Clay Waters dedicated a June 28 MRC TimesWatch post to whining that that a “smug” Ben Smith of Buzzfeed.com appeared on a New York Times web video, in which he was “mocking…
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MRC Is Unhappy That NY Times Is Reporting the Truth About George Allen
We’ve detailed how the Media Research Center’s “Tell the Truth” campaign doesn’t apply to news organizations that tell the truth about Republican candidates — in those cases, the MRC very much does…
At the MRC, Context Is ‘Spin’
We’ve detailed how NewsBusters insists on putting the words of conservatives in their proper context, but if you insist on putting, say, President Obama’s words in context, you’re simply making excuses for…
MRC Upset That NY Times Is Covering News
In a May 2 MRC TimesWatch item, Clay Waters accuses the New York Times of having “a clear Rupert Murdoch obsession” because of its front-page coverage of News Corp. scandals. Waters notes…
MRC Doesn’t Like the Media Telling the Truth
We’ve detailed how the Media Research Center’s “Tell the Truth” campaign is curiously hostile to anyone who actually does. It does so again in a TimesWatch item by Clay Waters. Waters uses…
NewsBusters Still Won’t Criticize Limbaugh’s Misogyny
We’ve documented how the writers at NewsBusters — presumably following the dictates of Media Research Center — can’t offer even the slightest bit of criticism of Rush Limbaugh’s vitriolic, misogynistic attack on…
MRC Still Complaining That Reporting on CPAC Uses the Word ‘Conservative’
Remember last weekend, when the MRC’s Clay Waters was upset that the New York Times labeled a conservative gathering as a conservative gathering and the conservatives who attended it conservative as well?…
MRC Complains That NY Times Article On CPAC Uses The Word ‘Conservative’
We are not making this up. From a Feb. 10 NewsBusters post by Clay Waters: New York Times reporters Michael Shear (pictured) and Erik Eckholm filed an 1,189-word dispatch Friday from the…
MRC Upset That NY Times Fact-Checked Romney
The Media Research Center may be running a “Tell the Truth!” campaign, but as we’ve documented, it opposes telling the truth when it comes to Republican presidential candidates. The latest example is…
MRC: NY Times ‘Mars Memory of Cracker Barrel Founder’ By Telling the Truth
The Media Research Center, it seems, can’t handle the truth. A Jan. 19 MRC TimesWatch item by Clay Waters carries the headline “No Rest in Peace for Gay Rights: Times Mars Memory…