The Boston Globe’s opinion section recently published a fake front page projecting what might happen if Donald Trump is elected president. And even though the Media Research Center despises Trump and supports Ted Cruz, it hates the “liberal media” expressing an opinion even more.
Tim Graham dismissed the page as an “enormous prank” and declared himself arbiter of “serious” news: “A serious newspaper doesn’t satirize the news. It leaves it to The Onion.” Graham doesn’t mention that the fake front page didn’t replace the actual front page; it ran on the front of its “idea” section well inside the paper.
The MRC’s Rich Noyes sneered at the “sophomoric anti-Donald Trump parody” and complained that “liberal newspapers have published a spate of obnoxious, over-the-top covers that the broadcast networks immediately picked up as meaningful contributions to political discourse.” (This from the same website that does a post every time Tim Allen makes fun of liberals on his sitcom “Last Man Standing.”) Noyes later ran to Fox Business (of course) to rant that the fake front page was “sophomoric” (again) and “absurd.”
MRC division CNSNews.com — which has had its own problems with making up the news — ran an April 14 story by Susan Jones under the headline “Boston Globe Defends Its ‘Unconventional New Approach’ to Making Up the News.” Jones does later explain that it did not run as the actual front page but in the opinion section — which means it was not “making up the news” at all.