jeffrey, former editor of the conservative weekly Human Events, was named editor-in-chief, replacing David Thibault, who died earlier in the year.[3]

Personnel

Current CNS personnel include[4]:

L. Brent Bozell III, President

Terry Jeffrey - Editor-in-Chief

Michael Chapman - Managing Editor

Patrick Goodenough - International Editor

Craig Bannister, Communications Director

Eric Pairel, Chief Technology Officer

Stuart James, Systems Administrator

Washington News Staff

Melanie Hunter, Senior Editor

Susan Jones, Senior Editor

Randy Hall, Staff Writer/Editor

Pete Winn, Senior Staff Writer

Josiah Ryan, Staff Writer

Fred Lucas, Staff Writer

Kevin Mooney, Staff Writer

Penny Starr, Staff Writer

Nicholas Ballasy, Video Reporter

Foreign Bureaus

Julie Stahl, Jerusalem Bureau Chief

Sergei Blagov, International Correspondent

Eva Cahen, International Correspondent

Mark Mayne, International Correspondent

Kevin McCandless, International Correspondent

Stephen Mbogo, International Correspondent

Deepak Mahaan, International Correspondent

Regular Columnists

Terry Jeffrey

Alan Caruba

Michelle Malkin

Ben Shapiro

Pat Buchanan

Controversies

Iraqi Intelligence Service documents

On October 4, 2004, CNS reported that a "senior government official who is not a political appointee" provided CNS with 42 pages of Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) documents which were then translated from Arabic by two CNS translators. CNS reports that the official told them that the documents answer "whether or not Iraq was a state sponsor of Islamic terrorism against the United States. It also answers whether or not Iraq had an ongoing biological warfare project continuing through the period when the UNSCOM inspections ended."[5] Details can be found at Cybercast News Service: Claim of Hussein's WMD, Ties to Al Qaeda.

False claim about Paul Begala

A July 15, 2005, CNS article claimed that Democratic strategist Paul Begala said that Republicans wanted to kill him and his family. [6] Begala vehemently denied this, claiming that when he said, "They want to kill me and my children if they can," he was referring to terrorists, not Republicans. [7] CNS refused to retract the claim, insisting that "[t]here was nothing unclear about what Begala said."[8] Then-CNS editor in chief David Thibault challenged Begala for his "unmistakable and outrageous coupling of terrorists and Republicans."[9]

Attack on John Murtha

A January 13, 2006, CNS article assailed the military record of Democratic Rep. John Murtha, a former Marine who has heavily criticized the Iraq war. The article quoted people who were either former political opponents of Murtha or who were dead or incapacitated casting aspersions on the two Purple Hearts Murtha earned while serving in the Vietnam War.[10] The next day, the Washington Post repeated the article's allegations.[11] Critics likened the CNS article to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attacks on the war record of Democrat John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign as another example of conservatives attempting to discredit the military credentials of Democrats in order to blunt their criticism of the Iraq war.[12]

Contact details

Cybercast News Service

325 S. Patrick

Alexandria, VA 22314

Phone: 703-683-9733 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 703-683-9733 end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Toll-Free: 877-CNS-NEWS begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 877-CNS-NEWS end_of_the_skype_highlighting

URL: http://www.cnsnews.com/

Related SourceWatch Resources

Cybercast News Service: Claim of Hussein's WMD, Ties to Al Qaeda

Marc Morano

Crosswalk

GOPUSA

Media Research Center

Parents Television Council

Swiftboating John Murtha

Talon News

References

? Terry Krepel, 'Journalistic Window Dressing", ConWebWatch, December 14, 2000.

? "History", Cybercast News Service, accessed March 8, 2008.

? "Terence Jeffrey Joins Cybercast News Service as Editor-in-Chief", Cybercast News Service, September 17, 2007.

? "Staff contacts", Cybercast News Service, accessd March 2008.

? Scott Wheeler, "Exclusive: Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties," CNSNews.com, October 4, 2004.

? Jered Ede, ["Ex-Clinton Aide Charges Republicans 'Want to Kill Us' ",Cybercast News Service, July 15, 2005.

? Paul Begala, "Right-Wingers Don't Want to Kill Me; Just Lie About Me", Campus Progress, July 20, 2005.

? Randy Hall, "Begala Now Says Republicans Want to 'Lie About Us' ", Cybercast News Service, July 22, 2005.

? David Thibault, "Paul Begala Needs a Lesson in Civility", Cybercast News Service, July 25, 2005.

? Marc Morano and Randy Hall, "Murtha's War Hero Status Called Into Question", Cybercast News Service, Janaury 13, 2006.

? Howard Kurtz and Shailagh Murray, "Web Site Attacks Critic of War Opponents, Question Murtha's Medals", Washington Post, January 14, 2006.

? Bob Geiger, Why Do Republicans Hate America's Veterans?', Alternet, June 27, 2006.

External links

2002

Terry Krepel, "The Aborted Debate", ConWebWatch, January 4, 2002.

2004

George Putnam, "One Reporter's Opinion - Fraud on Every Front!" NewsMax, May 28, 2004: [CNS News "feeds" NewsMax]: "A day before this public news conference, I received a report from Scott Wheeler of CNS News. Scott told me of an Iranian man convicted of drug trafficking, also suspected of money laundering and smuggling people from Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Jordan into the U.S."

2005

"Revealing More About Phony 'Voting Rights' Org, GOPUSA Runs CNS Story on GOP Front Group ACVR!," bradblog, March 31, 2005: "As it turns out, Hogenson -- the Founding and Executive Editor of CNS and also (no conflict at all here) the Radio Services Manager at the RNC Press Office! -- is the longtime compadre to one of the two known lead scheisters at ACVR, Jim Dyke. ... Dyke, who has worked hand-in-hand for years in his position at the RNC with Hogenson, was the 2004 RNC Communications Director."

"Chart: Al-Qa`ida's WMD Activities," by Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Research Program at Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, May 13, 2005 (update). Cites: Scott Wheeler, "Evidence Points to Dirty-Bomb Plot," Insight Magazine (World Net Daily), October 29, 2003.

Terry Krepel, "Prolonging the Lie", ConWebWatch, July 29, 2005.

