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?…
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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…
MRC Complains That Conservative Christians Are Labeled As Conservative Christians
Apparently, when you’re writing a story about conservative Christians, you’re not supposed to identify them as such. That’s the attitude Clay Waters is taking in a Jan. 9 MRC TimesWatch item, in…
MRC Condones Sexist Behavior As Long As It’s Not Worse Than What Muslims Do
In the midst of a Dec. 14 TimesWatch tirade criticizing New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman for committing the offense of saying something less than laudatory about Israel, the Media Research Center’s…
MRC Admits Social Security-Ponzi Scheme Is Bogus — But Runs With It Anyway
Slavishly toeing the conservative line, the Media Research Center has embraced the erroneous idea that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme — so much so that it lashes out anyone who proves…
MRC Has Trouble Admitting Conservative Website Broke Bachmann Story
The story of Michele Bachmann’s migraines has been the sensation of the week in the political world, but the Media Research Center has had trouble dealing with one inconvenient fact: The story…
Flashback: When The MRC Whitewashed News of the World Scandal
Over the past week, the Media Research Center has been utterly silent about the planet’s biggest journalism scandal: the widespread phone-hacking conducted by the British newspaper News of the World, a scandal…
MRC Loves Conservatives’ Insults Hurled At NY Times Editor
In a July 6 MRC TimesWatch post, Clay Waters reveled in the insults heaped upon New York Times editor Bill Keller in a recent letters section, touting how “The latest edition of…