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A Truth-Teller at Newsmax

Columbia Journalism Review · Bill Grueskin · last updated

“My role is to report on what’s unfolding here and explain what decisions made in Washington actually mean for the people living through this war,” Shelby Wilder says from Kyiv. Plus: Biases and absurdities.

Friends, readers, countrymen: I come today not to bury Newsmax, but to praise it.

Yes, I suspect that many of you don’t share Newsmax’s right-wing slant on the news. Yes, I know the company had to pay more than a hundred million dollars to settle two lawsuits over its conspiracy-fueled coverage of the 2020 election. Yes, I realize that Chris Ruddy, the network’s founder and CEO, once said this about Trump: “We have an editorial policy of being supportive of the president and his policies.”

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