NewsBusters executive editor Tim Graham appeared on Fox's The O’Reilly Factor on Friday night to discuss how the national media are downplaying or ignoring bad news for Hillary Clinton in the general-election campaign.
Graham singled out the the top newspapers, noting The New York Times and The Washington Post both ran away from covering the embarrassing moment when Seddique Mateen, the father of the mass-murdering gay-nightclub shooter, turned up behind Clinton at a rally. "The Washington Post actually had like two sentences deep in a story on the Zika virus."
BOLLING: Now, Tim, this one jumped out to me. The networks gave double the coverage of the Trump Tower cup-climber than they did on Hillary's email scandal.GRAHAM: Yes. This latest story about how the emails between the State Department and the Clinton Foundation show this kind of coordinatio,n like they’re both part of Clinton Incorporated. They were just giving it 30 seconds here and 30 seconds there in the middle of their Trump-is- so-losing stories. But, yes, they gave five minutes the other morning to a guy climbing Trump tower with suction cups. It just shows you, I mean, they are unserious shows. And they are seriously not interested in the kind of stories that make the Clintons look bad. They are just not interested in that.
BOLLING: Now, do you do research into why this is happening, why the massive bias? Do you have numbers on the percentages of on-air hosts that are liberal and let's say news directors whom are liberal?
GRAHAM: Well, we used to have those back in the day they used to do polls. Guess who decided they did not want to be subjected to polls? The last really reliable number I remember, we were all talking about was in 1992 where they found 92 percent said they voted for Clinton. Seven percent said they voted for George H.W. Bush. And I don't believe that number. I think Clinton's number was higher than 92 percent. That's the kind of press that we have. When I was in the White House press corps in 2001, I knew that everyone around me did not vote for George W. Bush – and so did he! [The poll number was 89 percent to 7 at the time.]
BOLLING: But it comes all the way down from the top, it comes from, you know, upper levels of management to news directors, editorial people right on to people in front of the camera, right?
GRAHAM: Yes. And that's important, again, in this day and age that you have the Disney Corporation, you would assume that's conservative, no. The Disney Corporation stock full of liberal Democrats. You can see it in their donation records. Comcast owns NBC Universal, the largest pile of donors to Barack Obama in the media world. So, yes, media companies today, you know, the hard leftists would try to tell you that all the media corporations are capitalists, therefore, they’d be Trumpers, they are not. These are – media companies today are liberal Democrats. They're very diversity conscious, so, of course, they don't like Donald Trump at all.
