According to a new analysis from the conservative media watchdog Media Research Center, the flagship morning and evening newscasts from ABC News, CBS News, and NBC News spent 3 minutes and 32 seconds on Biden’s preemptive pardons. For the Trump Jan. 6 pardons? 46 minutes and 32 seconds, the analysis found.
CNN boss Mark Thompson told more than 100 journalists and top on-air talent including Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper that they ought to avoid “pre-judging” President-elect Donald Trump while cautioning them “against expressing any outrage of their own” during the inauguration, according to a report.
Two former reporters with Politico accused the outlet of suppressing negative stories about former President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden during the 2020 presidential election in a video clip posted to YouTube Thursday.
Americans have complained about media bias for years, and it’s hard to deny that they’re on to something. The country is divided rather evenly along partisan lines: While Donald Trump comfortably won the Electoral College, the popular-vote margin fell within 2 points. Yet the media, including mainstream sources, rarely tries to appear neutral. From news coverage to editorial columns, different outlets offer radically different views of reality.
“I never thought I’d see a major news organization downplaying the importance of telling the truth in its broadcasts,” federal appellate judge writes in CNN case.
The outcome of the election revealed that the vast majority of voters were unswayed by the liberal media’s relentless attacks against Trump and the Biden-Harris administration’s persistent lawfare.
Former CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge revealed just a taste of what her former network had on Hunter Biden and his father, President Joe Biden, prior to the 2022 midterm elections — and she said that much of the information was either reported after an intentional delay or scrapped altogether.
American corporate media suffered a monumental rebuke Tuesday as Americans ignored them and elected Donald Trump as the nation’s next president. How have the outlets responded?
The media could have prevented this by being honest. They were not up to the challenge.
The Road to the White House no longer goes through 60 Minutes, CNN, Fox News, Meet the Press, the New York Times editorial board, or the cover of Time Magazine. That road now runs through the Joe Rogan Experience, Breitbart News, New Media, podcasts, talk radio, and social media.
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