2006

Hunter, "The Murtha-Bashing Cybercast News Service Swarms with Pro-Exxon, Pro-Monsanto Reports, Quotes, and Commentary. Who's Paid to do What?" Political Cortex, January 16, 2006.

Terry Krepel, "A Textbook Example of Conservative Journalism", ConWebWatch, January 18, 2006.

2007

Terry Krepel, "Once and Future Bias", ConWebWatch, November 8, 2007.

2008

Terry Krepel, "Planned Attacks", ConWebWatch, July 17, 2008.

GOPUSA News Service

GOPUSA.com News web page.

"New GOPUSA News Service, Cybercast News, Replaces Talon News; Now Embroiled in Scandal Over Flooding Google News With Identical Jeff Gannon Articles," The Nashua Advocate Blogspot, March 11, 2005.

"Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss: Brent Bozell Supplants Jeff Gannon As Man Most Likely to Be Accused of Involvement in Bush Propaganda Scheme," The Nashua Advocate Blogspot, March 11, 2005.

Retrieved from "http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service"

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Cybercast News Service

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The CNSNews.com (or Cybercast News Service), formerly called the Conservative News Service, is an American news website owned by the Media Research Center. [1]

Contents

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1 Background

2 Washington, D.C. News Staff

3 Controversies

4 References

5 External links

[edit] Background

The site was founded on June 16, 1998 under the name "Conservative News Service", using the domain name conservativenews.org.[2] Back then, it had a three-year budget of $5.46 million, funded entirely by private donations, and a staff of four reporters and two editors.[2] It was later officially named the Cybercast News Service, CNSNews.com.

As of 2007, CNSNews.com described its role as serving an audience which puts a "higher premium on balance than spin" by covering stories that mainstream news organizations ignore.

"In response to these shortcomings, MRC Chairman L. Brent Bozell III founded CNSNews.com in an effort to provide an alternative news source that would cover stories that are subject to the bias of omission and report on other news subject to bias by commission. CNSNews.com endeavors to fairly present all legitimate sides of a story and debunk popular, albeit incorrect, myths about cultural and policy issues." [3]

CNSNews.com's motto is "The Right News. Right now."[4]

CNSNews.com's editor from 1998-2005 was Scott Hogenson, who also worked as the chief of radio operations for the Republican National Committee in 2004. CNSNews.com has staff in Washington, D.C., London, Jerusalem and the Pacific Rim. Editor-in-chief David Thibault (deceased) became top editor in April 2005. He died on July 20, 2007.[5]

Terence P. Jeffrey became editor-in-chief in September 2007. Jeffrey was and remains an editor-at-large for the conservative weekly newspaper Human Events. He wrote editorials for The Washington Times from 1987-1991 and was research director for the presidential campaign of Patrick J. Buchanan in 1992. Jeffrey was Buchanan's national campaign manager in his 1996 campaign.

[edit] Washington, D.C. News Staff

Terry Jeffrey Editor-in-Chief

Michael Chapman Managing Editor

Melanie Hunter Senior Editor

Susan Jones Senior Editor

Pete Winn Staff Writer/Senior Editor

Randy Hall Staff Writer/Editor

Penny Starr Senior Staff Writer

Kevin Mooney Staff Writer

Fred Lucas, Staff Writer

Josiah Ryan Staff Writer

Nicholas Ballasy Video Reporter

Jonathan Schulter Video Producer

[edit] Controversies

A July 15, 2005, CNS article claimed that Democratic strategist Paul Begala said that Republicans wanted to kill him and his family. [6]. (The article is no longer available on the CNS website, but it is summarized by SourceWatch[7], and quoted in full on another website[8].) Begala vehemently denied this, claiming that when he said, "They want to kill me and my children if they can," he was referring to terrorists, not Republicans. [9] CNS refused to retract the claim, insisting that "[t]here was nothing unclear about what Begala said."[10][11] Then-CNS editor in chief David Thibault challenged Begala for his "unmistakable and outrageous coupling of terrorists and Republicans."[12][13]

A January 13, 2006, CNS article assailed the military record of Democratic Rep. John Murtha, a former Marine who has heavily criticized the Iraq war. The article quoted people who were either former political opponents of Murtha or who were dead or incapacitated casting aspersions on the two Purple Hearts Murtha earned while serving in the Vietnam War.[14] The next day, the Washington Post repeated the article's allegations.[15] Critics likened the CNS article to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth attacks on the war record of Democrat John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign as another example of conservatives attempting to discredit the military credentials of Democrats in order to blunt their criticism of the Iraq war.[16]

References

^ Kurtz, Howard; Murray, Shailagh (January 14, 2006). "Web Site Attacks Critic of War". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/13/AR2006011301736.html. Retrieved October 21, 2009.

^ a b Hafner, Katie (1998-06-18). "New Conservative News Site Will Fill a Void, Founder Says". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E6DF1E3DF93BA25755C0A96E958260. Retrieved 2008-07-28.

^ "History of Cybercast News Service". Archived from the original on 2007-08-18. http://web.archive.org/web/20070818184257/http://www.cnsnews.com/corporate/history.asp. Retrieved 2007-09-26.

^ "Main Page". http://www.cnsnews.com. Retrieved 2007-09-26.

^ "David Thibault, RIP: Farewell to a Friend". Archived from the original on 2007-09-04. http://web.archive.org/web/20070904114506/http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=/Commentary/archive/200707/COM20070720d.html. Retrieved 2007-09-26.

^ "Ex-Clinton Aide Charges Republicans 'Want to Kill Us'". Archived from the original on 2007-08-16. http://web.archive.org/web/20070816231546/http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200507/POL20050715a.html. Retrieved 2007-09-26.

^ "False claim about Paul Begala". http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cybercast_News_Service#False_claim_about_Paul_Begala. Retrieved 2009-10-02.

^ "Ex-Clinton Aide Charges Republicans 'Want to Kill Us'". http://forums.cigaraficionado.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9426054/m/757107903. Retrieved 2009-10-02.

^ "Right-Wingers Don't Want to Kill Me; Just Lie About Me". http://www.campusprogress.org/features/406/right-wingers-dont-want-to-kill-me-just-lie-about-me. Retrieved 2007-09-26.

^ "Begala Now Says Republicans Want to 'Lie About Us'". Archived from the original on 2007-05-21. http://web.archive.org/web/20070521015651/http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=%5cPolitics%5carchive%5c200507%5cPOL20050722a.html. Retrieved 2007-09-26.

