The conservative media establishment, founded on the idea that the existing media establishment was biased, had built into its foundation a rejection of the idea that truth could come from weighing different points of view, which, after all, is the whole point of partisan disputation. Instead, the conservative media establishment engineered a fail-safe against dissent. As one historian explained, “When an outlet like the New York Times criticized a liberal policy, conservative media activists presented it not as evidence of the paper’s even-handedness but as evidence of the policy’s failure.
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