Politico senior media writer Jack Shafer argued on Saturday that Fox’s coverage of the Trump trial in Manhattan exposed a propaganda network — while CNN and MSNBC going into gavel-to-gavel overdrive does not? The headline:
Fox News Is Flipping Trump’s Trial Coverage on its Head
The conservative network is curating its coverage to boost Trump.
The liberal networks are curating their coverage to damage Trump – except it seems to help him instead. The liberals think of their obsession as the definition of “normal” news judgment. How could anyone dissent from their journalistic wisdom and think there are other stories to tell?
Shafer suggests this is an effort to “coddle Trump-loving viewers,” as if the others aren’t coddling Trump-hating viewers. Then he claims “the numbers don’t lie.” Which numbers? They are sketchy numbers.
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