Barbara Walters Suggests 'The View' Will Get Some Political Balance Ag
April 27th, 2014 1:43 PM
MRC's Scott Whitlock found a newsy tidbit from an April article in Variety magazine. Former Newsweek writer Ramin Setoodeh reported from a Barbara Walters interview that "The View" lost both its edgier political personalities -- right-leaning Elisabeth Hasselbeck and leftist insult comedienne Joy Behar -- due to network pressure on her and the show's producer Bill Geddie.
“These are not…
AP Fails to Note Any Critics of Recently Deceased 'Heroine of the Cuba
March 11th, 2014 3:00 PM
Nowhere in her 15-paragraph March 11 obituary of Melba Hernandez did Associated Press writer Andrea Rodriguez find space to cite a critic of the late Cuban Communist revolutionary.
In her story -- headlined "'Heroine of the Cuban Revolution' was lifelong Castro loyalist" in the Washington Post -- Ms. Rodriguez paid significant attention to the role Hernandez played in aiding Castro's rise to…
Barbara Walters Warmly Recalls Holding Fidel Castro's Gun In Her Lap
December 16th, 2013 10:44 PM
The December 23 edition of People magazine looks through old pictures with Barbara Walters as she "looks back on her most memorable moments" in five decades of television interviews.
During her 1977 interview with Fidel Castro "I spent 10 days with him, traveled through the mountains and held his gun in my lap," she said. "People thought we had a romance, but we never did." There was no…
MSNBC Panel Concedes 'Moral Failing' of Mandela, 'Associated With' 'Ga
December 9th, 2013 5:38 PM
On the Friday, December 6, All In with Chris Hayes show on MSNBC, during a discussion of Nelson Mandela's support for violent resistance, the Daily Beast's Michael Moynihan admitted that the former South African leader had a "moral failing" because he "associated with" dictators who "did the same things to their people" as "was done to him."
Referring to an article by Moynihan on the subject…
Rest In Whitewash: Networks Set to Ignore Mandela's Communist Party Ti
December 7th, 2013 7:07 PM
At the Daily Beast, Michael Moynihan attempted to overcome the tendency of journalists and celebrities to make Nelson Mandela a secular saint. Moynihan recalled that when Margaret Thatcher died, these same people denounced her for here "indulgence" of right-wing dictators like Agosto Pinochet in Chile, who allowed his country to become a democracy.
ABC called her reign an “elective…
Lies My Textbooks Told Me: Cuban Missiles and Kennedy’s Resolve
October 18th, 2012 4:08 PM
With the 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis approaching and new documents surfacing about just how close to World War III the United States and the Soviet Union came in 1962, it’s interesting to look at how the incident is regarded in the media and, especially, how it’s taught as history.
The Cuban Missile Crisis is commonly portrayed as a firm display of President John F. Kennedy’s…
The MRC@25: Worst Media Bias of 2002
September 16th, 2012 8:14 AM
For the past two weeks, NewsBusters has been showcasing the most egregious bias the Media Research Center has uncovered over the years — four quotes for each of the 25 years of the MRC, 100 quotes total — all leading up to our big 25th Anniversary Gala September 27. If you’ve missed a previous blog, recounting the worst of 1988 through 2001, they are here. Today, the worst bias of 2002: Bill…
