The Media Research Center set the narrative with the first Democratic presidential debate: Do a pre-attack of the media folks who will ask the questions, then attack the questions after the debate…
CNS Echoes WND’s Obsession With Flies Landing on Democratic Politicians
In 2013, WorldNetDaily was briefly obsessed with a minor incident in which President Obama dealt with a fly during an interview. An article by Aaron Klein claimed that “religious and other websites…
MRC Touted Gushy Review Of Bozell/Graham Anti-Media Book (Originating From The Book’s Publisher)
Last month, as part of the promotion for Tim Graham and Brent Bozell’s new anti-media book “Unmasked,” Media Research Center divisions NewsBusters and CNSNews.com both published an overly fawning review of the…
WND’s Fake Business News
An anonymously written July 31 WorldNetDaily article declared: Gillette ran an infamous “toxic” masculinity ad during the Super Bowl casting men as sexist bullies, followed by one in which a father teaches…
MRC Still Mocking Fact-Checks On Satire — But It Fact-Checked A Cartoon
The Media Research Center loves to mock Snopes for treating right-wing satire site the Babylon Bee as something that needs to be fact-checked because enough people think its stories are true —…
CNS’ Summer of Interns Pestering People With Gotcha Questions Comes To An End
As we’ve noted, The main job of summer interns at CNSNews.com this year appears to have been pestering members of Congress with loaded gotcha questions designed to push right-wing narratives. That’s [pretty…
MRC’s Depiction-Equals-Approval Fallacy In Action Again
We’ve written before about the Depiction-Equals-Approval Fallacy, the logical fallacy in which (as it applies in the ConWebWatch world) conservatives believe that any piece of news that’s negative to conservatives is being…
Terry Jeffrey Trump Deficit Blame Avoidance Watch
The latest episode in CNSNews.com editor in chief Terry Jeffrey’s refusal to single out President Trump by name for his role in running up the federal deficits Jeffrey decries comes in an…
MRC Is Mad NY Times Made A Headline More Accurate
As part of its narrative-invoking coverage of the aftermath of the El Paso and Dayton massacres, the Media Research Center had a meltdown over a headline. Following President Trump’s speech following the…
AIM Touts PragerU Video Making Discredited Claim About Trump and Charlottesville
Accuracy in Media’s Carrie Sheffield writes in an Aug. 6 post: In the wake of the El Paso shooting, liberal media commentators have brought up President Donlad Trump’s response to the violent…