What kind of morally upside-down world do the networks live in? After the mistrial of Lindsey Clancy, who strangled her three children, the morning and evening newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC were much nicer to the murderer than they were to the juror who refused to find Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity.
That's the result of the latest study by Senior Research Analyst Bill D'Agostino. Since the Lindsay Clancy’s widely-televised murder case ended in a mistrial, all of the big three broadcast networks gave Clancy an aggregate 64.6% positive coverage. The holdout juror, meanwhile, was hammered with 94.7% negative coverage. Bill and our news analyst Jorge Bonilla discussed this study and other media topics.
How could the juror trying to impose justice be the villain, not the murderer? This upsets the norms of jury trials and has the potential to poison future jury pools by intimidating jurors who would disagree with soft-on-crime jurors.
A new study by Director of Media Analysis Geoff Dickens found more softness on crime. ABC, CBS, and NBC have given zero seconds of coverage to seven recent crimes committed by violent illegal immigrants. Murders, rapes, and drug dealing are all ignored because they don't fit the elitist media narrative, where the government agents deporting illegal aliens are the villains.
Lindsay Clancy's husband will be an interview subject on Sunday's 60 Minutes on CBS. While the leftist haters of CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss have tried to cast this show as a badly rated mess in a "death spiral," their season debut was not dramatically different. Critical things were still said about President Trump. The opening storyfocused on the rescue mission of U.S. fighter pilots during the Iran War, but editorialized when describing the Iran War. The second story, by Lesley Stahl, focused on bashing the Trump Administration and its handling of presidential pardons. CNN's Brian Stelter expressed relief: "60 Minutes is still 60 Minutes."
CBS’s Weijia Jiang, sitting in for Margaret Brennan on Sunday’s Face the Nation, interviewed Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. When gently asked about his association with controversial streamer Hasan Piker, El-Sayed melted down. Watch as El-Sayed chafes under the mildest scrutiny of his association with the man who said “America deserved 9/11.”
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