Bill Nye is promoting science, and the Media Research Center is not only not happy, it’s being petulant about it. In an April 25 post, Aly Nielsen rather lamely tried to denigrate…
Tag: Dan Gainor
Bozell’s MRC Bashed Hillary’s Lack of Pressers, Now Hopes Trump Never Holds Another One
For much of the 2016 campaign, the Media Research Center — despite a nonprofit tax status that prohibits it from explicit involvement in politics — repeatedly attacked Hillary Clinton for not holding…
MRC’s Gainor Redefines Fake News To Attack ‘Liberal Media’
The Media Research Center has had trouble dealing with the issue of fake news getting Donald Trump elected president — in particular, its own enthusiastic promotion of a false Fox News story…
MRC Getting Into The Right-Wing-Screed Business
The Media Research Center seems to be getting further and further away from all that “media research” stuff (not that they’re all that good at it) and is moving toward hateful right-wing…
The Hateful Gainor: MRC Official Pens Anti-Tarantino Screed
Roger Ebert he ain’t. Media Research Center official Dan Gainor begins his Jan. 13 purported review of the new Quentin Tarantino film “The Hateful Eight” in mean-spirited style: “Spoiler Warning: If your…
MRC’s Gainor Attacks Amazon CEO, Can’t Grasp Basic Financial Concepts
Media Research Center VP of business Dan Gainor — a right-wing apparatchik who once attacked the Muppets for not being sufficiently conservative — is back, and this time his target is Amazon.com…
Annals of Random Coverage Comparisons At The MRC
The Media Research Center loves to compare coverage of its favorite hobby horses to other random things. The apex (or new low, if you prefer) of this randomness came in an April…
MRC Joins Houston Pastor Subpoena Controversy Bandwagon
The ginned-up outrage over a subpoena for sermons by Houston ministers opposed to a non-discrimination ordinance is such that the Media Research Center is following in WorldNetDaily’s footsteps by seeing political advantage…
MRC’s Gainor Goes To Bat For For-Profit Colleges
Dan Gainor’s Aug. 25 Media Research Center article is a lengthy puff piece masquerading as “media research.” He complains: The Obama administration continues its push to regulate for-profit colleges and national media…
MRC Desperately Tries to Smear Warren Buffett By Tangentally Tying Him to Gosnell
The Media Research Center still can’t get the “research” part of its name down. The latest example of the MRC’s history of shoddy research is a May 13 report by Mike Ciandella…