MRC's Brent Bozell Hits NYT's Snide Oscar Attack on Trump

[See NewsBusters for more.] Media Research Center President Brent Bozell on Monday knocked the New York Times for a smug ad that aired during the Oscars. Bozell appeared on the Fox Business Channel and responded to the Times’s commercial declaring the paper the arbiter of truth. Bozell retorted, “The New York Times runs this really underhanded, snide attack on the President, during the Academy Awards no less. Talk about speaking to the choir when you're doing something like that.” In the ad, a number of statements appear beginning with the phrase, “The truth is...” Then, a screen reads, “The truth is more important now than ever... the New York Times.” According to Bozell, commercials like this one strengthen the President’s attacks agains the media: “What that does is justify Donald Trump. The next time he slaps the New York Times on the head, people are going to remember, this was the newspaper who took that shot at Donald Trump.”