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    Commentary: The two iron laws of media criticism: Partisan skepticism inevitably drifts toward ignorance and nihilism

    by Matt Welch, Los Angeles Times Dec 14, 2017 3 minutes

    Long before we knew who'd won Tuesday's special election in Alabama, we knew who had lost: the media. At least, that is, according to conservative media critics.

    "Roy Moore Proves Media Only Destroys Itself in Elections" ran a headline Monday in the American Spectator. "The late Charles Manson seems to have gotten a more sympathetic press" than Republican Roy Moore, complained former Human Events editor Allan H. Ryskind in the Washington Times. "The real reason for a situation that allows the Roy Moores and Donald

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