Leaders of America’s conservative movement have long believed that within the national news media a strident liberal bias existed that influenced the public’s understanding of critical issues. On October 1, 1987, a group of young determined conservatives set out to not only prove – through sound scientific research – that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values, but also to neutralize its impact on the American political scene. What they launched that fall is the now acclaimed — Media Research Center (MRC).
Fundador:
L. Brent Bozell II
Presidente:
L. Brent Bozell III
Año de fundación:
1987
Misión declarada:
The mission of the Media Research Center is to bring balance and responsibility to the news media.
Proyectos subsidiarios:
Business & Media Institute (antes Free Market Project)
CNSNews.com
Culture and Media Institute
NewsBusters (blog)
TimesWatch
MRC Action Team
Orígenes de la financiación
Ingresos 2006 documentados: $10,800,000
Fundaciones caritativas
Armstrong Foundation $180,500
Brady Education Foundation $20,000
Carthage Foundation $10,000
Castle Rock Foundation: $275,000
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation $975
Claude R. Lambe Charitable Foundation $14,030
F.M. Kirby Foundation $380,000
J.M. Foundation: $60,000
Gilder Foundation $1,500
Gordon and Mary Cain Foundation $1,000
Hickory Foundation $235,000
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation: $1,380,000
John M. Olin Foundation: $495,000
Orville D. and Ruth A. Merillat Foundation: $50,000
Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation: $1,000,000
Sarah Scaife Foundation: $3,417,000
Shelby Cullom Davis Foundation $92,000
William H. Donner Foundation $352,246
Empresas
ExxonMobil: $362,000
Think tanks
Family Research Council $2,500
John Templeton Foundation $855,000
Randolph Foundation $10,000
Roe Foundation $16,500
Referencias
- Terry Krepel – Accuracy in Spin – Conwebwatch – 10/08/2005 – http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2005/aimspin.html
«Accuracy in Media has never been all that interested in accuracy per se; like Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center, it is an advocacy group that promotes a conservative message and criticizes the media for not sufficiently advancing it. But lately, it appears that the only accuracy AIM cares about is accurately regurgitating conservative talking points … That’s ultimately what Accuracy in Media is about. Conservatism trumps accuracy any day.» - Howard Kurtz – Hear No Lichtblau, See No Lichtblau – The Washington Post – 27/05/2004 – Washington Post Staff Writer – http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10775-2004Jun27.html
«Conservative activist Brent Bozell has long argued that the liberal media are distorting the news. Now, six months before the election, he’s paying to get his message out. Bozell’s Media Research Center has raised $2.8 million for newspaper ads in 15 markets, billboards in 40 cities and a talk-radio blitz aimed at countering what he sees as a «liberal jihad» that is unfair to President Bush. The slogan (also on T-shirts and mugs) is not exactly subtle. A finger-pointing Uncle Sam declares: «Don’t believe the liberal media! … Bozell, who hopes to reach 50 million people a week with the forthcoming campaign, says that on Iraq «there is almost an obsession with reporting the negative. There are lots of positive developments going on and you never hear about them.» - Media Research Center – Sourcewatch – 24/10/2009 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Media_Research_Center
«Extra!, the magazine of the progressive media watch group Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, has criticized the MRC for selective use of evidence–the MRC had complained, for example, that there was more coverage of government death squads in right-wing El Salvador than in left-wing Nicaragua, without mentioning that there were roughly a thousand times more extra-judicial killings in El Salvador. Extra! also characterized the MRC as wanting to force out of the media any opinions that it disagreed with, even tracking the off-screen political comments of actors in a project that the magazine said «bore an uncomfortable resemblance to Red Channels, the McCarthy Era blacklisting journal.»»
| Terry Krepel – Accuracy in Spin – Conwebwatch – 38574 – – http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/stories/2005/aimspin.html – authors «Accuracy in Media has never been all that interested in accuracy per se; like Brent Bozell’s Media Research Center, it is an advocacy group that promotes a conservative message and criticizes the media for not sufficiently advancing it. But lately, it appears that the only accuracy AIM cares about is accurately regurgitating conservative talking points … That’s ultimately what Accuracy in Media is about. Conservatism trumps accuracy any day.» |
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