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Best of the Worst

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It’s that time of year again. Time for the MRC to choose their Best of Notable Quotables 2005.

The Media Research Center’s annual awards issue, a compilation of the most outrageous and/or humorous news media quotes from 2005 (December 2004 through November 2005). To determine this year’s winners, a panel of 52 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers and media observers each selected their choices for the first, second and third best quote from a slate of six to nine quotes in each category.

I love reading this “Best of the Worst” list each year. It seems the MSM‘s false attacks on Bush get more outrageous every year.

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Blackout Roundup

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Media Bias United States

TV Anchor Injects Politics into Power Outage: “CBS News anchor Dan Rather, covering Thursday’s multi-state blackout
from New York, wondered if President Bush would cancel his fund-raising
dinner in California because of the power outage back East, a media
watchdog group reported. The Media Research Center (CNSNews.com’s
parent organization) also noted that if CBS were so concerned about the
blackout, maybe it could have cancelled some of its prime time line-up.”

In CNSNews.com

I wasn’t going to blog about this at all, but the media coverage
really pissed me off. Where the hell does the media get off playing
politics with a blackout like this? Shouldn’t they just report about it
without giving us an opinion? That’s what FOXNews did. They just
reported the facts, they didn’t editorialize in the form of “news
reporting.”

Why would anybody give Hillary so much airtime to tout her federal
regulation agenda for the energy industry? Why didn’t they balance her
comments with somebody in favor of de-regulation? If anybody says there
isn’t media bias, they’re crazy.


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