1) I've learned additional information about the New York Times' bizarre attack on Palmer Report this week, and as I suspected, it involves lazy journalism, bad sourcing, and what appears to be a bad faith attempt at retaliation. Details in thread.
2) When the NY Times accused Palmer Report of being a "false content producer," it cited a new study from the German Marshall Fund. But that study doesn't even MENTION Palmer Report in its comprehensive, roughly forty paragraph summary of its own findings: gmfus.org/blog/2020/10/1…
3) So why did the NY Times single us out, when the study's findings didn't even mention us? The author of the NY Times article told me this: "The researchers did cite Palmer Report to me as an example and you can check in with them on that. I believe they used NewsGuard ratings"
It's a real shame how thoroughly the mainstream media has embarrassed itself this past week, and at such a crucial time in our nation's history. Palmer Report will keep doing everything possible to force the media to be more honest.
I created Palmer Report specifically to push back against the false narratives that the mainstream media far too often pushes as a result of its own insular tone deafness and desire to score ratings at all costs. This week has been a reminder that there's still work to do.
Fox News is bad enough. But at least people outside that particular bubble generally understand it isn't real. The real damage comes when "trusted" news outlets like NBC or the New York Times go off the rails. The media has been better in 2020 than 2016 – but old habits die hard.
- Loses town hall ratings battle to Biden
- Confuses Matt Gaetz with Rick Gates
- General Kelly slams him
- GOP Senator David Perdue has racist meltdown about Kamala Harris
- These people are garbage
- Trump is going to prison
- It's still only 7:41pm