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.


The Media Hero Award

Winner

Barbara Walters (74 points)

“I would just like to say that I’m honored to be meeting you. I watched those hearings, as did so many other people. And to so many of us, you were our heroine.”
— Longtime ABC News anchor Barbara Walters to law professor Anita Hill, who accused Justice Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment before his 1991 confirmation, on ABC’s The View, March 19.


Runners-Up

Diane Sawyer and David Muir (50 points)

Anchor Diane Sawyer: “Back here at home, a firebrand is back in the news with a big alert for middle class Americans, the bedrock of the nation....”
Correspondent David Muir: “It’s long been part of the American dream. Families hoping to secure their spot in America’s cherished middle class. And she is the firebrand who’s made a name fighting for them.”
Clip of Senator Elizabeth Warren: “There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.”...
Muir: “She says she’s not running for president, Diane, but she’s clearly campaigning for the middle class tonight.”
— ABC’s World News, April 21.


John Heilemann (47 points)

“The hands, they’re like the paintbrushes of Picasso. He just uses them as an artistic expression mode....The thing about Clinton is, everybody thinks he’s a great improviser, and he is a great improviser. But he also hones these speeches....He’s like a great editor, in addition to being a great spontaneous orator.”
— Co-host John Heilemann on Bloomberg’s With All Due Respect, October 7, reacting to a clip of Bill Clinton campaigning in Arkansas.


Andrea Mitchell (24 points)

“I just wanted to ask finally: With all your energy, what keeps you going? What is the secret, the magic of Jimmy Carter?”
— NBC’s Andrea Mitchell interviewing former President Jimmy Carter on Meet the Press, March 23.