MRC: Media Biased in Coverage of Bush Ads

MRC: Media Biased in Coverage of Bush Ads

An extensive and damning report by the conservative Media Research Center.

Why is it so damning? Because the MRC uses their own words to demonstrate how major media figures twist the coverage of the Bush campaign ads. Direct quotes from their own coverage are pretty tough to argue with.

A second article, found immediately after this one on the same page, questions whether the media will be upset with John Kerry using Vietnam in his ads. The prediction: no, they will simply say that it is part of his experience and thus fair game to tout his ability to be CinC.

Bush Has $100M, But Kerry Has Media to Discredit Bush TV Ads

NBC’s Katie Couric avoided distorting the firefighter’s upset as something independent from the Kerry campaign, but Couric, like the other morning hosts, ignored the quotes in the New York Daily News from 9-11 victim family members who found the ads perfectly fine and quoted only from those who attacked the Bush campaign: "One September 11th widow told the Daily News this morning she was offended by the use of 9-11 images in these ads saying quote, 'After three thousand people were murdered on his watch it seems to me that takes an awful lot of audacity. Honestly, it's in poor taste.' What's your response to that?" . . . .

After her taped piece concluded, Woodruff added what should have undermined the day’s media agenda: “But we also want to note that many 9/11 families apparently support the President, and apparently are comfortable with his new ad campaign. The New York Post quotes one woman who lost her brother in the attacks as saying that the ad is 'tastefully done,’ and quote, 'speaks to the truth of the times,’ end quote.”