Episode
News Brief: How the Right Invented — and Exploited — the "Liberal Media" Trope
Citations Needed · Apr 22, 2026 · 51 min
In this News Brief, we talk with A. J. Bauer, assistant professor at the University of Alabama, about his new book," Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press". In our discussion we break down the corporate and ideological forces that shaped the popular idea mainstream media was crawling with fifth columnist agitators hostile to the values of Real America.