Establishment Media Covers for SPLC Misdeeds with Minimal Reporting

The biggest story of last week was one the mainstream media did not want to cover.

Last week, a federal grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on 11 counts related to their decades-long scheme of bankrolling leading figures of white supremacist extremist groups through shell corporations under the guise of paying “informants.”

The bombshell was certainly newsworthy, but media outlets that self-identify as news organizations treated the damaging revelations about the Left’s favorite attack dog as if they had been asked to pick up its droppings.

“From following mainstream press coverage,” described National Review’s Becket Adams, “you’d know mostly that a supposedly noble and esteemed anti-racist group is tied up somehow in Trump administration chicanery.” In its sole story on the affair, NBC News made sure to inform readers in the subtitle that the SPLC was “outraged by the false allegations.”

USA Today, meanwhile, tried to absolve the SPLC of wrongdoing