Lefty writer and CNN contributor Sally Kohn, along with her fellow CNN panelists, earned the dubious honor of winning the Dan Rather Memorial Award for the Stupidest Analysis at last night's Media Research Center Gala and DisHonors Awards.
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Lawrence O'Donnell Wins 2015 Puppy Love Award; Judge Napolitano Takes Bite Out of Liberal Media In Acceptance
By NB Staff | October 9, 2015 | 4:16 PM EDT He had stiff competition at Thursday night's MRC DisHonors Awards in Rachel Maddow and Charlie Rose, but MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell richly deserved his 2015 Puppy Love Award for gushing over President Obama as having written "the most honest and open book... ever written by a president" with his memoir Dreams of My Father.
By NB Staff | October 9, 2015 | 1:04 PM EDT
Former U.S. Navy SEAL Rob O'Neill, a member of the SEAL team which killed Osama bin Laden, honored us at the Media Research Center by being our surprise guest at the 2015 Gala and DisHonors Awards. O'Neill appeared on stage after the presentation of the Celebrity Dumbass Award to actress Ashley Judd.
By NB Staff | October 9, 2015 | 11:09 AM EDT
Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly on Thursday accepted the “William F. Buckley Jr. Award for Media Excellence” at the 2015 Media Research Center Gala and DisHonors Awards. MRC President Brent Bozell lauded the profound and ongoing role Schlafly has in the conservative movement.
By NB Staff | October 8, 2015 | 10:51 PM EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A raucous crowd of 900 attendees at Thursday night's 2015 Media Research Center Gala and DisHonors Awards dinner gave the dubious honor of Quote of the Year to NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin for this gem in which he trashed late U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle as having gone on "killing sprees" during his tours of duty.
By NB Staff | September 25, 2015 | 11:57 PM EDT
NewsBusters Executive Editor Tim Graham appeared Friday night on The Steve Malzberg Show on Newsmax TV to discuss the Pope and President Obama.
First they discussed the U.S. News website trying to argue the pope “echoed” Obama in attacking Christianity in his speech to Congress. That wasn’t true, Graham said.
By NB Staff | September 23, 2015 | 5:04 PM EDT
During an appearance on FBN's Cavuto: Coast to Coast this afternoon, Media Research Center founder and president Brent Bozell examined the media's eager promotion of Pope Francis in light of areas where he weighs in in favor of liberal pet causes like combating climate change by government intervention.
By NB Staff | August 15, 2015 | 10:29 AM EDT
NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal program on Monday morning to discuss the coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign, which offered an opportunity to share the MRC numbers on evening news coverage so far.
While Hillary Clinton coverage has been negative, Graham was amazed at her refusal to grant interviews. "I start to wonder if the press has any self-respect. They didn’t look like they had a lot of respect when they were roped in on the street."
By Brent Bozell | August 5, 2015 | 1:17 PM EDT
"When a lion’s death receives more than four times the coverage in one week than five shocking Planned Parenthood videos showing potentially criminal acts do over three weeks, the media’s moral compass isn’t just broken, it's dead and soulless." -- Media Research Center President Brent Bozell
By NB Staff | August 4, 2015 | 11:58 AM EDT
At the Tenth Anniversary party for NewsBusters on Monday night, attended by more than 100 at the Hamilton in Washington, DC, the first annual Noel Sheppard Media Blogger of the Year Award was presented to Mollie Hemingway, Senior Editor of The Federalist blog.
Noel Sheppard, a founding blogger for NewsBusters who long served as our Associate Editor, passed away from cancer in March of 2014. Ann Coulter, a friend of Noel’s, spoke warmly of Noel’s work and handed the award to Hemingway. The award is earned by “the blogger who best reflects the spirit of Noel Sheppard’s energetic blog postings in pursuit of exposing the news media’s liberal political agenda."
By NB Staff | July 29, 2015 | 12:42 PM EDT
MRC President Brent Bozell issued the following statement after Politico reported that Planned Parenthood's crisis PR firm “circulated a memo to reporters and producers late Monday that discouraged them from airing the undercover videos.”
MRC Culture VP Dan Gainor: Media Blackout of Planned Parenthood’s Selling of Aborted Babies’ Body Parts Is Unconscionable
By NB Staff | July 15, 2015 | 2:01 PM EDT MRC Culture Vice President Dan Gainor issued the following statement after ABC and CBS ignored a chilling video of Planned Parenthood’s Senior Director of Medical Services selling body parts of aborted babies. Although Planned Parenthood receives taxpayer subsidies and a senior official appears to admit on tape to violating federal laws against partial-birth abortion and selling human body parts, ABC and CBS didn't devote a single second to the story. NBC's Today used only 39 seconds to tell the story, carefully avoiding any damning quotes from the video and using the images merely as background.