Letter from the President ............................................... 1

News Analysis Division ................................................. 2

Free Market Project ........................................................ 4

Times Watch................................................................... 5

CNSNews.com / Cybercast News Service ................... 6

Youth Education and Internship Program..................... 8

Publications .................................................................... 9

Impact: Television, Radio, Print, and Internet ............. 10

The MRC DisHonors Awards ......................................12

MRC Leadership ...........................................................13

2003 Financial Report ..................................................14

Inside the MRC ............................................................. 16

MRC’s Light of Truth Campaign .................................. 17

“The MRC folks don’t give the media hell;they just tell the truth and the media think it’s hell.”

Bernard Goldberg – Arrogance: Rescuing America From the Media Elite

Letter from the PresidentWhy is the Media Research Center the most successful and respected media watchdog

in the United States? Perhaps it’s because the work here never stops – or slows.The best way to explain it is to follow a day in the life of the MRC.The day starts early. Susan Jones, the Morning Editor at CNSNews.com, the official

news service of the MRC, arrives at our Alexandria, Va. headquarters at 4 a.m. andbegins sifting through the morning’s news. By 9 a.m., the newsroom is humming and the CNSNews.comWeb site is exploding with reports coming from the Jerusalem and Pacific Rim bureaus, from stringers acrossAfrica, Asia and Europe, and from the investigative staff in Alexandria.

On a separate floor, the MRC’s News Analysis Division is also in full gear. MRC Vice President ofResearch and Publications Brent Baker is finishing his daily CyberAlert intelligence report, which will bee-mailed to 14,000 subscribers, public policy leaders and talk show hosts around the country before themorning is over.

As Baker works on, another MRC electronic publication is taking shape in New York. Clay Waters, theDirector of Times Watch, the MRC project dedicated to exposing the liberal agenda of the New York Times, ismaking the last additions to his daily analysis of the paper’s slanted coverage.

By 11 a.m., both publications are finished and available to readers. But, in many ways, the MRC’s day isjust beginning.

The phone has already been ringing in the executive suite. It’s a producer from a national television newsprogram or a major radio program. Maybe it’s a newspaper reporter or a magazine editor. All want interviews.Indeed, without such a request, it would hardly be a typical day. In 2003, MRC spokesmen appeared on, orwere cited in, more than 500 television, radio, newspapers or Internet news stories that ran on tens of thousandsof TV stations, radio affiliates and print outlets. All day long there are key staff on the phone conductinginterviews or dashing out of the office, headed for a television studio somewhere in Washington.

And still the wheels continue to turn. In another part of the office, Research Director Rich Noyes andDirector of Media Analysis Tim Graham are producing their Media Reality Check on the latest outrageousinstance of anti-conservative bias. Paul Stifflemire is churning out more copy for his Free Market Projectstudies. Research Assistant Kristina Sewell, who’s responsible for coordinating our round-the-clock taping system,is busy finding and copying old news programs from our unrivaled archive of 200,000 hours of news programming;requests for research assistance come in daily. We’re cranking out syndicated columns and op-eds. We’re updatingour four separate Web sites for our combined daily audience of well over 100,000 visitors. On and on its goes.

One look at a day at the MRC demonstrates just what a unique and crucial organization we’ve become.Through our publications, media appearances and investigative journalism, we reach millions, counteringand blunting the national media’s liberal agenda every day of the year. It’s a task that no other group inAmerica can accomplish.

In the pages of the MRC’s 2003 Annual Report you will find a full programmatic and financial accountingof the organization’s work last year. We are most proud of what we have accomplished though we readilyacknowledge our work is far from done. We cannot – and will not – rest for a moment.

That’s a commitment we make to you every day of the year.Sincerly,

L. Brent Bozell IIIFounder and President

“Perhaps no conservative organization does work as important as the Media ResearchCenter does. It’s an indefatigable watchdog, exposing the crudities,

omissions, and inequities of our corrupt Fourth Estate.”

RICHARD LOWRY, EDITOR, NATIONAL REVIEW

The News Analysis Division’s relentless docu-mentation of liberal bias has firmly established theMedia Research Center as the nation’s most reliableand respected media watchdog.

From specific projects like the campaign to forceCBS to cancel The Reagans, an unfair and dishonestminiseries about former President Ronald Reagan, tomajor programs like the fight for balanced coverageduring the Iraq conflict, the Division worked tirelesslyin 2003 to expose and neutralize the liberal agenda ofthe national news media.

These efforts, along with the almost dailydocumentation of liberal bias on the MRC Web site(www.mrc.org) and publications such as CyberAlert,Media Reality Check and Notable Quotables, havesignificantly raised the MRC’s national profile. MRCPresident Bozell and Division staffers were interviewed or citedin more than 300 newspaper and Internet news stories and made40 television appearances and nearly 150 radio appearances,

broadcast on thousands of stations, last year.During the war with Iraq, the Division

monitored the news with great effect.Analysts and senior staff meticulouslytracked the 24-hour coverage of the war.

Within two hours of Baghdad’s fallon April 9, a “Special Quote andGloat” CyberAlert was issued thathighlighted the wildly inaccuratepredictions that pundits, anchorsand reporters had made only a fewweeks earlier. The “Quote andGloat” edition proved extremelypopular with Internet readers andattracted a then-record 45,000visitors during its first day on theMRC Web site.

Two weeks later, the Divisionissued Grading TV’s War News, aSpecial Report on war coverage.The report graded the networks onfairness and gave high marks to FoxNews and CBS and above-averagemarks to CNN, NBC andMSNBC. The notable exception tothe trend of fair coverage was ABC.

Standing left to right: Tim Jones, Geoff Dickens, Brian Boyd,Richard Noyes, Tim Graham, Amanda Monson, Ken Shepherd,

Brent Baker, Kristina Sewell, and Jessica Anderson.Not pictured: Brad Wilmouth

News Analysis Division

“THE LEADER IN DOCUMENTING, EXPOSING, AND NEUTRALIZING LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS”

CBS‘ miniseries, The Reagans,was not aired on network

television thanks to the publicoutcry generated by the MRC.

The war coverage analysis found an audience in both themainstream media and talk radio. President Bozell and otherMRC spokesmen appeared on nine television programs andmore than 30 radio shows during April. MRC spokesmen werealso interviewed or citedin nearly 50 newspaperand magazine articles.

The CBS decisionto pull The Reagansminiseries was anothermajor success. When itbecame obvious that themovie was a politicalattack, MRC PresidentBozell sent a letter to theleaders of the nation’s100 largest corporateadvertisers, asking themto review the movie andwithhold advertising ifthey found it to be unfair.

