On Saturday, Newsbusters posted an article contrasting the news coverage of the impeachment inquiry of President Trump and the pre-indictment coverage with the media coverage of the impeachment inquiry of President Biden.

The article includes the following Tweet:

That really says it all.

The article notes:

That media outlets in America have been partisan in one way or another is ancient news.  While attention in today’s world has tended to focus on Rupert Murdoch and the rise of conservative media, recall in history that in the 19th and 20th centuries their were serious press Lords with names like William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer.

But there was a distinct difference between biased press outlets then and now. In the old days long gone by, the press may have been biased but it didn’t hesitate to acknowledge that a news event had happened. 

The fact that the USS Maine had blown up in Havana, Cuba in 1898 led to demands for war with Spain, with some opposing the idea. Wikipedia records today that after the news of the Maine’s sinking “The cause of the accident was immediately debated.” Debated it may have been – was it an accident or deliberate sabotage? – but that it had happened was not debated or withheld from Americans by the journals of the day.

The article concludes:

Whatever is going to unfold in this latest impeachment saga – the fourth in American history following impeachment charges in their day against Presidents Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump – is at this moment unknown.

But that it is in fact happening to Joe Biden as the fifth president to suffer this fate is both important news and, not to mention, history.

And the fact that five left-leaning networks of today have decided to black out the news has all the finesse of state-run press outlets in a dictatorship.

An informed public is one of the cornerstones of a democratic republic. If you remove that cornerstone, the republic is in danger of collapsing.