The media have resented conservatives for a long time. Trump only made it more obvious

Published December 1, 2020 12:49pm ET



Ben Smith, generally the New York Times’s most useful columnist, has a good one from this past weekend about the rise of Newsmax, the conservative channel that hopes to rival Fox News. But readers would have to pause when getting three paragraphs from the bottom.

That’s where they would find him describing Fox News evening host Tucker Carlson as “regularly” telling his audience “that the college-educated snobs in New York who preside over the major outlets view conservatives as unsophisticated rubes, misled by misinformation, not as people who actually believe in the ideas pushed by Mr. Trump, like immigration should be sharply curtailed.”

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