A CNN poll found Jasmine Crockett tied with Barack Obama when they asked Democrats which leader "best reflects the core values" of the Democrat Party. If she's that beloved, why doesn't she get more press attention? The networks ignored Crockett all week despite suggesting violence against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), mocking Gov. Greg Abbott (R-Texas) as "Governor Hot Wheels," and allegedly assaulted a journalist. None of this moved the needle, according to MRC's Bill D'Agostino
Instead, the networks have obsessed over "Signalgate," playing up Democrats grilling Trump administration officials about how they could chat about military strikes on the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen on the Signal app, and including anti-Trump journalist Jeffrey Goldberg in the chat session. “Bombshell text” was the hype from NBC anchor Lester Holt’s opening of his newscast.
On the “CBS Evening News,” reporter Ed O’Keefe was playing up the chance for resignations: “Well, here at the White House tonight, officials cannot rule out that someone might lose their job over all of this.” Nobody ever resigned for the Afghanistan withdrawal fiasco, and this military mission was a success.
O’Keefe ended by noting the bipartisan call from the Senate Armed Services Committee for a full investigation: “Roger Wicker, the Republican chairman from Mississippi, called it a successful attack on the Houthis but ‘a shame this security question is distracting the public from the success of that mission.’”
It's very intentional, that the networks will bury a success and play up the negatives.
The media coverage of the DOGE hearing into PBS and NPR was fascinating. ABC, CBS, and NBC skipped it. PBS and NPR grudgingly covered it. The New York Times compared the "dark pronouncements" of the Republicans to the light amusement of the Democrats making lame jokes about muppets who might be communists.
The network late-night comedians did mock the Republican-led hearing. Jimmy Kimmel suggested Marjorie Taylor Greene might be a drag queen, and Stephen Colbert picked up Rep. Ro Khanna's argument that Republicans who don't know the PBS kiddie shows don't know what they're defunding. But the NPR and PBS CEOs suggested they had no idea what might be biased in prime time.
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