Fifty times more TV network coverage for Khizr Khan than Pat Smith
By Thomas Lifson
Media bias has entered new territory in the United States with the nomination of Donald Trump. Somethig approaching sacred moral duty to defeat him permeates newsrooms across the country. So it is no surprise that news judgments are ridiculously skewed, to the point where comparisons with totalitarian regimes are becoming thinkable.
Consider the media treatment of two grieving parents of fallen warriors. Geoffrey Dickens of Newsbusters:
While all the grieving parents deserve sympathy, the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network evening and morning shows seemed to only care about the parents that showed up at the Democratic Convention. Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazla’s DNC appearance earned 55 minutes, 13 seconds of Big Three network coverage, nearly 50 times more than Pat Smith, whose RNC speech honoring her son earned just 70 seconds of airtime.
There is only one possible conclusion:
This is a textbook case of bias-by-agenda: One of these stories (the Khan story) matched the Democratic agenda, and the partisan media couldn’t push it hard enough. The other (the Smith story) reflected poorly on the Democratic nominee, so it was barely mentioned.
The public already understands the media are biased. But this pushes them to the level of propaganda organs
By Thomas Lifson
Media bias has entered new territory in the United States with the nomination of Donald Trump. Somethig approaching sacred moral duty to defeat him permeates newsrooms across the country. So it is no surprise that news judgments are ridiculously skewed, to the point where comparisons with totalitarian regimes are becoming thinkable.
Consider the media treatment of two grieving parents of fallen warriors. Geoffrey Dickens of Newsbusters:
While all the grieving parents deserve sympathy, the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) network evening and morning shows seemed to only care about the parents that showed up at the Democratic Convention. Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazla’s DNC appearance earned 55 minutes, 13 seconds of Big Three network coverage, nearly 50 times more than Pat Smith, whose RNC speech honoring her son earned just 70 seconds of airtime.
There is only one possible conclusion:
This is a textbook case of bias-by-agenda: One of these stories (the Khan story) matched the Democratic agenda, and the partisan media couldn’t push it hard enough. The other (the Smith story) reflected poorly on the Democratic nominee, so it was barely mentioned.
The public already understands the media are biased. But this pushes them to the level of propaganda organs
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