The letter helpedcreate a public outcry and resulted in a flurry of media coverage.President Bozell appeared on the CBS Evening News and ABC’sWorld News Tonight and he and other MRC personnel werecited in major newspapers such as the New York Times, BostonGlobe and Chicago Tribune. In total, MRC personnel would becited in more than 160 print, radio and television news storiesabout The Reagans.

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OTHER 2003 HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

● The Best of Notable Quot-ables, the division’s annualcompilation of the most out-rageous media quotes, wascarried by dozens of newspapersand radio programs across thecountry. The New York Postdedicated its December 31editorial to the Best of NQ andit was picked up by Yahoo.com’snews service, which made theBest of NQ available to millionsof readers across the country.

● The Division produced the documentation for the alwayspopular Dishonors Awards, the MRC’s annual roast of outrageouslybiased liberal reporting. The event attracted a crowd of more than800 to the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. on March27 and the program featured prominent conservatives such as SeanHannity, Ann Coulter, Cal Thomas, Laura Ingraham and JudgeRobert Bork, among many others. The ceremony also included aconcert by The Charlie Daniels Band.

● The Division provided valuable research for best-sellingauthors, radio programs and magazines. Bernard Goldberg’s NewYork Times best-seller Arrogance: Rescuing America from the MediaElite made extensive use of MRC research as did Mona Charen’sUseful Idiots: How America Got It Wrong in the Cold War and StillBlame America First. National radio programs such as The RushLimbaugh Show and The Sean Hannity Show regularly used MRCresearch, as did Human Events magazine and Internet sites such asNational Review Online.

● The MRC video archive continues to expand and modernize.The 30,000th videotape was recorded in 2003 and the archive

“Are the elves at the MRC conservative?Absolutely! Do they love poking holes in liberal

media elites? Sure! But so what?What they put out are actual verbatim

quotations that come from journalists themselves.On this, the Media Research Center is meticulous.

So, with the understanding that many elitejournalists hate them, I offer up this observation,with apologies to Harry Truman: The MRC folksdon’t give the media hell; they just tell the truth

and the media think it’s hell.”Bernard Goldberg,

Arrogance: Rescuing America From the Media Elite

now contains more than 200,000 hoursof news programs, making it the mostcomprehensive video archive of its kind inthe world. The Division also continues tomake progress with its long-term goal ofconverting videotapes to DVDs.

● The MRC’s Web site (www.mrc.org)redesign has been completed and allpublications from the old site are nowavailable, making it the nation’s most comprehensive archive ofpublications and studies on liberal media bias.

● The Division continued to accomplish its core mission,documenting, exposing and countering liberal bias, with almostsystematic precision. The Division produced 234 CyberAlerts, 52Media Reality Checks, 26 Notable Quotables, 54 nationally syndi-cated columns, two Special Reports and nine special Web-basedcompilations or reports.

“The Media Research Center is the indispensable counter-punch to liberal reporting,providing timely, accurate, and balanced analyses of the most egregious examples of media bias.”

ROBERT D. NOVAK, CNN CROSSFIRE – CO-HOST AND NATIONALLY SYNDICATED COLUMNIST

www.MediaResearch.orgThe MRC’s Web site is the nation’s most comprehensive

archive of publications and studies on liberal media bias.Updated daily, the site provides readers with the most-recent

MRC analysis and access to nearly every publication the MRC hasproduced. Regular publications such as CyberAlert, the nationallysyndicated column from MRC President L. Brent Bozell, the weeklyMedia Reality Check and bi-weekly Notable Quotables are postedon the site as soon as they are completed, as are all Special Reportsand press releases.

The site experienced significant growth in readership in 2003,expanding its average number of daily visitors from 14,000 to justover 24,000. The highest numbers came on December 17 whenthe Best of Notable Quotables, the MRC’s annual compilation ofthe most outrageous quotes from liberal journalists, attracted morethan 146,000 visitors, shattering the former high of 45,000 reachedin early April.

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The Free Market Project (FMP) is thenation’s most respected source of informationand tools for transforming the media from aninstrument that undermines the free enterprisesystem into one that sustains it.

FMP’s mission is to restore a criticalappreciation and understanding of the inherentvalues of our free market economic system inthe media and society. Its goal is to educate themedia who, in turn, educate society. FMP’simmediate objective is to persuade the mediato more closely examine free market perspectivesand ideas in economic and business reporting.

In July 2003, Paul F. Stifflemire, Jr. becameFMP’s full-time director. One of his first taskswas the establishment of a FMP Advisory Board,a blue ribbon panel of 11 economists and freemarket scholars, who will help shape theorganization and ensure that it remains true toits fundamental mission.

Since July, FMP has produced more than30 reports, articles and commentaries ondifferent aspects of economic and businesscoverage, including pieces on television’s biasedreporting of the “obesity epidemic” and thegrowing incidence of economic extortion by awell-funded network of organizations.

These articles are archived on FMP’s Website (www.FreeMarketProject.org). The newly-established site includes sections on theenvironment, economic terrorism, litigation, acommentary section and a section called“Electionomics” that critiques economicreporting during the Presidential campaign.

FMP was also able to use several MRCreports to support its mission. An OctoberMedia Reality Check demonstrated that the newsmedia, while blaming “war and tax cuts” for thefederal deficit, blamed state deficits on the “theweak economy,” not overspending. A SeptemberMedia Reality Check documented NBC’s toutingof “public demand” for higher taxes in spite ofabundant evidence to the contrary. In June, theMRC noted that the media worried about thedeficit implications of “big” Bush tax cuts, whilecomplaining that a new $400 billion Medicareentitlement was too small. Media Reality Checksin May and January also documented the media’sbiased spin that tax cuts help only the rich andare at the expense of the poor.

FREE MARKET PROJECT BOARD OF ADVISERS

Bruce Bartlett .................. Senior Fellow, National Center for Policy Advisers

John Berthoud ...................................... President, National Taxpayers Union

Steve Moore ................................................. Founder, The Club for Growth

John Drescher ................................... Senior Fellow, The Discovery Institute

Dr. Richard Ebeling ............ President, Foundation for Economic Education

Dr. Jeffrey Herbener ........................... Chairman, Department of EconomicsGrove City College

Dr. Felix Livingston .............................. Professor of Economics and BusinessFlagler College

Dr. Walter E. Williams ....................... Distinguished Professor of EconomicsGeorge Mason University

Daniel J. Mitchell ................... McKenna Senior Fellow in Political EconomyHeritage Foundation

Dr. Gary Wolfram ................... Professor of Economics & Political EconomyHillsdale College

Free Market Project

www.FreeMarketProject.orgThe newly-established FMP Web site includes sections on the

environment, economic terrorism, litigation, a commentary section, anda section called “Electionomics” that critiques economic reporting

during the Presidential campaign.

