Recovering from the journalism crisis: Reporters need to learn to apologize

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Holding the Media Responsible for the SPLC Scandal

 

[...] The mainstream liberal media exists within a bubble, beyond which is a reality that it cannot comprehend.  That Southern Poverty Law Center apparently engaged in criminal activity is something that does not compute with most journalists and editors.  In fact, it's downright impossible for them to conceive of the notion.  It comes down to emotions and vague intentions.  SPLC didn't really mean to break the law, those of the leftist media will try to persuade us with.  "They were only doing good," we will be told.

 

It's very simple with such minds: SPLC was an absolute good and thus anything they stood against was an absolute evil.  And even now, they will refuse to admit that an organization they had considered so righteous has actually been exceedingly nefarious in funding those very racists they have portrayed themselves as opposing.

 

But now the jig is up.  And the media who were darlings with the Southern Poverty Law Center have been caught like a chicken in a tractor's innards [...]

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/05/holding_the_media_responsible_for_the_splc_scandal.html