Liberal media outlets fumed after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito defended himself before the posting of a ProPublica story charging him with ethics violations.
‘Fox News Sunday’ anchor Shannon Bream unpacks the drama surrounding Supreme Court Justice Alito over a previously undisclosed trip in 2008.responding to a forthcoming story from a left-wing outlet left liberal journalists fuming this week.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., tweeted,"Wouldn’t it be nice to know the back story on how this WSJ editorial gambit got cooked up?" Igor Bobic of the left-wing HuffPost wrote,"WSJ op ed page now openly running PR for a SCOTUS justice."Mother Jones editor Clara Jeffrey added,"While there are many good journalists who work for the WSJ, this is one of many decisions by the masthead that really call the entire enterprise into question.
"The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page agreed to publish Alito’s defensive statement, in an op-ed, about the ProPublica revelations before the investigative article had even run… Call it a 'pre-buttal", and one that lacked even a basic level of journalistic solidarity on the part of the Journal’s opinion side," she wrote.
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