New York Times political reporter Jeremy Peters on Saturday joined the odd new trend in the mainstream press of attacking Fox News for actually covering political stories besides Donald Trump — especially those involving Hillary Clinton’s and Russia. Fox and other right-leaning outlets were also mocked for not obsessing as much as the rest of the press on President Trump’s Russia controversies in “As Russia Inquiry Widens, an Alternative Narrative Emerges on the Right.”

Another Times article accuses the network of “pushing its own version of reality,” as if that’s not what the Times does every day. It’s apparently easier to write criticism of other media outlets than to actually cover scandals involving Hillary Clinton and Russia.

Peters wrote:

THIS WEEK, AS MR. MUELLER MADE HIS FIRST SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC MOVES IN HIS INQUIRY, ANNOUNCING CHARGES AGAINST THREE ADVISERS TO DONALD J. TRUMP’S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, AN ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVE WAS NOT HARD TO FIND IN THE CONSERVATIVE NEWS MEDIA. BE IT FOX NEWS, TALK RADIO OR THE GROWING NUMBER OF WEBSITES THAT WRITE ABOUT POLITICS FROM A TRUMP-FRIENDLY POINT OF VIEW, THE FOCUS WAS ON WHAT THEY SEE AS THE SCANDAL AND WRONGDOING OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLITICAL OPPONENTS.

IN REPORTS LIKE THESE, BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON ARE PROMINENT AND RECURRING CHARACTERS BECAUSE THEY ARE CONSIDERED THE REAL CONSPIRATORS WORKING WITH THE RUSSIANS TO UNDERMINE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY.

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THE ACCUSATIONS OF CORRUPTION TARGET DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE CLINTONS AND THEIR THREE DECADES ON THE NATIONAL POLITICAL SCENE. BUT ONE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF MANY OF THE STORIES CIRCULATING ON THE RIGHT SEEMS CLEAR: TO DISCREDIT MR. MUELLER AND HIS INQUIRY TO THE POINT THAT AMERICANS COME TO SEE IT AS THE PARTISAN WITCH HUNT MR. TRUMP INSISTS THAT IT IS.

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WRITING FOR NATIONAL REVIEW, ANDREW MCCARTHY ACCUSED MR. MUELLER OF…