Conservative media critics focus on bias, by which they mean the facts hurt their feelings. Check out today’s Accuracy in Media page:
[INDENT]Here’s what AIM is outraged about. None of them involve factual accuracy:
Top 2 stories, Brian McNicoll:
“Washington Post: Tax Cuts Will Embolden Dems to Take Trump On in 2020”
“Here Are the Four Most Hysterical Reactions to the Tax Bill Passing”
Biaswatch:
CNN’s New Year’s Eve Coverage Goes to Pot
Top Bias Watch Blogs in 2017: Tucker Carlson Slaughtering Ratings in Replacing Megyn Kelly
On Target Blog:
CNN Criticizes Trump’s ‘Visceral’ Tweets, Defends Obama’s ‘Caution’
NBC News: ‘Trump Welcomes New Year With Lavish Party at Private Club’
[/INDENT] (MfM: I thought Carlson replaced Bill O’Reilly.
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Liberal media critics focus on accuracy, bigotry, and batshit insane claims. Check out the front page of the watchdogs Media Matters for America: https://www.mediamatters.org/
[INDENT] Lead story:
Alex Jones: “Old lizard” Carrie Fisher may have been murdered to increase Star Wars revenue. Alex Jones suggests he won’t see another Star Wars movie because of “every bad guy being a man and all of the commanders being women”
Top 2 below:
Fox News report on Colorado gunman ignores his white supremacist connections
The president spent his holiday tweeting at the television
Under Latest:
Fox News reported on proposed monument to black South Carolina Confederates. There actually were none.
New study: Facebook “the most important mechanism facilitating” fake news
[/INDENT] Ok, one of the MMA headlines didn’t involve accuracy or bigotry. Still, the weight of the evidence is clear: modern movement conservative whining papers over an inner fragility with regards to factual reporting.