FMP’s mission is to restore a critical appreciationand understanding of the inherent values of

our free market economic system inthe media and society.

“EDUCATING AMERICA BY EDUCATING THE MEDIA”

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Times WatchThe MRC’s Times Watch project was launched on February 17, 2003 and

quickly became a prominent and widely-respected critic of the nation’s “paperof record.”

Led by Director Clay Waters, Times Watch is dedicated to documentingand exposing the liberal political agenda of the New York Times. The projectincludes a Web site (www.TimesWatch.org) that features daily critiques of Timescoverage.

The project made an impact on the Times less than two months after itsstart. In late March and early April, Times Watch played a prominent role inexposing the paper’s militant crusade for the admission of women to AugustaNational Golf Club. A little more than a month later, Times Watch broke thestory of Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd’s dishonest deletionof a sentence in a President Bush quote about al Qaeda terrorists, making itappear that the President had said the terrorist group was no longer a problem.This Times Watch scoop was picked up by dozens of news sites and newspapersand, as a result, several papers decided to drop Dowd’s column.

Times Watch also provided daily updates on the Jayson Blair plagiarismscandal. The fallout from the Blair scandal – the reporter had plagiarized orfabricated parts of more than 50 stories – would eventually lead to the resignationof Times Executive Editor Howell Raines. Times Watch played a significant rolein exposing Raines’s responsibility in the matter, highlighting a National PublicRadio interview with Raines that suggested he considered diversity moreimportant than improving the paper’s reporting. The Times Watch item on Raineswas picked up by Rush Limbaugh, who read it verbatim to his 14 million listeners.

As the year progressed, new features were added to the Times Watch Website. “Quotes of Note,” a weekly rundown of the most biased Times quotes ofthe preceding week, became a regular feature in the summer. Later in the year,the Times Watch Tracker, a daily email delivery ofTimesWatch.org, was launched.

In December, Times Watch released its list of“Top Ten Times Lowlights of the Year.” It wasreprinted in the Jewish Press newspaper, whichpraised Times Watch for providing “consistentlytrenchant analysis of the distortion and bias thathave come to define the news coverage provided bythe New York Times.”

Times Watch Director Waters participated inseveral national media interviews promoting thisdivision’s work. He appeared on CNN’s Moneylinewith Lou Dobbs three times and was heard on severaldozen radio shows and several of the country’s mostinfluential Internet blogs linked to Times Watch atdifferent points. TimesWatch articles also appearedon National Review Online.

“Times Watch [provides] consistently trenchant analysis of the distortion and biasthat have come to define the news coverage provided by the New York Times.”

JEWISH PRESS

Clay Waters, Director of Times Watch,discussed the paper’s anti-war coverage

on CNN’s Lou Dobbs Moneyline.

Rush Limbaugh read verbatim to hisaudience the Times Watch report

regarding Howell Raines.

“DOCUMENTING AND EXPOSING THE LIBERAL POLITICAL AGENDA OF THE NEW YORK TIMES”

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On March 20, 2003, the United States unleashed its mightagainst one of the most ruthless tyrants of our time. As U.S.,British and other coalition troops began their advance againstIraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, CNSNews.com, the Internetnews wire of the Media Research Center, was there, becomingthe first Internet-based newsagency in the history ofjournalism to provide staffcoverage from an Americantheater of war.

While much of theestablishment media coveragequestioned military strategyand focused on protests againstthis war of liberation, theglobal staff of CNSNews.comworked around the clock toprovide accurate accounts ofthe fighting, producing scoresof interviews with MiddleEastern Arabs and Muslimsdenouncing Saddam Hussein,and first-hand accounts ofallied forces working withIraqis to rebuild their nationafter decades of neglect at thehands of a murderous regime.

In 2003 CNSnews.comoperated out of its nationalheadquarters in Alexandria,Virginia with bureaus inWashington, D.C., Jerusalem, London, and Auckland, NewZealand. CNSNews.com also employed the use of “stringers”in the U.S., across Europe and the rest of the world.

While 2003 saw the MRC’s news service achieve another in agrowing list of firsts, it was also a year in which CNSNews.comcontinued its reputation for journalistic excellence and audiencegrowth in the face of significant financial challenges.

With an average weekday audience exceeding 50,000readers, more than 12.8 million people got their news from theCNSNews.com Web site in 2003, providing nearly 40,000,000page views of news, analysis, commentary and political cartoons.

The growth in average weekday audience in 2003represented a 33% increaseover 2002, with programsfirmly in place to continueaudience growth into 2004 andbeyond.

However, this on-site audi-ence is but a fraction of the totalreadership of CNSNews.com.Through our unique Cybercastsubscription service, organiza-tions including Salem Radio’sCrosswalk.com, the HeritageFoundation’s Townhall.com andothers provided CNSNews.comto their own on-site visitors,resulting in a measured averageweekday audience of some350,000 readers, a figure on parwith weekday circulation figuresfor newspapers like the BaltimoreSun and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

A diverse list of otherInternet news agencies also relyon CNSNews.com material,ranging from Newsmax and

World Net Daily to the Village Voice and Google News, thelargest search engine on the Internet.

Further audience penetration is achieved through routineuse by major national television and radio programs includingFox News and The Rush Limbaugh Show, along with citations ina wide variety of national and major metropolitan newspapersranging from the New York Times and the Washington Post, tothe Tampa Tribune, and the Washington Times.

The combined impact of on-site readership, Cybercastaudience and citations by other media outlets results in a weekdayaudience that oscillates between 35 and 45 million people,demonstrating the appeal of CNSNews.com material, the caliberof the staff and technical innovations.

Chief among these new innovations is the CNSNews.comHeadline News Service. Designed as a simple and flexible

CNSNews.com – Cybercast News Service

“THE RIGHT NEWS. RIGHT NOW.”

www.CNSNews.comThe newswire had an average weekday audience

exceeding 50,000 readers (a 33% increase over 2002.)In 2003, more than 12.8 million people got their news

from CNSNews.com.

In 2003,the MRC’snews servicespanned theglobe, withbureaus inWashington,London,Jerusalem,and thePacific Rim.

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solution for organizations seeking newsfor their Web sites, it offers scrolling newsheadlines and short-format news reportsthat re-direct readers to the pages ofCNSNews.com and is available at no cost.