^ "Begala Now Says Republicans Want to 'Lie About Us'". http://www.gopusa.com/news/2005/july/0722_begalap.shtml. Retrieved 2009-10-02.

^ "Paul Begala Needs a Lesson in Civility". Archived from the original on 2007-05-20. http://web.archive.org/web/20070520223223/http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCommentary.asp?Page=%5cCommentary%5carchive%5c200507%5cCOM20050725a.html. Retrieved 2007-09-26.

^ "Paul Begala Needs a Lesson in Civility". http://www.gopusa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=22067. Retrieved 2009-10-02.

^ "Murtha's War Hero Status Called Into Question". Archived from the original on 2007-09-12. http://web.archive.org/web/20070912091254/http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=%5cSpecialReports%5carchive%5c200601%5cSPE20060113a.html. Retrieved 2007-09-26.

^ Kurtz, Howard; Murray, Shailagh (2006-01-14). "Web Site Attacks Critic of War Opponents, Question Murtha's Medals". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/13/AR2006011301736.html. Retrieved 2007-09-26.

^ "Why Do Republicans Hate America's Veterans?". http://www.alternet.org/story/38145/?comments=view&cID=144586&pID=144362. Retrieved 2007-09-26.

[edit] External links

CNSNews.com

Sourcewatch.org -- SourceWatch entry on CNSNews.com

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybercast_News_Service"

Categories: Internet properties established in 1998 | Conservatism in the United States

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The Media Research Center (MRC) is a conservative media watchdog based in Virginia. Founded in 1987, MRC seeks to expose liberal bias in the media. According to its website, MRCs mission is to bring balance to the news media.

MRCs products include the Cybercast News Service (CNSNews.com), a conservative news site; NewsBusters.org, a blog devoted to media criticism; the Business & Media Institute, which promotes conservative economic principles; and the Culture and Media Institute, which promotes traditional values in the media.

Funder : Purpose Amount Date

Armstrong Foundation $155,500

Media education $30,000 12/30/2007

Media education $25,000 12/31/2006

Media education $15,000 12/31/2005

Media education $10,000 12/31/2005

"Tell the Truth" campaign $25,000 12/31/2004

Free enterprise and media institute/Free Market Project $10,000 12/31/2004

Free enterprise and media institute/Free Market Project $5,500 12/31/2003

Free enterprise and media institute $2,500 12/31/2002

Free enterprise and media institute $2,500 12/31/2001

Free enterprise and media institute $2,500 12/31/2000

Free Enterprise and Media Institute $2,500 12/31/1999

Free Enterprise & Media Institute $25,000 9/15/1998

Brady Education Foundation $20,000

Project support $15,000 1/1/1999

Project support $5,000 1/1/1998

Carthage Foundation $10,000

GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT $10,000 1/1/1997

Castle Rock Foundation $225,000

General operating support $50,000 1/1/2005

General operating support $50,000 1/1/2003

General support. $50,000 1/1/2000

Analyzes and documents the left-wing bias of the media, then shares this information with the media, policy leaders, on the Internet, and through various meetings (usually with members of the media). Gives advice to other conservative organizations on how to market their message. $50,000 1/1/1997

General operating; agency analyzes and documents liberal bias in the broadcast and print media, then shares this information with the media as part of an effort to bring balance to future news and entertainment programs $25,000 1/1/1996

Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation $975

General operating support $975 1/1/2004

Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation $9,030

General operating support $5,000 12/31/2007

General operating support $4,030 12/31/2006

Exxon Mobil Corporation $312,500

$55,000 1/1/2008

$55,000 1/1/2007

$52,500 1/1/2006

$50,000 1/1/2005

$50,000 1/1/2004

$50,000 1/1/2003

F.M. Kirby Foundation $305,000

$40,000 1/1/2007

$35,000 1/1/2006

General support $35,000 1/1/2005

General support $35,000 1/1/2004

General support $35,000 1/1/2003

General support $35,000 1/1/2002

General support $30,000 1/1/2000

General support $30,000 1/1/1999

For The Conservative News Service and the Conservative Communications Center-$10,000 $30,000 1/1/1998

Gilder Foundation $1,500

General support $1,500 12/31/2003

Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation $1,000

Program Support $1,000 1/1/2006

Hickory Foundation $210,000

Charitable $25,000 1/1/2007

General Fund $50,000 1/1/2002

General Fund $25,000 1/1/2001

MRC Legal Defense Fund-General Fund $10,000 1/1/2001

General Fund $25,000 1/1/2000

General Fund $50,000 1/1/1999

General Fund $25,000 1/1/1998

JM Foundation $60,000

$20,000 1/1/2007

Toward educational programs $25,000 1/1/2004

To launch the Parents' Television Council $15,000 1/1/1996

John M. Olin Foundation $495,000

The programs of the Media Research Center $50,000 1/1/2001

The programs of the Media Research Center. $50,000 1/1/2000

The Conservative News Service and general activities of the Center $100,000 1/1/1999

Research and education projects on America's news and entertainment media $100,000 1/1/1998

Research and education projects on America's news and entertainment media $100,000 1/1/1996

The Free Enterprise & Media Institute $50,000 1/1/1995

To support a study on "Free Enterprise, Government, and Television" $25,000 1/1/1992

To support the research division $10,000 1/1/1991

To support MediaWatch newsletter $10,000 1/1/1990

John Templeton Foundation $555,000

Institute on Culture, Media. Personal Responsibility, Character, and Values $300,000 1/1/2007

Institute on Culture, Media, Personal Responsibility, Character, and Values $200,000 1/1/2006

Report: Tort Reform Issues $5,000 1/1/2006

Report: Tort Reform Issues $45,000 1/1/2005

Free Market Project. Media bias about the food industry $5,000 1/1/2005

Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation $1,380,000

To support general operations $250,000 1/1/2007

To support general operations $25,000 1/1/2007

To support the capital campaign $250,000 12/16/2005

To support general operations $25,000 5/10/2005

To support the capital campaign $250,000 12/3/2004

To support the capital campaign $250,000 12/12/2003

To support general operations $150,000 12/13/2002

To support general operations of the Conservative Communications Center $50,000 1/1/1999

