Jay Syrmopoulos
Washington, D.C. — Never has
the mainstream media bias been more evident than in the last 48 hours, as all
three major broadcast networks have given heavy coverage to the allegations
made against Alabama GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore, while the ongoing federal
corruption trial of New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez [photo] – who was accused of hiring child prostitutes—has been largely ignored by these same outlets.
Menendez, who has been on
trial for 65 days, is charged with taking tens of thousands of dollars in
bribes in exchange for political favors. He faces a total of six counts of
bribery, three counts of honest services fraud, one count of conspiracy, one
count of interstate travel to carry out bribery and one count of making
false statements on his congressional financial disclosures to conceal the
crimes.
Despite being on trial for
over two months, “ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News and NBC
Nightly News haven’t even mentioned the trial once. NBC’s Today also hasn’t
covered this trial at all, while ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS This
Morning have managed to give it one story each (1 minute, 48 seconds for ABC
and 22 seconds for CBS),” according to the Media Research Center
(MRC).
In fact, in the past 24 hours,
the same networks that never once in 65 days mentioned Menendez, and the
serious accusations against him – including the allegation of hiring child
prostitutes, “spent 24 minutes and 36 seconds on serious allegations
against Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore.”
According to a report by
the Media Research Center:
The three evening news
shows each spent about two-and-a-half minutes on the Moore scandal (ABC’s World
News Tonight: 2 minutes, 48 seconds; CBS Evening News: 2 minutes, 46 seconds;
NBC Nightly News, 2 minutes, 38 seconds). Good Morning America spent the most
time on Moore with 7 minutes. CBS This Morning came next with 5 minutes and 22
seconds, while NBC’s Today came in third with 4 minutes, 2 seconds.
To put things into
perspective, this is the first time a sitting U.S. Senator has faced a
corruption trial since 1981.
Additionally, if Menendez is
convicted and forced out of office prior to Jan. 16, 2018, GOP Governor Chris
Christie will appoint a replacement—likely flipping a Democratic Senate seat to
a Republican one.
The jury has been deliberating
Menendez’s fate since Oct. 30.
These facts, along with the
salacious details uncovered during the course of the investigation into
Menendez, would seemingly be exactly the type of story political pundits in the
media salivate over—yet there has largely been silence from the mass media
presstitutes.
While the media has a duty to
cover the sexual harassment allegations against Alabama Senatorial Candidate
Roy Moore, the fact that these same outlets have chosen to give such extremely
disparate coverage to Menendez’s trial reeks of liberal media bias.
Regardless of whether a
Democrat or a Republican, the media has a duty to share their investigations
with the public.
The selective outrage of the
mainstream media is unmistakable in the case of these two men and clearly
evidenced by the disproportionate coverage given to their alleged
indiscretions.
It is inexcusable that these
two men, both alleged to have engaged in inappropriate activity with
underage parties, are not treated in the same manner by the mainstream
media—which speaks volumes as to how the mass media attempts to propagandize
Americans into a false sense of reality.
Please share this story to
help others clearly see how the media attempts to mold perceptions as to
benefit those that largely share their political ideology!
Courtesy of The Free Thought Project
Jay Syrmopoulos is a
geopolitical analyst, freethinker, and ardent opponent of authoritarianism. He
is currently a graduate student at the University of Denver pursuing a masters
in Global Affairs and holds a BA in International Relations. Jay’s writing has
been featured on both mainstream and independent media – and has been viewed
tens of millions of times. You can follow him on Twitter @SirMetropolis and
on Facebook at SirMetropolis.
Via D.C.CLOTHESLINE, 13-11-2017
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