Since its roll-out in the fourth quarterof 2003, public policy groups, media

outlets and private Web sites have takenadvantage of the Headline News Service,with users as diverse as the National Centerfor Public Policy Research and LibertyCouncil, to municipal Web sites, commer-cial radio and TV stations and the USS

Ranger (CV-61) Museum Foundation.

CNSNews.com also increased itsprofile as a broadcast news provider,producing and delivering radio newscastsfor Radio Free Republic, a broadcastenterprise affiliated with the widely readFree Republic news forum. Radio newsstories and actualities were also providedvia the Web site, with more than 125radio outlets using the service in 2003before its suspension in the fourthquarter due to budget constraints thatare addressed elsewhere in this report.

Audience growth is a critical featurein defining success in journalism, but itis not the only barometer by which we measure success.CNSNews.com continued its tradition of finding and reportingnews that resulted in tangible impact on American culture in

2003.

● CNSNews.com staffprovided regular radioreports from the waragainst Saddam Hussein,providing on-air corre-spondence for the national-ly syndicated MichaelReagan and Janet Parshallradio talk shows.

● CNSNews.com wasthe first to report on earlyre-building efforts in Iraq,with a dispatch about thereconstruction of the Iraqi

CNSNews.com was the first Internet-

based news agency in the history of

journalism to provide staff coverage

from an American theater of war.

Executive Editor ScottHogenson reported from

Kuwait and Iraq.

port city of Umm Qasr used by other news outlets to questionthe balance of reporting from the war by other news agencies.

● CNSNews.com exposed the slurs against conservativesby a top official at Daimler-Chrysler, resulting in national TVappearances by staff, newspaper citations of CNSNews.comreports and an eventual apology by the official.

● Continuing coverage byCNSNews.com of the fate of a disabledFlorida woman facing euthanasiabrought the issue to public light, leadingto global news coverage of the issue.

● Exclusive CNSNews.com inter-views with former ABC News correspon-dents shed light on news practices at thenetwork and raised questions about theobjectivity of ABC News anchor PeterJennings.

CNSNews.com has begun a steadyevolution into a news service morefocused on investigative and enterprisejournalism while continuing to provide

daily news coverage of major events through an increasedreliance on shorter-format news reporting and utilizing broadercoverage provided by trusted external news agencies. By theend of 2004 CNSNews.com will have a full-fledged investigativeunit on the ground and operating.

Amidst the challenges of 2003 – some significant, somesubtle – CNSNews.com has never lost sight of its mission toprovide ‘The Right News. Right Now,’ and to publishimportant news ignored or under-reported by the establishmentmedia. The dedication and tireless efforts of staff combinedwith prudent and effective planning by management leaveCNSNews.com poised to continue its history of journalisticexcellence and looking forward to even greateraccomplishments in 2004 and beyond.

CNSNews.com’s daily cartoon sectionoffers humorous images from some ofthe nation’s top cartoonists, includingBaloo, Chuck Assay, Wayne Stayskal

and Bob Lang.

The Team:Standing left

to right:Marc Morano,Susan Jones,Jeff Johnson,Robert Bluey,

Melanie Hunter,David Thibault.

Not pictured:Eric Pairel, PatrickGoodenough and

Julie Stahl.

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The Youth Education and Internship Program trains collegestudents to recognize liberal bias in the media and understandthe importance of balanced journalism. Established in 1992,the program has provided internships to more than 100students, helping prepare them for careers in journalism, massmedia, public relations, marketing and government.

One of the hallmarks of the MRC internship program isthe ability for college students to work side by side with MRCprofessionals. In the News Analysis Division,interns work as analysts, monitoring newsprograms and entering story summaries andtranscripts into the News Tracking Systemdatabase. The interns also make contributionsto division publications such as CyberAlert andMedia Reality Check, as well as to the Web site.

At CNSNews.com, interns work as newsreporters, researching articles, conductinginterviews and writing stories. Interns also learnto manage the high-speed atmosphere of anewsroom and participate in weekly staff meetings.Development and marketing interns also work directly withthe professional staff, conducting prospect research, assisting withmonthly mailings, preparing informational materials and assistingwith events and event planning.

This approach has proven to be effective for both theorganization and the interns. “I was given tasks that full-time

staffers here often do themselves,” said Harvard senior Sarah Park,the development intern last summer. “I was treated with the respectand consideration that interns, I believe, do not usually get.”

Nathan Masters, a senior from University of California-Irvine who interned at CNSNews.com, agreed. “I was surprisedby the extent to which I was able to contribute toCNSNews.com,” Nathan noted. At a previous internship he hadperformed routine office duties “but at CNSNews.com, I was given

the opportunity to do real meaningful work,”Nathan added.

Interns also tour and receive presentations fromother leading conservative organizations inWashington, D.C. and are encouraged to takeadvantage of the many learning opportunities thatthe national capital offers. Last year, internsattended presentations at the Heritage Foundationand the Leadership Institute and attended tapingsof CNN’s Crossfire at George WashingtonUniversity. The interns also benefit from special

luncheons with MRC President L. Brent Bozell, where they havethe opportunity to ask questions and learn about liberal bias andother issues affecting the media.

Students and parents interested in MRC internships can visitthe intern page on the MRC Web site (www.mediaresearch.org/jobs/intern/welcome.asp) to learn more about the program orcontact Douglas Mills at (703) 683-9733.

THE MRC’S YOUTH EDUCATION AND INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

“I was given theopportunity to doreal meaningful

work...”Nathan Masters,

Summer 2003 Intern

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PUBLICATIONSNEWSLETTERSFlash