To support general operations of the Conservative Communications Center $50,000 10/9/1998

To support the Center's 1991-92 program activities. $45,000 9/24/1991

To support the Center's library program. $35,000 11/15/1990

Orville D. and Ruth A. Merillat Foundation $50,000

General support $25,000 2/28/2001

General support $25,000 2/28/1999

Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation $900,000

Unrestricted Grant to General Fund $100,000 1/1/2007

Unrestricted Grant to General Fund $200,000 1/1/2006

Unrestricted Grant to General Fund $100,000 12/31/2005

Unrestricted Grant to General Fund $100,000 12/31/2004

Unrestricted Grant to General Fund $100,000 12/31/2003

Unrestricted Grant to General Fund $100,000 1/1/2002

Unrestricted Grant to General Fund $100,000 1/1/2000

Unrestricted Grant to General Fund $100,000 1/1/1998

Roe Foundation $11,500

General operating expense $5,000 12/31/2006

General operating fund $2,500 12/31/2005

General operating fund $1,000 12/31/2004

General operating fund $1,000 12/31/2003

General operating fund $1,000 1/1/2002

General operating fund $1,000 1/1/2001

Sarah Scaife Foundation $2,842,000

General operating support $500,000 1/1/2007

General operating support $350,000 1/1/2006

General operating support $350,000 12/31/2005

General operating support $350,000 12/31/2004

General operating support $350,000 12/31/2003

No comment provided $150,000 1/1/2002

No purpose given. $242,000 1/1/2001

No purpose given. $300,000 1/1/2000

No purpose given $100,000 1/1/1999

no description given $150,000 1/1/1998

Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation $92,000

$50,000 1/1/2007

Public Policy $20,000 1/1/2006

Toward MRC's Free Market Project $10,000 1/1/2005

In support of the marketing campaign, Tell the Truth! 2004 $10,000 1/1/2004

America's Media Watchdog $2,000 1/1/2003

William H. Donner Foundation $342,246

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Accuracy in Media (AIM) has grown from a one-person crusade to a million-dollar-a-year operation by attacking the mainstream media for abandoning the principles of "fairness, balance and accuracy" in its reporting. New Right philanthropies, think tanks and media support its work, and many members of its advisory board are former diplomats, intelligence agents and corporate directors.

Contents

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1 Overview

2 Personnel

2.1 Board of Directors (2009)[3]

2.2 Office holders

2.3 National Advisory Board

2.4 Staff

3 Funders

4 Resources and articles

4.1 Related Sourcewatch

4.2 References

5 Contact Information

6 External links

Overview

AIM was founded by Reed Irvine in 1969, when Irvine called for sedition charges to be brought against Students for a Democratic Society, the Black Panthers and the Progressive Labor Party, arguing, "If you're going to halt treason, you've got to do it while it's small." [Village Voice, January 21, 1986]

In the 1970s, Irvine endeared himself to the New Right by alleging that the corporate media were a propaganda tool for the Soviet KGB and Fidel Castro. In 1982, AIM attacked New York Times reporter Raymond Bonner for his reports (later proven accurate--see Extra!, January/February 1993) about the El Mozote massacre. Along with the Wall Street Journal editorial page, AIM succeeded in pressing the Times to pull Bonner from his Salvadoran beat.

[[800 KIA civilians; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mozote_massacre:

News of the massacre first appeared in the world media on January 27, 1982, in reports published by The New York Times[13]and The Washington Post. Raymond Bonner wrote in the Times of seeing "the charred skulls and bones of dozens of bodies buried under burned-out roofs, beams, and shattered tiles."[13] The villagers gave Bonner a list of 733 names—mostly children, women, and old people—all of whom, they claimed, had been murdered by government soldiers.[13][14]

Alma Guillermoprieto of the Post, who visited the village separately a few days later, wrote of "dozens of decomposing bodies still seen beneath the rubble and lying in nearby fields, despite the month that has passed since the incident ... countless bits of bones—skulls, rib cages, femurs, a spinal column—poked out of the rubble."[15]

Both reporters cited Rufina Amaya, a witness who had escaped into a tree during the attack. She told the reporters that the army had killed her husband and her four children, the youngest of whom was eight months old, and then lit the bodies on fire.[13]

The conservative press-watch organization Accuracy in Media accused the Times and Post of timing their stories to release them just before the congressional debate; five months later, Accuracy in Media devoted an entire edition of its AIM Report to Bonner, in which its editor Reed Irvine declared that "Mr. Bonner had been worth a division to the communists in Central America".[15] Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Thomas Enders attacked Bonner and Guillermoprieto before a Senate committee, stating that though there had been a battle between guerrillas and the army, "no evidence could be found to confirm that government forces systematically massacred civilians." Enders also repeated the claim that only 300 people had lived in Mozote, making it impossible for the death toll to have reached that reported in the Times and Post stories.[16] On February 8, Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, told the committee that "it appears to be an incident that is at least being significantly misused, at the very best, by the guerrillas".[17]Salvadoran army and government leaders denied the reports and officials of the Reagan administration called them "gross exaggerations."[15] The Associated Press reported that "the U.S. Embassy disputed the reports, saying its own investigation had found ... that no more than 300 people had lived in El Mozote."[14]..apologized in 2011

In February, in an editorial titled "The Media's War", The Wall Street Journal criticized Bonner's reporting as "overly credulous" and "out on a limb". In Time magazine,William A. Henry III wrote a month later: "An even more crucial if common oversight is the fact that women and children, generally presumed to be civilians, can be active participants in guerrilla war. New York Times correspondent Raymond Bonner underplayed that possibility, for example, in a much-protested January 27 report of a massacre by the army in and around the village of Mozote."[15] U.S. Ambassador Deane Hinton called Bonner an "advocate journalist".[18] Bonner was recalled to New York in August and later left the paper.[15]

Although attacked less vigorously than Bonner, Alma Guillermoprieto was also a target of criticism. A Reagan official wrote a letter to the Post stating that she had once worked for a communist newspaper in Mexico, a claim which Guillermoprieto denied.[15]]]

Irvine later called for napalm to be used against FMLN guerrillas in El Salvador. (AIM Report, March 1990). During the Gulf War, he encouraged a nuclear strike against Iraq. [Seattle Times, January 16, 1991]

With the end of the Cold War, AIM now assails environmentalists as the "infiltrators" of the media establishment. Critical reports about industries that fund AIM--such as chemical and oil interests--ara a frequent target of AIM critiques.

