Networks’ View of Palin: Dunce or Demon
A new CMI study reveals that broadcast networks aired 18 negative stories for every positive story on Sarah Palin during a two-week period before and after the vice presidential debate. Subsequently, Palin’s “unfavorable” ratings shot up 17 percent in one month. The report, A Study in Character Assassination: How the TV Networks Have Portrayed Sarah Palin as Dunce or Demon, by CMI Senior Editor Brian Fitzpatrick and CMI Research Assistant Colleen Raezler, finds the networks promoting three distinct and false storylines about Palin: She’s unqualified and unintelligent, conservatives reject her, and she’s simply McCain’s attack dog.
Brian Fitzpatrick  and Colleen Raezler - October 28, 2008

‘Character’ in Presidential Primary Debates
CMI examined all the questions asked of the candidates in 35 debates. The Special Report: ‘Character’ the Most Important Issue in the Presidential Primary Debates, by CMI Director Robert Knight and CMI Research Assistant Colleen Raezler, finds that although Democrats got nearly twice the number of softballs than the Republicans, Democrats faced three times the number of hardballs on “honesty.”
By Robert Knight and Colleen Raezler - September 24, 2008

Unmasking the Myths Behind the Fairness Doctrine
• Are liberal politicians trying to restore the Fairness Doctrine to improve the information available to the American public? Or are they trying to muzzle a feared adversary, conservative talk radio? In the position paper “Unmasking the Myths Behind the Fairness Doctrine,” CMI Senior Editor Brian Fitzpatrick exposes the flimsy arguments and questionable motives behind the movement to bring back this dangerous federal regulation.
Brian Fitzpatrick - June 10, 2008

Apostles of Atheism
• CMI’s Senior Writer Kristen Fyfe exposes how the media peddled the Gospel of Godlessness during 2007, the so-called “Year of the Atheist.”
Kristen Fyfe - March 19, 2008

Down a Dark Abby
• CMI’s Colleen Raezler reveals that famed advice columnist Dear Abby misses the mark on sexual morality.  Far from promoting common sense traditional values, Abby is an outspoken champion of the sexual revolution.
Colleen Raezler - February 12, 2008

Debt: Who$ Responsible?
• Networks blame business, not borrowers, for America's spendthrift ways
BMI and CMI Study - November 8, 2007

The Media Assault on American Values
• The conflict between the media, personal responsibility and respect for religion.
Brian Fitzpatrick - June 6, 2007

The National Cultural Values Survey:  America, A Nation in Moral and Spiritual Confusion
• An overview of CMI’s National Cultural Values Survey, which identifies the values systems professed by most Americans and the nation’s media consumption habits.
Brian Fitzpatrick, March 7, 2007

 

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