The first panel of this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference took direct aim at the state of journalism in the United States. The opening session on Thursday was titled, “An Affair to Remember: How the Far Left and the Mainstream Media Got in Bed Together,” and it started with a YouTube mashup of the year’s biggest media blunders. So far the annual gathering has shown that the conservative movement is united by the concepts of #fakenews and criticizing journalists, according to The New York Times.
Breitbart News writer Ben Shapiro memorably described many mainstream journalists as, “advocates of leftism, masquerading as objective truth-tellers.” At the event, Vice President Mike Pence accused journalists of “fawning” over the sister of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the Winter Olympics. And Dana Loesch, the spokeswoman for the National Rifle Association, used her remarks to accuse news organizations of rooting for gun massacres.
“Many in legacy media love mass shootings,” Ms. Loesch told the crowd, according to The Times. Addressing the reporters in the room, she said: “You guys love it. I’m not saying that you love the tragedy, but I am saying that you love the ratings. Crying white mothers are ratings gold.”
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