During the Clinton era, alleged conspiracies related to the Democratic president were a frequent topic in AIM's work--particularly the notion that Vince Foster was not a suicide but a victim of foul play. AIM charged that Republicans, including independent counsel Kenneth Starr, were somehow complicit in covering up Clinton's plots; discussing Hillary Rodham Clinton's notion of a "vast right-wing conspiracy," Irvine retorted that "the only conspiracy I knew of was the conspiracy of the Republican leadership to protect Bill Clinton." [AIM Report, February 1998]

AIM has been criticized as a censorious group eager to silence voices it disagrees with and disdainful of the First Amendment. The group for a time offered as a donation premium Target America, written by AIM board member James L. Tyson, a book advocating that government "ombudsmen" police major-network newscasts for "accuracy" and "fairness". [1]

Reed Irvine suffered a stroke in 2003 and died in November 2004. His son, Don Irvine, succeeded him as AIM chairman.

In October 2008, AIM launched a website promoting a boycott of the New York Times, edited by Don Feder.[1]

AIM operates Accuracy in Academia, founded in 1985 as an outgrowth of AIM. AIM also operates the American Journalism Center, which it describes as "an intense internship training program for aspiring journalists and students seeking careers in the public relations and/or marketing fields. Most of our interns will work in the offices of Accuracy In Media and Accuracy In Academia for the duration of their internship."[2]

Personnel

Board of Directors (2009)[3]

Don Irvine, Chairman (also heads Parents and Grandparents Alliance)

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Bethlehem Steel

Carthage Foundation; see Scaife Foundations

Chevron

Ciba-Geigy

Coors Foundation

Dressor Industries

Exxon

Lawrence Fertig Foundation

Getty Oil

Horizon Oil and Gas

IBM

Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical

F.M. Kirby Foundation

Mobil Foundation

Pepsico

Phillips PetroleumCompany

Smith Richardson Charitable Trust; also see Smith Richardson Foundation

Texaco Philanthropic Foundation

Union Carbide

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Key personnel

Brent Bozell, President and CEO

Right-wing pedigree

Media Transparency describes[5] L. Brent Bozell III as "a zealot of impeccable right-wing pedigree. He is the nephew of columnist William F. Buckley and the son of L. Brent Bozell, Jr., who assisted Barry Goldwater with the writing of Conscience of a Conservative. He was the chief fund-raiser behind Pat Buchanan's unsuccessful bid for the Republican Presidential nomination in 1992."

Smear campaigns

According to Media Transparency, Bozell helped orchestrate the smear campaign directed at the opposition to Clarence Thomas's appointment to the Supreme Court in 1991. During the 2004 elections Bozell launched a 2.8 million dollar campaign to discredit[6] the "liberal media".

Bozell's August 29, 2004, column[7] on the eve of the Republican National Convention attempted to smear John Kerry by accusing him of "soldier-smearing", for having reported, during his 1971 Congressional testimony, on atrocities being committed in Vietnam.

run by Bozell, co author with buckley Big Lies 36

6 mil annual budget

aim 3, MRC 2, Ctr for Media and Public Affairs #1 L-N hits 38

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Media_and_Public_Affairs

CMPA's signature activity is its "rapid response" studies of media coverage of current issues, which appear quickly enough to influence ongoing public debates, such as presidential campaigns, Senate confirmation hearings, and major policy debates in Congress.[11][12][13]

Although CMPA avoids taking stands on political issues, its studies have sometimes become part of the public debate over the media's role in politics and society. For example, in 1992 a CMPA study found that the average length of a presidential candidate's soundbite on the evening news had dropped to less than ten seconds, down from 42 seconds in 1968. In response CBS adopted a policy requiring longer soundbites on the CBS Evening News.[14]Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky note that the CMPA, along with several other nonpartisan non-profit organizations, help to police the media through the creation of "flak," which they define as "negative responses to a media statement or program" and which they maintain is part of a project of "disciplining the media." [15]

CMPA studies of entertainment media have been used by members of the United States Congress such as Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) in their efforts to reduce gratuitous violence and sex in television entertainment.[16] CMPA's research on entertainment media has also included studies of how various groups have been portrayed on television, such as studies of Hispanic Americans' portrayals commissioned by the National Council of La Raza and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.[17]

[edit] Funding

The media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) has challenged CMPA's non-partisan claim, based on the argument that much of its funding has come from conservative sources, and that its founder, Dr. S. Robert Lichter, once held a chair in mass communications at the American Enterprise Institute and was a Fox News contributor.[18][19] After a Washington Post article referred to CMPA as "conservative," the Post published a "Clarification," which concluded, "The Center describes itself as nonpartisan, and its studies have been cited by both conservative and liberal commentators."[20]

Progressive organization MediaTransparency (now run by Media Matters for America, itself a liberal organization[21]) documented that between 1986 and 2005 CMPA received 55 grants totaling $2,960,916 (unadjusted for inflation). The organization, which collated information from returns filed by numerous conservative foundations, claimed that 86% of CMPA's total funding came from conservative-leaning foundations.[citation needed] In response to Media Transparency's claims, CMPA posted on its website a listing of $1,766,500 in grants received from 19 "non-conservative" and centrist foundations and non-profit organizations. [22]

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Foundation funding

Media Transparency documents that between 1986 and 2005 CMPA received 55 grants totaling $2,960,916 (unadjusted for inflation).[6] The data reveals that the overwhelming proportion of CMPA's funding comes from conservative foundations.

