Posted on 10/27/2017 9:04:00 AM PDT by bitt
This week, CNN launched a new ad campaign called “Facts Firsts.” In its ad, it featured an apple and a narrator explained how some may try calling it a banana, but it’s still an apple. There was both praise and mockery of the new campaign. Nonetheless, CNN clearly sees itself as the one outlet in all of news media where facts come first. So how much time did CNN spend on a subject like the Uranium One deal that’s now being scrutinized? Within seven days since the story broke, it dedicated less than four minutes (according to conservative media watchdog MRC.) That amount of coverage was clearly dwarfed by the coverage they gave to President Trump‘s feud with Rep. Frederica Wilson and Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson or his spat with outgoing senators Bob Corker and Jeff Flake. CNN is in good company with underreporting, since CBS only gave it 69 seconds and ABC and NBC gave zero coverage to Uranium One. And just this morning, ABC News failed to give a full report on how the DNC and the Clinton campaign funded research for the Trump dossier, making a roughly 30-second reference at the tail-end of another report. Which begs the question: how many Democratic scandals does it take for the media to give them proper coverage? There are plenty of controversies that can be discussed, but there are six politically damaging stories in particular that Democrats would rather not talk about (and apparently, the media as well):
I’m thinking a google, which, if I understand it correctly, is one shy of infinity. Say, speaking of Google, I wonder how many more stories come up when you type in Russia/Trump than when you type in Russia/Clinton.
it’s a gorilla eating an apple. :)
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