On Sunday, Fox News' Bill Sammon said that the MSM "hate" both Sarah Palin and the tea partiers.
That caused a bit of a ruckus. Politico's Michael Calderone, a generally thoughtful media observer, wrote in response that Sammon's charge was "unsubstantiated."
To which Newsbusters' Seton Motley responded with abundant substantiation of Sammon's original charge.
Motley writes:
How has Calderone missed completely the now nearly ubiquitous presence of the sexually-explicit, derogatory term used by members of the "MSM" to describe the participants in said Movement? The in-person attacks on Party participants by the likes of CNN's Susan Roesgen (now no longer with the firm)? The over-arching denigrating words and deeds by people throughout the "MSM?"
There is so much "MSM" anti-TEA Party venom to substantiate Sammon's assertion, one hardly knows where to begin. So we will simply list, with links and dates, documentation aplenty below.
(Cursory glance result: 52 NB stories.)
Fifty two stories, just on Newsbusters. Calderone, who has always seemed like a pretty good guy, in touch with his readers, has been busy updating his original post, which is good. But he should revise his original declaration. Even if you don't agree that Sammon was right to use the word "hate," it is obvious that there was plenty of substantiation for his original charge.
