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MSNBC & CNN Imitating the Far-Right 'Fox Effect'

Submitted by John Stauber on

The New York Times reports on the 'Fox Effect' of MSNBC and CNN imitating Fox's vicious style of biased, nationalistic reporting. "...[I]t has been the Fox News Channel, owned by [Rupert Murdoch's] News Corporation, that has emerged as the most-watched source of cable news by far, with anchors and commentators who skewer the mainstream media, disparage the French and flay anybody else who questions President Bush's war effort. ... Fox's formula had already proved there were huge ratings in opinionated news with an America-first flair.

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Main Source: 
New York Times, April 16, 2003
Topics: 
Right Wing
Iraq
Media

Who Needs Movies? We've Got the FOX War Channel.

Submitted by John Stauber on

"Nearly every military-related film
to reach theaters this year has been a box-office
disappointment, leaving some in Hollywood to question how
much the 24-hour news coverage of the Iraq invasion has
dimmed the public appetite for images of combat," and "some critics suggest that
moviegoers are staying away because they have plenty of
real-time war action already on cable and network news
programs. 'When television came on with 24-hour news channels, it
changed what we needed,' said Jeanine Basinger, chairman of

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Main Source: 
New York Times, April 14, 2003
Topics: 
Right Wing
Iraq
Media

Luntz Memo Helps To Greenwash Republicans

Submitted by John Stauber on

"Over the last six months, the
Republican Party has subtly refocused its message on the
environment, an issue that a party strategist Frank Luntz called 'the
single biggest vulnerability for the Republicans and
especially for George Bush' in a memorandum encouraging the
new approach. The Republicans, as the memorandum advised them, have
softened their language to appeal to suburban voters,
speaking out for protecting national parks and forests,

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Main Source: 
New York Times, March 2, 2003
Topics: 
Right Wing
Environment
Rhetoric

Anti-Chavez All The Time

Submitted by Laura Miller on

As the so-called general strike against Venezuelean President Hugo Chavez comes to an end, Venezuelan television will begin broadcasting advertising again. For the two months of the strike, "the only commercials on Venezuelan TV were the opposition's relentless barrage of powerful and often witty

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Main Source: 
Advertising Age, February 10, 2003
Topics: 
Left Wing
Right Wing
International
Media
Politics

Republicans Seek a Few Good African Americans

Submitted by John Stauber on

Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten feels "sorry for African American Republicans. They've never had it real good ... So I was heartened when I happened on a Web site last month run by a group called the African American Republican Leadership Council. ... The honorary chairman of the panel is listed as former U.S. senator Edward W. Brooke III, a Republican from Massachusetts. So I called up Brooke, who confirmed the important fact that he is black. Alas, he is not in any way associated with the group.

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Main Source: 
Washington Post, February 2, 2003
Topics: 
Right Wing
Front Groups
Race / Ethnic Issues

'Americans for Tax Reform' Part of a Pro-War Movement

Submitted by John Stauber on

The New York Times notes that "spurred by local antiwar
sentiment, dozens of cities and counties around the country
have passed resolutions imploring President Bush to slow
down his confrontation with Iraq. ... City and county councils in 20 states have passed such
measures, from small towns like Woodstock, N.Y., to cities
as large as Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit." Well-funded right wing supporters of the march to war "stand ready to try to mobilize a

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Main Source: 
New York Times, February 1, 2003
Topics: 
Right Wing
Iraq

His Own Best Student

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

For three years, John R. Lott Jr., the controversial American Enterprise Institute scholar and author of "More Guns, Less Crime," has used the pseudonym of "Mary Rosh" to post defenses of himself on the Internet. "Rosh" described Lott as a meticulous, non-ideological researcher, and even claimed to be one of his former students. "I have to say that he was the best professor I ever had," Rosh gushed in one Internet posting.

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Main Source: 
Washington Post, February 1, 2003
Topics: 
Right Wing
Ethics
Think Tanks

Conservatives Rule the "Liberal" Media

Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on

"Resentment at the 'liberal media' has been a Holy Grail of the American right for 40 years, and a gold mine for conservative direct-mail fund-raisers," writes Joel Connelly. In reality, though, "the right plays an almost dominant role in setting the agenda and stereotyping opponents. It has unmatched powers to get a story airborne. ... The party line gets out on issues from going to war with Iraq to drilling the West." Then why do conservatives still pretend that the media are liberal?

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Main Source: 
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 16, 2002
Topics: 
Left Wing
Right Wing
Media
Rhetoric

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