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visit my web site at http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon My ICQ# is 79071904 for a precise list of the powers of the Federal Government linkto: http://www.voicenet.com/~wbacon/Enumerated.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 11:46:12 -0700 From: Media Research Center <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MRC Alert Special: Dionne Cites MRC Intimidation of Media ***Media Research Center CyberAlert Special*** 3:45pm EST, Friday December 6, 2002 E.J. Dionne Cites CyberAlert Item as Evidence of Successful Conservative Intimidation of Media Below is the text of a Media Reality Check "Quick Take" by the MRC's Rich Noyes distributed this afternoon. It summaries a new column by E.J. Dionne, "The Rightward Press," which cited a CyberAlert article from earlier this week: DIONNE SEES "A MEDIA HEAVILY BIASED TOWARD CONSERVATIVES" HAS THE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER "TRIUMPHED" OVER LIBERAL MEDIA? File this one under the "we wish" category. Former New York Times and Washington Post reporter E. J. Dionne, Jr., now a columnist for the Washington Post, became the latest liberal writer to climb aboard the Tom Daschle-Al Gore-Bill Clinton bandwagon, arguing in Friday's newspaper that, since the Media Research Center has completely beaten the bias out of the liberal press, the only remaining media bias favors conservatives. Dionne argued that "Limbaugh's new respectability is the surest sign that the conservative talk network is now bleeding into what passes for the mainstream media, just as the unapologetic conservatism of the Fox News Channel is now affecting programming on the other cable networks." "All this constitutes a genuine triumph for conservatives," Dionne admitted. "But rather than rest on their laurels, they continue to pound away at any media deviation from their version of political correctness. When Katie Couric had the nerve to ask some tough questions of EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman on Monday's Today show, the ever-alert conservative Media Research Center trashed Couric for bias....Editors who worry about conservative criticism are not paranoid. You just wonder: Where have the liberals been? "It took conservatives a lot of hard and steady work to push the media rightward. It dishonors that work to continue to presume that -- except for a few liberal columnists -- there is any such thing as the big liberal media." If only Dionne were right. Unfortunately, the "traditional news sources" like ABC, CBS and NBC -- which, he reveals, feel "under constant pressure to avoid even the pale hint of liberalism" -- still have massive audiences compared to their cable and radio competitors, and their liberal bias remains as full-throated as ever. The key difference now is that the public has become aware of the media's liberal bias and has the opportunity to seek alternatives. The problem isn't Katie Couric's "nerve," it's that her questions always start from a liberal perspective. Why didn't she grill Whitman about the onerous burden of her EPA's regulations on business during a time of weak economic growth? Such a display of independence from the prevailing liberal media mindset would really show some nerve. END Reprint of Media Reality Check "Quick Take" To read Dionne's December 6 column in full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16431-2002Dec5.html Dionne pops up sometimes on the cable news networks, but if you can't place him, check either the above-listed link to his column as posted by the Washington Post or the posted version of this Media Reality Check for a picture of him: http://www.mediaresearch.org/realitycheck/2002/fax20021206.asp To read the December 3 CyberAlert item Dionne cited, which documented how Couric hit Whitman only from the left: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2002/cyb20021203.asp#4 -- Brent Baker >>> Support the MRC, an educational foundation dependent upon contributions which make CyberAlert possible, by providing a tax- deductible donation. 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