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2007
November 1 Huffington’s House of Horrors When Arianna Huffington founded The Huffington Post in 2005, she opened her new Internet venture with a pledge, as quoted by Newsweek: “If you’re looking for the usual flame-throwing, name-calling, and simplistic attack dog rhetoric....don’t bother coming to The Huffington Post.” An MRC content analysis amply demonstrates that this celebrity-stuffed leftist blog specializes in hate speech and vicious, profane attacks against conservatives and an ignorant American public.
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A
new MRC study comparing the Fox News Channel's coverage of the war in Iraq
with that of CNN and MSNBC finds that Fox had the most balanced approach
while its competitors emphasized a bad news agenda. CNN, in particular,
went out of its way to emphasize alleged U.S. misdeeds like the killing of
civilians in Haditha while providing less airtime to U.S. achievements
like the killing of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
On
September 5, Katie Couric finally takes the helm of the CBS Evening
News, a program tainted by decades of Dan Rather's liberal bias. But a
review of Couric's 15 years as co-host of NBC's Today finds that
she brings her own liberal baggage, and she seems unlikely to challenge
the biased approach that has eroded the credibility of CBS News and the
rest of the media elite. 
A
new MRC analysis of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage finds the TV
networks have skewed coverage of illegal immigration to celebrate illegal
aliens and protests on their behalf, even as advocates of secure borders
were portrayed as "harsh" and "hard line." This spin defies polls showing
upwards of 90 percent of Americans view illegal immigration as a serious
problem.
Network
coverage of religion stories is often scarce, but the church-bashing film
The DaVinci Code was a publicity phenomenon, a bigger event than The
Passion of the Christ in 2004. In their overt promotion of the film (and
the fad) and its Christianity-curdling content, the networks (especially
NBC) often displayed how 'intrigued' they were to imagine Jesus as just
another man with wife and a child -- a much different approach than their
hostility to the orthodox Christian vision of The Passion. 
An
exhaustive study of broadcast news coverage shows that ABC, CBS and NBC
have been overwhelmingly negative in their portrayal of the Iraq war.
Media Research Center analysts found that more than half of all of this
year's war stories (61%) focused on pessimistic topics, four times as many
as discussed the progress being made by U.S. forces or Iraqi leaders (just
15%). The networks made terrorist attacks the centerpiece of their Iraq
coverage, while few stories focused on the bravery or accomplishments of
U.S. soldiers.
PBS
is currently airing taxpayer-funded TV commercials to lobby Congress
against trimming the budget of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
How have PBS and NPR displayed a liberal tilt over the years? How have
they dealt with challenges to their taxpayer funding? Take a look at MRC's
archive of articles for examples
The
major media presented largely positive coverage of the death and funeral
of Pope John Paul II. However, during his pontificate (1978-2005), the
Pope usually received positive or negative news coverage dependent upon
which side of the political fence he stood. On unchangeable Church
teachings, for instance, the media frequently vilified the Pope. As the
evidence shows, the media want to define holiness down and instruct the
Pope on how to run the Catholic church.
Have
the network news divisions lost their recently increased taste for
religious news topics? Religion coverage is down, but not as much as might
have been expected. One major reason was Pope John Paul's two hospital
trips in February. Unfortunately, once again, network TV coverage
continues to explore religious issues through secular and political
lenses, skeptical of religion's place in America. One example is the
media's reaction to some Catholic bishops challenging John Kerry's
suitability for the sacraments. TV reporters put the squeeze on church
leaders, not Kerry.