About the Media Research Center
Bringing Political Balance and Responsibility to the Media

Founded by L. Brent Bozell III in 1987 with the mission of bringing political
balance to the nation’s news media and responsibility to the entertainment
media, the Media Research Center (MRC) has grown into the nation’s
largest and most respected conservative media watchdog organization.

The MRC tapes over 150 hours a week of news and entertainment shows
aired on the broadcast networks and cable news channels. With over
160,000 hours on more than 25,000 videotapes, the MRC is the only
organization with a complete tape library of network news and entertainment shows back to the late 1980s. Every day teams of MRC analysts enter data from all these stories and shows into a customized computer database, identifying bias in the process. Analysts also comb daily through the nation's most influential newspapers and news magazines.

The result of the MRC’s work is a mountain of evidence to use in combating
the undeniable bias. The key to the MRC’s effectiveness is the ability to
prove bias by using scientific studies and word-for-word quotes from the
media. 

MRC spokesmen appear on network television programs, including NBC’s
Today, CNN’s Crossfire and Reliable Sources, CNBC’s Rivera Live as
well as various shows on the Fox News Channel and MSNBC. The MRC
also provides editors and producers with information on conservative
positions, suggesting conservative spokesmen to balance liberal views. Many prominent national and local radio talk show hosts utilize MRC research, including Rush Limbaugh, Paul Harvey, Michael Reagan, G. Gordon Liddy, Mike Rosen (Denver), Neal Boortz (Atlanta) and Mark Davis (Dallas). To ensure the views of conservatives are disseminated, in 1998 the MRC created the Cybercast News Service. 

MRC President Brent Bozell writes a weekly newspaper column distributed
by the Creator’s Syndicate. Op-eds by the MRC staff have recently appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, Investor’s Business Daily and National Review.

The News Division publishes Notable Quotables every other week, as well
as a weekly Media Reality Check fax report by Tim Graham and near-daily
CyberAlert e-mail reports by Brent Baker. In 1999 the news division began
a weekly MagazineWatch report and from 1988 to 1999 published Media
Watch, a newsletter chronicling media bias. At year end, a panel of 50 media experts selects the Best Notable Quotables of the year for the annual
Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting. Also, in 1999 the News Division produced the "Dishonest Awards: This Decades Most Outrageous Liberal Media Bias."

The news division publishes special reports, including Team Clinton: The
Starting Line-Up of the Pro-Clinton Press Corps, Outgunned: How the
Network News Media Are Spinning the Gun Control Debate and has
produced three books: Pattern of Deception: The Media’s Role in the
Clinton Presidency (1996), How to Identify Expose & Correct Liberal
Media Bias (revised 1996) and And That’s the Way It Isn’t: A Reference
Guide to Media Bias (1991).

The Free Market Project (FMP) works to educate the media about the
values and benefits of the free market system. FMP publishes a monthly
newsletter, MediaNomics by Rich Noyes, which scrutinizes what the media
tell viewers and readers about free enterprise in both entertainment shows
and news programs. Special reports completed by FMP include the
much-quoted Businessmen Behaving Badly: Prime Time’s World of
Commerce which documented how on TV shows businessmen commit more crimes than any other profession. In 1994 Regnery published a book from FMP, Out Of Focus: Network Television and the American Economy.

Parents Television Council (PTC). The mission of the PTC, the Hollywood
project of the MRC, is to bring America’s demand for positive, family-oriented television programming to the entertainment industry. The
PTC has organized a star-studded group of entertainment industry leaders to serve as members of the organization’s Advisory Board. Using scientific
analysis generated from the MRC’s computerized database of entertainment show content, the PTC publishes special reports focusing on a variety topics relating to the content of prime time television -- including in-depth analyses of the "family hour" and the television ratings system. 

The online Family Guide to Prime Time Television provides a daily grid of
prime time shows with a written assessment of each program as well as an
easy "traffic light" rating system (red, yellow, and green) to signal a show’s
suitability for children, based on language, violence and sexual situations.

MRC Membership. By joining the MRC members gain many benefits,
including discounts on all MRC products and novelty media bias items such
as "Don’t Believe the Liberal Media" pens, bumper stickers and magnets, and tools to fight to correct the media’s liberal bias. Members receive a special monthly report, Flash, which keeps them up to date with all of the MRC’s activities, special reports and projects to combat liberal media bias. 

Montgomery Internship Program. In 1992 the MRC founded this internship
program to educate young conservatives as to how the media bias the news so they can work to bring balance to the media in the political or journalistic career they pursue. 

Job Openings. The MRC employs a team of over 35 professionals dedicated to bringing balance to the media and we are always looking for good people to join our effort by working for us. Check to see if your abilities and interests match one of our current openings. 

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Media Research Center
325 S. Patrick Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Ph. (703) 683-9733

Web URL: http://www.mrc.org