AIM Honors Stan Evans

Campus Report ^ | March 24, 2009 | Alanna Hultz

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AIM Honors Stan Evans

by: Alanna Hultz, March 24, 2009

At this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Accuracy in Media held a reception to bestow the Reed Irvine award for excellence in journalism. M. Stanton Evans was the recipient of the 2009 Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media lifetime achievement Award for Investigative Journalism, for his groundbreaking research into the media’s vilification of Senator Joe McCarthy. Evans is the author of seven books, a contributing editor at Human Events and a co-founder of the National Journalism Center.

After being presented with the award Evans gave his acceptance speech and said, “I would like to thank all of you and it’s great to be here with you and to receive this award, I’m honored indeed.” Evans went on to talk about the audience and said he was pleased to see all the young people. He then went on to talk about being a conservative and said “I’ve also said anybody who has his head screwed on right should be conservative when he’s young and as he grows older gradually become more conservative,” which brought the audience to laughter.

Evans also discussed media bias. Evans said “don’t forget the incompetence, that’s huge and it interacts with the bias exponential effect.” Evans then told two stories that gave examples of how incompetence interacts with media bias.

In the first example Evans told a story about a friend of his, Pat Korten, who was traveling around in the Midwest in 1994. Evans said “I remember it was the 50th anniversary of D-Day, the landing of Normandy.” The Normandy Landings were the first operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, also known as Operation Neptune and Operation Overload, during World War II....