When they criticize conservative media, liberal media have no self-awareness

Published July 22, 2021 10:00am ET



On Monday, as part of its Untangling Disinformation series, NPR ran a 2,000-word article alleging that Ben Shapiro and the news site he co-founded, the Daily Wire, use outrage as a business model.

The piece voices concern that non-mainstream, conservative news sites are dominating over legacy media (including the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and NBC News) when it comes to Facebook engagement, and this may exacerbate political polarization in America.

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