THE LINDA ELLERBEE AWARDS FOR DISTINGUISHED REPORTING
The Best Notable Quotables of 1991
Gomer Pyle Award
“Remember all the chatter about a short war? Well, forget it.”
– Time Senior Writer George J. Church, March 4 issue.
Runners-up:
“Well,
they [U.S. soldiers] really didn’t risk that much, number one. And
second, to honor people who believe in violence is to honor the ethic of
violence. And if you believe violence solves problems, you overlook
quite a lot of morality. You overlook what Gandhi said: ‘An eye for an
eye and we all go blind.’ So why celebrate that? Why honor these
people?....Instead of celebrating, we ought to have a national month of
mourning for what we did in that area of the world. We supplied them
weapons endlessly and they used them. And then after we mourn, we ought
to ask them to forgive us for what they did.”
– Washington Post
columnist Colman McCarthy on CNN’s Crossfire, April 19.
War Highlights Shortcomings of U.S. Forces
– Washington Post headline, February 10.
“Certainly
a lot of Americans would die, an estimated 2,500 of them in just the
first ten days of battle. American troops would do most of the fighting
and thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of them would be casualties
along with countless thousands of Iraqis, soldiers and civilians.”
– CBS
News reporter Richard Threlkeld on war prospects, January 4 Evening
News.
“And why do they do these unnatural, unhuman things, these
soldiers? Not for God or country or freedom or even because they’ve been
ordered to. They do them, finally, as James Jones, the author put it,
because they don’t want to appear unmanly in front of their friends.”
–
CBS reporter Richard Threlkeld on U.S. soldiers, February 8 Evening
News.
Peter Arnett Media First Award
Pat Buchanan: “If
there was information you could have gotten out that could have saved
scores, hundreds of American lives, you wouldn’t have transmitted that
information?”
Peter Arnett: “I wouldn’t have transmitted that
information. I would not have gotten that information in the first
place. But I would not have transmitted it. I was in Baghdad because I
was a correspondent for CNN, which has no political affiliations with
the U.S. government, thank goodness.”
– CNN’s Crossfire, August 2.
Runners-up:
“[After
World War II] Many of the Germans came to us after the revelations of
the horrors of the concentration camps. They said ‘We didn’t know, we
didn’t know’ – the tears were rolling down their cheeks. They claimed
they couldn’t be held responsible, but they were. They accepted with
cheers, and great enthusiasm, Hitler’s clamping down on a free
press...Today we’re in the same position.”
– Walter Cronkite quoted on
Gulf War coverage in the October 22 Philadelphia Daily News.
Reporter
Arthur Kent: “Saddam Hussein is a cunning man and nowhere does he show
that more clearly than on a battlefield when he’s under attack.”
Anchor Faith Daniels: “And that, Arthur, really seems to be this Administration’s greatest miscalculation.”
Arthur
Kent: “That’s right, Faith. He is ruthless, but more than ruthless. In
the past 11 days, he’s surprised us. He’s shown us a capable military
mind and he still seems to know exactly what he’s doing.”
– Exchange
from NBC special America: The Realities of War, January 27.
“Allied
military units are on the move. Their positions, movements, and plans
must be carefully safeguarded. We must assume that the enemy is confused
about what is happening on the battlefield and it is absolutely
essential that we not do anything inadvertently ourselves to clarify the
picture for him.”
– Defense Secretary Dick Cheney in a press conference at the start of the ground war, February 23.
vs.
“As part of our
CBS News live coverage of the beginning of the ground war offensive,
we’re talking to Bob McKeown, a CBS News reporter who’s one mile from
the Kuwaiti border. Bob, any indication of how far up you the think the
Allies are now?”
– Dan Rather, 21 minutes later.
Bring Back the Iron Curtain Award
“Ten
months after the new Germany merged, women in the eastern sector are
coming to the stunning realization that, in many ways, democracy has set
them back 40 years.”
– Los Angeles Times staff writer Tamara Jones, August 6.