The funding information, covering 1986-2005, lists the following donors (note: all figures are unadjusted for inflation):

Carthage Foundation, part of the Scaife Foundations - $512,000 from 8 donations

the Earhart Foundation contributed $120,000 in six grants between 1999 and 2003;

John M. Olin Foundation - $730,000 from 15 donations between 1986 and 2001;

Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation - $250,000 nine grants over the period between 1989 and 1995;

Sarah Scaife Foundation, part of the Scaife Foundations - $760,000 from 9 donations spanning the period between 1991 and 2003; and

Smith Richardson Foundation - $416,916 from 3 donations between 1998 and 2001;

Thus, out of the total of $2,960,916 in foundation grants, nearly all of it ($2,668,916) came from just four sources: the John M. Olin, Scaife, and Smith Richardson foundations. In other words, CMPA received 86% of its foundation funding from those four donors. Here is a sample of other right-wing causes funded by these 3 donors, as listed by their respective SourceWatch articles:

John M. Olin Foundation - American Enterprise Institute, Project for the New American Century

Scaife Foundations - American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation

Smith Richardson Foundation - American Enterprise Institute, Hudson Institute

According to Salon journalist Joe Conason, the availability of this information does not indicate an openness on the part of the Center for Media and Public Affairs. In a Jan 2003 exchange of views with Lichter, Conason said "The IRS form 990 returns filed by [Lichter's] center redacts the names of all the individuals and organizations that contribute to it, thereby concealing them from public scrutiny. But the watchdogs at Media Transparency have collated the 990 returns filed by the conservative foundations, which disclose their contributions to Lichter's outfit."[3]

As at February 2008, the CMPA website contains no information about the Center's sources of funding.

Personnel

Office Bearers

S. Robert Lichter, President,

David Gergen, Director

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Baker is the Steven P.J. Wood Senior Fellow and Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center (MRC), has been the central figure in the MRC’s News Division since the MRC’s 1987 founding. In late 2001, Weekly Standard Executive Editor Fred Barnes dubbed Baker "the scourge of liberal bias."

For 13 years, Baker compiled and edited the daily CyberAlert, an often-cited, daily e-mail and online report on national media coverage of politics he created in 1996. In late May of 2009 the CyberAlert became an e-mail-only product based on BiasAlert postings on the MRC's Web site. More than 40,000 people subscribe, including influential media and political figures. In June of 2005, CyberAlert reached its 2,000th edition with an issue highlighting the 20 most humorous items from the first nine years.

Baker spearheaded the MRC's launch, in August 2005, of the NewsBusters.org blog for which he now serves as Editor. Check here for his blog postings.Follow Baker via Twitter.

He also serves Editor of Notable Quotables, a two-page newsletter which delivers a bi-weekly compilation of quotes from the liberal media which reflect biased reporting. From 1988 to 1999 he also oversaw MediaWatch, a monthly and later bi-weekly newsletter which the MRC discontinued in order to concentrate efforts on more timely analysis via the Internet... off bio

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NEWSBUSTERS

Executive Editor

Matthew Sheffield

Editor at Large

Brent Baker

Senior Editors

Tim Graham

Rich Noyes

Managing Editor

Ken Shepherd

Associate Editor

Noel Sheppard

Contributing Editors

Tom Blumer

Geoffrey Dickens

Dan Gainor

David Limbaugh

Mithridate Ombud

Clay Waters

Scott Whitlock

Senior Contributor

Mark Finkelstein

Contributing Writers

Matthew Balan

Michael M. Bates

Erin R. Brown

Jack Coleman

Kyle Drennen

Douglas Ernst

P. J. Gladnick

Stephen Gutowski

Matt Hadro

D. S. Hube

Kathleen McKinley

Dave Pierre

Amy Ridenour

Julia A. Seymour

Terry Trippany

Rusty Weiss

Brad Wilmouth

Publisher

Brent Bozell

Site Design

Dialog New Media

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NewsBusters

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The NewsBusters blog is a project of the Media Research Center (MRC). It has a goal to "provide immediate exposure of liberal media bias, insightful analysis, constructive criticism and timely corrections to news media reporting."[1]

NewsBusters also hosts a webcast called "NewsBusted," which it calls "the freshest comedy on the Web making fun of liberals and the media."[2]

Contents

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1 Personnel

2 Contact Information

3 Articles and Resources

3.1 Sources

3.2 Related SourceWatch Resources

3.3 External links

Personnel

Matthew Sheffield - Editor

Brent Baker - Editor At Large

Tim Graham - Senior Editor

Rich Noyes - Senior Editor

Ken Shepherd - Managing Editor

Noel Sheppard - Associate Editor

Contact Information

Website: http://www.newsbusters.org

Email: newsbusters AT mediaresearch.org

Articles and Resources

Sources

? 1.0 1.1 "About NewsBusters.org", NewsBusters, accessed February 2008.

? "Two New Episodes Now Online of MRC's 'NewsBusted' Comedy Show", Media Research Center, November 2, 2007.

Related SourceWatch Resources

Brent Bozell

Cybercast News Service

Mark Finkelstein

External links

Terry Krepel, "NewsBusted", ConWebWatch, September 22

NewsBusted

The Media Research Center starts a blog -- which is just as biased and questionably sourced as the regular MRC stuff.

By Terry Krepel

Posted 9/22/2005

What a difference a year makes.

In July 2004, Media Research Center chief Brent Bozell was mocking the bloggers and other online sources (including ConWebWatch) used by David Brock in his book "The Republican Noise Machine," smearing them (and us) as "fringe radical left-wing activists." (Full disclosure: I work for Brock's Media Matters for America. And the challenge still stands for Bozell to name anything at ConWebWatch that is "fringe radical left-wing activist.")

Now, the MRC has its own blog -- NewsBusters, with the slogan "Exposing and Combating Liberal Media Bias," launched in early August. The MRC hired Matthew Sheffield and Greg Sheffield, brothers who were behind the Dan Rather-bashing site RatherBiased.com, to run it. The MRC claims that NewsBusters' goal is "to have NewsBusters play a leading role in blog media criticism by becoming the clearinghouse for all evidence of liberal media bias by joining to this formidable information store the contributions of already-established netizens as well as those who want to join in the web revolution." Indeed, many of NewsBusters' contributors aren't MRC employees (though the usual suspects, such as Tim Graham and Brent Baker, post regularly).

And therein lies a problem. Some of NewsBusters' contributors are so eager to smear that distortions and outright falsehoods make their way in -- which is surprising since you'd think that the MRC would want to enforce some sort of standard of accuracy on its contributors.

We got a glimpse of what to expect from NewsBusters in the first few days of its operation with its biased sendoffs for dead journalists. It served up headlines like "Pro-war Iraq journalist Steven Vincent, RIP" ("Unlike many (most?) journos covering the war in Iraq, Vincent supported the invasion," poster Clay Waters of MRC's TimesWatch noted) and "David Shaw, RIP" (Shaw wrote a series claiming that news coverage of abortion was tilted toward the "pro-choice" view), the death of ABC's Peter Jennings got only the headline "Peter Jennings Dies" and no "RIP" tag.

