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Outgunned: how the network news media are spinning the gun control debate
Source: Media Research Center
Country: United States

This detailed study finds that mainstream American news sources are overwhelmingly biased against guns and in favor of restrictions on the right to bear arms. (1/6/00)

Propaganda for dollars
Source: Salon
Author: Daniel Forbes
Country: United States

"When the White House and the TV networks got together to put anti-drug messages in prime-time television, were they breaking the law?" (2000)

Prime-time propaganda
Source: Salon
Author: Daniel Forbes
Country: United States

"How the White House secretly hooked network TV on its anti-drug message." (2000)

Facts frozen out: network news and global warming
Source: MRC/FMP
Country: United States

"Polls from groups as diverse as Greenpeace and Citizens for a Sound Economy show that most climate scientists are skeptical of claims that the climate change of the 20th century has been a result of greenhouse gas emissions. This is news to network reporters." (1997)

Dominant ideology & drugs in the media
Source: Lindesmith Institute
Author: Craig Reinarmann and Ceres Duskin
Country: United States

The embarrassing case of the fraudulent Pulitzer Prize-winning story of an eight-year-old addict illustrates the media’s preference for plugging the world into its own preconceptions. (1992)

Facts exempt: network news and taxes
Source: MRC/FMP
Author: Tim Lamer
Country: United States

"Network news reports generally portray tax cut proposals as election-year sops to the wealthy at the expense of the poor. And viewers of the network news probably think there is no philosophical or economic rationale behind tax cuts, since they are rarely told of one." (1998)

Shooting blind
Source: Reason
Author: William R. Tonso
Country: United States

Press coverage of the "assault weapon" controversy suggests that most jounalists know very little about guns and are not interested in learning. (11/95)

Media bias in coverage of gun control
Source: Independence Institute
Author: David B. Kopel
Country: United States

A comparison of two opinion polls released in 1979 reveals that while small newspapers may favor gun rights, "newspapers of record" and wire services undoubtedly boost gun control. (1989)

The media and GI Joe
Source: Reason
Author: Chris Bray
Country: United States

Is there anyone left outside the press who thinks that what we most need are troops who consider it a hallmark of discipline that they "don't think"? The press gets the military wrong -- and it matters. (01/28/02)

Loaded coverage
Source: Reason
Author: Kenneth Smith
Country: United States

When guns are used to save lives, why do the mainstream media ignore the story? (06/00)

Antidotes to climate hype
Source: MRC/CMP
Author: Timothy Lamer
Country: United States

"[R]eporters should keep in mind that critics of global warming policies exist, and balance requires including their arguments." (1998)

ABC, CBS and NBC's coverage of the GOP tax cut debate
Source: MRC/CMP
Author: Richard Noyes
Country: United States

This conservative media watchdog group examines news coverage of the Republican contenders for the 2000 GOP presidential nomination and finds that the networks consistently downplayed or ridiculed tax cut proposals. (2000)

The stock market, profits, and credit expansion
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
Author: George Reisman
Country: United States

"The great majority of today's intellectuals ... regard the failure of socialism and success of capitalism as mere "brute facts," that is, facts without intelligible basis; indeed, facts defying and contradicting all understanding." (8/02)

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