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MRC Web News: Our Latest Analysis January 16, 2004 ^Daily updates on MRC's latest analysis ________________________________________________________________________________ Today^s CyberAlert: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040116.asp 1. NBC Promotes Al Gore^s Attack on Bush^s Environmental Record Thursday^s NBC Nightly News, in the guise of explaining why the environment has not become an issue yet in the campaign, delivered a one-sided assault on the Bush administration^s environmental record. Anchor Tom Brokaw began by showcasing how Al Gore ^accused Bush of consistently putting the interests of big campaign contributors in the oil, coal, utility and mining industries ahead of the public interest.^ After a clip of Gore accusing Bush of being a ^moral coward,^ NBC^s Kelly O^Donnell provided a story which featured soundbites from three, unlabeled, liberal environmental activists, two of which came from Sierra Club operatives on the very day that special interest group launched an anti-Bush TV ad campaign. O^Donnell also proclaimed: ^The League of Conservation Voters grades the President with the first 'F^ in the group^s 34-year history.^ 2. Couric Challenges Kennedy on How Democrats Failed to Oust Saddam Couric gets tough with Kennedy. Though NBC^s Katie Couric gave Senator Ted Kennedy a chance to agree with the proposition that the Iraq war was ^payback for the first Bush administration's failure to go all the way^ and for ^an assassination attempt that did not bear fruit against President George W. Bush's father,^ on Thursday^s Today she also pointed out to him how ^the notion of removing Saddam Hussein from power was not invented by this current administration^ since ^the 1998 Iraq Liberation Act...was passed unanimously by the Senate and near unanimously by the House, so Saddam remained.^ She challenged Kennedy with this unusual take for anyone in the media: ^Why weren't the Democrats able to oust him and should this President be given credit for doing the job that the Democratic administration could not?" 3. Record Low Temps, Yet USA Today Plugs Movie on Global Warming The definition of bad timing: Warning about ^global warming^ on a day when record-low temperatures are being set in some parts of the nation. It happened to USA Today on Thursday when a front page headline announced, ^Bitter cold bores into East,^ but the front page also featured a plug in the top corner for a ^Life^ section preview of a movie with a plot about how global warming destroys the Earth. See today^s entire CyberAlert at: http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2004/cyb20040116.asp ________________________________________________________________________________ Advertisement www.TimesWatch.org TimesWatch.org Bush's Election-Year Ploy to Help Iraq The Times puts its best cynical spin on a U.S. move to press the U.N. for action in Iraq: "Kofi Annan is said to be highly reluctant to give his blessing to what is widely seen as a jerry-built process in effect concocted to let the United States hand over sovereignty to Iraq by June 30, as the American elections get under way." Read the entire article as posted on TimesWatch.org: http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2004/0116.asp Advertisement JOIN THE MRC TODAY The MRC has a unique opportunity that would greatly benefit our work to expose the left-wing agenda of the national media. But it can only be realized with your support. Support the Media Research Center Today! Or, visit Media Research Center at: www.mediaresearch.org Support MRC through PayPal - it's fast, free and secure! Bozell's Entertainment Column How "Angels" Demonizes It^s amazing, if not surprising, the degree to which trashing God, trashing America, and trashing traditional values are the entertainment factory^s favorite pastimes. All these ritual hatreds are brought together in HBOs miniseries "Angels in America," as the "prestige" cable channel tiptoes into another season of Golden Globes and Emmys and deep-bowing tributes. HBO, that jewel of the Time Warner empire, has taken Tony Kushner^s propagandistic Broadway smash ^ the theatrical version of one of those crazy letters to the editor that never end and have too many capital letters ^ and devoted $60 million to turning this stale 1980s artifact into a... Read the latest column written by L. Brent Bozell III, MRC President: http://www.mrc.org/BozellColumns/entertainmentcolumn/2004/col20040116.asp ________________________________________________________________________________ "I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one Nation under God,indivisible,with liberty and justice for all." 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 www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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