Runners-Up:
“Inefficient as the old communist
economy was, it did provide jobs of a sort for everybody and a steady,
if meager, supply of basic goods at low, subsidized prices; Soviet
citizens for more than 70 years were conditioned to expect that from
their government. Says a Moscow worker: ‘We had everything during
[Leonid] Brezhnev’s times. There was sausage in the stores. We could buy
vodka. Things were normal.’”
-- Time Associate Editor George J. Church,
September 23.
“Like many other women in what used to be the
German Democratic Republic, she worries that political liberation has
cost her social and economic freedom...The kindergartens that cared for
their children are becoming too expensive, and West Germany’s more
restrictive abortion laws threaten to deny many Eastern women a popular
method of birth control....East Germany’s child-care system helped the
state indoctrinate its young, but also assured women in the East the
freedom to pursue a career while raising a family.”
– U.S. News &
World Report special correspondent John Marks, July 1 news story.
“But
most of his fellow countrymen do not share John Paul’s concept of
morality...many here expect John Paul to use his authority to support
Church efforts to ban abortion, perhaps the country’s principal means of
birth control. And this, they say, could deprive them of a freedom of
choice the communists never tried to take away from them.”
– CBS News
reporter Bert Quint on the June 1 Evening News.
Which Way Is It? Gulf War
Peter
Arnett: “While we were there [at a bombing site], a distraught woman
shouted insults at the press and vented anger at the West.”
Woman:
“Mea culpa! Mea culpa! All of you are responsible, all of you! Bombing
the people for the sake of oil! Hunted as if we are Iranian! We are
human beings! Who made this area like this? The flames in the area, it’s
the West! Mea culpa, the blood, she is on your head!”
– CNN live from Baghdad, February 1.
vs.
“Iraq has been polishing up its
propaganda game for years. A woman wailing in TV-perfect English about
civilian casualties turned out, as CNN later reported, to be an Iraqi
official [aide to the Foreign Affairs Under- secretary]. She also showed
up on French TV wailing in French.”
– Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, Feb. 25.
Runners-up:
“I saw various plans that the manufacturers
had left behind talking about its use as a shelter and I can tell you
that I saw no sign of military equipment on that lower level and I
looked into all the main rooms.”
– BBC reporter Jeremy Bowen on the “shelter” bombed by the U.S., February 14 NBC Nightly News.
vs.
“Intelligence
sources told Newsweek that only the top two levels sheltered senior
military commanders and Baath officials, along with their families.
Beneath them was a secret basement filled with equipment for
communicating with Army leaders at the front. Last week the Iraqis
flooded the secret basement to prevent reporters from seeing it after
the bombing.”
– Newsweek defense reporter John Barry, February 25.
“The
message that came from them very strongly in Baghdad was that they’re
pretty sick of Saddam Hussein. They don’t like the man, they don’t like
what he’s done to their country, and they’d like to be rid of him.”
– BBC Baghdad reporter Jeremy Bowen on NBC News at Sunrise after reporters were kicked out of Baghdad, March 8.
vs.
“But the air war itself,
as it goes on, has shown no sign of diminishing Saddam’s support here
....all the people that we talk to with the television cameras say that
the continuing air attacks have in fact strengthened their desire, their
will to resist the Allied coalition.”
– Bowen on the NBC Nightly News, Feb. 16.
Media Hero Award
“And then there was Anita Hill,
the poised daughter of so many generations of black women who have been
burned carrying torches into the battle for principle. The cause of
civil rights and social justice has so often fallen to them to defend.
Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom
fighters by temperament. Rosa Parks was a tired seamstress who shoved
history forward by refusing to give up her seat on the bus....The latest
to claim her place in line is Anita Hill, a private, professional woman
unwilling to relinquish her dignity without a fight.”
– Time Associate Editor Nancy Gibbs, October 21 issue.
Runners-up:
“Once, long
ago, he was the Prince Hal of American politics: high-spirited,
youthful, heedless. He never evolved, like Prince Hal, into the ideal
king. Instead he did something that was in its way just as impressive.
