Bias by Omission
Networks Skip Suspect in SCOTUS Assassination Plot Seeking Guilty Plea
Amid the latest blow in Signalgate and the torrent of negative stories about President Trump’s tariffs, the “Big Three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC used the opportunity to completely ignore word Wednesday the suspect who allegedly wanted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 has decided to plead guilty, possibly sending him to a sentence of life in prison.
Look Who’s (Not) Talking on PBS's 'Washington Week' -- Conservatives
Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, the host of Washington Week with The Atlantic, tax-funded PBS’s weekly political roundtable show, recently made news himself when he revealed he had been privy to a national security text thread from the Trump White House discussing war plans. Goldberg took full advantage of the Trump team’s misstep, wielding the March 28 episode as…
Editor’s Pick: Free Beacon on Warnock’s Lavish House Church Bought Him
2023 MRC Bulldog Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism winner Andrew Kerr penned a blockbuster piece Monday morning in the Washington Free Beacon that revealed far-left Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) lives in $1 million home DeKalb County, Georgia without having every owed a penny thanks “to Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he still serves as part-time senior pastor when he's not…
Broadcast Networks IGNORE Rep. Crockett Allegedly Assaulting Reporter
Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) keeps doing newsworthy things — but, curiously, receiving basically no headlines. Despite Crockett’s busy week of calling for violence against Republican Senator Ted Cruz (TX), referring to wheelchair-bound Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) s “Governor Hot Wheels,” and allegedly assaulting a reporter, the Congresswoman has not been the subject of…
PBS Fears ‘Constitutional Crisis,’ Casts Trump as Chair-Hurling Knight
Before journalist Jeffrey Goldberg’s revelation that he’d been privy to a national security text thread discussing war plans by the Trump White House, the Atlantic’s editor in chief hosted another busy episode of public television’s Washington Week with The Atlantic, where Washington Post columnist David Ignatius and Atlantic writer Michael Scherer helped…
MSNBC Lets Swalwell Rant on Security Breach, Ignores His Own Scandal
If any more proof was needed of how un-self-aware MSNBC really was, Charles Coleman Jr. rose to the occasion while filling in for Monday night’s The 11th Hour. To discuss a reported national security breach of the Trump administration, Coleman ostensibly interviewed Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA.), but in fact just let Swalwell mouth off at will, while completely ignoring the fact…
ABC, CBS, NBC Ignore Crockett Calling for Violence Against Ted Cruz
In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s Dallas-Fort Worth-area affiliate KXAS and went viral on X Monday, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) talked repeatedly about wanting to beat up and repeatedly “punch” Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz. Leaving aside her sudden code switching in the last year, the incendiary rhetoric is the sort of thing ABC, CBS, and NBC would look to call out if…
Network Coverage of Tesla Terror Attacks Is Mixed, at Best
You can tell which news stories best advance the left’s narrative, by the similarities in how they are covered among the networks. There is a sameness and fluidity to the stories, which often touch the same points. On inconvenient, counternarrative stories you often get disjointed coverage- mixed at best and often reluctant. Case in point, coverage of the rash of violent attacks against Tesla…
ABC, CBS OMIT Deportation of Hezbollah-Sympathetic Doctor
The networks spent the better part of last week advocating on behalf of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia student agitator being processed for denaturalization and deportation due to his activities in material support of Hamas. However, when it came to a Rhode Island doctor who left the country to attend a Hezbollah funeral, ABC and CBS decided to bite their tongues, completely omitting the story…
NBC: Visa Overstayer Arrest a 'Pro-Palestinian Protests' 'Crackdown'
The three broadcast networks of ABC, NBC, and CBS took different approaches to the news that more Columbia University students have been arrested, but none of them were good. NBC portrayed visa enforcement as a “crackdown on pro-Palestinian protests,” while CBS ignored the reason for the arrest, and ABC ignored her previous protest-related arrest and, like the others, that this is not the…
PBS Falsely Says There's No Evidence Arrested Student Is Pro-Hamas
As Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil faces deportation for his part in pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic protests, PBS News Hour would have its viewers believe that he is just a victim of a presidential administration that doesn’t like having its opinions challenged. On Monday’s episode, William Brangham falsely claimed there’s no proof to support the allegations against him.
PBS Plays Dumb on Why Power-Mad Trump Is Punishing Columbia University
Bias by omission on the PBS weekly news roundtable Washington Week with The Atlantic, as the panel of journalists played dumb about why Trump would cancel federal grant money from Columbia University, describing it as a typical Trumpian power grab. Never mind months of anti-Semitic campouts last year and the harassment of Jewish students and the chanting of homicidal slogans in the…
OMISSION: A Melania-Sized Gap in NBC’s “Protect the Children” Report
NBC’s reporting on protecting children from harmful content was undermined by an enormous omission: Melania Trump’s visit to Capitol Hill to advocate for children exposed to online exploitation.
