Babylon Bee Relentlessly Hammers CNN After Journalist Frets Over Their Higher Social Media Share Counts

 

NY Times

RedState "The more the Babylon Bee gets attacked by so-called “fact checkers” and mainstream media types, the more it punches back with a vengeance.

"My RedState colleague Brad Slager wrote earlier this week about how CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan was doing quite a bit of fretting over the weekend after analyzing the amount of social media shares a recent Babylon Bee article received in comparison to “real” media outlets during the same week:" . . .

From the Bee itself:  CNN Attacks Babylon Bee: 'The Internet Is Only Big Enough For One Fake News Site' https://t.co/Mq0IAYhwAf

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) January 7, 2020

The NY Times vs Babylon Bee:  

Kyle Mann, the editor in chief of The Babylon Bee, at the site’s office in Upland, Calif. Credit...Kyle Grillot for The New York Times

 The New York Times Attacks the Babylon Bee Once Again, Probably Now Wishes They Hadn't   . . . "But when Mr. Trump was elected, months later, the outrage that his victory sparked quickly became a funnier punchline to the Babylon Bee than the man himself. Shortly after the election, the site’s writers joked that millennial protesters calmed down after they were given participation trophies; they wrote that a survey of the Women’s March participants indicated “100 percent of people marching on Washington were not aborted.”

"Today, the Babylon Bee has built a fan base among Republican lawmakers and even in the White House." . . .