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The left-leaning media sometimes uses the news to promote an agenda, independent journalist Drew Holden says.
Holden has become known for his Twitter threads, in which he shows how news coverage changes depending on whether the subject is a liberal or a conservative.
“What we’ve seen in the last couple of years,” Holden says, “is a more activist stance in newsrooms to say, ‘We actually have a moral duty and a fiduciary obligation to the people who read our stories, to not bring them this kind of both-sides conversation, and to instead home in on the truth,’ particularly if it is opposed to someone like Donald Trump.”
Holden joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to shine a light on just how bad media malfeasance is, what the resulting misinformation means for society, and how conservatives can reclaim a place in the media ecosystem.
Also on today’s show, we read your letters to the editor and share a good news story about Korean War veteran Ralph Puckett, who recently received the Medal of Honor at age 94.
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It’s likely that most journalists hired by Fox News are liberals, simply because the talent pool of journalists skews so hard to the left. Fox anchorman Chris Wallace, son of 60 Minutes’ Mike Wallace, is famously a lifelong registered Democrat — and sometimes it shows.
On the other hand, Holden is seeing the New York Times through rose-colored glasses if he thinks it is still the newspaper it used to be. Today, the young, radical staff has an absolute veto over what the paper publishes, as we discovered after the Tom Cotton op-ed controversy.
But then, Holden says he is still trying to sell op-eds to the Times, so he can’t speak freely.