(CNSNews.com) – Four billboard trucks bearing the message “Stop theLiberal Bias, Tell the Truth!” began circling the Manhattan headquartersof ABC, CBS, NBC, and the New York Times on Friday. The truckswill do so for eight hours every weekday for the next four weeks as partof a campaign run by the Media Research Center, a watchdog group thatanalyzes the media for liberal bias.
A Media Research Center "Tell the Truth!" truck ad in downtown New York City. (Photo: Bob and Cory Parks.)
Similar trucks also are operating in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, passing the offices of the broadcast networks, the Washington Post, CNN, the Newseum, the National Press Club and Politico, and ads about the campaign are running on numerous Web sites and on conservative talk radio programs.
L. Brent Bozell III, president of the Media Research Center (MRC), the parent organization of CNSNews.com, said the goal of this 2010 “Tellthe Truth!” campaign “is simple: to force the liberals in the media to stop pushing an agenda and just tell the truth.”
The “liberal media news networks” need to report the facts about “massive growth in government and its control over our lives, and aboutspending, deficits and debt,” he told CNSNews.com. “They also need totell the truth about the efforts to turn our country into aEuropean-style Socialist state.”
"Tell the Truth!" truck in New York City. (Photo Bob and Cory Parks.)
In a video about the campaign on the MRC Web site, Bozell said, “We can’t stop our efforts, we’ve got to maintain that intensity ofletting the American people know exactly the fact that the socialistagenda of the Obama administration is being pushed by those same peoplewho then look at you in the camera and say, ‘I’m nothing but anobjective journalist.’ No, they’re not. They’re participants.”
Concerning the billboard trucks in Manhattan, each side of one truck says, “Hey CBS, Stop the Liberal Bias, Tell theTruth!” and the back of the truck says, “Honk If You Don’t Believe TheLiberal Media.” The other trucks bear the same message but directed atABC, NBC, and the New York Times.
In Washington, D.C., there are also 12 delivery trucks with an identical message. But, as rented ad space, they will run their dailyroutes in the metro area. Six trucks are also scheduled to run inDenver, Colo.
The MRC launched the 2010 “Tell The Truth!” campaign in September and, in addition to the truck ads, the watchdog group is running similarads on the conservative Web sites RushLimbaugh.com, MarkLevinShow.com,The Drudge Report and Hannity.com.
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Also, the MRC is posting billboard ads of its “Tell the Truth!” message in nine cities, including Pittsburgh, Little Rock, Las Vegas,Dallas, Orlando, Seattle and Milwaukee. TV ads will be broadcast on FoxNews Channel’s “Hannity” program. Further, throughout this month an adwill run on the popular conservative talk radio program The Mark Levin Show.
The MRC estimates that with this campaign it will reach “tens of millions of Americans every single week over the next several months andpresent them with concrete evidence of the leftist bias in the press.”
In 2008, the goal of the “liberal media” was “to elect Barack Obama by any means possible, and they just created a narrative that was simplynot true,” said Bozell. “What do you think would have been the reactionof the American people if, on Election Day, they’d gone to the pollsknowing that in electing Barack Obama, they were electing the singlemost radical socialist in the history of this country? I submit to you,he never would have been elected. That’s the power of the media.”
"Tell the Truth!" trucks in the theater district of Manhattan. (Photo: Bob and Cory Parks.)
This “Tell The Truth!” campaign, he said, is, in the long run about his children and grandchildren. “It’s about generations to come,” saidBozell. “We’ve always been a nation where we left the next generation inslightly better hands than they were a generation before – and that’snot happening now.”
“We stand to be the generation that will be asked by future generations, ‘Why didn’t you stop it?’” he said. “I want to be thegeneration that says, ‘We returned America to her greatness. There werethose who wanted to destroy this country and there were some of us whosaid no.’ That’s what I want.”
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