Sheridan Gorman, an 18-year-old college student at Loyola University in Chicago, was shot dead by an illegal alien. The networks hate reporting on crime committed by illegal immigrants. They would insist it’s atypical. News loses to narrative, and that narrative is Trump is ruining everything.
MRC Director of Media Analysis Geoff Dickens and NewsBusters Associate Editor Nick Fondacaro joined the show to discuss the latest patterns in media bias, by downplaying or omission. Geoff has been working on their lack of interest in the SAVE Act, which is only up to four minutes, and mostly because President Trump has thrown it into the shutdown mix.
Managing editor Curtis Houck found the networks weren’t motivated to cover Sheridan Gorman’s death. CBS led with 2 minutes, followed by ABC at 79 seconds, NBC at 23 seconds. Searching for it on PBS or NPR found nothing.
It’s like the bus-stop stabbing death of Stephanie Minter in Fairfax County, Virginia by Abdul Jalloh, an illegal alien with more than 30 arrests. We didn’t find that on the networks (including NPR).
You could get a hint of why these migrant crimes don’t draw coverage. PBS just aired a documentary called White With Fear claiming conservatives exploit fear of a “brown menace” to gain power. Stories of crimes by illegal migrants are seen as racist or too pro-Trump to cover.
The media’s advocacy for illegal aliens is also coming through during coverage of the DHS shutdown by the Democrats. The percentage of TV news stories mentioning the Democrats are holding up funding to gain “reforms” on immigration is actually declining as the coverage ramps up.
The media are also trying to impair Trump in coverage of the Iran war, insisting that somehow the United States is losing. The Economist magazine out of Britain has a cover that reads “Advantage Iran.” Jon Levine tweeted “The Economist has become the Jim Cramer of foreign policy takes.” It’s always wrong, in other words.
The two oldest cast members of ABC’s The View, moderator Whoopi Goldberg (70) and Joy Behar (83) tapped into anti-military hatred on Wednesday. While Joy was adamant that the U.S. military had “accomplished” nothing in Iran, Whoopi suggested all they were doing was dying and lectured Secretary of War Pete Hegseth about what it meant to be a soldier, without ever serving herself.
President Trump promises that the war in Iran will be ending soon, but what never ends is the incessant mockery of Trump on late-night comedy shows. In the war’s third week, our comedy counter Alex Christy found 97 percent of their jokes about the war in Iran were about our side, not Iran. President Trump was once again the most-joked individual with 78. None of their Iran jokes was about a Democrat.
That’s why movie star Vince Vaughn said on Theo Von’s podcast that these shows are losing their audience to podcasters: “People just rejected it, because it didn’t feel authentic, it felt like they had an agenda. It’s not being funny, and it started feeling like I was in… a class I didn’t want to take, do you know what I mean? I’m getting scolded!”
It’s an easy joke about the media to claim that absolutely everything President Trump does is a “distraction from the Epstein files.” CNN host Laura Coates even claimed the annual State of the Union speech was planned as a distraction from Epstein. The late-night comedians underline this theme, too – in recent days about the war in Iran.
Even a focus on Bill Clinton’s friendship with Epstein was described as a distraction from Trump’s problem. Our video editor Bill D’Agostino made a video that underlines how journalists and comedians described nearly everything that happened as a “distraction,” even if it was something Trump did on a very regular basis – like criticizing and fighting with liberal reporters.
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