The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a left-wing hive of activists badly disguised as journalists. They run the very biased “fact-checker” PolitiFact, and one of its executives, Kelly McBride, moonlights as the baldly boosterish “public editor” making excuses for National Public Radio.
Tom Jones—not the hip-swaying Welsh pop singer—is their resident Brian Stelter, penning a daily media newsletter. Check out this headline: “Fox News goes all in on MAGA by adding a Trump to the payroll.”
“The network continues to peddle itself as a legitimate news outlet,” the subhead reads. “Hiring the sitting president’s daughter-in-law makes that claim indefensible.”
Fox News is creating a Saturday night show hosted by Lara Trump, the daughter-in-law of the sitting president. Just like Stelter, Jones ripped Fox as “simply an extension of the…