There’s lots of outrage at the Media Research Center that news is being reported by news reporters. Scott Whitlock complained that “The network evening newscasts on Tuesday and the morning shows on…
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MRC Defends Clinton Accusers, Smears Cain Accusers
The Media Research Center has moved onto the next step in playing defense for Brent Bozell’s buddy, Herman Cain: the Clinton Equivocation, the right-wing art of minimizing bad news about a conservative…
MRC Downplays Craziness of NRA Chief’s Obama-Bashing
In a Sept. 27 NewsBusters post, Media Research Center senior news analyst Scott Whitlock complained that MSNBC’s Chris Matthews “included the National Rifle Association as part of the ‘crazy far-right’ who ‘hate’…
MRC Declares That ABC Hidden-Camera Show Is ‘Liberal’
Gosh, you can’t get anything past the liberal-bias detectors at the Media Research Center. Having already declared Twitter to have a liberal bias, the MRC has found yet another font of bias:…
NewsBusters Gets Busted Making False Claim
Scott Whitlock asserted in an Aug. 16 NewsBusters post that ABC “hid the identity of a global warming activist” during a news segment: The journalist featured a clip of Heidi Cullen, who…
MRC Still Unable To Handle That Right-Wing Website Broke Bachmann Migraine Story
The Media Research Center is still having trouble coming to terms with the fact that the story about Michele Bachmann’s migraines was broken by a conservative news outlet. A July 23 NewsBusters…
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…
NewsBusters’ Double Standard on Softball Interviews
Scott Whitlock picked the wrong day to complain about softball interviews. A May 11 NewsBusters post by Whitlock grouses that in 2008, ABC conducted a “friendly interview” with Osama bin Laden’s son…
NewsBusters’ Double Standard on Videotaped Stings
NewsBusters has been dutifully promoting the hoax videos of Lila Rose attempting to entrap Planned Parenthood — even deceiving to do so. But apparently only conservatives are allowed to do undercover sting…