At least we know that we’ll never run out of things to write about.
All too often, groupthink and bias create a media narrative, and then institutional pride locks it in place.
Take one of the biggest stories of the last year: the comeback of organized labor. A union resurgence has been covered in one media outlet after another. It’s the most important economic trend in our country except that it hasn’t, er, actually happened. To get the skeptical, and prescient, coverage, you have to read National Review.
In October, just ten days after Hamas committed its massacre in Israel, much of the press — the New York Times, the AP, the BBC — fell for the group’s claim that Israel had killed hundreds of Palestinians in a strike against a hospital. NR didn’t buy it. We kept pointing out that there weren’t hundreds of casualties, and for that matter there was no Israeli strike. And we kept correcting the record when other journalists, and Democratic politicians, sustained the lie.
Issues surrounding nascent human life bring out the worst in our journalistic class, and no publication has a better record of refuting the myths than National Review. During the last two years, we have reported and commented on pro-life political defeats. But unlike the rest of the media, which keep hyping the pro-choice backlash to the Supreme Court, we have also pointed out that not a single pro-life senator or governor has lost reelection. When the national press said that pro-lifers, no longer restrained by Roe v. Wade, had outlawed IVF in Alabama, we explained that none of that was true.
President Biden’s recent State of the Union address contained a lot of whoppers. But the media fact-checkers didn’t bother trying to evaluate one of his most preposterous claims: that he had “inherited an economy on the brink.” National Review supplied the missing facts.
Time after time, our writers have cleared the media fog — with your help, and for all of our benefit. We hope you’ll consider supporting this cause as part of our webathon. We wouldn’t have to do so much work, or ask for so much support, if we could count on the fairness and accuracy of the press. As it is, at least we know that we’ll never run out of things to write about. And we’ll never run out of gratitude for your kindness.
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