{"id":35445,"date":"2019-02-15T15:57:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35445"},"modified":"2019-02-15T15:57:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T20:57:11","slug":"bias-is-as-much-about-what-isnt-reported-as-how-news-is-slanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=35445","title":{"rendered":"Bias Is As Much About What Isn’t Reported As How News Is Slanted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsbusters<\/a> posted an article yesterday about the report that the Senate Intelligence Committee has found no material evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. You might think that after two years and millions of dollars spent on an investigation, that might be news. You might think that, but evidently the major news media disagrees with you.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been two days since NBC\u2019s exclusive reporting<\/a> that the Senate Intelligence Committee has found no material evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and as of yet none of the three major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have given it even a single second of coverage in their evening newscasts. Considering these networks have given the Russia probe a massive 2,202 minutes of airtime, their silence on this major development is deafening.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MRC analysts examining all coverage on ABC\u2019s World News Tonight<\/em>, the CBS Evening News<\/em>, and the NBC Nightly News <\/em>found that those 2,202 minutes spent on the Russia investigation accounted for nearly 19 percent of all Trump-related reporting between January 21, 2017 and February 10, 2019. However none of those three shows have even mentioned the investigation\u00a0since NBC\u2019s report came out on February 12.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The situation has been much the same on those networks\u2019 flagship morning shows. Neither CBS This Morning<\/em> nor NBC\u2019s Today<\/em> have\u00a0even acknowledged this new information from Senate investigators since the news broke on February 12. ABC\u2019s Good Morning America<\/em> briefly touched on it in a news brief totaling less than one minute on February 13.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In that segment, ABC\u2019s Mary Bruce focused only on the public disagreement between Republican Chairman Richard Burr and Democratic Ranking Member Mark Warner. She failed to acknowledge NBC\u2019s reporting that other Democrats on the Committee had agreed with Burr\u2019s finding that thus far, they had found no direct evidence of collusion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Over the past two years, broadcast evening news shows have spent more than 36 hours haranguing viewers about potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Given their keen interest in the subject, you might expect a bipartisan group of investigators finding \u201cno material evidence\u201d of collusion to be newsworthy. But evidently, you\u2019d be wrong.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And there are still some people who wonder why most Americans do not trust the mainstream media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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