Tim Graham whined in a July 30 NewsBusters post:
The Washington Post has deeply and lovingly covered the corruption scandal around former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, and couldn’t contain its excitement over the trial. In Sunday’s newspaper and in Tuesday’s Post Express tabloid, they highlighted this preview in headlines: “It’s Going To Be Ugly.” They couldn’t wait for the ugliness.
Can Graham read the minds of Post writers? Apparently so.
However, it didn’t take much mind-reading to foresee that the trial of McDonnel and his wife would bring out very tawdry things — heck, the defense, as a key part of their case, is claiming that the Republican governor’s wife had a crush on the man who lavished her and the governor with gifts and cash.
It seems that Graham would prefer that the media censor this story. And one part of it is — NewsBusters sister organization CNSNews.com, which is burying the story by not highlighting it on its front page and leaving coverage to wire reports instead of sending a reporter.
NewsBusters is doing a fine job of censoring it as well: Graham’s post is the most recent item with the Robert McDonnell tag.
The Media Research Center loves to accuse the media of censorship any time it fails to advance a given right-wing-friendly storyline. But it undermines whatever moral authority it thinks it has to make such an accusation when its own websites censor stories it doesn’t like.