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Media Criticism Is Often Cheap and Lazy. Here's Why.
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Media Criticism Is Often Cheap and Lazy. Here's Why.

Too many generalities, and too little grace, for starters.

David French
Apr 17, 2020
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In my Tuesday newsletter (sorry this one is a day late!), I wrote an indictment of the different ways specific media outlets covered the sexual misconduct allegations against Brett Kavanaugh compare to the way they covered recent allegations against Joe Biden. I found the New York Times’s explanation for the distinction singularly unconvincing. 

Today, h…

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