One offender is Vinny Fiore. In an Aug. 10 post making a NewsMax-like defense of Jeanine Pirro, candidate for Hillary Clinton's New York Senate seat and, thus a conservative darling -- ConWebWatch has already documented NewsMax's love affair with Pirro -- misleadingly describes what President Clinton did in his Whitewater investigation-related testimony: "It is common knowledge that what Clinton did was commit perjury before a Grand Jury." Well, no. Perjury has a specific legal definition, and to be a perjurer, one must have been convicted of perjury. Lying under oath is not necessarily perjury. As Fiore himself later writes, Clinton was found in civil contempt of court, not perjury.

Another Fiore post, from Aug. 28, claims that antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan is "insisting" that "America is not a country worth dying for." But those aren't the words she said; rather, she said, "This country is not worth dying for," and there's evidence that the country Sheehan was talking about was Iraq, not the United States.

If this seems like nitpicking, note that later in his post, Fiore engages in similar hair-splitting, berating Sheehan for making what he called "obvious misstatements" about President Bush. After quoting Sheehan as saying that Bush "always said that if you are not for us, you are against us," Fiore adds: "Bush has never said the above in relation to the American public. He has always said, though, to governments that do not take a proactive hand in defeating terrorism, that 'Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorist [sic].'"

A Sept. 4 post by Fiore follows the Bush party line in bashing Reuters for daring to suggest Bush has any responsibility for the Katrina aftermath. He concludes: "It is why sites like NewsBusters, and the site that led me to this story, Little Green Footballs, are so integral to getting the facts as they exist."

ConWebWatch has previously noted Fiore's erroneous, alarmist claims that run contrary to "the facts as they exist" about Social Security.

Speaking of following the Bush party line, a Sept. 15 post by Noel Sheppard ("an economist, business owner and contributing writer for the Free Market Project," operated by the MRC) claimed that a Newsweek article "offered some dubious and misleading conclusions about America’s poverty rate" by noting that "after a decade of improvement in the 1990s, poverty in America is actually getting worse." As a rebuttal, Sheppard cited a report Sheppard wrote for the Free Market Project that heavily spun poverty numbers to make President Bush look good. "[T]he 2004 Census Bureau survey indicated that poverty in America is actually lower than the average rate achieved during the decade of the '90s," Sheppard wrote.

By comparing current poverty rates to a 10-year average of the 1990s, Sheppard obscures the fact -- also depicted in the census data -- that the poverty rate went down each year of the Clinton presidency and has increased each year of Bush's presidency. In other words, Newsweek was telling the truth, and Sheppard didn't want anyone to know it.

Sheppard has been promoting his new favorite pollster, Rasmussen Reports. In a Sept. 17 post citing a Rasmussen poll putting President Bush's approval rating several points higher than the record-low ratings cited by other pollsters, Sheppard claimed that "few media outlets pay attention to the poll conducted on a daily basis by Rasmussen Reports. Could it be that Rasmussen's numbers don't mirror the negativity of the other polling groups?" In a Sept. 18 post, Sheppard claims that "regardless of how accurately Rasmussen Reports predicted the 2004 election results, America's media continue to ignore their polling data."

As ConWebWatch has detailed, the reason Rasmussen doesn't get much mainstream play is that it produces conservative-skewed results, having been promoted by the likes of WorldNetDaily. That conservative-friendly 'tude is, presumably, the real reason Sheppard is so infatuated with Rasmussen.

Sheppard's defensive mechanisms are a reminder of what the MRC is ultimately all about: Protecting Republicans comes before telling the truth.

How far into the tank for Bush is NewsBusters? It's perhaps the only place where you'll read a defense of slow-to-react, thinly qualified (and eventually ousted) FEMA head Michael Brown. A Sept. 9 post by "political commentator" Dustin Hawkins takes issue with a Time magazine piece on Brown:

While accusing Brown of both padding his resume and having no emergency management expience [sic] prior to becoming FEMA head, TIME simply doesn't acknowledge his work as having "served as FEMA's Deputy Director and the agency's General Counsel. Shortly after the September 11th terrorist attacks, Mr. Brown served on the President's Consequence Management Principal's Committee, which acted as the White House's policy coordination group for the federal domestic response to the attacks." Nor does TIME mention his handling of some 150+ handling of other declared disasters and emergencies prior to Hurricane Katrina and the job he did.

The NewsBusters denizens are as eager to smear liberals as they are to rush to Bush's defense. An Aug. 26 post by Dan Gainor (whose day job is director of the MRC's Free Market Project) implies that concerns that a mercury-based preservative in children's vaccines are linked to autism are merely "radical environmentalist claims" and a "left-wing crusade." In fact, articles at NewsMax and WorldNetDaily -- not known for being radical environmentalists -- have also advanced the claim.

For instance, a June 2003 WND article, reproduced from the late Moonie-owned magazine Insight (also not known for radical environmentalism), claimed that "vast majority of finger-pointing [about the causes of autism] has been directed at childhood vaccines as the culprit." And an April 2003 NewsMax column by Michael Arnold Glueck and Robert J. Cihak -- Cihak is a past president of the conservative Association of American Physicians and Surgeons -- quoted a study that found "a strong correlation ... between dosage of thimerosal from childhood vaccines and the incidence of autism, speech disorders, and cardiac arrest."

Of course, there's the requisite bashing of the mainstream media (or MSM in conservative parlance). Greg Sheffield was quick to bash CBS News' attempt at starting a blog, insisting in a Sept. 12 post that it "will devolve into a way for CBS to finally respond to charges made against it in the blogosphere." Sheffield doesn't say why it's a bad thing for CBS to have a blog-like forum to respond to bloggers.

Tim Graham commented in an Aug. 29 post on labeling at the Washington Post: "Ever notice how liberals like the Posties won't use 'pro-life' too much, because that would be calling the liberals 'anti-life'? Or they use 'anti-abortion,' but almost never 'pro-abortion'?"

