This week’s Liberal Media Scream features the media jumping on the impeachment bandwagon, with CBS and ABC leading the way, even in their intros.
Displaying identical news judgments, the ABC and CBS evening newscasts on Sunday night offered a matching way to frame the day’s news as both used the very same phrasing for their on-screen teases, with corresponding narration from the anchors: “Impeachable Offenses?”
Anchor Tom Llamas on ABC’s “World News Tonight”: “Impeachable offenses? Top Democrats taking aim at President Trump. Prosecutors implicating him in criminal acts linked to the campaign. And a key Republican senator with a warning for the president.”
Anchor Elaine Quijano on the “CBS Weekend News”: “The incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says federal prosecutors have outlined impeachable offenses against President Trump.”
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our weekly pick: “A fine example of how major national media outlets see the world through the same prism. No conspiracy, but the journalists at two networks forwarded the identical terminology to frame what they saw as the day’s top political news story. So much for ‘diversity’ of viewpoints within the national press corps.”
Rating: Three out of five screams.
