There’s lots of outrage at the Media Research Center that news is being reported by news reporters.
Scott Whitlock complained that “The network evening newscasts on Tuesday and the morning shows on Wednesday continued to hype the Herman Cain “firestorm,” creating 12 more stories in less than 24 hours.” Not that any of the reporting was wrong or misleading — the problem was that it was being reported, period.
Matt Hadro spun Cain’s confrontation with reporters who committed the offense of asking questions he didn’t want to answer about the sexual harassment allegations as having “briefly raised his voice at reporters on Wednesday and his staff moved them aside.”
Whitlock returned with another story-count item, grousing that “NBC, CBS and ABC have developed an insatiable hunger for the Herman Cain sexual harassment story, devoting an incredible 50 stories to the allegations since Monday morning. In contrast, over a similar period these networks mostly ignored far more substantial and serious scandals relating to Bill Clinton.” Whitlock ignores the fact that, as we’ve pointed out, the allegations against Cain are documented (if Cain would only give the National Restaurant Association permission to lift the confidentiality clause barring the victims from speaking publicly), while Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey and Juanita Broaddrick were all exploited by Clinton-haters as a tool to bring down the president and had other credibility problems.