He became one of the great lawmakers of the century, a Senate leader
whose liberal mark upon American government has been prominent and
permanent. The tabloid version does not do him justice. The public that
knows Kennedy by his misadventures alone may vastly underrate him.”
–
Time's Lance Morrow, Apr. 29.
“And finally President Carter, you
are now considered one of the world’s foremost statesmen. You’ve been
called the best ex-President this country has ever had. Your reputation
has been bolstered tremendously since you left office. How does that
make you feel?”
– Today co-host Katie Couric to Carter, Nov.13.
“Elizabeth,
his wife of 56 years, applauds him as a good family man. Indeed, how
can anyone think ill of Hall when he beams so about cooking pancakes for
his grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, or shares his secret for
making tasty beef stew. (It’s the apples.)”
– Time reporter Michael
Riley in September 9 profile of Communist Party USA leader Gus Hall.
Willie Horton Award (for Sophisticated Political Analysis)
“Demagogues
don’t yell ‘nigger’ or ‘Jew boy’ anymore. They’ve learned
better...[Duke] traded in his bigoted rhetoric for a slick new glossary
of coded appeals to racial resentment, market tested over the past two
decades by mainstream conservative politicians.”
– Time Washington reporter Dan Goodgame, November 25 news story.
Runners-up:
“[Lee
Atwater] was a scoundrel, one of the darkest figures to dominate our
recent politics, a man with a comprehensively cynical view of his fellow
creatures....He made it in the most improbable way, learning to dress
at Brooks Brothers and keep his funky white trash wickedness too....In
running campaigns that played on racial divisions, he was something
worse than a bigot; he was a man who pretended to be a bigot in hope
that it would sell.”
– Washington Post op-ed by reporter Marjorie
Williams, March 30.
“I think that he [Thomas] had the advantage
of prime time on Friday night. He had everything going for him. The
Democrats did not ask him tough questions about the facts of her charge
and they did, the Republicans did a great job of hammering her. It’s
basically what happened in the ‘88 campaign. The Republicans know how to
fight dirty.”
– NBC congressional reporter Andrea Mitchell, October 15
Today.
Damn Those Conservatives Award
“You big
[expletive]....You are so full of [expletive]. You are an evil man....I
don’t have to listen to this [expletive]. You’re a bitter and evil man
and all your colleagues hate you.”
– NPR’s Nina Totenberg to Senator Alan Simpson after Nightline, as Simpson told The Washington Post, October 9.
Runners-up:
“Twelve million American children who
do not have enough to eat, who lack adequate health care, and who are
behind in schools and being left behind in life. Much of our broadcast
will be dedicated to that. Which makes the major news in Washington
today seem even more of a contrast. The President’s Chief of Staff, John
Sununu, is at the center of attention again having to do with his use
of limousines and corporate jets.”
– ABC’s Peter Jennings opening the
June 18 World News Tonight.
Hays Gorey, Senior Correspondent:
“Well, (Republican Sen. John) McCain has got this ad hoc group of
superpatriots that he’s organizing.”
Jerome Cramer, NASA &
Technology Correspondent: “They wear brown shirts and march around.
Small potatoes.”
– Exchange from February 8 Time Washington bureau meeting aired on C-SPAN.
Armand Hammer Memorial Award (for Foreign Reporting)
“It’s
short of soap, so there are lice in the hospitals. It’s short of
pantyhose, so women’s legs go bare. It’s short of snowsuits, so babies
stay home in winter....The problem isn’t communism; nobody even talked
about communism this week. The problem is shortages.”
– NBC’s John Chancellor on the Soviet Union, Aug. 21.
Runners-up:
“If
nothing else, the Cuban revolution has eliminated abject need. The cost
may be generalized poverty and zero political pluralism, but, even with
shortages, there is no starvation here. Education and medical care are
assured for all. And, unlike in most of Latin America, you don’t see
naked or even shoeless children in the streets. When Castro speaks of
the need to defend the gains of revolution, he means a level of social
welfare rare in the underdeveloped world.”
