Salon’s Alex Pareene Misleads Readers with Story on Christian College Receiving More Per Year Than Public Broadcasting

“Evangelical Liberty University received half a billion dollars in federal aid money: One conservative college got more government cash than NPR last year.” That's the misleading headline for Alex Pareene's April 5 War Room blog post at Salon.com. Adding insult to inaccuracy, Pareene slandered the late Jerry Falwell — without a link to corroborating evidence — as an apartheid supporter and bigot (h/t Matt Cover): Liberty University, the evangelical private Christian school founded by dead apartheid-supporting bigot Jerry Falwell, received $445 million in federal financial aid last year. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, by the way, received $420 million from the federal government.

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