The Media Research Center’s Alex Christy complains in an Aug. 28 post:
CNN’s Brian Stelter has a very elastic definition of the Trump-Fox News relationship. When President Trump says something nice about Fox News, that is proof that Fox is something akin to state-run TV. When President Trump voices his displeasure with Fox, it is proof that Trump wants it to be “an organ of the White House.”
Yeah, no. It’s clear to the vast majority of media observers — at least, the ones not employed by the MRC who love to obfuscate about the role of Fox News in the Trump administration — that Fox News is, in fact, akin to state-run TV and that when Trump complains about Fox, it’s solely because it’s not enough of one. In other words, Stelter’s definition is nowhere near as “elastic” as Christy wants you to think it is.
Christy continued:
Later in the segment Stelter made another head scratching statement: “Look, just after the DNC woman was on Fox this morning, a White House spokesman was on Fox. So, the idea even of having two different people from two different parties is something is an anathema to the president.” CNN might not be the best source to criticize Trump for this, because according to a MRC study, 82% of CNN’s interviews with members of Congress are with Democrats and 81% of their questions reflect the Democratic agenda.
Christy didn’t mention that this study complaining about the dearth of GOP representatives was issued a few days after the MRC praised those very same GOP representatives for refusing to appear on CNN, so it seems that study’s results were a bit gamed.