According to the Media Research Center, the TV networks didn’t move fast enough to cover an alleged incident in which Donald Trump’s campaign manager manhandled a conservative reporter. Curtis Houck writes in a March 10 post:
Two days after Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski allegedly forcefully grabbed the arm of Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC finally noticed this disturbing incident just as a Trump protester was sucker punched at a rally on Wednesday night.
Houck praised ABC for offering “the most extensive and substantive time on this matter” and touted how it “secured an interview with Fields.”
You know who who gave even less attention to this incident? The MRC’s own “news” division, CNSNews.com.
A search of the CNS archive for “michelle fields trump” turned up only two links to a single story, an Associated Press article dated March 13. CNS did not put the story on its front page — which means it may as well not have been published at all since few CNS readers are likely to venture beyond the front-page headlines — and no CNS reporter covered the controversy.
Houck, of course, is suggesting that this plays into the MRC’s conspiracy theory that the “liberal media” want Trump chosen as the Republican presidential nominee so he’ll lose to Hillary Clinton in November. But his own organization downplayed the controversy even more than the networks purportedly did.
Does that mean CNS is part of the “liberal media” conspiracy too?