'Election interference:' Networks go epic in negative Trump coverage
David Muir anchors ABC's 'World News Tonight'
The legacy American television networks, ABC, CBS and NBC, must really want Joe Biden to win to 2024 presidential election.
Or someone the Democrat Party would suddenly suggest to replace him if his "senior moments" of scattered thoughts and fumbled speeches become worse than they already are.
That's according to a new study that reveals the networks, all of which promoted the false "Russia collusion" narrative against President Trump in the 2016 race and hid the truth about the Biden family scandals confirmed in that laptop computer Hunter Biden left behind in 2020, have started suppressing any reporting about GOP challengers to Trump for the GOP nomination.
And nearly all of their reporting on Trump is negative.
A Washington Examiner report by columnist Paul Bedard bluntly described it as "election interference" by the media.
The details come in a report at Newsbusters, the Media Research Center outlet.
It explains, "With the third Republican presidential debate set for Wednesday, the Big Three broadcast networks have abandoned their coverage of former President Donald Trump’s Republican presidential challengers. Instead, their evening newscasts have assumed the challenger role themselves, pounding the frontrunner with overwhelmingly (93%) negative coverage.
"Presidential election campaigns are a time for a party to showcase its ideas, but the networks are also suppressing Republicans’ policy agenda in favor of overwhelming coverage of the legal cases brought against Trump by various Democratic prosecutors. Less than seven percent of the GOP coverage has been about the issues (27 minutes), vs. 320 minutes (77%) spent on Trump’s legal situation."
MRC said it looked at all coverage of the GOP candidates and campaign on the three networks' evening newcasts from Aug. 1 through Oct. 31.
They spent 380 minutes on Trump, 74% of all GOP candidate airtime.
Ron DeSantis got about 30 minutes, Mike Pence 14. All others were in the single digits.
But the issues discussed by the candidates were ignored.
"There’s no way the networks could have avoided covering Donald Trump’s legal issues, but the degree to which they’ve crowded out the normal discourse of presidential campaigns is extraordinary. In the past three months, evening news viewers heard 131 minutes about special counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 case against Trump. Another 112 minutes was spent on Fulton County Democratic D.A. Fani Willis’s case about post-election activity in Georgia, while Democratic New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil fraud case against Trump and his company garnered 46 minutes of airtime," the MRC reported.
And it's getting worse, the report said, with the networks spending only two minutes on GOP policy during October, and most of the total 84 minutes spent on the GOP going to those Democrat attacks on Trump.
The MRC reporting, in fact, credited the "media's unrelenting hostility towards President Trump" for putting Biden in the White House.
"From his first months in office in 2017, throughout 2018 and 2019, and during the 2020 election year, the networks assaulted Trump with the most hostile press coverage any U.S. president has ever been forced to deal with," the report said.
In what has to be bad news for the networks, however, the report noted the "unprecedented attacks … seem not to have hurt Trump's standing with conservative or Republican voters."
Now, the report said, "history is repeating itself: The networks are once again hitting Donald Trump with the worst press ever faced by a leading politician."
The report described the unrelenting attacks on Trump as "election interference."
Bedard commented, "The big three TV networks — CBS, NBC, and ABC — are doing their best to live up to former President Donald Trump’s charge that they are 'truly the enemy of the people.'"
He noted MRC reporter Rich Noyes affirmed, "negative coverage of Trump helped Joe Biden win in 2020. He said that the liberal media are playing the same game plan for 2024 but earlier than normal, shifting to offense a year before the election."
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