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<title>David Dayen - FishbowlDC</title>
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<title>Journo Bashing</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-70054" title="images-3" src="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/files/2012/04/images-37.jpeg" alt="" width="180" height="227" /><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-70062" title="images-7" src="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/files/2012/04/images-77.jpeg" alt="" width="163" height="250" />The right slams PBS anchor <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Gwen-Ifill-profile.html">Gwen Ifill</a></strong>. The left takes a chunk out of FNC Chief White House Correspondent <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Ed-Henry-profile.html">Ed Henry</a></strong>. And a new feature is born: &#8220;Journo Bashing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s take a look.</p>
<p>Both Newsbusters and Big Hollywood, well-known right-wing sites, blast Ifill for referring to <strong>Trayvon Martin</strong> shooter <strong>George Zimmerman</strong> as &#8220;white&#8221; on her Monday night broadcast. On Newsbusters, <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Tim-Graham-profile.html">Tim Graham</a></strong>, Director of Media Analysis for the Media Research Center, <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2012/04/10/pbs-anchor-gwen-ifill-inaccurately-describes-zimmerman-white">writes that</a> Ifill &#8220;mangled&#8221; the story by calling Zimmerman white when Zimmerman has a white father and a Latino mother. He writes, &#8220;By that one-white-parent standard, you could call President Obama &#8216;white.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p><strong><img class="size-full wp-image-70057 alignleft" title="images-4" src="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/files/2012/04/images-44.jpeg" alt="" width="222" height="173" />WTF?! </strong>Over at Breitbart.com, <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/Tony-Lee-profile.html">Tony Lee</a></strong> (recently terminated from <em>Human Events</em>) writes, &#8220;The mainstream media just will not give up in their efforts to fabricate racial motivations in the <strong>Trayvon Martin</strong> case, even when none likely existed.&#8221; Really? Quite a declaration considering the story has consumed the nation for racial reasons for the past month. Lee goes a notch beyond Newsbusters and insults Ifill, calling her work &#8220;dishonest.&#8221; He writes, &#8220;On Monday&#8217;s broadcast of PBS&#8217;s &#8216;Newshour,&#8217; Gwen Ifill simply&#8211;and dishonestly&#8211;referred to Zimmerman as &#8216;white,&#8217; trying to impose the false media narrative that Zimmerman was a &#8216;white&#8217; guy who racially profiled and shot an innocent black teenager in cold blood.&#8221; Lee <img class="size-full wp-image-70059 alignright" title="images-5" src="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/files/2012/04/images-57.jpeg" alt="" width="144" height="184" />went on to bash Ifill for saying that Trayvon&#8217;s killing has sparked a national discussion on race, justice and self-defense. Lee declares that &#8220;Ifill is wrong,&#8221; and blames journalists like her for &#8220;forcing&#8221; a discussion that he says wouldn&#8217;t have otherwise existed. We&#8217;re calling major bullsh&amp;t on this one. Read the story <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/04/10/Gwen-Ifill-and-PBS-Join-the-Racial-Mob-With-False-Reference-to-Zimmerman-as-White">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Ouch!</strong> Firedoglake, meanwhile, rips on Henry for allegedly not understanding home loans. In a story bearing the headline, &#8220;More Terrible Media Stories About Housing,&#8221; <strong><a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/David-Dayen-profile.html">David Dayen</a></strong> writes, &#8220;When Ed Henry shows that he doesn’t know how home loans work, it means more than just a commentary about the ignorance of one media personality. It means that more complex issues about housing policy have no chance of moving past the demagoguery stage.&#8221; He&#8217;s referencing <a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/02/02/fox-news-ed-henry-doesnt-know-how-home-loans-work/">this exchange</a> between Henry and HUD Sec. <strong>Shaun Donovan</strong> from early February.</p>
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