I complain about all USA corporate media, perhaps more accurately described as "war media". I don't recognize a difference between "conservative" and "liberal" flavors, since they are about as distinct as Coke and Pepsi. It isn't a surprise that both Carlson and Maddow use these techniques, since they both learned from Roger Ailes. NYT like to pretend they are somehow above these clowns, but they too have lied us into our every war. The idea is that fools will pay lots of attention to the spectacle of false disagreement and ignore the actual policies of every politician in the employ of billionaires.

The NYT is using a near identical defense in an ongoing libel lawsuit from James O'Keefe.