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Julia A. Seymour | July 30, 2014

It’s easy in America to take refrigeration for granted. After all, it has been in use since the late 1800s and home refrigerators became ubiquitous in the 1950s.

However, China’s “refrigeration boom” is still only…

Julia A. Seymour | July 21, 2014

The beauty of weaving an anti-fracking agenda into a work of fiction is that drilling for natural gas can be demonized without a burden of proof. It is fiction after all.

And it’s precisely what James Browning did with…

Mike Ciandella | July 18, 2014

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…

Julia A. Seymour | July 9, 2014

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It is true that people see what they want to see. Far-left websites Alternet, Slate and Mother Jones all raved about the “class warfare” themes and “political allegory” of “Snowpiercer,” a violent, Korean-made, art…

Mike Ciandella | June 27, 2014

It seems the Department of Homeland Security doesn't know how many stars and stripes there are on the American flag.

A DHS press release, dated June 20, commemorated the June 17th naturalization of 15 new US citizens, noting the "15…

Sean Long | June 26, 2014

After downplaying bad economic news for months, the broadcast networks continued their head-in-the-sand approach once again.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) revised earlier growth estimates sharply downwards. It…

Mike Ciandella | June 25, 2014

According to a recently published briefing book "obtained by Politico" by the liberal megadonor group Democracy Alliance, "progressives' long term success hinges on our ability to fundamentally change our current political system -…

Dan Gainor | June 24, 2014

When it comes to big money in politics, there’s only one name the broadcast networks dwell on – the Koch brothers.

Billionaires David and Charles Koch are major contributors to both conservative and Republican causes. Democrats are “…

Sean Long | June 23, 2014

MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski piled on to left-wing media attacks against Walmart on June 23, and rejected a fellow journalist’s explanation of how economics works.

The New York Times’ liberal columnist…

Julia A. Seymour | June 19, 2014

With the help of the news media, First Lady Michelle Obama continued to lambast critics of the school lunch program changes she helped pass in 2010.

“What we need to do is lend a hand to the schools that are struggling,…

Mike Ciandella | June 18, 2014

IRS commissioner John Koskinen assured the Soros-funded Center for Public Integrity that the IRS would be proposing “new and specific rules defining how much money ‘social welfare’ nonprofits may spend on political campaigns.

According to…

Sean Long | May 30, 2014

Two out of three networks spurned the downgrade of GDP into negative territory on May 29 and 30.

Of the ABC, CBS and NBC morning and evening news shows, only CBS “Evening News” mentioned that the already weak first-…

Sean Long | May 22, 2014

Failing to provide historical context, The New York Times used Alaska’s Muir Glacier as “evidence” for global warming without mentioning that it has been melting since at least the 1700s.

On May 19, Kenneth Chang of The…

Sean Long | May 20, 2014

When the federal government fearmongers over climate change, you can expect a collective media gasp. But not when alarmists are accused of pressuring and attacking skeptical scientists.

Meteorologist Lennart Bengtsson…

Julia A. Seymour | May 15, 2014

Is “The Gray Lady” that way because the sexist owners of The New York Times won’t pay her enough for a proper dye job? This and other delightfully schadenfreude-alicious questions are worth pondering now that the paper has “unexpectedly…

Kristine Marsh | May 14, 2014

America’s infrastructure isn’t as bad as networks news broadcasts, politicians and interest groups clamoring for more taxpayer dollars would have you believe.

In spite of statements from then-Transportation Secretary Ray…

Sean Long | May 8, 2014

Sometimes the truth is much sweeter than the syrupy environmentalism of the national media.

While hyping the alleged effects on climate change, NBC’s May 6 “Nightly News” tried to localize the impact by citing a different problem in each…

Sean Long | April 3, 2014

There is a jobs crisis in the U.S. that is going virtually unnoticed by the broadcast networks. The unemployment rate for African Americans towers over the national average, upsetting conservatives and liberals.

In spite…

Mike Ciandella | April 2, 2014

CNBC contributor Rick Santelli ranted against the media’s tendency to accept certain things as settled fact.

According to Santelli, the media, “whether press, TV or whatever it is,” aren’t focusing enough on presenting hard data. “I don’t…

Mike Ciandella | March 31, 2014

The son of one of the largest liberal donors of all time campaigning against money in politics might seem a bit strange.

What's even stranger is that, while he was spearheading that campaign, he was simultaneously vice chairman and director…