Newsbusters: Media Criticism By Way Of Question Marks
October 27, 2009 3:10 pm ET by Oliver Willis
A new poll from NBC and the Wall Street Journal indicates that there has been an uptick in support for the public option in upcoming health care reform legislation. As Media Matters has shown, support for the public option has always been pretty high despite the media's ignorance. But what's great is how Noel Sheppard of Newsbusters has created a conspiracy theory that this poll result has been timed out between NBC/WSJ and Senator Reid. Here is Sheppard's evidence:
Isn't THAT convenient?!?
See? He used two question marks. And an exclamation point. No actual evidence of any sort, but why do you need that for a pretty incendiary accusation when you have two question marks? I'm convinced.
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Geez. Do the people at Newsbusters really call themselves journalists? Of course the poll data was released during the week when the legislation is being finalized. That's when it's newsworthy!
Now, if we want to talk about "convenient," let's return to Bush raising the national security threat level on the eve of the 2004 election....
Yet in spite of their concern for "balanced reporting," they regularly fail to point out Fox's myriad examples of bias and distortion, and defend Rush Limbaugh under every circumstance. Don't know if it's still on the Media Matters site, but if you need a good laugh, read Bozell's defense of Rush after the 2003 comments on Donovan McNabb. A fact-free laugh riot trying to justify ignorance.
(see, THREE question marks.. even more truthiness)