Broadcast Bias: How Networks Buried A Bombshell Senate Hearing On Biden's Mental Fitness

The legacy media screen legislature hearings based connected their accustomed modular of newsworthiness. This is it: If they are tally by Democrats and are meant to propel them to governmental power, they are presented arsenic nan astir urgent, sober, and nonpartisan news of nan day. But hearings tally by Republicans to thrust location a Republican argument? They often won’t spot nan ray of a TV studio.

On June 18, nan Senate Judiciary Committee held a proceeding to analyse erstwhile President Joe Biden's expertise to service successful agency toward nan extremity of his presidency. After his disastrous statement performance, nan Democrats forced him retired of nan statesmanlike race, but near him successful agency contempt his seeming incapacity. This, somehow, was purely partisan, and not thing astir Americans viewed pinch sedate concern. The Democrats mostly boycotted Wednesday's hearing.

At nan top, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, proclaimed, "I will statement that fewer of my Democratic colleagues are present today. Thank you to Senator Welch from Vermont for being here, leaving america pinch nary different action than to return nan boycotting of this proceeding arsenic an admittance of guilt for their domiciled successful this crisis."

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Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., and Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., showed up only concisely to disregard nan proceeding arsenic a "political adventure." The broadcast networks each skipped it. Their "news judgment" is intelligibly intimately aligned pinch Democrat objectives.

Democrats boycotted successful nan hopes that group would reason that if this isn’t a bipartisan hearing, really tin it beryllium newsworthy? Consider nan House Special Committee connected nan January 6 attack, aliases successful short, nan Pelosi-Picked Panel. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shredded nan accustomed process by not allowing nan Republicans to put their ain choices connected nan committee. Instead, she selected Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger to beryllium Potemkin Republicans. They ne'er strayed from Pelosi’s communicative complete respective years of wildly over-publicized hearings that were uniformly granted unrecorded coverage, successful daytime and prime time. 

On Wednesday, nan media surely didn’t want to perceive what nan Republican witnesses said astir their pathetic performance. Former Trump property caput Sean Spicer called retired nan media for their singular deficiency of curiosity astir Biden's failures: "The near and their friends successful nan media emotion to propulsion astir position for illustration threats to democracy, and law crisis... If we don't person assurance successful nan leader of nan free world making decisions, that genuinely is nan meaning of a law crisis."

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On nan nighttime of nan hearing, "NBC Nightly News" led pinch a not-guilty verdict for Karen Read, connected retrial successful Massachusetts for allegedly sidesplitting her constabulary serviceman boyfriend. That study went connected for 5 minutes. ABC’s "World News Tonight" besides gave it astir 5 minutes aft starring pinch Trump and Iran. Both networks besides obsessed for 2 hours complete Karen Read connected "20/20" and "Dateline NBC" successful prime time. "True crime" sells.

The taxpayer-funded "PBS News Hour" offered 8 sorrowful minutes connected nan Supreme Court allowing Tennessee’s prohibition connected alleged "gender-affirming care" for children. 

On "CBS Evening News Plus," they turned to newsman Manuel Bojorquez to mobility Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' decision to name Marva Johnson, arsenic nan caller president of Florida A&M University, nan state's only HBCU. He touted "a groundswell of students and alumni of nan historically achromatic assemblage opposed to her selection." Groundswell? The CBS position successful Tallahassee reported "at slightest 10" protesters. 

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National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered" doesn’t see Republicans much, isolated from to condemn them. They offered a five-minute communicative connected nan sad authorities of firm race-hustling. Co-host Mary Louise Kelly announced: "Chief diverseness serviceman was erstwhile firm America's hottest job. Now DEI is nether attack, leaving nan group pinch careers successful diversity, equity and inclusion retired successful nan cold."

Several of these broadcast networks addressed nan reality of Biden’s cognitive diminution during nan book-promotion circuit of CNN anchor Jake Tapper and Axios newsman Alex Thompson. For his part, Tapper didn’t reside this connected his show "The Lead" connected Wednesday, wherever you would people tune successful to cheque connected what he did. But he did inquire a neutral mobility astir nan proceeding pinch Alabama Republican Sen. Katie Britt successful nan 2pm hr connected Wednesday arsenic CNN focused intently connected Israel and Iran.

The bequest media skipping complete Republican-led hearings and immoderate news they uncover underscores why Americans look to blimpish media for covering what liberals want to bury. As Sean Spicer said astatine nan hearing, "We've seen what nan bequest media did, but that's why nan maturation of independent media is truthful patient for our democracy."

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Democrats and their broadcast-news friends framework ungraded hearings they for illustration arsenic different Watergate, Iran-Contra, January 6 – marking "history" arsenic tilting against those unethical Republicans. They for illustration that nan American group ne'er retrieve Republicans held a proceeding connected anything. 

So erstwhile journalists boast they connection "the first draught of history," everyone should cognize they’re being served a partisan pupu platter.

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