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The Bias of "Bias"

by Sheldon Rampton — January 20, 2002 - 1:00am

"Proving that irony is alive and well post-Sept. 11," observe Steve Rendall and Peter Hart, "a book deriding the national press corps for its flagrant liberal bias has been the subject of enormous attention in the same mainstream media that, the book argues, suppress conservative views." In their critical review of Bernard Goldberg's book, Bias, they note that "right-wing media watchdogs ...

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Arizona Republic, January 20, 2002

GOP Consultant Working With Pakistan Since Sept. 1

by Laura Miller — January 9, 2002 - 1:00am

Gary Polland, who heads the "well-connected" Houston-based firm Polland & Cook and chairs the Harris County Republican Party, has been smoothing out some of the "knotty issues" facing Pakistan since even before September 11th. According to PR trade publication O'Dwyer's PR Daily, Polland is "37.5 percent owner of a joint-venture known as 'Team Barakat' that is registered as lobbyist for the Islamic Republic of Pakistan." Team Barakat has a $180,000 contract, signed August 1 and effective Sept.

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O'Dwyer's PR Daily, January 9, 2002

Media Bias--Once a Sin, Now a Virtue

by Sheldon Rampton — November 9, 2001 - 1:00am

"So how come media objectivity is suddenly a bad thing?" asks columnist Michael Kinsley. "Conservative press critics are in another tizzy about objectivity and balance in American journalism. Only this time, their complaint isn't the lack of these fine qualities but that there's way too much of the stuff. ... The traditional conservative media critique is that journalists bend the news in a liberal direction because they're liberals.

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Los Angeles Times, November 9, 2001

MRC Attacks TV News for Lack of Patriotism

by John Stauber — November 7, 2001 - 10:18am

A New York Times story headlined "Network Coverage a Target Of Fire From Conservatives" reports that the far-right Media Research Center (MRC) is successfully attacking news media coverage of the war, especially ABC TV, for lack of patriotism. MRC is a powerful tax-exempt PR and lobby operation begun in 1987 by L.

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http://www.mediaresearch.org/

America's Counterpart to the Taliban

by Sheldon Rampton — September 16, 2001 - 1:42pm

As might be expected, last week's terrorist bombings have energized some of the most extremist and intolerant segments of American society.

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http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/09/14/more_god/index.html

The Media Is the Mess

by Sheldon Rampton — July 18, 2001 - 1:24pm

The belated discovery that George W. Bush's campaign applied two disparate standards for counting overseas ballots in Florida -- liberal for Bush strongholds and stringent for counties carried by Al Gore -- underscores again the huge advantage that the well-funded conservative news media gives the Republicans. "By having a powerful media of its own -- from TV networks to nationwide talk radio, from news magazines to daily newspapers -- the conservative movement can give its stamp to events during the crucial few days when the public is paying attention," writes Robert Parry.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/071601a.html

New Book "Corrects" Liberal Media Bias--With Conservative Bias

by Anonymous — July 2, 2001 - 12:00am

A new book by conservative spinmeisters purports to correct the mainstream media's liberal spin on science news. It Ain't Necessarily So: How Media Make and Unmake the Scientific Picture of Reality, by authors David Murray, Joel Schwartz and S. Robert Lichter, argues that the mainstream media's science coverage is slanted by a liberal agenda.

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Salon.com, July 2, 2001

Stossel Strikes Back

by Laura Miller — June 28, 2001 - 12:00am

ABC's John Stossel attempted to defend himself by describing his critics as "brainwashed." Stossel appeared yesterday on Fox News Channel's "O'Reilly Factor." Responding to criticism by the Environmental Working Group, Stossel said, "I call them the totalitarian left. They want to silence people who criticize them." See earlier postings on Spin of the Day for the complete story on Stossel's media debacle.

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Washington Post, June 28, 2001

John Stossel, Anti-Government Ideologue

by John Stauber — June 27, 2001 - 10:09am

Disney/ABC would probably prefer that viewers perceive John Stossel as a fair and investigative journalist, but pro-industry libertarians love him as an ally and leader in their attack on virtually all government.

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http://www.laissezfairebooks.com/product.cfm?op=view&pid=SL8437

CEI Uses Stossel to Attack Environmental Education

by John Stauber — June 27, 2001 - 9:05am

The polluter-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) is using the upcoming Stossel report to escalate its attack on public funding of environmental education. CEI notes that "ABC News is airing a John Stossel special this Friday, June 29, exposing some of the liberal indoctrination children receive in the classroom under the guise of environmental education."

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http://www.cei.org/PRReader.asp?ID=1533
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