Has Graham ever looked down the hall at his colleagues at CNSNews.com? A CNS article that very day used the terms "pro-abortion" and "pro-lifers" -- the same (though reversed) type of labeling bias Graham accuses the Post of engaging in (and ConWebWatch has documented). You'd think that since they're all in the same building, Graham would have better luck convincing his CNS co-workers to avoid engaging in labeling bias.

Of course, Graham is a senior editor for NewsBusters, and we see no inclination that he has enforced any sort of standards there beyond the MRC mantra of running defense for Bush and screaming "liberal bias!" on a regular basis.

And we haven't said a thing until now about "Gaggle," Greg Sheffield's comic strip that not only trades in lame liberal stereotypes, it has forgotten the basic mission of a comic strip: being funny.

, 2005.

Terry Krepel, "Swing to the Right", ConWebWatch, August 29, 2006.

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Rich Noyes, the MRC’s Research Director and a senior editor at NewsBusters.org, is responsible for supervising media analysts and researching and writing MRC Special Reports. He is also one of the editors of Notable Quotables, MRC’s bi-weekly compilation of the latest outrageous, sometimes humorous, quotes in the liberal media, and theMedia Reality Check, MRC's regular report on stories that the media distort or ignore.

After joining the MRC in 1999, Mr. Noyes co-edited, with economist Stephen Moore,Dollars & Nonsense: Correcting the News Media's Top Economic Myths, a book of essays by leading economists designed to illustrate and correct the economic illiteracy pervading much of the liberal media. He has written several in-depth studies on media bias, including:

TV's Tea Party Travesty: How ABC, CBS and NBC Have Dismissed and Disparaged the Tea Party Movement

Better Off Red? Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Recalling the Liberal Media's Blindness to the Evils of Communism

Cheerleaders for the Revolution: Network Coverage of Barack Obama’s First 100 Days

Obama’s Margin of Victory = The Media: How Barack Obama Could Not Have Won the Democratic Nomination Without ABC, CBS and NBC

The Media vs. The War on Terror: How ABC, CBS, and NBC Attack America’s Terror-Fighting Tactics as Dangerous, Abusive and Illegal

TV’s Bad News Brigade: ABC, CBS and NBC’s Defeatist Coverage of the War in Iraq

The Liberal Media: Every Poll Shows Journalists Are More Liberal than the American Public — And the Public Knows It

Clamoring for Kyoto: The Networks One-Sided Coverage of Global Warming

Mr. Noyes has discussed the media’s liberal bias on the Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC and a variety of radio talk shows, and has authored articles which have appeared in the New York Post, Investor’s Business Daily and Human Events.

Before he arrived the Media Research Center, Mr. Noyes studied the media at the Center for Media and Public Affairs, where he co-authored two books: The Video Campaign: Network Coverage of the 1988 Primaries, and Good Intentions Make Bad News: Why Americans Hate Campaign Journalism, published in 1995. He has also written for the Journal of Political Science, the American Enterprise, Forbes MediaCritic, and Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper.

A native of Agawam, Massachusetts, Mr. Noyes obtained a bachelor’s degree in political science from the George Washington University in 1987, and earned a master’s degree from Georgetown University in 1990. He currently lives in Falls Church, Virginia.

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http://archive.mrc.org/bmi/about/about.aspx

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About the Business and Media Institute

“Finally there is an organized effort to put an end to the embarrassing media bias against the free market – and we can thank the folks at BMI for it. From oil price reality checks to the underreported success of the most recent tax cuts, Business & Media Institute gets it done.”

Vicki McKenna, host, “Upfront w/Vicki McKenna”

News/Talk 1310 WIBA, Madison, Wis.

Journalists are challenged every day to make sense of complicated business and economic issues. The Business & Media Institute (formerly the Free Market Project) aims to help the media do that essential job as well as possible and to monitor their performance.

According to a survey by the National Council on Economic Education, 79% of Americans get the majority of their economic information from television. The study determined that an astounding 61% of the general public could not answer questions about basic economic concepts. These results show that most Americans do not understand or appreciate our nation's dynamic free enterprise system. Unfortunately, the single most powerful cultural force in America – the news and entertainment media – often don't either. Even good journalists, who are bombarded with mountains of information daily, need a helping hand to have an informed understanding of our nation’s free enterprise system.

Before the Media Research Center (MRC) launched the Business & Media Institute (BMI) in 1992, there was no entity in America devoted solely to analyzing and exposing the anti-free enterprise culture of the media. With the BMI in operation, that void has been filled.

The mission of BMI is to audit the media’s coverage of the free enterprise system. It is our goal to bring balance to economic reporting and to promote fair portrayal of the business community in the media. Providing resources for journalists, such as connections to sources who can speak intelligently about the economy, is one way we pursue this end. BMI is the economics division of the Media Research Center, and it is the only organization in the world dedicated to the unique challenge of correcting misconceptions about free enterprise in the media.

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Julia Seymour – Assistant Editor/Analyst

Julia A. Seymour is an assistant editor/analyst for the Business & Media Institute. MRC She analyzes media coverage, edits and writes for The Business & Media Institute. She is also responsible for sending out important BMI stories to subscribers of The Balance Sheet, and has written Special Reports including Global Warming Censored, UnCritical Condition, Networks Hide the Decline in Credibility of Climate Change Science and Obama the Tax Cutter.

Seymour has appeared on Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network and the Christian Broadcasting Network and has been an in-studio guest on the G. Gordon Liddy Show. She has also done hundreds of radio interviews on a wide-range of topics with stations in more than 30 states as well as many nationally syndicated programs. Her work has appeared or been mentioned by radio host Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, The Drudge Report, WorldNetDaily, USA Today, CNBC.com, Motley Fool and “Ted, White and Blue” by Ted Nugent. Prior to joining BMI in 2006, she was a staff writer for Accuracy in Academia where she wrote daily articles about bias in lower and higher education and contributed to the book “The Real MLA Stylebook.” She holds a B.S. in Mass Communications: Print Journalism from Liberty University. Seymour lives in Northern Virginia.

Email Julia Seymour: jseymour@mrc.org

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see MRC for later (newsbusters earlier?)

wow, still around

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https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/hans-bader/liberal-ags-climate-change-witchhunt-expands-include-more-innocent-victims

commentary (prophyactiv?]

Liberal AG’s Climate Change Witch-Hunt Expands to Include More Innocent Victims

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The investigation is brought by people who are know-nothings when it comes to the First Amendment.

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