The networks demonstrated biases by their choice of anecdotes. They completely skip murders by illegal aliens, like the newly convicted killer of Rachel Morin. Instead, they’ve gone all in to advocate for illegal alien Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, despite his gang connections and domestic-violence accusations. Geoffrey Dickens and Bill D’Agostino discuss their studies on the TV coverage.
Geoff found from April 1 through the morning of April 15, ABC, CBS, NBC spent a total of 64 minutes, 57 seconds on the “Maryland man” controversy, but they gave zero seconds to the trial of an illegal alien who killed Rachel Morin. This week, the networks kept pumping out the “Maryland man” stories, and Rachel Morin’s mother appearing in the White House briefing room drew nothing from ABC and CBS, and 12 seconds on NBC.
Earlier, Bill found from April 1 to April 6, CNN and MSNBC have referred to Kilmar Abrego-Garcia as a “Maryland man” or “Maryland father” a whopping 120 times, while identifying him as an illegal alien only seven times. Meanwhile, MSNBC alone aired eleven objectively false assertions that Garcia was actually a legal resident. In 72 stories on Abrego-Garcia, CNN did the “Maryland” thing 51 times, and MSNBC 69 times.
We also discuss Bill’s study on how the networks were incessantly negative on coverage of Trump’s economic policy, hyping the “Trump tariff meltdown” and barely noticing good reports on employment and inflation, and the question of whether Donald Trump is right that CNN hates America.
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