Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton and FBI Director James Comey (Photo: Twitter)
Since FBI Director James Comey dropped the bombshell Friday that the agency is continuing its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails, America’s Big Three TV networks – ABC, CBS and NBC – have downplayed Hillary’s role in the scandal and launched a full-blown assault on Comey.
With only eight days left until Election Day, the networks have covered Comey in a negative light three times as frequently as they report negative news concerning Clinton, according to a Media Research Center study published Oct. 31.
“Beginning with the evening (October 28) of the announcement through Monday morning (October 31), MRC analysts reviewed reviewed all statements (by reporters, analysts, and partisans) that took a position on Comey and Clinton and found arguments against Comey (88) swamped those against Clinton (31) by a ratio of almost 3 to 1,” NewsBusters reported. “There were a handful of statements that praised either Comey (10) or Clinton (4).”
In fact, the Big Three networks’ shows – ABC’s “World News Tonight,” CBS’ “Evening News,” NBC’s “Nightly News,” ABC’s “Good Morning America,” CBS’ “This Morning” and NBC’s “Today” – spent a total of two hours, 19 minutes and 49 seconds airing stories that attacked Comey.
On Oct. 30, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, a Clinton Foundation donor, said of Comey: “It’s hard to know what’s going through James Comey’s mind right now. Remember when he came out in July? He broke tradition back in July when he gave the press conference. Rather than simply closing the investigation, he said he was doing it because there was such intense public interest in this case. You would think that same standard would drive him to release more details.”
CBS’ Gayle King piled on Comey on Oct. 31: “Former Attorney General Eric Holder, along with nearly 100 former Justice Department officials on both sides of the aisle, said that they were astonished and perplexed by Comey’s decision. Holder wrote this in the Washington Post – that he’s afraid that Comey has unintentionally hurt the public’s trust in the FBI, allowing – quote, ‘misinformation to be spread by partisans with less pure intentions.”
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And on Oct. 30, NBC’s Willie Geist condemned Comey’s decision in a question posed to GOP nominee Donald Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway: “This is an open investigation. It’s on the eve of an election. That’s why the DOJ recommended to Director Comey not to proceed with this letter because everyone knew it would be leaked out to the public. If you were on the other side of this, would you think this was the right thing to do on the eve of an election to be so vague about it without knowing the content?”
In fact, it’s not just the Big Three TV networks piling on Comey.
The New York Daily News dubbed Comey the “FBI’s mad bomber” on the cover of its Oct. 31 issue.
On Oct. 30, the Washington Post even cited accusations that Comey is “damaging our democracy” by airing the latest in the investigation into Hillary’s emails:
New York Daily News published an Oct. 29 report headlined, “James Comey acted on his own in Clinton email disclosure, violated Justice Department policy”:
USA Today was next, with an Oct. 30 “bipartisan” report blasting Comey’s letter as perplexing and “troubling”:
WND recently reported the results of another Media Research Center study, which found 91 percent of media coverage is hostile to Donald Trump.
“In the twelve weeks since the party conventions concluded in late July, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has received significantly more broadcast network news coverage than his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, but nearly all of that coverage (91 percent) has been hostile,” the report said.
“In addition, the networks spent far more airtime focusing on the personal controversies involving Trump (440 minutes) than about similar controversies involving Clinton (185 minutes). Donald Trump’s treatment of women was given 102 minutes of evening news airtime, more than that allocated to discussing Clinton’s e-mail scandal (53 minutes) and the Clinton Foundation pay-for-play scandals (40 minutes) combined.”
MRC’s Rich Noyes commented, “Even when they were critical of Hillary Clinton – for concealing her pneumonia, for example, or mischaracterizing the FBI investigation of her email server – network reporters always maintained a respectful tone in their coverage.
The bias of the media perhaps shouldn’t surprise anyone.
After all, the Center for Public Integrity recently reported 96 percent of the donations to presidential politics coming from journalists went to Clinton.
For example, Carole Simpson, a former ABC “World News Tonight” anchor, gave Clinton $2,800. And New York Times television critic Emily Nussbaum, who spent the Republican National Convention “pen-pricking presidential nominee Donald Trump as a misogynist shyster,” gave $250 to Clinton.
Nearly 430 reporters gave a total of $400,000 to Clinton, while 50 donated about $14,000 to Trump.
Further, Gateway Pundit pointed out that the WikiLeaks emails reveal that “at least 65 MSM reporters were meeting with and/or coordinating offline with top Hillary advisers.”
“They were invited to top elitist dinners with Hillary campaign chairman John Podesta or chief campaign strategist Joel Benenson,” the report said. “The Clinton campaign sent out invites to New York reporters in April 2015 on their off-the-record meeting on how to sell Hillary Clinton to the public.”
The names include dozens from ABC (Cecilia Vega and David Muir), CBS (Norah O’Donnell and Vicki Gordon), CNN (Brianna Keilar, David Chalian and John Berman) MSNBC (Alex Wagner and Beth Fouhy), the New York Times (Gail Collins and Pat Healy) and many more, including Julie Pace of Associated Press.
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