Bias by Omission

CBS Moves on from Afghan Debacle, ABC Forgets Americans Left Behind
Unbelievably, the CBS Evening News thought the day after President Biden’s arbitrary deadline to get Americans out of Afghanistan was the perfect time to drop the subject completely. There was absolutely no mention of Afghanistan on their Wednesday newscast but they found the time to dedicate over two minutes (2:05) to bashing and decrying Texas’s new pro-life law. And while they…

Nets Skip Biden Checking Watch at Dignified Transfer, Families Speak
On Sunday, President Biden spat in the faces of the grieving families whose loved ones, service members were killed by a suicide bomb at the Kabul airport last week. As their bodies were being tended to during the dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base, Biden repeatedly looked down at his watch as if he was counting the minutes until the inconvenient photo op was over. Meanwhile, the…

NewsBusters Podcast: Imagine Media Covering Trump with Today's News
As the American war effort in Afghanistan ended, the news environment for President Biden is bad right now, but it could be a lot worse. Imagine how the press would react if all this happened after President Trump had won a second term. Every crying war widow and dissenting colonel would be magnified intensely.

'Kill List': Nets Spike Biden Admin Giving Taliban Names of Americans
According to a disturbing Politico report from Thursday, “U.S. officials in Kabul gave the Taliban a list of names of American citizens, green card holders and Afghan allies” so they could be allowed through Taliban checkpoints. And President Biden admitted in a press conference that evening that the report could very well be accurate. But none of the broadcast networks cared to…

NY Times Hides Spike Lee’s 9-11 Trutherism in His New HBO Doc
Spike Lee, famous filmmaker…and 9-11 Truther? Pop culture reporter Reggie Ugwu delivered a mostly fawning interview promoting Lee’s Home Box Office docuseries on the pandemic and the 20th anniversary of the 9-11 terror attacks, New York Epicenters 9/11-2021½. Buried at the end were the filmmaker’s disturbing, conspiratorial views of the World Trade Center terror…

CBS/NBC Ignore Reality Biden Ready to ABANDON Americans in Afghanistan
On Tuesday, President Biden made it clear that he would not extend the evacuation of Americans and allies past his arbitrary August 31 deadline. And with the military’s need to pack up their own stuff and Fox News warning that the military would leave in roughly three days, it was obvious Biden was ready to completely abandon Americans to their fate with the Taliban. And of the big three…

NBC Now BURIES Bad Poll Signaling ‘Forever Stain’ on Biden Presidency
Despite Chuck Todd warning on Sunday’s Meet the Press that President Biden’s falling poll numbers amid the disaster in Afghanistan could signal a “forever stain” on his presidency, that evening’s Nightly News and Monday’s Today show completely ignored the negative findings in the network’s latest survey. While both broadcasts continued covering the Afghanistan…

CBS, NBC Ignore Evidence Biden Was Warned This Would Happen By Embassy
According to a bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal Thursday, the U.S. Embassy in Kabul had sent an urgent cable to the Biden administration in July warning that the chaos we’re now seeing would occur. It’s a shocking revelation that proved the administration was aware of the dangers of their reckless actions but proceeded away. But neither the CBS Evening News nor…

CBS Skips Own Reporter Grilling WH on Saving Americans in Afghanistan
If a news outlet got a Republican administration to hint they didn’t plan to ensure every American got out of a collapsed country run by terrorists safely, it would be the headline of the day. But that wasn’t the case for CBS Evening News on Tuesday after White House correspondent Weijia Jiang grilled national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Press Secretary Jen Psaki on the issue;…

Cuomo Lies About Role in Brother’s Scandal, Thanks His Supporters
After coming back from a “long-planned vacation” and ignoring it for a week, CNN Prime Time host Chris Cuomo finally got around to talking about his role in his brother, disgraced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s sexual misconduct scandal (only after punting it to the end of the show). Throughout his comments, Cuomo would lie and mislead his audience about his role and what he was…

Climate Alarmists Dub ‘Doomsday’ Scenario ‘Trump World’
Donald Trump has been out of office for eight months and the UN’s climate projections go to 2100, but that hasn’t stopped alarmists from using dire warnings of a coming “Trump World” as a scare tactic to push for action on global warming.

Nets Hype Britney Spears, Ignore Border Crisis Worsening in July
The Department of Homeland Security finally released their border apprehension numbers for July 2021 and as many predicted, they proved that President Biden’s border crisis had gotten worse with the highest numbers in 20 years. And what did the broadcast networks think was more important than a crisis putting tremendous strain on the local communities and threatening them with Covid? Pop…

Newsom Cracking Under Recall Pressure, Networks Ignore
During a recent interview with reporters from The Sacramento Bee, it was clear that embattled California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom was beginning to crack under the pressure of an upcoming recall election that looks increasingly likely he may lose. Despite this latest sign that the unexpectedly close contest could result in a Republican taking control in the blue state, the…

Fox News: Media 'Minimized' Cuomo's Accusers, Now Playing 'Catch-Up'
Back in March, former staffer Charlotte Bennett blamed the media “absolutely” for making Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) feel so “untouchable” that he thought he could get away with victimizing her. On Sunday, Fox News media reporter and host of MediaBuzz, Howard Kurtz called out the media for acting like political operatives and minimizing the allegations early on as they now “play…