Goes back WAY before ~15 years ago. This has been a prominent line of conservative attack for at least 30 years. I remember reading an article in 2000 or 2001 on Slate (may have been Will Saletan!) discussing how the Right's attacks on the "liberal mainstream media" were an amazingly effective way of working the refs and provided a catch…
Goes back WAY before ~15 years ago. This has been a prominent line of conservative attack for at least 30 years. I remember reading an article in 2000 or 2001 on Slate (may have been Will Saletan!) discussing how the Right's attacks on the "liberal mainstream media" were an amazingly effective way of working the refs and provided a catch-all excuse to waive away any criticism of the Right/Republicans. If the news reporting does refutes or does not support the conservative worldview, it isn't because that view is incorrect it is just "liberal bias" in the media; but if the reporting does support it, well then "even the liberal New York Times" is admitting that we're right! It's a great heads-we-win-tales-you-lose approach.
Yea you can draw the line back into the 90's with the Limbaugh/Gingrich/Rove revolution as Charlie often does. It's just that you can track tweaks in the messaging during major attack shifts. 2014 was one of those years. That's when the GOP took an even darker turn pre-Trump running in 2015. That was the sickness that gave rise to the symptom that was Trump. The shift from "MSM/Socialism" attacks to attacks against BLM & police reform left. That dominated the attack messaging from 2014-2020+.
Goes back WAY before ~15 years ago. This has been a prominent line of conservative attack for at least 30 years. I remember reading an article in 2000 or 2001 on Slate (may have been Will Saletan!) discussing how the Right's attacks on the "liberal mainstream media" were an amazingly effective way of working the refs and provided a catch-all excuse to waive away any criticism of the Right/Republicans. If the news reporting does refutes or does not support the conservative worldview, it isn't because that view is incorrect it is just "liberal bias" in the media; but if the reporting does support it, well then "even the liberal New York Times" is admitting that we're right! It's a great heads-we-win-tales-you-lose approach.
Yea you can draw the line back into the 90's with the Limbaugh/Gingrich/Rove revolution as Charlie often does. It's just that you can track tweaks in the messaging during major attack shifts. 2014 was one of those years. That's when the GOP took an even darker turn pre-Trump running in 2015. That was the sickness that gave rise to the symptom that was Trump. The shift from "MSM/Socialism" attacks to attacks against BLM & police reform left. That dominated the attack messaging from 2014-2020+.