As we’ve noted, the shooting of journalists at the Capital Gazette newspapers office in Maryland has put the Media Research Center in a defensive position by trying to draw a line between…
Why Boise Stabbing Spree Didn’t Trend At WND
A July 4 WorldNetDaily column by Jack Cashill snarkily claimed that an incident in which a man stabbed several people in an apartment complex in Boise, Idaho, housing refugees — killing one…
MRC’s West The Latest Right-Winger to Lie About Margaret Sanger
Right-wing ranter and Media Research Center senior fellow Allen West clearly knows the dead can’t be libeled. Which seems to explain his July 2 column at MRC “news” division CNSNews.com, in which…
Newsmax’s Hirsen Tries To Put Positive Spin on Chaos-Laden Anti-Abortion Film
In his July 10 column, Newsmax’s James Hirsen does his best to put a positive spin on an anti-abortion film whose shooting is beset with chaos — and, like a good right-winger,…
MRC Thinks CNN Is Just Like Infowars. Huh?
The Media Research Center is doing what was unthinkable not that long ago: defending Alex Jones’ conspiracy-laden Infowars operation by insisting that CNN is really no different. In a July 13 post,…
WND Finds A Seth Rich Conspiracy Story Even It Won’t Promote
Over the past couple of years, WorldNetDaily has cynically exploited the death of Seth Rich (and just barely avoiding getting sued over said exploitation) as a way to attack the Clintons, for…
CNS, WND Play Down Scandals In Reporting on Pruitt’s Resignation
The resignation of EPA chief Scott Pruitt amid a lengthy and growing list of scandals and controversies got the ConWeb in the way you’d expect from pro-Trump state media: by heavily downplaying…
Apparently, Mocking Bono Is ‘Media Research’ At The MRC
The Media Research Center’s brand of “media research” is departing further and further from anything substantive and moving closer to just insulting people its writers don’t like. A good example is this…
WND Columnist Repeats Evidence-Free Rumor of Ex-CIA Chief’s Conversion to Islam
When we last checked in on WorldNetDaily columnist John Griffing, he was so busy spewing hate that he couldn’t be bothered to get his facts straight. He’s still at it. In the…
White Nationalist Links Cost Blumer His NewsBusters Gig
Well, that was quick. Earlier this week, Media Matters discovered that a 2015 NewsBusters post by contributing editor Tom Blumer linked to an article on the white nationalist site American Renaissance stating…