As Twitchy readers know, Donald Trump inadvertently referenced Sharyl Attkisson’s ‘media bias chart’ in his tweets this morning about how Google is manipulating results to wrongly target him.
It was this chart from Sharyl:
A few of you asked to see my Media Bias chart per a story in The Hill… so here it is. https://t.co/lsnDFYLzxA pic.twitter.com/SAuH3hINNa
— Sharyl Attkisson?️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) August 28, 2018
Now whether or not this is true, and Sharyl’s chart doesn’t really say that Google is manipulating results, it just shows a liberal bias, Media Matters’ Matthew Gertz took issue with the whole kit and kaboodle.
Because you know, Media Matters.
Good morning. The president was up before dawn this morning watching and tweeting about last night's episode of Fox's Lou Dobbs Tonight.
Left, Dobbs, 7:30 pm
Right, Trump, 5:24 am pic.twitter.com/7eArOEwChe— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) August 28, 2018
K.
Dobbs' take was that Google is "banning" and "suppressing" conservative news sites from appearing in their results. His source is a piece from PJ Media that sorted results based on "Sharyl Attkisson's media bias chart," which lists the Washington Post & the NY Times as far left. pic.twitter.com/c9WTCbj5QQ
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) August 28, 2018
She’s correct.
They are far Left.
Sharyl fired back:
You can quibble, Matt, but you'd be arguing with the multiple sources for the placement on the chart (cited in my article).
— Sharyl Attkisson?️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) August 28, 2018
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Maybe Matt is just worried about the competition on the Left?
Heh.
Side convo …
Where would you put @FullMeasureNews? ?
— Bob (@bobdirects) August 28, 2018
If I ranked TV shows I would put it in the middle…
— Sharyl Attkisson?️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) August 28, 2018
Fair.
Back to their back and forth.
Matt responded like you’d expect someone from Media Matters to:
lol pic.twitter.com/zPIEBxrdAg
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) August 28, 2018
Wow, he sure told her.
Great comeback 😉
— Sharyl Attkisson?️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) August 28, 2018
See?
Then his britches got all sorts of bunched up.
You floated a conspiracy theory about @mmfa being paid to target you on national television. We're not having a conversation. Enjoy the praise from the social media app where the white nationalists hang out. https://t.co/GEduJM5N65
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) August 28, 2018
What a sore loser.
ONLY WHITE NATIONALISTS DISAGREE WITH HIM.
Blah blah blah.
Your article is silly. These aren't quibbles. If NBC, WaPo, and NYT are far left, where do you put the Jacobin, sailing into the sun? You have Infowars and Fox as center-right. This is literal garbage. Worse: it's propaganda.
— Schrödinger's Trump: Definitely "Adoptions" (@SchrodngrsTrump) August 28, 2018
Says the person defending NBC, WaPo, and NYT.
Oh, our sides.
Well, not "literally." 😉 Never heard of Jacobin and this chart surely doesn't attempt to list every source. And it doesn't mean there isn't a space further left and right of what's listed. But you're entitled to draw your own conclusions, and seem perfectly capable of doing so!
— Sharyl Attkisson?️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) August 28, 2018
She’s so good at this.
Congrats on running propaganda for this thing pic.twitter.com/pAbWKwLUE2
— Smocking In The Boys Room (@knucklepushup) August 28, 2018
(When you consider Media Matters a news outlet) LOL
— Sharyl Attkisson?️♂️ (@SharylAttkisson) August 28, 2018
Ha! Excellent point.
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