Bias by Omission
WashPost Stealth Edited Loudoun Rape Story, 'Gender-Fluid' Attacker
Almost two weeks ago, on October 14, NewsBusters reported on how The Washington Post took their sweet time discovering the high school rape cases in Loudoun County, Virginia but omitted key details like the fact the first one happened in a girl’s bathroom, and how the attacker was “gender-fluid.” But there’s a new wrinkle in their reporting as NewsBusters recently discovered The…
Nets Skip Judge Finding Loudoun Rapist Guilty, AP Claims 'Murky Case'
In Virginia on Monday, the Smith family announced the Loudoun County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court had found the “gender-fluid” boy who raped their daughter in a girl’s bathroom guilty. With the second alleged rape making its way through the legal system, the liberal broadcast networks continued their total blackout of the story, including the cover-up by the liberal school…
Nets Bury National School Board Group Saying Sorry for Terror Smear
Late on Friday night, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) belatedly apologized for language that linked concerned parents to domestic terrorists. But all three networks from Friday to Monday morning ignored the organization retreating, “On behalf of NSBA, we regret and apologize for the letter.... There was no justification for some of the language included in the letter.”
ABC Tees Up Fauci to Deny, Lie About NIH Funding Risky Wuhan Research
Late last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) wrote a letter admitting that they funded controversial gain-of-function (GOF) research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology where they would take virus samples and make them more infectious to people for the purposes of learning how they acted. All of that was whitewashed by ABC as This Week host George Stephanopoulos teed up Dr.…
CNN Calls for Press to Ditch Objectivity, Portray GOP as Threat to US
CNN continued to escalate its dangerous rhetoric against Republicans on Sunday, as so-called “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter and LA Times columnist Jackie Calmes urged the press to ditch objectivity when reporting about Republicans and just portray them as threats to the country. She even claimed that’s not what she wanted to do while she actively called for it. This…
ABC, NBC Discover Close VA Governor Race, Rush to Back Dem McAuliffe
Over the weekend, ABC and NBC finally discovered the close gubernatorial race in Virginia between institutional Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican outsider Glenn Youngkin. And with the polls showing a dead heat between them, the networks adopted the talking points of the McAuliffe campaign as they railed against Youngkin as some kind of Donald Trump mini-me. At the same time, they ignored…
Biden Builds a Wall...Around His Beach House – Media Fall Silent
Recall the extensive and scornful media coverage then-President Donald Trump received when he beefed up security around the White House? On and on - and on and on - went similar stories in the national media mocking Trump for building his “wall” around the White House. And famously, of course, President Biden has made it crystal clear he will not build a wall on the southern border. All of…
Nets Disregard AG Garland Grilled in Hearing for Targeting Parents
Earlier this month, Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Biden administration used federal actions in an attempt to chill the exercise of free speech by concerned parents protesting their school boards after they were equated to domestic terrorists by the National School Boards Association. But on Thursday, Garland was held to account by Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee in a…
ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/MSNBC Spend 0 Seconds on Loudoun School Sex Assault
MRC analysts looked at all of the news coverage on ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning shows, as well as CNN and MSNBC’s coverage (6am through midnight ET) from October 11 (publication of The Daily Wire investigation) through October 20 and found zero seconds spent on the following stories: Parents upset at transgender bathroom polices that led to sexual assaults of female students in Loudoun…
Under the Radar: Nets Skip Biden’s Secret Night Flights for Illegals
“Biden’s Secret Flights” the front page of Tuesday’s edition of the New York Post blared as they exposed how the administration was chartering private jets in the dead of night of send unaccompanied minors across the country. Of course, the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC were uninterested in President Biden’s ongoing and worsening crisis on the southern border, which included…
Nets Skip Parents Suing AG for Smear, NBC Rails Against Anti-CRT Law
Fed-up parents made waves Tuesday after they filed a “federal civil rights lawsuit” against radical Attorney General Merrick Garland for unjustly suggesting parents protesting at school board meetings were committing “domestic terrorism.” This major development in the fight to de-radicalize liberal school boards went completely unmentioned by the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC, just as…
Guthrie to Couric: RBG Cover-Up ‘Violates Cardinal Rule of Journalism’
During a Tuesday interview with former Today show co-host Katie Couric, current NBC morning show host Savannah Guthrie scolded her predecessor for censoring comments made by late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a 2016 Yahoo News interview. Guthrie told Couric that the decision to edit out those remarks “violates a cardinal rule of journalism.”
Story 'Not Over': Nets Ignored Americans Finally Leaving Afghanistan
On Monday evening, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) showed just how much they were done covering possibly the biggest blunder of Joe Biden’s presidency so far: abandoning Americans in an Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban. And Fox News Channel correspondent Trey Yingst put it best when he declared “This story is not over” while reporting on how some Americans were finally able to…
Nets Blackout Parents Protesting DOJ for 'Domestic Terrorism' Smear
Over the weekend, a group of parents gathered outside the Department of Justice to protest the suggestion that parents outraged at radical leftist school boards were domestic terrorists. They stayed on message against schools poisoning kids with Critical Race Theory and apparent pornography in school books. Meanwhile, the evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC kept silent on the rally as the…
