Journalistic honesty dictates that you actually watch the movie you’re passing judgment on. The Media Research Center apparently doesn’t care about such things.
In a June 2 MRC Culture & Media Institute column, Katie Yoder rants about the film “Obvious Child,” complaining about the “abortion romantic comedy” and how “lefty media types were enthusiastic” about it. Given that Yoder wrote her article five days before the film opened, it’s highly unlikely she had a chance to see the film before spewing her opinion on it.
The ignorance continues in Brent Bozell and Tim Graham’s June 6 column, in which they rail against “the courageous destruction of God’s most beautiful and most innocent creation” and smear the film as “feminist nihilism.” Their column was posted on the morning of June 6 — the day the film opened — making it highly unlikely that they too bothered to watch the film they’re trashing.
Yoder followed up with an article posted later on June 6 in which she complains that eople who have actually watched the movie — unlike her — are expressing positive opinions about it. Even though Yoder may have had the chance to watch the film before posting her article, there’s no indication she did.
Then again, since Yoder, Bozell and Graham are clearly going to trash this movie whether they saw it or not, they apparently decided to cut out that waste of time of seeing a film they’ve already formed an intractable opinion about.
Who needs journalistic integrity anyway?