MRC Unironically Attacks Reporter For Alleged Bias, Gives Fox News Reporters A Pass

The Media Research Center’s Curtis Houck unironically complained in a May 9 post:

Being a frequent NewsBusters reader and/or a trip to our taxonomy term for ABC chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce would give one the impression that Bruce was little more than a doormat for the Biden administration and loyally delivered the day’s preferred spin. Such was the case on Tuesday’s Good Morning America as she enthusiastically spun for President Biden on the border crisis and debt ceiling. 

Simply put, if Biden and his handlers (who actually run the administration) want a Press Secretary who can successfully string together complete sentences, they should give Bruce a look. Besides some tough press briefings here and there, she’s a loyal foot soldier.

If Houck actually about reporters pushing political agendas, he would be writing about Fox News reporters like Peter Doocy and Jacqui Heinrich. Instead, he gushed about “Doocy Time” and “Jacqui Time” whenever they ask their biased questions. Both Doocy and Heinrich would have made adequate successors to Houck’s beloved Kayleigh McEnany in the Trump White House — which was something that was actually needed because McEnany infamously abandoned her job after the Capitol riot rather than face questions about her boss’ role in inciting it.

If liberal media bias is bad, then conservative bias is bad too — but Houck refuses to acknowledge that simple bit of logic. Because Houck is a political activist and not a journalist, he only sees things through his narrow partisan right-wing lens. And that’s the way everything from the MRC should be treated — they aren’t offering honest critiques of journalism, they are working the refs to push their partisan narratives.