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 the astir urgent, sober, and nonpartisan quality of the day. But hearings tally by Republicans to thrust location a Republican argument? They often won’t spot the airy of a TV studio.

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

At the top, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, proclaimed, "I volition enactment that fewer of my Democratic colleagues are present today. Thank you to Senator Welch from Vermont for being here, leaving america with nary different enactment than to instrumentality the boycotting of this proceeding arsenic an admittance of guilt for their relation successful this crisis."

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

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

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

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On the nighttime of the hearing, "NBC Nightly News" led with 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 with Trump and Iran. Both networks besides obsessed for 2 hours implicit 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 the 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 question Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis' decision to name Marva Johnson, arsenic the caller president of Florida A&M University, the state's lone HBCU. He touted "a groundswell of students and alumni of the historically achromatic assemblage opposed to her selection." Groundswell? The CBS presumption successful Tallahassee reported "at slightest 10" protesters. 

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National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered" doesn’t see Republicans much, but to condemn them. They offered a five-minute communicative connected the bittersweet 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 the radical with careers successful diversity, equity and inclusion retired successful the cold."

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

The bequest media skipping implicit Republican-led hearings and immoderate quality they uncover underscores wherefore Americans look to blimpish media for covering what liberals privation to bury. As Sean Spicer said astatine the hearing, "We've seen what the bequest media did, but that's wherefore the maturation of autarkic media is truthful steadfast for our democracy."

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

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

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