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Meredith Vieira: Megaphone for the Liberal Cause

By
MRC Staff
April 6, 2006 - 9:09pm

On April 6, NBC announced that Meredith Vieira, a host of ABC's The View, in September will succeed Katie Couric as co-host of the Today show. In picking Vieira, NBC chose a journalist with a record of liberal views on many contentious issues. Below is a collection of MRC reports on her issued after her selection.

CyberAlert [1], April 6: [1]
"New Today Co-Host an Anti-War Protester: 'War Built on Lies'"

NewsBusters blog: [2]
"Meredith Vieira: Liberal on Sex Ed, Roe v. Wade, the Clintons"

CyberAlert [3], April 7 [3]
"Vieira Reiterates Anti-War View, Pledges to Keep It Off Air"

CyberAlert [4], April 10: [4]
"Ex-CBS & MSNBC Exec: Vieira Faces 'Challenge' to Her Credibility"

Bozell column: [5]
"Meredith Vieira, Anchor/Protester"

CyberAlert, April 12 [6]
"Vieira Denies Any Political Agenda, Then Shows She Has One on War"

CyberAlert, April 27 [7]:
"Vieira 'Peeved' at Bush, Holds Him Responsible for Gas Prices" (with video) [8]

CyberAlert, May 15 [9]:
"Vieira Buys Gas 'Crisis' Hype; Befuddled by Concept Minimum Wage Could 'Hurt' the Poor"



[10] | [11] | [12]
The "entire pretext for war," Vieira declared on the June 17, 2004 The View, was "built on lies"


[13] | [14] | [15]
On the August 30, 2004 The View, Vieira talked about marching in an anti-war protest

Source URL: http://archive2.mrc.org/profiles-bias/meredith-vieira-megaphone-liberal-cause

Links:
[1] http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060406.asp#1
[2] http://newsbusters.org/node/4821
[3] http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060407.asp#2
[4] http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060410.asp#1
[5] http://www.mrc.org/BozellColumns/newscolumn/2006/col20060411.asp
[6] http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060412.asp#3
[7] http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060427.asp#5
[8] http://www.mediaresearch.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060427.asp#5
[9] http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2006/cyb20060515.asp#2
[10] http://www.mediaresearch.org/audiobias/MP3/2006/2004-06-17-ABCTVVieira.mp3
[11] http://www.mediaresearch.org/audiobias/vidclips/2006/2004-06-17-ABCTVVieira.rm
[12] http://www.mediaresearch.org/audiobias/vidclips/2006/2004-06-17-ABCTVVieira.wmv
[13] http://www.mediaresearch.org/audiobias/MP3/2006/2004-08-30-ABCTVVieira.mp3
[14] http://www.mediaresearch.org/audiobias/vidclips/2006/2004-08-30-ABCTVVieira.rm
[15] http://www.mediaresearch.org/audiobias/vidclips/2006/2004-08-30-ABCTVVieira.wmv
[16] http://archive2.mrc.org/profiles-bias
[17] http://archive2.mrc.org/division/news-analysis-division
[18] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/profiles
[19] http://archive2.mrc.org/tags/meredith-vieira
[20] http://www.tellthetruth2012.org