As polls show Donald Trump inching ahead of Joe Biden in the presidential race at the Thanksgiving mark, the network stars are frustrated. How could this be? Voters are forgetful, these polls can't possibly be reliable, and formerly reliable leftish networks like Univision are too nice to Trump.
On The View, Ana Navarro was upset that Univision didn't send fervent Democrat Jorge Ramos to push Trump around. Univision used to be dramatically anti-Trump, but they've taken a turn. Navarro complained "they’ve been really great corporate citizens and community citizens. They have a tremendous co-anchor named Jorge Ramos, who's been there for decades, and they’ve got great credibility." But instead they turned to Enrique Acevedo, and she said he "sat there like he was interviewing a panda." As if Joe Biden would ever receive a tough interview?
In his "Liberal Media Scream" of the week, our Brent Baker pointed out that ABC reporter Jonathan Karl went on the Colbert show on CBS and complained that voters have nostalgia for a better economy under Trump, with lower inflation and less war in the world. "I wrote this book because if people are going to go into this next election thinking about that, they also need to be thinking, not just about what Trump was, but what he is now and what he is proposing and planning to do, what a second Trump administration would look like. And I don’t think people have come to terms with that at all.” Baker said what Republican would trust this anti-Trump crusader as a reporter?
Curtis Houck reported that Newsmax's James Rosen pressed White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about how Biden dismisses polls as inaccurate and irrelevant, but "when you are asked about various domestic policy initiatives, you will say, 'These poll very well. People support what the President wants to do.'" Which way is it?
Rich Noyes did a little number on how badly the networks did in marking Biden's 81st birthday on Monday. CBS gave it 18 seconds, and ABC did 10. NBC didn't touch it. That's "in the tank" numbers.
Bill D'Agostino looked into the coverage of special counsel Robert Hur, who was assigned to probe Joe Biden having classified documents in the garage of his Wilmington, Delaware house. There are reports no one will be prosecuted. Bill found the networks only gave this story four minutes and 52 seconds over the year. CBS was by far the least interested in the story; they provided one single update of 24 seconds on the October 10 CBS Evening News. in the NBC wasn’t much better, with just two news briefs adding up to 64 seconds. ABC’s 204 seconds across three separate broadcasts, while by far the largest portion of network airtime, was still a paltry sum for an investigation into a sitting president which spanned nearly a year.
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