Media Reality Check

MediaNomics

Notable Quotables

Quick Takes

DIRECTORIESNational Press Directory forConservatives

Conservative Experts: TheRIGHT Spokesmen

Press Picks: RecommendedMedia Professionals

Team Clinton: The Starting Line-Up of the Pro-Clinton PressCorps

The Revolving Door: TheConnection Between the Mediaand Politics

BOOKSAnd That’s The Way It Isn’t: AReference Guide to Media Bias

Dollars & Nonsense: Correctingthe News Media’s Top EconomicMyths

How to Identify, Expose, andCorrect Liberal Media Bias

Out of Focus: NetworkTelevision and the AmericanEconomy

Pattern of Deception: TheMedia’s Role in the ClintonPresidency

SPECIAL REPORTSGrading TV’s War News

Peter’s Peace Platoon: ABC’sCrusade Against “Arrogant”American Power

A Summer of Skewed News:The Liberal Tilt in TV’s EconomicReporting

Megaphone for a Dictator: CNN’sCoverage of Castro’s Cuba, 1997-2002

Conservatives Tagged Four TimesMore than Liberals

Clamoring for Kyoto: TheNetworks’ One-Sided Coverage ofGlobal Warming

Liberal Spin Prevails: How CBSLed the Networks’ ChargeAgainst the Bush Tax Cut

Four Campaigns, EightConventions...But Just One Spin

When Bigger Isn’t Better: ABC,CBS, and NBC Coverage of theGOP Tax Cut Debate

Outgunned: How the NetworkNews Media Are Spinning theGun Control Debate

Back to the ‘Peaceable’ Paradise:Media Soldiers for the Seizure ofElian

The Cox Report vs. The Iran-Contra Report

Network Apathy Toward ChineseContributions and Espionage

Plain as the News on Your Face:Clinton Lies & Obstruction TVNews Has Ignored

Facts Exempt: Network Newsand Taxes

Facts Frozen Out: Network Newsand Global Warming

Conspiracy to CommitJournalism: The Media’s Attackson the Scaife Foundations

Antidotes to Climate Hype: FiveImportant Points for GlobalWarming Stories

The Color of Money: HowCorporate America andHollywood Fund the Left

Addicted to Tobacco Stories: AOne-Sided Portrayal of a RiskyProduct

Women’s Magazines: A LiberalPipeline to Soccer Moms

Businessmen Behaving Badly:Prime Time’s World of Commerce

CBS Tops List of Year’s WorstEconomic Stories

The Forgotten Five: ImportantEconomic Facts Missing in theNews

The Media’s Fabricated Five

The Media on Health CareReform: Government Works,Markets Don’t

Do’s and Don’ts for Reporting onthe Passage of a Health Care Bill

How the Networks Are Covering theFederal Shutdown

Both Parties Too Conservative forthe Networks

Faith in a Box: Network News andReligion (1993 through 1996)

Faith in a Box: EntertainmentTelevision on Religion (1993 through1997)

WEB PRODUCTSwww.MediaResearch.org

Cybercast News Service – www.CNSNews.com

www.TimesWatch.org

www.FreeMarketProject.org

MRC CyberAlert

CNSNews.com E-Briefs

Katie Couric’s Decade of LovingLiberalism

Dan Rathers’s Outrageous LiberalMedia Bias

Media Bias Videos

Media Bias Alert

MRC Web News

Media War Watch

Operation Audit the Media (ATM)

Enduring the Media: Highlights andLowlights from Enduring FreedomCoverage

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The MRC’s reach keeps growing and its impact keeps getting stronger. The MRC’s research, news, publications and Web sitesare used daily by many of the nation’s top media personalities. MRC and CNSNews.com spokesmen are frequent guests on talkradio and television, and print journalists use MRC material or publish articles by MRC analysts. President Bozell’s nationallysyndicated column continues to run in some of the nation’s top newspapers, and more and more people are starting to makeCNSNews.com their number one source for news. Below is just a partial listing of some of the numerous print, radio, TV andWeb outlets that interviewed MRC/CNSNews.com spokesmen, published our articles, or used our research in 2003.

“What the MRC does is a national treasure, a national resource!”SEAN HANNITY

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Buffalo NewsBulletin’s FrontrunnerChattanooga Times Free PressChicago Sun-TimesChicago TribuneChristian Science MonitorCincinnati EnquirerColumbus DispatchContra Costa Times (CA)Daily Herald (IL)Daily Orange (NY)Daily Telegraph (London)Dallas Morning NewsDeseret NewsDetroit Free PressDuluth News-TribuneEdmonton Journal (Canada)Financial Times (London)Florida Times-UnionFort Worth Star TelegramFt. Lauderdale Sun-SentinelFt. Wayne News-SentinelGrand Forks Herald (ND)Hartford CourantHenderson Gleaner (KY)Houston ChronicleIndianapolis StarInternational Herald TribuneInvestor’s Business DailyJacksonville Business JournalJerusalem PostLos Angeles City BeatLos Angeles TimesLouisville Courier-Journal

Memphis Commercial AppealMiami HeraldMichigan DailyMilwaukee Journal SentinelMinneapolis Star TribuneMonterey County Herald (CA)Nashville City PaperNational Post (Canada)New Orleans Times-PicayuneNew York Daily NewsNew York PostNew York SunNew York TimesNewsdayOrlando SentinelOttawa Citizen (Canada)Philadelphia Daily NewsPhiladelphia InquirerPittsburgh Post-GazetteProvo Daily Herald (UT)Raleigh News & ObserverRichmond Times-DispatchRoanoke TimesRocky Mountain NewsSacramento BeeSalt Lake City TribuneSan Antonio News-ExpressSan Diego Union-TribuneSan Francisco ChronicleSan Jose Mercury NewsScripps Howard News ServiceSeattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle TimesSouth Florida Sun-Sentinel

Springfield (MO) News-LeaderSt. John’s Telegram (Canada)St. Louis Post DispatchSt. Paul Pioneer-PressSyracuse Post-StandardTallahassee DemocratThe Advertiser (Australia)The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec)The Guardian (London)The Jewish PressThe Mercury (Australia)The New Zealand HeraldThe State (SC)Toronto Star (Canada)Tri-City Herald (WA)United Press InternationalUSA TodayWall Street JournalWashington PostWashington TimesWichita EagleWilmington Journal (NC)Windsor Star (Canada)

MAGAZINESAmerican Journalism ReviewBroadcasting & CableHuman EventsInsightMedia LifeNational ReviewPR WeekRoll CallThe American Enterprise

The Weekly StandardWorld

INTERNET NEWSSERVICESAmerican Daily.comArkansasNews.comAzCentral.com CBN.comChronWatch.comCitizenOnline.netCNN.comCrosswalk.comCurrent.orgEonline.comFoxNews.comHuman Events OnlineInsightMag.comJewishPress.comLucianne.comMSNBC.comNational Review OnlineNewsmax.comNPR.orgOpinion Journal.comOregon Daily Emerald.comRushLimbaugh.comSalon.comThe HotlineThe Jewish Press.comTownHall.comWashingtonDispatch.comWorld Net DailyYahoo.com News

“Rush Limbaugh, the New York Post, the Drudge Report, and the Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, all ofwhom are armed with lists of the unpatriotic compiled by the rightwing Media Research Center. With thispack nipping at their heels, Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, and ABC News president David Westin have all

had to publicly defend themselves against charges of un-American reporting and commentary.”

