Politico: Media Didn't Ignore Benghazi

Breitbart ^ | 8/6/13 | William Bigelow

[Nachum]

Politico’s Dylan Byers, in a piece for his buddies in the MSM, declares that conservative criticism of the mainstream media is overblown. Byers writes:

So often conservative media, like conservative media criticism, can't be taken seriously because it overplays its hand. Like someone who shouts "thief!" the second his keys go missing, much of the conservative echo-chamber has a hyper-aggressive penchant to see conspiracy where they'd do better to see questions in need of answers. As a general rule -- albeit with plenty of exceptions -- there is a guilty-until-proven-innocent approach among those who fashion themselves as "anti-MSM," which can cloud the evidence-gathering process.

Byers quotes The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf, calling him a “member of the up-and-coming post-movement conservative crew.” Friedersdorf wrote:

Effective media criticism must be specific and accurate. As noted, I have no doubt that there are any number of problems with "MSM" coverage of Benghazi. But a refusal to take the story seriously isn't one of them. The notion that the story has been ignored is fantastical and discrediting. The notion that the entire "MSM" is engaged in a coverup is idiotic. And when your overall media narrative is wrong, your media criticism is going to suffer. Insofar as people like me tuned out the story, it is largely because so much of the conservative commentary was implausible, right from the first time that Mitt Romney accused his opponent of sympathizing with the terrorists.

Consider the referral to Friedersdrof, who was an intern for Andrew Sullivan, as a “conservative” source. As Mediate wrote of Friedersdorf in 2010:

[Right Wing Assault]

...see conspiracy where they'd do better to see questions in need of answers...

Well, when the admin starts off their reaction with tall tales and lies, it's hard NOT to think conspiracy, Politico, wouldn't you agree?

[Cymbaline]

It keeps the IRS off your back.

[txhurl]

Yeah, pleading the 5th just screams transparency and accountability, don’t it?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Nachum.

[Travis McGee]