The fat dumb and bald guy at CNN doesn’t report on the media. He just runs a show dedicated to attacking anything from the right in order to prop up literally anything from the left. And as the analysis of his air time shows, it’s not even CLOSE.
You don’t necessarily need a comparative analysis in order to understand it. Read his terrible Twitter feed for a taste, if you can stand it.
But if you do want the goods, the Free Beacon got them. Check it out.
Over a six-month span from Jan. 22 to July 21, the media newsletter published by Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy mentioned “right-wing” or “far-right” media, personalities, or elements 172 times, while it mentioned “left-wing” or “far-left” just 8 times, a ratio of 21.5 to 1. It mentioned “conservative news” or “conservative media” 40 times, but mentioned “liberal news” or “liberal media” only 4 times in that span.
Stelter’s Sunday CNN program Reliable Sources similarly skewed toward covering the right, with 50 combined mentions of “right-wing” and “far-right” in that span, as opposed to just three mentions of “left-wing” and “far left.” It mentioned “conservative news” or “conservative media” eight times, but made 3 mentions of “liberal news” or “liberal media,” according to a Kinetiq media search.
There is a ton of info in this exposé.
Even when Stelter or Darcy do mention the “left,” it often is in the context of criticizing the right. Two of the mentions of “liberal media” came when Stelter quoted Sen. Chris Murphy’s (D., Conn.) interview on Feb. 2 with the New York Times, in which the senator said conservatives view the press as a threat to the country. Stelter mentioned Murphy’s remark both on his show that day and in his nightly newsletter.
But you can also just watch as he exposes himself … wait, lemme rephrase that y’all .. as he exposes his own attitude.
The implicit argument here is that if @PressSec says something accurate, saying so is shilling. Worse, that the favorite pastime of every journalist, ESPECIALLY you, which y'all call "adding context, is by definition reprehensible if that context cuts in favor of the wrong side.
— Fred T. (@FredTScoop) July 24, 2020
Being "cancelled" is a concept well understood by everyone. Pretending that the concept doesn't exist just because you disbelieve that what the concept describes happens isn't just bias, it's willful and performative ignorance. Kind of like your show, @brianstelter.
— Fred T. (@FredTScoop) July 24, 2020
And of course, there’s always the Newsbusters archive.