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Cal Thomas Hon. Katherine Harris Sean Hannity Ann Coulter Steve Forbes Hon. Clarence Thomas

William F. Buckley, Jr. Tony Blankley M. Stanton Evans Hon. Lyn NofzigerHon. Robert Dornan David Limbaugh

Stephen MooreJohn FundLaura Ingraham Hon. Ed Meese Pat BooneLucianne Goldberg

Michael ReaganJudge Robert BorkOliver NorthMona Charen Rich LowryKate O’Beirne

The Charlie Daniels BandChristopher Buckley Jackie MasonL. Brent Bozell III

The MRC’s Annual Star-Studded Gala and DisHonors AwardsThe MRC’s Annual Gala and Star-Studded Dishonors Award is always a smashing success. Held every year

in Washington, D.C., the event roasts the year’s most outrageously biased liberal reporters and attracts nearly athousand of the conservative movement’s movers and shakers.

Modeled after the “Oscars” ceremony, the “winning” journalists are selected on the basis of how liberally-biased their comments or reports have been. Prominent conservatives accept the awards – and make a fewremarks – on behalf of the journalists.

The “winners” are chosen by a panel of distinguished judges. Past judges include Rush Limbaugh, William F.Buckley, Jr., Robert Novak, Michael Reagan, Steve Forbes, William Rusher and many others.

The program itself features a who’s who of the conservative movement. Cal Thomas, the nationally syndicatedcolumnist who hosts After Hours with Cal Thomas on the Fox News Channel, has served as the emcee for the lastseveral years and past award presenters, accepters and entertainers include the individuals pictured on this page.

While the ceremony is always a fun-filled occasion, it has the serious purpose of making a national statementabout the liberal media. In past years, the Dishonors has been broadcast by C-SPAN, the public policy cablenetwork, and covered by the several newspapers.

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MRC Leadership

Board of TrusteesMr. Patrick AlexanderMr. K. Tucker AndersenMr. Travis K. AndersonMr. William C. AntonMr. Thomas K. ArmstrongMr. Richard AshburnMr. Louis AuerMr. & Mrs. Robert Beall, IIMr. Frank BeneventoMr. Robert L. BradleyMr. Harry A. BrandtMrs. Rebecca BrewerMr. B. V. BrooksMr. W. Michael BrownDr. Robert W. BrowneMr. & Mrs. John M. Camp, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Gerald T. CardenMr. & Mrs. John L. ClarkMr. Richard CollinsMr. Thomas A. ConnollyMr. & Mrs. Daniel W. Cook, IIIMr. Peter C. CookMr. & Mrs. Lovick P. CornMr. Timothy CullinaneMr. Robert P. CumminsMr. George G. DanielsMr. & Mrs. James de GanahlMr. Frederick H. DohmenMr. & Mrs. Joseph W. DonnerMr. Norman DuininckMr. & Mrs. Richard D. EckburgMr. & Mrs. Robert J. EichenbergDr. and Mrs. Seymour FeinMr. Philip M. FriedmannMr. and Mrs. William FudgeMr. Martin GalassoMr. John W. GalbraithMr. Robert Garthwait, Sr.Mr. John K. GarveyMr. Jeffrey W. GoettmanMrs. Dorothy GriffinMrs. Mary M. HaleMiss Caroline L. HansenDrs. Ken & Barbara HansenMr. & Mrs. W. Gibbs HerbruckMr. Al G. HillMr. & Mrs. Tatnall HillmanMr. Conrad Hock, Jr.Hon. Glen A. HoldenMr. & Mrs. E. Ralph HostetterMr. E. Mark Hotze

AssociatesMr. Arnie AbermanMr. Raymond C. AdamczykMr. Norman E. AdamsMr. Richard Alberti, Esq.Miss Beatrice AnthonyMr. &d Mrs. Les AtchleyLt. Col. (Ret.) Hank E. Attaya, Jr.Mr. Harry Barbee, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Ronald P. BridgesDr. & Mrs. John W. Browning, IIIMr. Philip G. BrumderMr. John D. Buhl, Sr.Mr. William R. BurgessMrs. Frances BylesMr. Robert S. Cartwright, Jr.Mr. Thomas ColbertMr. & Mrs. Charles H. DaggsMrs. Beverly DanielsonMr. & Mrs. Charles N. DavisMr. Charles F. de GanahlMrs. Jeanne C. DeutschMr. John S. DobsonMr. Donald W. DoyleDr. & Mrs. Edward DuffieCol. James DysonMr. Robert EberlyMr. Bernard EganMr. & Mrs. John E. EvansMr. Mallory FactorMr. William E. FisherDr. Frank N. GenoveseDr. Melvin H. GesinkMr. Benjamin GettlerMr. W.P. GreshMr. & Mrs. Gerald D. GroundsMr. Frederick W. GuardabassiMr. Jack O. GuyMr. Edwin C. Heikkila, Jr.Mrs. Sara C. HolzmanMr. Ruble A. Hord, IIIMr. William T. HustonMrs. Stuart C IrbyMr. & Mrs. Melvin JansMr. Phil JenkinsMrs. Frances Brigham JohnsonMr. & Mrs. Saunders JonesMr. & Mrs. John KerianMrs. Susan B. KingMr. Carl J. KircherMrs. Jo Ann KitchinMr. John A. Kruse

Mr. Vincent W. KyleMiss Belina LazzarMrs. Doris S. LeeMr. Joe R. LeeMr. & Mrs. Lewis LehrMr. & Mrs. John LinderDr. Letty G. LutzkerMr. George D. McClintockMr. Ellice McDonald, Jr.Mrs. Marge McGinnisMs. Mary H. McLemoreMiss Joyce L. McMahonMr. & Mrs. Thomas G. MessnerMr. Andrew J. MisslerMrs. Abby MoffatMrs. Elizabeth C. MooneyMiss Betty Lou OgleMr. Jay PetersMr. Thomas L. PhillipsMr. Maurice J. ReeseMr. Charles H. ReevesMr. John A. Robertshaw, Jr.Miss Sarah W. RollinsMr. & Mrs. Norman RousselotMr. Arthur N. RupeMr. & Mrs. Richard L. SampsonMiss Margaret ScheibelMr. & Mrs. Richard L. SharpMr. Charles R. Shipley, Jr.Mr. Abe SiemensMrs. Jerome SladMr. & Mrs. Alex W. SmithMr. Merrill G. SmithDr. & Mrs. William B. SmithDr. Sharyne D. SnyderMrs. Emily B. StaudeMr. Terry A. StrineMrs. Joanne Taylor-JohnsonMr. Howard L. TerryMr. Ray ThompsonMr. & Mrs. Keith TwiggsMr. & Mrs. Charles J. UrstadtMrs. Sarah S. Uzzell-RindlaubMr. Jacques Vinmont, Jr.Mr. Rawleigh Warner, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Warren, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Michael WigleyMrs. Dorothy H. WilleyMr. Norman B. WilliamsonMr. Wirt A. Yerger, Jr.

