The Media Research Center hates the Newseum because it doesn’t believe in journalism — it only wants news with a right-wing bias, as demonstrated by its “news” division, CNSNews.com. Tim Graham’s factually deficient meltdown in taking a clearly hyperbolic claim literally about a movie screening at the Newseum shows just how radioactive actual journalists (and, thus, the Newseum) is to the MRC denizens.
Therefore, the MRC couldn’t have been happier at the idea of the Newseum shutting down. When it was first announced last January, Scott Whitlock couldn’t resist dancing on the Newseum’s grave 11 months early, ranting that it was a “self-indulgent journalistic shrine” and complaining it didn’t uncritically promote conservative journalism and right-wing talk radio.”
Upon the Newseum’s actual closing at the end of 2019, Whitlock recycled his museum-bashing in a Dec. 26 post, once again calling it “self-indulgent” in his headline and rehashed his earlier criticism that “the Newseum downplayed bias and derided the ‘advocacy journalism’ of conservative talk radio.”
Of course, Whitlock thinks all journalism should have the exact same bias as Rush Limbuagh and Mark Levin and that their views should never be questioned (witness how the MRC rushed to whitewash Rush’s misogynist smear of Sandra Fluke). He and the MRC won’t be happy until that happens.
No wonder a museum that celebrated the opposite enraged the MRC so much.