Best of NQ 2014


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Media Coverage

In addition to discussions on numerous radio talk shows where hosts cited quotes or interviewed MRC representatives, the Best of NQ Awards issue has been highlighted by these outlets:

Print:

Online:

Video:

  • Fox News Channel’s Hannity segment with MRC President Brent Bozell on December 18. Video.
  • Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends segment with Genevieve Wood on December 30. Video.
  • Newsmax TV’s America’s Forum segment with the MRC’s Tim Graham on December 30. Video, part 1; Video, part 2.
  • NewsmaxTV’s Steve Malzberg Show segment with the MRC’s Tim Graham on December 30. Video, part 1; Video, part 2.

Radio:

  • Partial list (not including discussions by hosts without a guest): Interviews with MRC staff include appearances on WIBA in Madison, Wisconsin; with Mark Larson on KCBQ in San Diego; KFMB in San Diego; David Webb’s show on SiriusXM; WHO in Des Moines and KBAR in Twin Falls, Idaho.


Category 1 of 15

The Move Along, Nothing to See Here Award
for Denying Obama’s Scandals

Winner

Jeff Zucker (52 points)

“We’re not going to be shamed into it [covering the Benghazi hearings] by others who have political beliefs that want to try to have temper tantrums to shame other news organizations into covering something. If it’s of real news value, we’ll cover it.”
— CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker to New York Times television reporter Bill Carter at a Deadline Club event May 19, as quoted the next day by Nicole Levy in a Capital New York article.


Runners-Up

Chris Hayes (40 points)

“Without the IRS, or something like it, we wouldn’t have a government. In fact, it’s the cornerstone upon which the entire edifice of the federal government is built. And that is precisely the reason conservatives have so consistently taken a sledgehammer to it....Conservatives recognize that one of the only things standing between us and a genuine plutocracy are thousands of anonymous bureaucrats doing the basic work of enforcing our nation’s laws.”
— MSNBC host Chris Hayes on criticism of Lois Lerner, April 15 All In.


Chris Matthews (34 points)

“The enemies of Hillary Clinton, by that I mean the partisan enemies, have got their voodoo doll. It’s called Benghazi. Every time they put the pin in, they hope it hurts Hillary....It’s become an obsession bordering on cultism among Republicans, with even John Boehner falling under its spell. You can almost smell the incense. ‘Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi.’ They keep chanting the word until it gets Hillary to fall.”
— Chris Matthews starting off MSNBC’s Hardball, May 5.


Julie Mason (28 points)

“All these hearings, all these investigations — where’s the proof of the crime? Howie, this morning, there were 100,000 stories on Google News about the IRS investigation. There’s a welter of coverage... but there’s no proof of a crime. And the coverage reflects that. Every journalist in town would love if there was proof of a scandal, they would be galloping after it. They’re not trying to protect President Obama. That’s over.”
— Sirius-XM Press Pass radio host Julie Mason, a former White House correspondent for the Houston Chronicle, Washington Examiner and Politico, on the June 29 edition of FNC’s MediaBuzz.