Rich Noyes is the MRC’s Research Director and one of the nation’s foremost experts on the news media and politics. Noyes has discussed the media’s liberal bias on the Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC and dozens of radio talk shows, and has authored articles which have appeared in the Journal of Political Science, New York Post, Investor’s Business Daily, Roll Call and Human Events. (More)
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5/21/2012 5:30 PM ET
Katie Couric, who made $15 million a year anchoring the CBS Evening News for a half-hour each weeknight, delivered a remarkably self-pitying commencement address at the University of Virginia on ...
5/1/2012 12:48 PM ET
Of the three evening news anchors, by far the most admiring of Obama is NBC’s Brian Williams who has -- no big surprise -- been rewarded with exclusive access to the White House Situation Room for ...
4/23/2012 4:01 PM ET
Six months ago, Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) came out with a report
claiming that the GOP candidates received more positive press coverage
than President Obama. Monday ...
4/22/2012 4:13 PM ET
The Media Research Center has just concluded an update of our “Media Bias 101”
Web package, with more than 40 articles detailing scholarly research of
the past 30 years showing the mostly ...
3/6/2012 3:29 PM ET
Both MSNBC and CNN have devolved into a feeding frenzy over Rush Limbaugh’s crack about a Georgetown law student. But an MRC review finds those networks had no negative reaction to far more vulgar ...
2/28/2012 7:02 PM ET
It’s been nearly three weeks since President Obama faced a political
backlash over his plan to force religious institutions to bow to
government bureaucrats when it came to supplying birth ...
1/30/2012 3:53 PM ET
After cameras caught Arizona Governor Jan Brewer pointing her finger at President Obama during a discussion on an airport tarmac, NBC's Brian Williams acted appalled. "Who have you ever seen ...
1/24/2012 10:11 AM ET
Tuesday night, President Obama delivers his third State of the Union
address, and his sixth speech to a joint session of Congress since
taking office in 2009. But there's no need to spend a ...
11/23/2011 1:31 PM ET
Brian Williams could not suppress his smirk Tuesday night as he took a shot at a guest who had appeared earlier that day on CNBC. Businessman Ken Langone said President Obama's anti-business ...
11/22/2011 1:53 PM ET
On Monday's CBS Evening News, correspondent Nancy Cordes listed only one cause of the supercommittee failure, how Republicans pushed "to make the Bush-era tax cuts permanent for everyone." And ...
11/15/2011 8:35 PM ET
Four years ago, the ABC, CBS and NBC morning shows celebrated the “rock star” Democrats running to replace George W. Bush, and no candidate set journalists’ pulses racing faster than Barack Obama. ...
11/1/2011 12:31 PM ET
The three networks have aggressively covered vague charges of sexual harassment against Herman Cain, but brushed aside far more serious and specific claims against Bill Clinton.
10/17/2011 4:33 PM ET
The national media have certainly NOT been giving Barack Obama a rougher ride than the GOP candidates, but a new study by the Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism is fueling the myth that, as ...
10/11/2011 9:50 AM ET
ABC, CBS and NBC Bury News of Taxpayer Money Squandered on Obama-Linked Solar Energy Company
10/5/2011 11:17 AM ET
A new Pew Research Center poll of military veterans found those serving after 9/11 were significantly more supportive of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan than either the general public or veterans ...
9/26/2011 4:47 PM ET
American Spectator senior editor Quin Hillyer appeared on the Fox News Channel Sunday to highlight the media's continued silence about the Obama administration's use of liberal ideology as a ...
9/23/2011 4:49 PM ET
Two polls released Thursday show the public now sees the media as liberal, biased, inaccurate, untrustworthy, harmful to democracy and even immoral. A poll of 1501 adults conducted by the Pew ...
9/22/2011 7:55 AM ET
MRC Study: ABC, CBS and NBC Tossed Friendly Liberal Questions to Democratic Candidates in 2007, but 2011 Republicans Treated as Ideological Adversaries
9/14/2011 1:54 PM ET
Just as they did right after the killing of Osama bin Laden back in May, NBC's Brian Williams and Richard Engel interrupted Sunday morning's ceremonies marking the tenth annivesary of the 9/11 ...