The Media Research Center’s Tim Graham has been in the right-wing media outrage business for so long, it seems he’s incapable of recognizing fair journalism for what it is instead of through his jaundiced partisan lens.
In a Dec. 13 NewsBusters post, Graham expresses surprise that “liberal papers” the Washington Post and the New York Times would pan the new film “Exodus: Gods and Kings” by criticizing the decision to have God portrayed by a “terrifying” child. His headline: “Even Liberal Papers Pan Bratty Pre-Teen God In New Moses Movie ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings.'”
Graham seems to forget that genuine movie reviewers employed by legitimate news outlets generally try to review films based on their merits, not according to their rigid personal belief system.
We saw the latter at work earlier this year when the MRC’s Katie Yoder attacked the film “Obvious Child” for being a romantic comedy centered around abortion — a film Yoder proudly proclaimed she never watched before trashing it.
Apparently, Graham favors Yoder’s approach and would rather people write about films based on what they read on the Internet about them and spare themselves the effort of actually seeing it before offering an opinion.
Indeed, Graham provided no evidence that he has seen “Exodus.” Are we surprised? Nope.