Journalists are fact-checking the Democratic National Convention. Here’s what they’ve found

In the lead-up to the Democratic National Convention, there were plenty of examples of a double standard in how Republicans and Democrats were presented by the media, perhaps most egregiously CBS’s social media posts about the presidential candidates’ plan to eliminate taxes on tips.

One of those things was not like the other, many people pointed out on X.

Time magazine’s flattering portrait of Vice President Kamala Harris also drew conservatives’ ire, coming so soon after the magazine chose not to use in print the now iconic photo of former President Donald Trump holding his fist in the air after the assassination attempt. And coverage of the Democratic National Convention this week — in particular the speeches by Hillary Clinton and Barack and Michelle Obama — has been friendly and warm. (”With humor and hope, Obamas warn against Trump,” NPR’s headline said; the Los Angeles Times gave us “Handing off the mantle of hope.”)