Big media’s hush-hush situation with Democrat scandals was more than apparent last week. The most recent NewsBusters survey shows an overblown 573 minutes of Trump-trial coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC, with a pitiful eight minutes dedicated to the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey.
This pattern of big media organizations deliberate sidelining Democrat scandals while continuously amplifying Republican controversies is nothing new. Take CNN as an example, with a recent Gregory Krieg article screaming “Trump circus overshadows Menendez trial.” The piece explains that Sen. Menendez’s corruption trial, which kicked off just eight days ago, has slipped under the radar.
In reality, this media “obscurity” is a manufactured product of their own doing. It’s just as easy for them to whip up a storm of “notoriety” for those they choose to target. It seems the media has this ability to turn a blind eye to news that doesn’t serve their narrative.
Just take a look at the impending Hunter Biden trial. Only the non-liberal media seems interested in covering this significant event. On PBS’s Washington Week, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic posed the question to NPR’s Steve Inskeep about the potential impact on Joe Biden. Inskeep brushed it off, treating it as mere “noise” and presuming that right wing media will be the ones to highlight it extensively. NPR notoriously dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop controversy in 2020 as a “pure distraction,” not a story.
Distraction seems convenient when inconvenient truths emerge. President Biden spent a good chunk of last weekend boasting about his late son Beau’s war record but there’s consumer skepticism about the legitimacy of these tales. The chief reason: A consistent slew of exaggerations about his own track record and his family’s achievements. Of course, it is naive to expect any level of stringent fact-checking from pro-Biden networks and newspapers.
In conclusion, the current situation reveals a bruising truth about mainstream media – their coverage is skewered and filled with glaring blind spots. Glaringly enough, these blind spots tend to systematically favor one side. We need a media that doesn’t show bias, one that doesn’t censor or hide stories for their liking, and provides the public with the all-rounded information they deserve.
