The trend of allowing readers to weigh in on coverage through “fairness” or ‘bias” meters is getting an assist — from the White House.
The
Trump administration on Friday launched a page devoted to tracking its own coverage. It is headlined: “Misleading. Biased. Exposed.”
To start, it named The Boston Globe, CBS News and The Independent as “media offenders of the week.” Their offense, as the
White House put it: “The media represented President Trump’s call for Members of Congress to be held accountable for inciting sedition by saying that he called for their
'execution'."
(Wait, didn’t he say this was a death penalty offense?)
Several journalists were also called out. And,
joining the Offender Hall of Shame are The Washington Post, CBS News, CNN and MSNBC.
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The site discusses such alleged journalistic pathologies as:
- Misrepresentation, omission of context
- Bias, malpractice
- Mischaracterization, omission of
context
- Left-wing lunacy
- Lie
Readers who enjoy this can sign up for a weekly “Offenders Alert”
email digest. And if they choose to tell
Newsweek, say, that it is unfair via its bias meter, the White House site may reinforce that feeling.