MediaWatch

The MRC published MediaWatch as a monthly newsletter from 1988 through March, 1998, when it switched to bi-weekly production. The MRC ceased publication of MediaWatch in May of 1999 in order to concentrate resources on more timely analysis on our Web site. MediaWatch was dedicated to documenting liberal bias in reporting by reviewing news coverage of political and current events by the television networks, newspapers and weekly news magazines. Features included a monthly Study or Review, brief NewsBites, the Janet Cooke Award dissecting the most biased story of the month, the Revolving Door which tracked those moving between media and politics and On the Bright Side, a look at an unusually balanced story presenting facts ignored by the rest of the media.

MediaWatch: August 1995

8/1/1995 1:29 PM ET

Media Bridge Over Silent Waters; NewsBites: Opposed to Infants and Lepers; ABC Goes Goofy; Time: Conservatives Are Stupid; Pushing Quotas, Spiking Critics; Rotten to the Corps; Worrying About ...

MediaWatch: July 1995

7/1/1995 1:27 PM ET

Today Co-Host Uses NBC Morning Show as Personal Political Soap Box; NewsBites: Retiring the L Word; Revolving Door: Influencing the World; The "Slash and Burn" Supremes; Changing Standards for ...

MediaWatch: June 1995

6/1/1995 1:24 PM ET

GOP Candidates: Far Right, Anti-Choice, Draft-Dodging, Abrasive, Ethically Challenged; NewsBites: Direct Mail Divergence; In the Media: Want More on Clinton Success; Reporters Describe GOP Plans ...

MediaWatch: May 1995

5/1/1995 1:07 PM ET

Network News Dominated by Arguements and Soundbites Against the GOP Contract; NewsBites: Brownout; Revolving Door: Burke's Back; McVeigh: Newt's Protege?; Hosts Blamed For Bombing; Welfare Reform ...

MediaWatch: April 1995

4/1/1995 11:26 AM ET

Religion on TV News: Still Scarce; NewsBites: Poor, Poor Gorby; Revolving Door: "Balanced" Bill Moyers?; Contract on America's Poor?; Handicapping the GOP in '96; Old Programs Never Die; Computer ...

MediaWatch: March 1995

3/1/1995 11:14 AM ET

Clinton's Incredible Shrinking Ideology; NewsBites: Living in a Radio-Free Cave; Revolving Door: Clinton's CBS Adviser; Nap Time for Network News; Abortion Only Splits GOP?; Burned on Asbestos; ...

MediaWatch: February 1995

2/1/1995 3:01 PM ET

The Newt-Centric Media Universe; NewsBites: Partisans and Pansies; Revolving Door: NBC Goes Left with Moyers; ABC News Argues Voters Don't Really Want Contract with America; The Tyrannical Pope; ...

MediaWatch: January 1995

1/1/1995 2:54 PM ET

Revolving Door Spins More for Clinton Administration that Bush's; NewsBites: Scrooged; Magazine's Unrelenting Attacks; CBS Star Far Nicer to Bill Clinton's Mother in 1993 Interview; Double, ...

MediaWatch: December 1994

12/1/1994 2:12 PM ET

Networks Assail Proposition 187 As "Racist" and "Inhumane," Ignore Proponents' Arguements; NewsBites: Rather on Race; Revolving Door: Another Journal Entry; Media Outlets Scold "Rabid Attack ...

MediaWatch: November 1994

11/1/1994 3:21 PM ET

Conservatism Gets Little Credit After Election-Night Tradition of Blaming it For Losses; NewsBites: Liberal of the Week; Revolving Door: On the Campaign Trail; The New House Speaker's Journalistic ...