On Dec. 13, the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters Twitter account tweeted out a graphic with the MRC’s logo and a quote from President’s Trump’s son, Eric Trump:
How few people read The Washington Post? You know who reads The Washington Post? The people in the Beltway, right. And universally they’re the most hated people in America by Americans.
The tweet added, “Eric Trump doesn’t mince words.” But he– and, thus, the MRC — is lying.
The Washington Post stated in April 2019: “The Washington Post recorded 86.6 million unique visitors in March 2019, according to comScore. This is a 5.5 percent increase month-over-month. The Post’s mobile audience also grew, increasing nearly 6 percent month-over-month to 71.8 million monthly unique visitors.”
Now, 86.6 million unique visitors is not a “few” by any stretch of the imagination.Given that the population of the entire Washington metro area is a little over 6 million — only about one-third whom live inside the Beltway — we can safely assume that the Post’s readership extends well beyond the DC region.
In other words, only a small fraction of the Post’s readership is inside the Beltway. But since when is the MRC interested in promoting facts when they contradict its anti-media agenda?