The Media Research Center’s Clay Waters is desperately trying to ignore reality on the Todd Akin controversy. In an Aug. 23 MRC TimesWatch item, Waters complains that the New York Times is…
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MRC Still Defending Taking Obama Out of Context
The Media Research Center has long defended taking President Obama’s “you didn’t build that” comments out of context. The latest excuse: grammar. In an Aug. 10 MRC TimesWatch post, Clay Waters berates…
MRC Is Mad That Article About Conservatives Uses The Word ‘Conservative’
Last February, the Media Research Center’s Clay Waters was upset that a New York Times article about a gathering of conservatives uses the word “conservative.” He’s at it again in an Aug….
MRC’s Funhouse Mirror: Fox’s Right-Wing Bias Demonstrates Rest of Media’s Liberal Bias
It’s logic that could only apply at the Media Research Center: Fox News’ obsession with reporting only negative news about President Obama doesn’t mean it has a right-wing bias, it means the…
MRC Mad That It’s Pointed Out Right-Wingers Say ‘Totally Insane’ Things
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…
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…