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NewsBusters Podcast: The Left's Kooky Fringe Is Just 'Progressives'

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NewsBusters Podcast: The Left's Kooky Fringe Is Just 'Progressives' Screenshot/Fox News The broadcast networks are allergic to finding a "far left" within the Democrat Party, so every far-left candidate is hailed as a "progressive" (or a "populist"), or even "capitalist." The label is "moderate" if you oppose the socialist in a primary. If you like Thanksgiving and deplore 9/11? "Moderate." MRC Director of Media Analysis Geoff Dickens and NewsBusters Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro joined the show to discuss our latest research efforts, beginning with the midterms. Bill D'Agostino looked at the labeling on ABC, CBS, and NBC newscasts from August 1 to 11. When discussing radical left-wing candidates, they relied on vague, euphemistic labels like “progressive” 80% of the time. Journalists actually denied Abdul El-Sayed’s socialist leanings more often than they acknowledged them. They said he identified as a "capitalist" -- while he stood between AOC and Bernie Sanders. Without exception,

First report: Media Whitewash Socialist Candidates with Fuzzy ‘Progressive’ Branding — newsbusters.org, 1d