The Media Research Center has spent much of the year bashing Taylor Swift for committing the offense of expressing political opinions it doesn’t agree with. It’s certainly not about to stop now….
Tag: Gabriel Hays
Bad Timing: Before El Paso Massacre, MRC Dismissed White Supremacy As Liberal ‘Strawman’
Some right-wing attack pieces don’t age well. For instance, a July 25 Media Research Center piece by Gabriel Hays attacking HBO’s upcoming “Watchmen” series for focusing on white supremacy. Hays writes: What’s…
Triggered: MRC Dumps Over Journalists Receiving Awards
The Media Research Center hates journalism so much, it get triggered if a journalist receives an award. In a July 10 post, Randy Hall dumped on NBC’s Lester Holt over an award:…
MRC’s Sloppy Labelers Defend Ben Shapiro From Being Mislabeled
The Media Research Center has apparently never done the media research to determine the difference between political labels on the liberal side of the ledger — as we’ve documented, the MRC has…
What LGBT Stuff Is The MRC Freaking Out About Now?
Rebecca Downs thought that the TV show “God Friended Me” was “pretty well behaved” until it introduced a lesbian character who was the daughter of a Episcopal pastor, and was upset that…
MRC’s Double Standard On ‘Smut’ Fiction By Politicians
The Media Research Center’s Gabriel Hays was in full moral-outrage mode in an April 4 post: Stacey Abrams has a knack for fiction. These days, her skill manifests mostly in her refusal…
MRC Thinks Chick-fil-A Was ‘Smeared’ Because Anti-Gay Donations Were Accurately Reported
When is telling the truth a smear? When someone reports accurately on the political activities of a fast-food chain. The headline on Gabriel Hays’ April 1 Media Research Center post blared, “NY…
‘Captain Marvel’ Derangement At The MRC
The Media Research Center has spent a lot of time throwing hate at the new superhero movie “Captain Marvel,” fretting that the film may too politically correct for its right-wing sensibilities. On…
At The MRC, Personal Attacks Are ‘Media Research’
The Media Research Center seems to have given up doing anything that remotely resembles “media research” these days. When it’s issuing bogus “research” that’s narrowly crafted to forward the MRC’s right-wing agenda,…
MRC’s Double Standard on Vandalism
In March 2017, Tom Blumer, the departed contributing editor to the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters blog, was offended that a Washington Post report on “far-left environmental vandals” defacing a Donald Trump-owned golf…