The Big Three networks gave a GOP aide’s online slap at the Obama girls nearly twice as much coverage as Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber’s claim that voters are “stupid,” drawing a sharp rebuke for biased news judgement.
The Media Research Center study, provided to Secrets, found that the networks covered former Capitol Hill staffer Elizabeth Lauten’s Facebook post almost twice as much as Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber’s “stupid voters” comments.
ABC, CBS and NBC have given Lauten’s post a total of 14 minutes, 13 seconds, versus 8 minutes, 20 seconds of total coverage for Gruber since Nov. 9 on their morning and evening news shows.
And, said the report, while CBS, NBC and ABC waited four days, eight days and nine days, respectively, to cover Gruber, both ABC and NBC jumped on Lauten, who has since quit her job for criticizing Sasha and Malia Obama during their dad’s annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey
Media Research Center President Brent Bozell was sharp in his reaction.
This is beyond ridiculous. The networks rushed to cover a Hill staffer’s silly comments on Facebook, but waited more than a week to cover an Obamacare architect’s serious admission that voters were deceived about a policy that affects every American; and they gave almost twice as much coverage to the silly story than to the serious story.
The networks’ shamelessness in covering for Obama — ignoring huge news that has deep impact on all Americans while looking for any angle, no matter how trivial, to attack his critics — seemingly reaches a new low every couple of weeks.
Until ABC, CBS, and NBC start covering genuine Democrat scandals as eagerly as they cover Republican missteps, they will continue to be nothing more than DNC-TV.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
