“On Sunday morning’s Media Buzz, host Howard Kurtz quizzed fellow Fox host Bill O’Reilly on whether he was still anathema to mainstream media, and why he and Fox News didn’t cover 60 Minutes’ erroneous Benghazi report more, given the network’s year-long fascination with the story. “You like to set up this narrative of you vs. media elite,” Kurtz began, …
Can The Mainstream News Media Police Itself?
On a recent episode of CNN’s Reliable Sources, NPR’s David Folkenflik interviewed Eric Stern, a Salon writer who bothered to fact check some of the more outlandish claims made on Sean Hannity’s show about the alleged failures of Obamacare. But instead of discussing Hannity’s duplicity, the interview became a discussion of whether outright lying might be acceptable on an …
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