Mr. William R. Jackson, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Charles B. JohnsonMr. Harry C. JohnsonMr. John KavoorasMr. Michael L. KeiserMr. Thomas L. KempnerMrs. Phyllis LaskowskiMr. Peter O. Lawson-Johnston, Sr.Mr. James R. LightnerMr. Carl H. Lindner, Sr.Mr. John LindsayMr. Tom LinnenMr. & Mrs. William LynchMr. & Mrs. John B. Maier, IIMrs. Virginia ManheimerMr. & Mrs. Thomas MateyMr. Henry F. McCamish, Jr.Mr. Charles P. McQuaidMr. S. Prosser MellonMr. Roger MillikenMr. Joseph MitchellMrs. Dorothy Donnelley MollerMr. and Mrs. David MurpheyMr. and Mrs. F.W. NewellMiss Helen Julia OrrMr. T. Boone PickensMr. Thor H. RamsingMiss Helen C. RichardsonMr. Lunsford RichardsonMr. Adam B. RossMr. & Mrs. Fred SacherMr. Philip F. SchneiderMrs. M. Virginia SchoepeMr. & Mrs. S. Prewitt Semmes, Jr.Mr. Thomas W. SmithMr. Ralph StayerMr. & Mrs. Glenn E. StinsonMrs. Loydee StonebrinkMr. George W. Strake, Jr.Mrs. Beverly ThewesMr. Joe C. Thompson, Jr.Mr. Richard UihleinMr. Richard J. WalshMrs. Ingrid WarshawMr. Steven E. WheelerMr. Bert F. Winston, Jr.Mr. Frank E. WittMiss Betty K. WolfeMr. Steven P.J. WoodMrs. Ruth WunderlichMr. Charles Wyly, Jr.Mr. & Mrs. Edward S. YoungMr. & Mrs. Charles V. Zichichi

L. Brent Bozell IIIFounder and PresidentMedia Research Center

The HonorableLeon Weil

Former Ambassador to Nepal

William A. RusherChairman of the BoardMedia Research Center

Harold ClarkSimmons

President, Valhi, Inc.

The HonorableCurtin Winsor, Jr.Former Ambassador to

Costa Rica

(not pictured)

Michael L. KeiserFounder

Recycled Paper Greetings,Inc. and Dunes Club

OFFICERS OF THE BOARDChairman: William A. Rusher

President: L. Brent Bozell III

Secretary: Darlene Nelson

Vice President: Brent Baker

Treasurer: Douglas Mills

The MRC's Board of Trustees is an exclusive and distinguished group of some of the best-known and most influential grassroots conservative leaders in America. The Trustees meetannually in Washington, DC to receive an update on the organization’s projects and programsand to approve the proposed initiatives for the following year. Trustees donate a minimumof $5,000 annually and Associates contribute between $1,000 and $4,999.

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2003 AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTSSTATEMENT OF ACTIVITIESYear Ended December 31, 2003 (With comparative totals for 2002)

Temporarily Total TotalUnrestricted Restricted 2003 2002

Revenue and Support

Contributions $ 5,016,221 $ 3,050,821 $ 8,067,042 $ 5,429,760Subscriptions 34,999 –– 34,999 57,392Rental and other 288,074 –– 288,074 273,930Investment Income 109,117 –– 109,117 (123,528)Net assets released from restrictions 133,346 (133,346) –– ––

Total revenue and support 5,581,757 2,917,475 8,499,232 5,637,554

Program Services Expenses

News Division 2,162,354 –– 2,162,354 1,899,307Cybercast News Service 1,968,397 –– 1,968,397 2,071,894Free Market Project 304,899 –– 304,899 174,819Youth Education & Intern Program 81,607 –– 81,607 83,687Parents Television Council –– –– –– 49,000

Total Program services 4,517,257 –– 4,517,257 4,278,707

Support Services

Resource development 1,076,172 –– 1,076,172 1,224,254General and administrative 398,460 –– 398,460 515,952

Total Support Services 1,474,632 –– 1,474,632 1,740,206

Total Expenses 5,991,889 –– 5,991,889 6,018,913

Change in Net Assets (410,132) 2,917,475 2,507,343 (381,359)

Net assets, beginning of year 4,387,085 133,346 4,520,431 4,901,790

Net assets, end of year $ 3,976,953 $ 3,050,821 $ 7,027,774 $ 4,520,431

2003 Financial Report

FOUNDATION SUPPORTEdward and Wilhelmina Ackerman Foundation

Alpaugh Foundation

American Foundation

Anschutz Foundation

Arguild Foundation

Armstrong Foundation

The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Inc.

Calvert K. Collins Foundation

Camp-Younts Foundation

CB Foundation, Inc.

Communities Foundation of Texas

The Community Foundation

Covenant Foundation

Curran Foundation

Daniels Foundation Inc.

James Deering Danielson Foundation

Charles and Melissa Davis Charitable Foundation

The Richard and Helen DeVos Foundation

Dodge Jones Foundation

The William H. Donner Foundation

Marie and Donald Doyle Foundation

Lloyd A. Fry Foundation

Galasso Foundation

Garvey Kansas Foundation

Gilder Foundation, Inc.

Henry E. Haller, Jr. Foundation

Robert and Marie Hansen Family Foundation

The Chatham Hill Foundation

Glen and Gloria Holden Family Foundation

Hoxton Foundation, Inc.

International Health Foundation

Charles and Ann Johnson Foundation

A.P. Kirby, Jr. Foundation

F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc.

The Carl H & Edyth B. Lindner Foundation

McWethy Foundation

R. K. Mellon Family Foundation

Milliken Foundation

The Dorothy and Joseph A. Moller Foundation

Roe Foundation

Arthur N. Rupe Foundation

Sarah Scaife Foundation

Prewitt and Valerie D. Semmes Foundation

The Thomas W. Smith Foundation

Strake Foundation

The Urstadt Conservative Foundation

Van Allen Family Foundation

E.L. Wiegand Foundation

WINREP

Frank E. Witt Foundation, Inc.

Wrightson-Ramsing Foundation, Inc.

Wirt A. Yerger, Jr. Foundation, Inc.

