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"Ugly" Zell Miller Reminiscent of Buchanan
Zell Miller's speech reminded ABC and CNN reporters of Pat Buchanan's 1992 address -- and they didn't mean it as a compliment. CNN's Bill Schneider contended that "I've never heard such an angry speech." Joe Klein of Time magazine declared on CNN: "I don't think I've seen anything as angry or as ugly:
some headlines to ponder...
wednesday morning editions....
• Zell Miller “Angry,” “Harsh” and “Ugly,” Reminiscent of Buchanan
• Miller Tells Matthews to “Shut Up,” Wishes to Arrange a Duel
• Zell Miller’s Segregationist Past Suddenly Relevant to Matthews
• CBS Publicizes “Cheney & Halliburton Made Killing in Iraq” Sign
• Gregory Tags Cheney “Dark Figure,” Charges He Must Change Policy
• Bush’s Visit to Firefighters Has “Kind of Hokey Exploitive Feel”
• CBS Lays Out Case that Bush’s Anti-Terrorism Policies a Failure
• CBS and ABC Stress How GOP Trying to Disguise True Agenda
• Brokaw: GOP Platform Alienates Women, Convention Skips Bad News
• After Tribute to Reagan, PBS’s Lehrer Blames Deficit on Tax Cuts
Wednesday Afternoon Editions
:
• Networks Rougher on Lynne Cheney than Elizabeth Edwards
• Wondering If Bush-Backing Zell Miller Is Really a Democrat
• Washington Post Shows How NBC Nightly News Skews Its News
• NBC’s Today Hosts GOP Critics; No Anti-Democrats Five Weeks Ago
• CBS’s Smith Asks Ex-President Bush About Loony Left Theory
• During Both Conventions, Leftist Moore Shows Up on NBC
• ABC Reporter Still Fretting Over “No Girlie Men” Buttons
Wednesday Morning Editions:
• Brokaw Rues Missing Bad News, Shriver Shows “Clenched Teeth”
• CNN: Bush Loss Means GOP “Too Far Right,” Rue Moderate Hesitancy
• MSNBC Sees Conflict Between “Compassion” and Gay Marriage Ban
• NBC Blames Conservatives for Alienating Log Cabin Republicans
• Brokaw Tells Moderate: “You Have No Place in This Convention”
• ABC: Bush “Surrogates” Spreading False Charges Against Kerry
• ABC’s Snow Suggests Anti-“Girlie Men” Button Will Offend Some
• CBS Frets About How GOP Stars Overwhelm Democratic Spin
• Hosts of ABC’s The View Gang Up on Giuliani for Backing Bush...and more!
Executive Summary
Over the next four months, the media establishment will play a central role in informing the public about the candidates and the issues. As the countdown to Election Day begins, it is important to remember the journalists who will help establish the campaign agenda are not an all-American mix of Democrats, Republicans and independents, but an elite group whose views veer sharply to the left.
Surveys over the past 25 years have consistently found that journalists are more liberal than rest of America. This MRC Special Report summarizes the relevant data on journalist attitudes, as well as polling showing how the American public’s recognition of the media’s liberal bias has grown over the years:
Journalists Vote for Liberals: Between 1964 and 1992, Republicans won the White House five times compared with three Democratic victories. But if only journalists’ ballots were counted, the Democrats would have won every time.
Journalists Say They Are Liberal: Surveys from 1978 to 2004 show that journalists are far more likely to say they are liberal than conservative, and are far more liberal than the public at large.
Journalists Reject Conservative Positions: None of the surveys have found that news organizations are populated by independent thinkers who mix liberal and conservative positions. Most journalists offer reflexively liberal answers to practically every question a pollster can imagine.
The Public Recognizes the Bias: Since 1985, the percentage of Americans who perceive a liberal bias has doubled from 22 percent to 45 percent, nearly half the adult population. Even a plurality of Democrats now say the press is liberal.
