The Media Research Center hated Hillary Clinton so much — and loves Fox News to the same extent — that it never told its readers that Fox News retracted its story that Clinton’s indictment was imminent, a story the MRC heavily promoted until said retraction.
It appears that the MRC is going to censor news of another retracted claim, again apparently out of spite toward its target.
Last week, the MRC’s Nicholas Fondacaro latched onto a claim by Florida school shooting survivor Colton Haab that CNN to him to ask a question it scripted in order to take part in the channel’s forum on guns. When CNN swiftly denied it, Fondacaro attacked CNN anew (in a separate post to which his original post was never linked), basically saying, “Hey, it could’ve happened! And CNN sucks no matter what!”
Meanwhile, CNN released the emails it and the Haab family exchanged before the forum, which showed that the Haab family released an edited version of one email to falsely support the “scripted” narrative; in reality, CNN wanted Colton to ask a question that he himself had proposed. And even Fondacaro’s fellow conservatives were buying into the anti-CNN narrative; commentator Erick Erickson argued that Haab misunderstood what CNN wanted for its forum.
A couple days later, the final vindication for CNN arrived: Haab’s father admitted that he altered the CNN emails he released.
Fox News commentators Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson, who like Fondacaro promoted the bogus story, have corrected the record. Fondacaro has not.
Even though he has had two days to do so — and to tell his readers that the story he promoted has proven to be false — Fondacaro has said nothing. He has found the time to whine about Dick’s Sporting Goods ceasing the sale of AR-15 rifles at its stores and to freak out about President Trump wanting to take guns from certain people without due process … but not to correct the record. Nobody else at the MRC has corrected the record either.
We know the MRC is heavily invested in its institutional hatred of CNN for not parroting the pro-Trump agenda found at, say, the MRC’s “news” division, CNSNews.com. But is hate more important to the MRC than the truth? Apparently so.