MRC’s Rich Noyes Tells Cavuto: Media Putting ‘Finger on the Scale’ in Trump Coverage

Kyle Drennen | December 9, 2015
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More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

Appearing on Fox Business’s Cavuto: Coast to Coast on Wednesday, Media Research Center research director Rich Noyes took the editor-in-chief of Buzzfeed to task for “basically telling his staff that it's okay to call Trump a mendacious racist, a lying racist.” Noyes told host Neil Cavuto it was “another example of the media trying to basically, you know, deal with Trump themselves rather than waiting and let voters to do it in February and March.”

After citing numerous other examples of the press labeling Trump as extremist and comparing him to Adolf Hitler, Noyes explained “...there are opinion journalists and they can give opinions, but too often you’ve got news reporters who think it’s their job to not just report what’s going on, but to put their own finger on the scale.”