If journalists pose as guardians of the public interest, why do they get on the wrong side of 80-20 issues? Our study of the network newscasts and the Big Four News Apps found great disinterest in the "Save ACT," which would require proof of citizenship of voter registration and voter ID at the polls. It's overwhelmingly popular -- and being ignored.
NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck and Free Speech America director Michael Morris join the show to discuss this bill and other things.
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 10 and found the broadcast networks have devoted ZERO seconds to the bill that enjoys more than 70 percent approval in recent polling. MRC Free Speech America’s review found that a similar pattern continued on the Big Four News Apps, where coverage was either completely absent (Google, Apple, MSN) or negative (on Yahoo).
Why can't the media try a good-government bias, in favor of clean elections and against defrauding the government? CBS’s morning and evening news shows offered reports on hospice fraud in California. CBS Mornings host Gayle King dropped the stunning statistic that “suspected Medicare hospice fraud totaled almost — listen to this number — $200 million in 2023” and, in California, “many hospices with red flags still remain in business” despite having “vowed to stamp out fraud” “four years ago.”
Two Muslim teens bringing homemade bombs to an anti-Islam protest outside the home of Muslim New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani can't be presented in a straightforward manner. CNN NewsNight host Abby Phillip was wrecked on social media after publishing a retraction to a gross mischaracterization. She had claimed the Islamic men with a bomb were threatening Mayor Mamdani, not anti-Islam protesters. Other CNN personalities also mangled it into an anti-Mamdani threat.
This bias against the "far right" was obvious on PBS during the controversy over deportations in Minneapolis. From January 7 to February 13, PBS News Hour devoted 95 minutes and 34 seconds of coverage to Trump’s immigration operation in Minneapolis/ PBS’s coverage turned out 85% negative against ICE and the Border Patrol, 15% positive. When soundbites were taken out, the numbers shifted to 90% negative vs. 10% positive.
Of 34 total guest appearances during that time, 28 voiced negative opinions on ICE, with 3 guests rated positive and 3 neutral, a negative/positive ratio of over 9 to 1. PBS journalists asked those guests 63 questions from the anti-ICE perspective, with 4 questions positive and 44 neutral, a negative/positive ratio of nearly 16 to 1.
With numbers like these, this isn’t an accidental bias. It’s an intensely intentional tilt. This is why PBS needed to have its federal funding ended. It doesn’t serve the public. It serves the Left.
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