SPLC Indictment Sparks Media Coverage Controversy

Southern Poverty Law Center Story Sends the Legacy Media Into a Schizophrenic Fit

Southern Poverty Law Center indicted for fraud amid DOJ allegations of funding hate groups.

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By Tim O’Brien

In today’s legacy media newsroom, there are two sides to every story: the one they want the public to see, and the one they’re trying to hide. As often as not, the one they want the public to see is untrue, and the one they are trying to hide is true.

The news coverage of the mess the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has gotten itself into this week provides a perfect opportunity to compare and contrast the way something like this manifests itself.

To set the stage, you have to know the actual facts, which are:

A grand jury in Montgomery, Al., indicted the SPLC with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering…