Laura Bush is entitled to her opinions, but she couldn’t have picked a sillier forum to talk about media bias.
First lady Laura Bush thinks the news media is increasingly filled with opinions instead of facts, and suggested Tuesday that journalists are contributing to the polarization of the country.
“I think there are a lot of reasons to be critical of the media in America,” she said in an interview Tuesday with Fox News Channel’s “The O’Reilly Factor.”
“I think that a lot of times the media sensationalize or magnify things that aren’t — that really shouldn’t be,” she said.
“I do think there’s a big move away from actual reporting, trying to report facts,” the first lady said. “It’s in newspapers and everything you read — that a lot more is opinion.”
Laura Bush was complaining about opinion in the news while appearing with Bill O’Reilly on the Fox News Channel.
As Zay N. Smith likes to say, outbreaks of irony can happen anywhere, without warning.