"Ugly" Zell Miller Reminiscent of Buchanan
Zell Miller's speech reminded ABC and CNN reporters of Pat Buchanan's 1992 address -- and they didn't mean it as a compliment. CNN's Bill Schneider contended that "I've never heard such an angry speech." Joe Klein of Time magazine declared on CNN: "I don't think I've seen anything as angry or as ugly:
some headlines to ponder...
wednesday morning editions....
• Zell Miller “Angry,” “Harsh” and “Ugly,” Reminiscent of Buchanan
• Miller Tells Matthews to “Shut Up,” Wishes to Arrange a Duel
• Zell Miller’s Segregationist Past Suddenly Relevant to Matthews
• CBS Publicizes “Cheney & Halliburton Made Killing in Iraq” Sign
• Gregory Tags Cheney “Dark Figure,” Charges He Must Change Policy
• Bush’s Visit to Firefighters Has “Kind of Hokey Exploitive Feel”
• CBS Lays Out Case that Bush’s Anti-Terrorism Policies a Failure
• CBS and ABC Stress How GOP Trying to Disguise True Agenda
• Brokaw: GOP Platform Alienates Women, Convention Skips Bad News
• After Tribute to Reagan, PBS’s Lehrer Blames Deficit on Tax Cuts
Wednesday Afternoon Editions
:
• Networks Rougher on Lynne Cheney than Elizabeth Edwards
• Wondering If Bush-Backing Zell Miller Is Really a Democrat
• Washington Post Shows How NBC Nightly News Skews Its News
• NBC’s Today Hosts GOP Critics; No Anti-Democrats Five Weeks Ago
• CBS’s Smith Asks Ex-President Bush About Loony Left Theory
• During Both Conventions, Leftist Moore Shows Up on NBC
• ABC Reporter Still Fretting Over “No Girlie Men” Buttons
Wednesday Morning Editions:
• Brokaw Rues Missing Bad News, Shriver Shows “Clenched Teeth”
• CNN: Bush Loss Means GOP “Too Far Right,” Rue Moderate Hesitancy
• MSNBC Sees Conflict Between “Compassion” and Gay Marriage Ban
• NBC Blames Conservatives for Alienating Log Cabin Republicans
• Brokaw Tells Moderate: “You Have No Place in This Convention”
• ABC: Bush “Surrogates” Spreading False Charges Against Kerry
• ABC’s Snow Suggests Anti-“Girlie Men” Button Will Offend Some
• CBS Frets About How GOP Stars Overwhelm Democratic Spin
• Hosts of ABC’s The View Gang Up on Giuliani for Backing Bush...and more!
Executive Summary
Over the next four months, the media establishment will play a central role in informing the public about the candidates and the issues. As the countdown to Election Day begins, it is important to remember the journalists who will help establish the campaign agenda are not an all-American mix of Democrats, Republicans and independents, but an elite group whose views veer sharply to the left.
Surveys over the past 25 years have consistently found that journalists are more liberal than rest of America. This MRC Special Report summarizes the relevant data on journalist attitudes, as well as polling showing how the American public’s recognition of the media’s liberal bias has grown over the years:
Journalists Vote for Liberals: Between 1964 and 1992, Republicans won the White House five times compared with three Democratic victories. But if only journalists’ ballots were counted, the Democrats would have won every time.
Journalists Say They Are Liberal: Surveys from 1978 to 2004 show that journalists are far more likely to say they are liberal than conservative, and are far more liberal than the public at large.
Journalists Reject Conservative Positions: None of the surveys have found that news organizations are populated by independent thinkers who mix liberal and conservative positions. Most journalists offer reflexively liberal answers to practically every question a pollster can imagine.
The Public Recognizes the Bias: Since 1985, the percentage of Americans who perceive a liberal bias has doubled from 22 percent to 45 percent, nearly half the adult population. Even a plurality of Democrats now say the press is liberal.
