Rich Noyes is the MRC’s Research Director and one of the nation’s foremost experts on the news media and politics. Noyes has discussed the media’s liberal bias on the Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC and dozens of radio talk shows, and has authored articles which have appeared in the Journal of Political Science, New York Post, Investor’s Business Daily, Roll Call and Human Events. (More)
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8/28/2012 8:55 AM ET
Republican keynote speaker Chris Christie had to combat and correct several of his hosts’ liberal assumptions on CBS This Morning on Tuesday. CBS’s Norah O’Donnell had trouble grasping that Mitt ...
8/27/2012 9:54 AM ET
Setting up the stakes for Mitt Romney and the Republican National Convention on Monday’s CBS This Morning, journalists and pundits kept insisting that the candidate had to show his touchy-feely ...
8/27/2012 7:50 AM ET
It doesn’t matter whether the nominee is a conservative like
Ronald Reagan, or a moderate like John McCain — network reporters always
seem to scold Republican delegates ...
8/13/2012 9:00 AM ET
Network reporters have already stepped forward to define Paul Ryan as a heartless budget-slasher who might repel as many votes as he might attract to the GOP ticket. A review finds that after ...
8/11/2012 12:30 PM ET
Previewing the choice of Paul Ryan as the GOP vice presidential
candidate, the ABC, CBS and NBC morning shows all used Democratic
framing to describe the House GOP budget plan that Ryan ...
8/11/2012 10:03 AM ET
Breaking the news that Mitt Romney has chosen Paul Ryan as his running mate, ABC’s Good Morning America
on Saturday employed no fewer than seven “conservative” labels to
label Ryan and his ...
6/28/2012 7:51 PM ET
Chief Justice John Roberts may have angered conservatives with his decisive vote in favor of ObamaCare, but he was, in CBS anchor Scott Pelley’s words, the “man of the hour” on all three network ...
6/20/2012 1:00 PM ET
How the media might cover a Supreme Court ruling tossing out ObamaCare remains to be seen, but the MRC studied how the networks covered multiple Court rulings tossing out key elements of George W. ...
6/18/2012 3:07 PM ET
In the hours immediately after the Obama administration announced it would not deport young illegal immigrants who met certain criteria, CNN invited on a parade of pro-Obama guests who applauded ...
6/12/2012 4:47 PM ET
ABC, CBS and NBC quickly lost interest in the criminal investigation into whether top Obama national security officials divulged classified information to the New York Times, a far cry from their ...
5/21/2012 4:30 PM ET
Katie Couric, who made $15 million a year anchoring the CBS Evening News for a half-hour each weeknight, delivered a remarkably self-pitying commencement address at the University of Virginia on ...
5/1/2012 11:48 AM ET
Of the three evening news anchors, by far the most admiring of Obama is NBC’s Brian Williams who has -- no big surprise -- been rewarded with exclusive access to the White House Situation Room for ...
4/23/2012 3:01 PM ET
Six months ago, Pew's Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) came out with a report
claiming that the GOP candidates received more positive press coverage
than President Obama. Monday ...
4/22/2012 3:13 PM ET
The Media Research Center has just concluded an update of our “Media Bias 101”
Web package, with more than 40 articles detailing scholarly research of
the past 30 years showing the mostly ...
3/6/2012 2:29 PM ET
Both MSNBC and CNN have devolved into a feeding frenzy over Rush Limbaugh’s crack about a Georgetown law student. But an MRC review finds those networks had no negative reaction to far more vulgar ...
2/28/2012 6:02 PM ET
It’s been nearly three weeks since President Obama faced a political
backlash over his plan to force religious institutions to bow to
government bureaucrats when it came to supplying birth ...
1/30/2012 2:53 PM ET
After cameras caught Arizona Governor Jan Brewer pointing her finger at President Obama during a discussion on an airport tarmac, NBC's Brian Williams acted appalled. "Who have you ever seen ...
1/24/2012 9:11 AM ET
Tuesday night, President Obama delivers his third State of the Union
address, and his sixth speech to a joint session of Congress since
taking office in 2009. But there's no need to spend a ...
11/23/2011 12:31 PM ET
Brian Williams could not suppress his smirk Tuesday night as he took a shot at a guest who had appeared earlier that day on CNBC. Businessman Ken Langone said President Obama's anti-business ...
11/22/2011 12:53 PM ET
On Monday's CBS Evening News, correspondent Nancy Cordes listed only one cause of the supercommittee failure, how Republicans pushed "to make the Bush-era tax cuts permanent for everyone." And ...