– Washington Post Asst.
Foreign Editor Don Podesta, April 28 “Outlook” article.
“Young
Cubans increasingly see themselves as the last idealists in a world that
cares only about money....Ninety miles away in Miami, Cuban emigres
wish for Fidel’s imminent collapse, but the island’s university students
who volunteer to take a two-week ‘vacation’ in the fields don’t see
trouble brewing in Paradise.”
– Time reporter Cathy Booth, August 12
issue.
The Real Reagan Legacy Award
“In the 1980s, a
time when wealth accumulated and men decayed, the superpatriots entered
Gloryland. They were the anointed Moral Majority. They stood foursquare
for God, Reagan, and the bombing of abortion clinics....We could only
wince when the President called the Contras ‘freedom fighters,’ when
Oliver North became a national hero, when the pledge of allegiance
became – with sinister embellishments – a campaign issue...We winced –
and some of us wept in shame – when George Bush, wearing the white
flower of a blameless life, won the 1988 election with tactics only a
Mafia don could admire.”
– Los Angeles Times Syndicate television critic Harriet Van Horne in The Nation’s “patriotism” issue, July 15/22.
Runners-up:
“Tonight,
the NBC News program Expose looks at incidences of sexual harassment in
[federal low-income] housing. It’s reported by correspondent Michele
Gillen....Well, I guess that’s where the problem began. Actually, it was
when the budget was taken out of the affordable housing market during
the Reagan years and thus, the problem came about.”
– Today co-host
Bryant Gumbel, September 20.
“Cannon starts off by proclaiming
that Reagan is not a dunce, a point that can be questioned by the very
fact that it has to be made, a point we all want to believe but a point
that Cannon tends to undercut every few pages....Acting might be all
right if you’re a king, but it just won’t work for a President...the
nation needed more than inspiration in the 1980s. It needed leadership –
moral leadership, intellectual leadership, political leadership. It
needed a manager, not a cheerleader. It needed a statesman, not a star.
It needed answers, not anecdotes. It needed ideas as well as ideals. And
Ronald Reagan wasn’t up to that task.”
– NBC News President Michael
Gartner reviewing Lou Cannon’s book on Reagan, April 21 Washington Post.
Reporter
Lea Thompson: “The Consumer Product Safety Commission can stop
manufacturing; it can fine; it can even seize clothes right off the rack
if PJs don’t meet flammability standards. None of that’s happened. So
far the agency has only hoped a manufacturer will take its advice. So
you can’t depend on government to police this for you. We did find this
flammable sleepwear everywhere we went.”
Bryant Gumbel: “Lea, Lea,
real quick. Why is the government abdicating its responsibility on this?
Is this another holdover from the Reagan years and the cutbacks?”
Thompson: “Absolutely. And somebody’s gotta do something.”
– Exchange on Today, November 13.
Long Dong Silver Award (for Exaggerated Indignation)
“The
days of Simpson Chic are over. Now he is more often compared to
Red-baiter Joe McCarthy. The image of Simpson flinging open his jacket
and declaring he had lots of ‘stuff’ against Anita Hill – while
revealing nothing – was the lowest of many low points in the Clarence
Thomas hearings. Any Senator with a sense of history should have said,
as attorney Joseph Welch eventually did to McCarthy, ‘Senator, have you
no shame?’....[Simpson] is writing a book about the media – a little
like Stalin discussing intergovernmental relations.”
– Newsweek Washington reporter Eleanor Clift, October 28 news story.
Runners-up:
“I’ve
been in this town for 21 years, and they play a vicious brand of
politics in Washington. Washington can be a mean town. This was as
vicious a fight as I’ve ever seen except it was totally
one-sided....When you had Alan Simpson standing up there like Joe
McCarthy, reaching in his pockets and saying ‘I’m getting stuff through
faxes, and all over the country,’ he sounded just like Joe McCarthy,
let’s face it. And you had Arlen Specter, who was a prosecutor at one
time, saying that she committed perjury, when probably you couldn’t find
another prosecutor in the country that would tell you that she had
committed perjury.”
