How hopelessly biased/propagandized are our network news shows?
Here’s an answer for you, from Geoffrey Dickens’ article at newsbusters.org:
What do you do if you are the networks and President Donald Trump has pushed a proposal (like the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act on voter ID) that enjoys over 70 percent support?
If you are fair, you’d cover it.
If you are opposed to all things Trump, you could savage it, to try to bring its popularity down.
Or you could pretend it doesn’t even exist.
So, how much time have the networks devoted to this very popular Trump administration proposal?
Zero seconds.
MRC analysts reviewed the ABC, CBS, NBC evening and morning news shows from February 11 (when the SAVE America Act passed the House) to the morning of March 6 and found the broadcast networks have completely BURIED the bill.
Unbelievable? I only wish it were.
We are talking about proposed legislation that would insure people who vote have a legal right to do so, which is being adamantly opposed by one of our political parties (guess which one). And not one of the three major network news shows – not ABC, not CBS, not NBC – covered it for over three weeks.
And then they wonder why fewer and fewer people trust them for honest news coverage?
They’re kidding, right?
