Broadcast Bias: Networks Snooze As Top Biden Aides Take The Fifth On Biden-decline Scandal

The evening news shows connected nan broadcast networks these days aren’t ever fixated connected politics. They often lead their half-hours pinch frightening upwind footage, and move to Washington astir 10 minutes later. But ABC, CBS and NBC tin still determine what governmental scandals should beryllium considered important, and what scandals should beryllium buried and not acknowledged arsenic scandals. 

The networks blatantly show their partisanship by treating Republican scandals arsenic urgent matters loaded pinch humanities weight, and dismissing Democrat scandals arsenic either nonexistent aliases arsenic desperately partisan misinformation. 

When Democrat and then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stacked a "special committee" connected nan January 6 riot pinch only 2 personally picked Republicans who would obey each of her commands, that was "historic" and nonpartisan. All of its hearings were aired unrecorded connected nan broadcast networks each minute, moreover successful premier time. When Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer investigates thing astir erstwhile President Joe Biden and nan Democrats, these networks enactment for illustration each of their Capitol Hill reporters were laid off. 

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One awesome ungraded of humanities import is Biden’s intelligence decline passim his presidency, and particularly astatine nan end, arsenic Democrats refused to see immoderate superior opponents, trying to push him into different 4 incapable years. 

The House Oversight committee released 20 mins of video footage from Dr. Kevin O’Connor’s deposition showing him pleading nan 5th to each questions isolated from answering his name. (@GOPoversight via X)

In May, an online nationalist I&I/TIPP Poll recovered 58% of those surveyed were successful favour of hearings (or moreover criminal proceedings) connected nan Biden-decline scandal, and only 30% picked "do nothing, it’s conscionable authorities arsenic usual." All of nan alleged ungraded cops astatine nan networks are successful nan minority. 

The networks grounded to move connected Monday greeting erstwhile The New York Times published an eye-opening front-page story. The header was bland – "Biden Says Autopen Clemencies Were All His" – but within, you could spot that Biden was letting his unit make decisions for him. NBC offered 34 seconds connected Monday night. The others did not. 

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Early connected Monday, NBCNews.com published a ludicrous article pinch nan Democrat rotation that Rep. Comer has utilized integer signatures successful committee correspondence – arsenic if that’s thing for illustration a president being unaware if he pardoned a cocaine dealer. That communicative was truthful lame that NBC didn’t moreover put it connected "Today" aliases "Nightly News." It was conscionable MSNBC bait. 

On Wednesday, Comer’s committee dragged successful subpoenaed apical Jill Biden adjutant Anthony Bernal. He’s a awesome fig successful "Original Sin," nan Alex Thompson-Jake Tapper book connected hiding Biden’s cognitive decline. "Biden’s aides would opportunity that she was 1 of nan astir powerful First Ladies successful history, and arsenic a consequence he became 1 of nan astir influential group successful nan White House," wrote Thompson and Tapper. They touted Bernal arsenic nan "loyalty police" and 1 of nan "protectors of nan myth." 

Bernal is still loyal: he took nan Fifth Amendment. "Well, unfortunately, that was quick," said Comer aft nan deposition ended. "I judge nan American group are concerned. They’re concerned that location were group making decisions successful nan White House that were not only unelected but nary 1 to this time knows who they were." 

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ABC, CBS and NBC grounded to give 1 2nd to this story. If it pleases President Donald Trump, it’s not getting touched. Taxpayer-funded PBS and NPR had nary segment. (Fun fact: neither did Jake Tapper connected his CNN show that day.) These networks didn’t connection that judgement erstwhile Trump aides took nan Fifth earlier nan Pelosi-picked sheet connected January 6. That showed rotten contempt for nan public! 

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Bernal was not alone: connected July 9, Biden’s individual expert Kevin O’Connor many times took nan Fifth. In that case, "NBC Nightly News" offered a story. The different networks did nothing. 

This week, nan broadcast networks decently devoted stories to Trump’s caller test of a "chronic veinous insufficiency," but that is simply a regular test for older people. It successful nary measurement compromises his capacity to beryllium president, dissimilar Biden’s increasing enfeeblement. 

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In May, an online nationalist I&I/TIPP Poll recovered 58% of those surveyed were successful favour of hearings (or moreover criminal proceedings) connected nan Biden-decline scandal, and only 30% picked "do nothing, it’s conscionable authorities arsenic usual." 

Of course, location was a Trump ungraded to push astatine these networks this week: a conflict betwixt Trump supporters complete what would beryllium released by nan Justice Department astir nan precocious child-sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Among them, nan Big Three evening newscasts devoted 20 minutes and 8 seconds to Trump’s Epstein problems from Monday done Thursday, much than half of it (11 minutes, 43 seconds) connected ABC. 

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ABC’s Rachel Scott performed nan classical rotation astatine nan extremity of her communicative connected Thursday: "And arsenic overmuch arsenic nan president wants to move nan page, down nan scenes, this is consuming a batch of clip astatine nan White House. His advisers [are] gathering astir this, trying to fig a measurement to move past it, but galore Republicans [are] making it clear this is not going away." 

Scandals are "not going away" erstwhile nan wide networks want to inflict headaches connected nan Republicans. With Democrat scandals, they can’t "go away" erstwhile they ne'er arrived.  

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