– Los Angeles Times Washington Bureau Chief Jack
Nelson on Washington Week in Review, October 18.
“Arlen Specter
accused her of perjury. If you read the record, Arlen Specter was the
one who distorted what she said. Orrin Hatch even suggested that she got
one of her charges by reading The Exorcist, I mean that she was
besieged by demons. Orrin should really stick to talking dirty. He does
that better. Alan Simpson, for those of us who were too young to know
what Joe McCarthy was really like, Alan Simpson showed us. ‘I have in my
pocket two dozen card-carrying smearers against this awful woman,’ and
then he produced those smears, those bombshells, and they were duds.”
–
Wall Street Journal Washington Bureau Chief Al Hunt on CNN’s Capital
Gang, October 19.
Thurgood Marshall Award (for Judicial Activism)
“The
genius of the Constitution is that it sides with the citizen against
the state. That’s why it’s such a worldwide success. But toda’'s Supreme
Court tends to favor the state over the citizen.... In this Supreme
Court, the state wins more often than the citizens. Something to keep in
mind when they give you the old malarkey about the Court being true to
the spirit of the Constitution. This Court isn’t.”
– NBC commentator and former anchor John Chancellor, July 23 Nightly News.
Runners-up:
“What
was astonishing here was not that the Court opposes abortion. What was
astonishing was its absurd view that medical personnel paid with
government money lose their right to free speech. The Constitution says
no law shall abridge freedom of speech, no law. Could it be that the
Court hasn’t read that part? ....Was [David Souter] able and willing to
read the Constitution as a member of the Court? Would he abide by it?
Well, now we know the answer. It’s no.”
– David Brinkley ending ABC’s
This Week, May 26.
“Under Rehnquist, the Supreme Court no longer
sees itself as the defender of civil rights and civil liberties, the
champion of the individual. Gone is the Court majority that breathed new
life into the Bill of Rights, dismantled Southern segregation,
disciplined police who violated the rights of citizens, removed religion
from the public schools, pushed a President into resignation, and swept
aside the laws forbidding women to end their pregnancies.”
– Los
Angeles Times Supreme Court reporter David Savage in the Los Angeles
Times Magazine, September 29.
“On the same day major groups
announced their opposition, Thomas’ friends from Georgia showed up on
Capitol Hill. But Thomas has taken controversial positions, such as
suggesting that natural laws may supersede individual rights.”
– NBC congressional reporter Andrea Mitchell, September 9 Nightly News.
Borking Award (for Character Assassination)
“Clarence
Thomas is the best only at his ability to bootlick for Ronald Reagan
and George Bush ....They didn’t pick him because he was black. They
picked him because he’s a black conservative. And the thing that bothers
me about his appointment – if they had put David Duke on, I wouldn’t
scream as much because they would look at David Duke and reject him for
what he is. If you gave Clarence Thomas a little flour on his face,
you’d think you had David Duke talking.”
– Columnist Carl Rowan on Inside Washington, July 7.
Runners-up:
“It may sound bigoted;
well, this is a bigoted world and why can’t black people be allowed a
little Archie Bunker mentality?....Here’s a man [Thomas] who’s going to
decide crucial issues for the country and he has already said no to
blacks; he has already said if he can’t paint himself white he’ll think
white and marry a white woman.”
– USA Today “Inquiry” Editor Barbara
Reynolds in The Washington Post, September 10.
“Who is this guy,
Clarence Thomas, and why should we want him on the Supreme Court? I
can’t think of any good reasons. The man is not distinguished and he
doesn’t seem to have a heart...Let’s be straight about this. Clarence
Thomas is a tool of the rich and powerful. His supporters include Dan
Quayle, Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms. Even David Duke, former Ku Klux
Klan leader, is crazy about Clarence Thomas. Make no mistake, old
people, poor people, black people, women, forget about it. Clarence
Thomas is not your friend.”
