MRC complained that networks skipped Sherrod video story...4 HOURS before the networks did!

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L. Brent Bozell III, president and founder of the Media Research Center, issued this statement today (hat tip: Conwebwatch) regarding network news coverage of the BigGovernment.com edited video of Shirley Sherrod's NAACP speech:

The liberal media are deliberately spiking the shocking video that reveals an NAACP banquet speaker admitting her racist views and actions. We’ve waited a full 24 hours to see if any coverage of this exposé would surface. So far, nothing but crickets. The ABC, CBS and NBC evening and morning ‘news’ shows have all failed to even mention the damning video admission that is dripping with disdain for white people and that caused the official to tender her resignation.

Worse yet, it comes from the NAACP, the same organization that has feverishly accused the Tea Parties of racism. The thoroughly untrue accusation against the Tea Parties has been propped up and propelled by the incessant reporting of these same networks. Yet they decide to thwart this story about the NAACP.

The timestamp on that press release? 2:10PM Eastern today. The time the network news programs come on? 6:00PM Eastern...3 hours and 50 minutes more for Bozell and the MRC to wait and see if the media will bow down to the right wing's wishful thinking.

All three networks this evening had full stories (by full story i suppose at least 90 seconds) about the Sherrod controversy. See: ABC report by Jake Tapper (2 minutes 14 seconds), CBS report by Jan Crawford (2 minutes 34 seconds), and NBC report by Savannah Guthrie (3 minutes 14 seconds).

I first heard of the story on NPR's All Things Considered this afternoon. In Washington, where the MRC HQ is located, local NPR affiliate WAMU-FM (as does other East Coast NPR stations) broadcast ATC from 4-6PM Eastern. (sometimes due to local shows ATC may run as late as 6:30 or 7.) ATC covered the Sherrod story during its last half hour...which is shortly around 4:30PM Eastern.

Today, the PBS NewsHour skipped the Sherrod story.

Media Matters debunked the Sherrod story today.

Terry Krepel's comment at Conwebwatch: "Bozell cares nothing about the media, unless he can make it conform to his right-wing agenda. His organization is more accurately titled the Right-Wing Propaganda Research Center."

And finally, I thought that Bozell was an advocate of decency...given he founded the Parents Television Council and Culture and Media Institute and rails on in his columns about the declining morality of pop culture! So apparently signs like Obama as a jungle animal or signs saying "Niggar" aren't offensive to him? Here's my obligatory :puke: to Breitbart and Bozell.

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1. Whoops

A little TOO much attention has been paid to this story.

And NOT just the skimpy, edited video that they all keep pointing to with frantic arm movements.