More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.
Appearing on Thursday’s NBC Today, special correspondent Tom Brokaw dismissed Donald Trump’s accusations of liberal media bias: “His complaints have been, apparently, that he thinks there’s a media conspiracy of some kind. The media conspiracy consists of The New York Times printing his tax returns...”
Co-host Savannah Guthrie downplayed the Republican nominee’s complaint as something all candidates say: “And we probably can't find any presidential candidate in modern history who didn’t feel that the media was definitely stacked against that candidate.” Brokaw proclaimed: “Absolutely true. And especially on the Republican side, they always feel that there's a liberal media. But that – the fact of the matter is you have Fox News and a lot of other publications and social media, which has become very, very important in this process.”