– NBC News reporter Bob Herbert in Sunday
Today “Viewpoint” segment, September 8.
Wilson-Weicker Tax Hike Advocacy Award
“American
tax rates today are, relatively speaking, low. Repeat, low. About half
the top rate in the rest of the industrialized world. Our sales taxes
are equally low. Fact: the United States is a tax bargain, believe it or
not. The difference, of course, is that in other countries, people see
their tax money coming back to them to make life more agreeable and
secure. In Western Europe, health care for everyone. In Scandinavia, day
care centers for mothers and children. In Japan, modern, efficient
cities that work.”
– NBC Nightly News anchor Garrick Utley on October 19, Taxpayers Action Day.
Runners-up:
“Every Governor in
America last year could have recited the Jim Florio rule of political
survival: never mount an honest attack against a state deficit. The New
Jersey Governor, who combined service cuts with the highest tax hike in
the state’s history, was all but tarred and feathered for his efforts.
But now, with at least 29 states facing potential deficits, Florio’s
approach is beginning to seem almost prescient.”
-- Time Associate
Editor Priscilla Painton, March 4.
“If you’re going to raise a
child who escapes this cycle [of poverty], you’re going to have to start
a little earlier. And that requires money – M-O-N-E-Y. Read my lips.
And it’s something this nation still isn’t ready to commit to...without
the hard billions of dollars, lots of money which must come from you
dear taxpayers, we’re not going to do this.”
– Sam Donaldson on This Week with David Brinkley, June 23.
Which Way Is It?
U.S. Raises Estimate of ‘92 Deficit
– Washington Post, July 16
vs.
Budget Deficit Estimate Is Lowered
– New York Times, same day
Runners-up:
Free market gets pope’s blessing
– Washington Times, May 3
vs.
Papal Encyclical Urges Capitalism To Shed Injustices
– New York Times, same day
D’Amato Cleared After Senate Inquiry
– Los Angeles Times, August 3
vs.
Senate ethics panel rebukes D’Amato
– Boston Globe, same day
Award for the Silliest Analysis
“The
earth is home, and all its refugees, its homeless, sometimes seem a
sort of advance guard of apocalypse. They represent a principle of
disintegration – the fate of homelessness generalized to a planetary
scale....The flesh is home: African nomads without houses decorate their
faces and bodies instead. The skull is home. We fly in and out of it on
mental errands. The highly developed spirit becomes a citizen of its
own mobility, for home has been internalized and travels with the
homeowner. Home, thus transformed: is freedom. Everywhere you hang your
hat is home. Home is the bright light under the hat.”
– Time “Essay” by Senior Writer Lance Morrow, December 24, 1990.
Runners-up:
“Politicians
led a victory parade of ga-ga worship, with people hugging tanks that
have vacuumed billions from social programs. The Supreme Court ordered
family planning centers to help keep women barefoot and pregnant by not
telling poor women about abortion, while Congress refuses to appropriate
enough funds to feed poor children. And the President says his big-deal
domestic programs are highways and executions. Meanwhile, the S&L
and banking fiascos flash around the country Willie Horton-style, raping
not only women but men and children yet unborn.”
– USA Today “Inquiry”
Editor Barbara Reynolds, June 14.
“Oh say, we’ve seen too much.
The Star-Spangled Banner pushes like a cough through America’s mouth and
the twilight’s last gleaming is just that, a sickly flash above our
heads as we ride unsuspecting in the bellies of sleek trains, plop to
our knees in churches, embracing truths that disgust us.”
– Boston Globe
arts critic and “poet” Patricia Smith in The Nation's “Patriotism”
issue, July 15/22.
Can Lawns Be Justified?
