The Media Research Center has a new group blog, NewsBusters, headed by Matthew and Greg Sheffield, described on the “about” page as “the creators of the creators of the influential web site RatherBiased.com.” Um, OK…
We can see that ol’ MRC bias slipping in already: Dead conservative-friendly journalists are getting a better sendoff than dead journalists the MRC doesn’t like. Thus, NewsBusters serves 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 gets only the headline “Peter Jennings Dead.”
Apparently, the MRC doesn’t want Jennings to rest in peace.