The Media Research Center still can’t quite find a way to criticize Fox News in its own voice.
As it did last month, the MRC uses right-wing radio host Mark Levin as cover for its Fox News criticism. Tim Graham writes in an April 20 NewsBusters post about how Levin was “hitting back at all the election propaganda being spouted by the media and pundits after the New York primary results,” going after Fox News in particular:
The Fox News Channel – the Donald Trump super PAC – hasn’t discussed any of this, all day long. Instead, the pom pom boys and girls are dancing all over the place. Telling you that everything’s changed, even though nothing’s changed. They repeat what Donald Trump says. They repeat what his sycophants say, his surrogates say.
Graham doesn’t explain why the MRC doesn’t criticize Fox News itself and instead trots out Levin to do the dirty work for them. Because Brent Bozell would like to continue appearing on Fox, perhaps?
Then, as befits someone with a mutual business promotion deal with the MRC, Levin retweeted Graham’s post, adding: “Newsbusters, a great site where accuracy matters.” We assume it matters even more when the check clears.