Awash in fertilizers and pesticides, they may be a hazard to homeowners – and children, pets and neighbors
– Time, June 3
Quote of the Year
“There
is a ‘logic’ too to Dahmer’s crime. Raised in a culture that condoned
racial prejudice and despised homosexuals, Dahmer appeared to believe he
could preserve a place in mainstream society – with all its furtive
hopes of family, friends, and future – by destroying the evidence of his
homosexuality. He killed his ‘lovers’ – mostly blacks – dismembered
them, and in some cases, may have devoured their remains. Crime is a
logical, if messy, quick fix to the shortcomings of society. Is that the
lesson then? That we get the criminals our societies deserve? Yes, of
course.”
– Time Associate Editor Howard G. Chua-Eoan in the magazine’s “Essay,” August 19.
Runners-up:
“How can you who protest
abortion be so certain that we aren’t swimming toward a fate worse than
death? Is homicide in the womb, swift and merciful, not better than the
slow death that lies ahead for some of us once our lives begin?...Better
to die now, before we can feel real pain, than to enter a world where
life is so painful it’s criminal to be born.”
– USA Today “Inquiry”
Editor Barbara Reynolds, August 16.
“It’s a morbid observation,
but if everyone on earth just stopped breathing for an hour, the
greenhouse effect would no longer be a problem.”
– Newsweek Senior
Writer Jerry Adler, December 31, 1990 issue.
“Tanks could crunch
grass and other vegetation, knock down dunes and kick up sandstorms,
said Ken Nagy, who teaches about deserts at the University of California
at Los Angeles. ‘Plants and animals there are already living on the
edge,’ he said, ‘and this insult could be enough to push them over the
edge.’”
– Boston Globe reporter Larry Tye on impact on war upon Iraq and Kuwait desert life, January 18.
– Nicholas Damask, Sally Hood, Marian Kelley, Tim Lamer; Media Analysts
– Jennifer Hardebeck; Circulation Manager
Award Judges
Brent Baker, Editor of MediaWatch & Notable Quotables
L. Brent Bozell III, Chairman, the Media Research Center
Priscilla Buckley, Senior Editor of National Review
Stephen Chapman, Chicago Tribune columnist
John Corry, Boston University visiting professor, Broadcast and Film; former New York Times television critic
Sandy Crawford, Editor of TV, etc.
Mark Davis, talk show host, WRC Radio, Washington, D.C.
Midge Decter, Fellow, Religion and Public Life, New York
Jim Eason, talk show host, KGO Radio in San Francisco
Terry Eastland, Resident Scholar, Ethics and Public Policy Center; American Spectator “Presswatch” columnist
Don Feder, Boston Herald and syndicated columnist
Samuel Francis, Washington Times columnist
John Fund, Wall Street Journal editorial writer
Tim Graham, Editor of Notable Quotables
Les Jameson, talk show host, WLAC Radio in Nashville and Board Member, National Assn. of Talk Show Hosts
Cliff Kincaid, media analyst
William Kling, former Chicago Tribune and Washington Times political reporter
Rush Limbaugh, talk show host, Excellence in Broadcasting network
Marlin Maddoux, talk show host, USA Radio Network
Patrick McGuigan, Chief editorial writer, Daily Oklahoman
Mike McMurray, talk show host, WCKY Radio in Cincinnati
Michael Medved, co-host, Sneak Previews on PBS
William Murchison, Dallas Morning News columnist
Marvin Olasky, Associate Professor of Journalism, U. of Texas
Burton Yale Pines, Senior VP, the Heritage Foundation
Mike Pintek, talk show host, KDKA Radio in Pittsburgh
Wladyslaw Pleszcynski, Managing Editor of The American Spectator
Mike Rosen, talk show host, KOA Radio and Denver Post columnist
William Rusher, Claremont Institute Senior Fellow; & syndicated columnist
Marc Ryan, editorial writer, Waterbury [CT] Republican-American
Ted J. Smith III, Associate Professor of Mass Communications at Virginia Commonwealth University
Philip Terzian, Editorial page editor, The Providence Journal
Cal Thomas, columnist, Los Angeles Times syndicate
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., Editor of The American Spectator
Dick Williams, Atlanta Journal columnist
Thomas Winter, Editor of Human Events