{"id":63410,"date":"2026-04-03T14:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63410"},"modified":"2026-04-03T14:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T18:37:14","slug":"the-media-bias-is-not-only-how-news-is-reported-but-what-is-left-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63410","title":{"rendered":"The Media Bias Is Not Only How News Is Reported But What Is Left Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/jorge-bonilla\/2026\/04\/02\/omission-abc-nbc-silent-massive-california-hospice-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newsbusters<\/a> posted an article about the lack of mainstream media reporting on the California hospice fraud scandal.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Elitist Media\u2019s evening newscasts have shown that they have a hard time reporting on counteragenda items that expose blue states to accusations of incompetence or malfeasance. News related to public assistance fraud is especially rare among the nightlies, as is demonstrated by the latest news out of California.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Watch as the <em>CBS Evening News <\/em>is the sole evening newscast to report on the massive early morning raid carried out by the FBI in Covina, California:<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article includes a video of that raid. Remember how many news crews were there when Roger Stone&#8217;s house was attacked and he was taken prisoner and brought to jail?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/02\/us-news\/feds-bust-hospice-in-shocking-early-morning-fraud-takedown\/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=capost&amp;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The home of a husband and wife who own a Southern California hospice accused of committing $7 million in fraud was raided by FBI agents in conjunction with Health and Human Services early Thursday morning.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The raid is one of several that took place as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/23\/us-news\/congress-launches-probe-into-california-hospice-fraud\/\">a massive federal effort<\/a> to address widespread fraud in the state in coordination with Vice President JD Vance\u2019s Fraud Taskforce \u2014 and the California Post was there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Administrator for the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services, was on the scene as well and said the couple created a hospice in their daughter\u2019s name and bilked millions of dollars from taxpayers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>\u201cSince 2022, there have been allegations, but for four years, what seems to be typical in California, nothing was done,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Their hospice had a mortality rate of just 2.3% over the last five years, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>You would think that having the head of CMS present at the raid might be an indicator of newsworthiness and seriousness. But no. And, of course, the CBS item made no mention of the raid\u2019s relation to the anti-fraud effort spearheaded by Vice President JD Vance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>All of this notwithstanding, CBS\u2019s 32 seconds on the raid are 32 seconds more than ABC and NBC combined. The Elitist Media\u2019s insistence on pretending that government assistance fraud doesn\u2019t exist is but one of many reasons why the American People have lost trust in the media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you rely on the mainstream media for your news, you are not only misinformed&#8211;you are uninformed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Newsbusters posted an article about the lack of mainstream media reporting on the California hospice fraud scandal. The article reports: The Elitist Media\u2019s evening newscasts have shown that they have a hard time reporting on counteragenda items that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=63410\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19315,19313,19317,19314,11084,19316,7245,657,2673],"class_list":["post-63410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-california-hospice","tag-california-post","tag-centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services","tag-covina-california","tag-federal-bureau-of-investigation-fbi","tag-fraud-taskforce","tag-health-and-human-services","tag-new-york-post","tag-newsbusters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63411,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63410\/revisions\/63411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}