Media Research Center (MRC) President David Bozell joined The Sean Spicer Show Friday evening to break down the latest attempt by the liberal media's self-appointed paper of record to play the victim.
Bozell took direct aim at The New York Times over its recent piece, "How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech." The report pushed a sweeping narrative that speech advocates are terrified of growing government censorship and attacks on "press freedom." The story featured input from MRC Vice President Dan Schneider, who pushed back against the paper's claims, but as Bozell pointed out, the Times completely ignored the real threat to free expression.
"President Trump makes himself more available to the press than any president in recent memory by a country mile. Is that stifling freedom of speech?"
MRC's @DavidBozell with the @seanspicershow pic.twitter.com/GRf6fEyhES— Media Research Center (@theMRC) September 18, 2026
"You look at what they're claiming versus what they actually do," Bozell noted. While Manhattan elites wring their hands over conservative pushback, Bozell set the record straight on where the real censorship apparatus lies: legacy newsrooms and Big Tech platforms acting in tandem to suppress dissent and control the narrative.
The discussion then turned to The New York Times’ 175th anniversary and its plans to examine its history. As the paper touts its supposed commitment to transparency and promises a comprehensive examination of its past, Bozell and Spicer pointed to a long record of journalistic failures, partisan cover-ups and significant blind spots.
"They love to talk about transparency and all this First Amendment stuff," Spicer observed. "I do wonder how many of their scandals... they're really going to bring up."
Apple News & CNN's contract expired and CNN's website traffic fell down below Fox News for the first time.
The legacy press is losing its grip on the narrative and that's why the NYT wrote their hit piece on Trump.
MRC's @DavidBozell on the @seanspicershow pic.twitter.com/Kt0jxyDjH8— Media Research Center (@theMRC) September 18, 2026
Bozell agreed, emphasizing that the legacy press' sudden panic isn't about protecting constitutional rights, but about protecting their dying monopoly on information as voters look for real answers ahead of the midterms.
"Americans only know what they are told," Bozell explained, pointing to how the mainstream press works overtime to gatekeep news entry points and shield the public from conservative perspectives.
As the midterm elections approach, media accountability remains critical. As Bozell and the MRC have consistently documented, examining the elitist media's biases, double standards and journalistic failures is essential to holding these newsrooms accountable.
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