Young America's Foundation

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BALANCE SHEETSTATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITIONDecember 31, 2003 and 2002

2003 2002

Assets

Current AssetsCash and cash equivalents $ 767,329 $ 557,087Pledges receivable 3,050,821 86,846Due from PTC 3,320 84,596Prepaid and other 74,912 86,343

Total current assets 3,896,382 814,872Investments 459,224 999,502Property and equipment - net of accumulated depreciation and amortization 3,274,300 3,440,475

Total Assets $ 7,629,906 $ 5,254,849

Liabilities and Net AssetsCurrent Liabilities

Accounts payable $ 125,300 $ 233,202Accrued expenses 150,568 162,181Deferred subscription revenue 10,230 14,381Mortgage payable, current portion 10,455 9,805Annuity payment liability, current portion 6,502 4,788

Total Current Liabilities 303,055 424,357

Non Current LiabilitiesMortgage payable 267,320 280,122Annuity payment liability 31,757 29,939

Total Liabilities 602,132 734,418

Net Assets

Unrestricted 3,976,953 4,387,085

Temporarily restricted 3,050,821 133,346

Total Net Assets 7,027,774 4,520,431

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 7,629,906 $ 5,254,849

“Thomas Jefferson andall those who believe in atruly free, vibrant,diversely principled presswould love the workbeing done by the MRC.The MRC is in theforefront of battling thissmothering, monolithicculture. It plays a crucial,uniquely effectivewatchdog role in exposingmedia bias andpartisanship.Conservatives shouldapplaud – andfinancially support! – thesplendid work being doneby Brent Bozell and hisintrepid, courageouscolleagues.”

STEVE FORBES,PRESIDENT & CEO,FORBES, INC.

CORPORATE SUPPORTAdams Insurance Service Company

Anton Airfood Inc.

Bell, Jones & Quinlisk

Brae Burn Construction Co.

Cly-Del Manufacturing Company

Coldspring Granite Co.

Compressor Engineering Corp.

Conrad Hock, Jr. Leasing

Contran Corporation

Crossoak Family Dentistry

Duininck Brothers

El Adobe Corporation

ExxonMobil Corporation

Family Furniture

Johnsonville Foods

Loeb Holding Corporation

Murphey Capital Inc.

Olympic Imported Auto Parts Corp.

Phillips International

Silicones, Inc.

Sonitrol Security Systems

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News Analyst Amanda MonsonResearch Associate Kristina Sewell

Executive Director Douglas Mills andFree Market Project Director Paul Stifflemire

Webmaster/Systems Administrator Mez Djouadiand Director of Information Systems Eric Pairel

“Nobody exposes

inaccuracy, sensationalism,

and liberal bias in the

mainstream press like Brent

Bozell and his media sleuths

at the Media Research

Center. Their work is heroic.

It’s not only indispensable to

understanding the

media, it’s critical to

preserving a free and

independent press.”

FRED BARNES,EXECUTIVE EDITOR,

THE WEEKLY STANDARD

Senior News Analyst GeoffDickens

Director of Editorial ServicesTim Jones

News AnalystBrian Boyd

News AnalystJessica Anderson

Standing left to right: Jennifer Bookwalter, Jack Walsh,Larry Gourlay, Sue Engle and Thom Golab.

Sitting: Cheryl Michener, David Bozell and Sara Causey.Vice President of Research

and Publications Brent BakerDirector of Development

Thom Golab

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The Media Research Center is a research and educationorganization operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the InternalRevenue Code. Contributions are tax-deductible to themaximum extent allowed by law. The MRC does not receivegovernment grants or contracts. We raise our funds each yearsolely from private contributions from corporations,foundations and individuals.

The Media Research Center’s

Light of Truth CampaignSince 1987 Americans have

witnessed changes in the media andthe way news is reported. The MRC’sresearch and analysis have proven timeand again that there is a liberal mediabias. The MRC and new media outletsare filling the void for fair and accuratenews reporting, but there is muchwork to be done.

To meet the growing demands andopportunities of the present and tosecure its future, the MRC’s Board ofDirectors and Board of Trustees have authorized the Light of TruthCampaign to raise $80,000,000 by December 31, 2007.

The Light of Truth Campaign is a five-year effort focused onexpanding the MRC’s vital programs and will significantly influencethe scope of its mission in the future. There are three critical fundingcomponents of the Campaign: Ongoing Program and ProjectFunding, Capital Funding and Reserve and Endowment Funding.

The Ongoing Program and Project Funding goal is $48,500,000for the duration of the Campaign and includes funding for the currentoperations of the News Analysis Division, CNSNews.com, FreeMarket Project and the Youth Education and Intern Program, as wellas special projects and annual Campaign costs.

The Capital Funding goal is $7,500,000. This money is earmarkedfor systems and technology upgrades, archive preservation andrecording, as well as physical improvements and expansion at theMRC’s national headquarters providing the space, equipment andinfrastructure necessary to support the planned growth in programsand personnel.

The Reserve and Endowment Funding budget of $24,000,000includes long-term funding for the MRC programs and key leadershipand experts positions. The reserve funds will help to secure the MRC’slong term financial stability and position the organization to ensure thatliberal bias never gets a foothold in the American media again.

At the close of 2003 the Light of Truth Campaign had received$13,455,824 in gifts and pledges toward our $80,000,000 goal.

President: L. Brent Bozell, III

Executive Director: Douglas Mills

Exec. Assist. to the President: Darlene Nelson

Assist. to the President: Helen Fullinwider

Assist. to the Exec. Director: Sara Causey

Director of Financial Operations: Cheryl Michener

Receptionist: Jennifer Bookwalter

DEVELOPMENT

Director of Development: Thom Golab

Asst. Director of Development: Susan Engle

Director of Foundations: Heather Madden

Assistant Finance Director: Larry Gourlay

Development Associates: David Bozell and Jack Walsh

INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Director of Information Systems: Eric Pairel

Webmaster/Systems Administrator: Mez Djouadi

NEWS DIVISION

Vice President of Research & Publications: Brent Baker

Director of Media Analysis: Tim Graham

Director of Research: Rich Noyes

Director of Editorial Services: Tim Jones

News Media Analysts: Geoff Dickens, Jessica Anderson, Brian Boyd, Brad Wilmouth, Ken Shepherd, and Amanda Monson

Research Associate: Kristina Sewell

FREE MARKET PROJECT

Director: Paul Stifflemire

INTERNS

Nicole Casey, David Fein, Danielle Gillespie,Sarah Park, Suezy Vaughan and Rudolph Peseckas

CNSNEWS.COM –CYBERCAST NEWS SERVICE

Executive Editor: Scott Hogenson

Managing Editor: David Thibault

Deputy Managing Editor: Melanie Hunter

Morning Editor: Susan Jones

Investigative Reporters:Jeff Johnson, Marc Morano and Rob Bluey

Webmaster: Eric Pairel

Jerusalem Bureau Chief: Julie Stahl

Pacific Rim Bureau Chief: Patrick Goodenough

2003 MRC STAFF

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