In his weekly appearance on the One America News Network's "The Daily Ledger," MRC VP of Business and Culture Dan Gainor discussed three of the top media bias stories from this week: the media's refusal to report on attacks on Jewish synagogues in France, the media's refusal to mention that only 2.3 percent of the population identifies as LGBT, and the dramatic rise in the use of the term "extreme weather" by ABC, CBS and NBC news broadcasts following the release of Al Gore's 2006 film "An Inconvenient Truth."
"The Daily Ledger" host Graham Ledger noted that the media "ignores things that it doesn't like, but, of course, the media covers ad nauseum what it loves."
You can find the full text of the stories that Gainor and Ledger are discussing here:
- Nothing to See Here: Muslims Attack French Jews, Nets Silent: http://mrc.org/articles/nothing-see-here-muslims-attack-french-jews-nets-silent [1]
- CDC: Gay Population 2.3%; Thanks to Media, Americans Think Number is 13 Times Higher: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kristine-marsh/2014/07/15/cdc-gay-population-23-thanks-media-americans-think-number-13-times-h#ixzz37rDroLXj [2]
- Network Coverage of ‘Extreme Weather’ Up Nearly 1,000 Percent: http://www.mrc.org/bias-numbers/network-coverage-extreme-weather-nearly-1000-percent [3]
You can watch Dan Gainor's weekly appearance Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. on the One America News Network.
— Mike Ciandella is Research Analyst at the Media Research Center. Follow Mike Ciandella on Twitter. [4]