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Brent Bozell, Pundit Without a Clue The Media Research Center's Brent Bozell is at his most entertaining when he's asserting something that has no basis in fact or making claims on which he has done no research.
Tapped Out An MRC writer tries to dismiss Jake Tapper as just another liberal reporter; Plus: The MRC demands an apology from CNN for passing on bum information -- but won't correct its own.
Bozell has been charged with what may be the most important job in conservative circles: verifying that Liberal Media Bias exists, and therefore vindicating the overwhelming amount of conservative punditry that we are subjected to daily.
the center took on a "new and vital mission" in the months following the attacks on Washington and New York, according to its founder, L Brent Bozell III. In practice, the center defined the home team as the Bush administration and its policies. Journalists and pundits who challenged them were tarred with the epithet "political activist," or in the case of the cartoonist Aaron McGruder, "America-hater."
The MRC's War Fox News Channel, unsurprisingly, gets the "research" group's highest marks in war coverage -- and it's still hard-pressed to be overly critical of Geraldo Rivera. When the Media Research Center issues a "special report," watch out.
it is Bozell's Media Research Center that stands out as the right's preeminent media cop. Bozell is a Republican operative with credentials earned in George Bush's 1988 presidential campaign.
William F Buckley, he headed the Conservative Victory Committee that year. He is also connected to the Political Club for Growth, a network of conservative and libertarian activists and groups sympathetic to cutting taxes and shrinking government. What Bozell and others perceive as liberal bias often means presenting information about government help for the poor, the homeless, the weak, and so on -- information that conflicts with the objectives of the right. Tim Graham explained that ABC was once "the worst" in its approach to stories. He said that the Center had seen on ABC what he called "a repeated stream of stories on victims of spending cuts. When journalists and their work are noted favorably in the "Kudos" section of MediaNomics (MRC's newsletter), it helps further the kind of reporting the right prefers. In December 1998, the newsletter praised "ABC World News Tonight" for being "one of the pioneers in network investigation of government waste," and pointed out that "its regular segment 'Your Money' delves into ways that Americans are being ripped off." In the next issue, it lauded NBC's "Fleecing of America," a similar show that identifies ways that the government wastes taxpayers' money. MediaNomics called "Fleecing of America" along with "Your Money" "one of the best news segments on network television." Both programs reinforce the view that government is evil, bungling, and wasteful, which is precisely the message the right wants to convey.
As war and the economy influence election, conservatives turn their sights on the media MT Editor's note: This otherwise good story on the MRC spending money to benefit the Republicans doesn't mention, yet again, the money it has received from the conservative philanthropies. Conservatives across the country decry news coverage of the war as relentlessly and unfairly negative. Last week Brent Bozell, a conservative activist, launched a $28 million advertising and talk-radio campaign to discredit the "liberal news media."
Shifting 'Reagans' to Cable Has CBS Facing New Critics CBS's decision yesterday to drop its mini-series about Ronald and Nancy Reagan, after an impassioned campaign by Republican and conservative groups, roiled the television industry... wrote a letter to a list of 100 top television sponsors urging them to "refuse to associate your products with this movie."
Congratulations MWO Whore of the Week: Brent Bozell Now that the rightwing has unleashed the "attack journalists" on David Brocks Blinded By The Right, it shouldn't be too surprising that 'Media Watchdog" L Brent Bozell has weighed in.
Read it To quote from the end of Mr Bozell's poison-pen review: "But Brock and the networks' Clinton rewrite specialists can't put the toothpaste back into the tube. The Clinton presidency can't be compared to a bad season of "Dallas," where the angelic Bill Clinton pops out of the shower and we all realize it was all just a bad dream. Clinton earned his bad reputation, and Brock has cemented his with this sloppy, bitter, vengeful little book."
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