Romenesko gleans the latest IRS nonprofit group reports to find the salaries and assets of media watchdog groups. Turns out the MRC is doing quite well: The conservative Media Research Center —…
Tag: Brent Baker
Flashback: MRC Minimized Groping Allegations Against Schwarzenegger
This week’s revelation that Arnold Schwarzenegger has a secret love child caused us to wonder (h/t Romenesko): What did the Media Research Center do in 2003 when the Los Angeles Times reported…
Fellow Conservatives Call Out NewsBusters For False Claim
It’s rare for conservative websites to point out another website’s errors, but that’s what NewsBusters is currently on the receiving end of. A Feb. 25 NewsReal post by David Forsmark points out…
MRC Ignores Own Out-of-Context Attacks To Bash NY Times
NewsBusters’ Lachlan Markay penned an open letter to the New York Times demanding a correction of columnist Paul Krugman’s claim that Rep. Michele Bachmann once said that she wants her constituents “armed…
MRC Shoots the Messenger
A Sept. 18 Media Research Center item (and NewsBusters post) by Brent Baker goes the shoot-the-messenger route in its continued protection of Republican Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell. In it, Baker dismisses…
MRC Launches Campaign to Bully Media
All week, the Media Research Center had been teasing a “major announcement” by Brent Bozell and the Media Research Center. Well, it finally happened on Sept. 15 via webcast. The MRC has…
NewsBusters vs. Journalism
Media Matters’ Jamison Foser highlights a couple new examples of hostility to journalism at NewsBusters: As Foser detailed, Dickens seems to think that Veiera should only have asked why tax cuts were…
MRC’s Baker Offended Amanpour Won’t Falsely Smear Rauf
Brent Baker uses a September 8 NewsBusters post to attack ABC’s Christiane Amanpour for allegedly serving as a “public relations agent” to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf by spending “several hours” with him…
ConWeb All Over the Map on Quran-Burning Pastor
The ConWeb just can’t seem to figure out a consistent stand on Quran-burning pastor Terry Jones. It seems that every attempt to criticize it is countered with an instance of condoning it….
MRC’s Baker Misleads About Iraq War Coverage
An Aug. 21 NewsBusters post by Brent Baker purports to detail how “The peaceful departure of the last U.S. combat forces from Iraq this week was another milestone towards the successful end…