MRC's Bozell Hits Media's 'Sky Is Falling' Budget-Cut Bias on April

April 16th, 2011 9:00 AM
What the media like about President Obama's budget proposal over Rep. Paul Ryan's are the former's insistence on tax hikes, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told the audience of Friday's "Fox & Friends." "That's the part of deficit reduction they like" but "anytime anybody proposes any cut of any wasteful spending, the media are the first ones there to talk about the sky falling and…

SNL Bashes ‘Fox & Friends’ Hosts as Dumb, Fear-Spreading Racists

April 10th, 2011 11:16 AM
NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” went after the Fox News Channel again, this time depicting the hosts of the network's morning show as dumb, fear-mongering racists. Saturday’s sketch began with an announcer stating, “You’re watching ‘Fox & Friends’ – coffee, smiles, fear and terror” (video follows with commentary):

MRC's Bozell Notes Media Downplaying or Ignoring Schumer's 'Extremists

April 2nd, 2011 1:58 PM
Appearing on Friday's "Fox & Friends," NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell addressed how the media conveniently ignore or downplay liberal Democratic gaffes or incivility. For example, earlier this week Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) was caught unawares on microphone laying out to fellow Democrats his partisan talking points about "extremist" Republicans…

MSNBC’s Schultz Discovers FNC's Smith and Van Susteren are Not Conse

February 25th, 2011 9:23 AM
  Twice this week on the Ed Show, MSNBC host Ed Schultz has paid attention to FNC’s Shepard Smith for not approaching the Wisconsin labor union controversy from the right, and also added in FNC’s Greta Van Susteren on Thursday. On Wednesday, the MSNBC host began his regular "Takedown" segment: Tonight, in the "Takedown" segment, how about Shepard Smith? I’ll tell you what, he's bucking the…

Bozell Reacts to AOL Buyout of Huffington Post on 'Fox & Friends

February 11th, 2011 5:21 PM
On Friday's "Fox & Friends," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell and Fox News host Steve Doocy discussed the recent sale of the liberal Huffington Post blog to AOL. "I'm going to buy popcorn, I'm going to watch this meltdown," a gleeful Bozell told Doocy. Huffington, who will be editor-in-chief for the new AOL venture, is "not going to get along with anybody," perpetually clashing with…

Brent Bozell Excoriates Chris Matthews on 'Fox & Friends' for Comparin

February 5th, 2011 10:45 AM
"He's shameless, isn't he?" asked FNC's Steve Doocy, co-host of "Fox & Friends, about MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews, who recently compared the Muslim Brotherhood to the Tea Party. "Chris Matthews is not a journalist," replied MRC President Brent Bozell. "He's a parody of himself." On the February 4 "Fox & Friends," the NewsBusters publisher acknowledged that while most of the coverage…

NewsBusters Publisher Bozell Discusses Biased Reporting of Egypt Prote

February 4th, 2011 6:02 PM
Overall the coverage of the ongoing protests against Hosni Mubarak in Egypt has been pretty good, but it's when journalists get around to offering their analysis that bias has crept in, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told Fox News's Steve Doocy on the February 4 "Fox & Friends." Case in point, MSNBC's Chris Matthews comparing the Muslim Brotherhood with the Tea Party movement. "Mr.…

MRC's Bozell Blasts Media Coverage of Obama SOTU on Friday's 'Fox & Fr

January 28th, 2011 5:46 PM
When Republican presidents in years past delivered their State of the Union addresses, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell noted this morning, "no sooner had the words, 'God bless America,' left their lips than the analysts were there... just pouncing on them, pointing out any discrepancy, pointing out any controversy, ridiculing any mistake." Now "along comes Barack Obama, and the same…

Media Trumpet Flawed ObamaCare Cost Estimates, Bozell Sets Record Stra

January 22nd, 2011 3:41 PM
Editor's Note: The initial post included an incorrect video embed. The correct video has now been inserted. We apologize for the error. While mainstream media outlets repeatedly fail to question flawed health care cost estimates, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell exposed the biased coverage on the January 21 "Fox & Friends." "This proves why they're not the mainstream media," asserted…

On Fox & Friends, MRC's Bozell Blasts NPR As Part of 'Intolerant Left

January 7th, 2011 11:07 AM
Appearing on FNC's Fox & Friends on Friday, NewsBusters publisher and Media Research Center president Brent Bozell reacted to the resignation of National Public Radio executive Ellen Weiss and credited the incoming Republican Congress: "NPR is hearing footsteps, their hearing the footsteps of Republicans, who are saying...what in the world are we doing spending hundreds of millions of…

FNC Follows Up on Journalists’ Group Push to Change ‘Illegal’ to

January 3rd, 2011 4:28 PM
On Dec. 14, 2010, the Culture and Media Institute reported that the Society for Professional Journalists (SPJ)’s Diversity Committee announced a year-long campaign to “educate journalists about the hurtfulness of phrases like ‘illegal immigrant,’ which is the term currently preferred by the influential AP Stylebook.” After the Daily Caller picked up the story, the Fox News Channel followed…

MRC's Bozell Dissects the Media's Tax Spin on December 10 'Fox & Frien

December 10th, 2010 2:35 PM
Recent news media coverage of the tax debate in Congress borrows heavily from misleading liberal Democratic talking points, NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell told viewers of today's edition of "Fox & Friends." "Eighty percent of the time, the media have it wrong," the Media Research Center founder noted, referring to an MRC study on coverage of the debate on whether or not to extend the…

ABC, FNC Highlight Dem Senator Menendez Comparing Republicans to Terro

December 5th, 2010 2:11 AM
   On Saturday morning, FNC’s Fox and Friends Saturday and ABC’s Good Morning America highlighted Democratic Senator Bob Menendez’s assertion that negotiating with Republicans taxes is like negotiating with terrorists. NBC’s Today show included a brief mention, but CBS’s The Early Show and CNN Saturday Morning ignored the New Jersey Democrat’s over-the-top rhetoric. FNC included a soundbite…

MRC-TV: Bozell Notes One Year Anniversary of ClimateGate on 'Fox & Fri

November 22nd, 2010 12:27 PM
Appearing in studio on the November 20 edition of "Fox & Friends Saturday," NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell noted the one year anniversary of the ClimateGate scandal. During one year of coverage, the three broadcast networks aired just 12 stories, an average of one per month, Bozell noted. What's more, the Media Research Center founder added, "when they do cover [ClimateGate], they…