Critics took most of the corporate media to task on Sunday after only one network dedicated any time at all to cover the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after his would-be killer was apprehended near the associate justice’s Maryland home.
The dearth of Sunday show coverage was noted in a tweet by Steve Guest, who is Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) special communications adviser.
“How the Sunday shows covered the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh via TVEyes,” Guest wrote. “#of mentions of ‘Kavanaugh’: ABC’s This Week: 0 mentions, NBC’s Meet The Press: 0 mentions, CBS’s Face The Nation: 0 mentions, CNN SOTU: 0 mentions. Fox News Sunday covered.”
How the Sunday shows covered the attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh via TVEyes.
# of mentions of “Kavanaugh”:
ABC’s This Week: 0 mentions
NBC’s Meet The Press: 0 mentions
CBS’s Face The Nation: 0 mentions
CNN SOTU: 0 mentions
Fox News Sunday covered— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 12, 2022
He then listed several examples, including a report by ABC News on the LGBTQ “Pride” week and gushing over the Jan. 6 hearing on CNN.
Meanwhile on ABC: https://t.co/3Zab5eFv1e
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 12, 2022
Meanwhile on CNN: https://t.co/CzIlvInbLK
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 12, 2022
Several other critics, some of them journalists themselves, also blasted the lack of coverage, as others posited that the situation with the left-leaning outlets would have been much different of a liberal justice’s life had been threatened.
Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald tweeted, “Would anyone like to claim that if a MAGA supporter were arrested outside of Sonia Sotomayor or Elena Kagan’s house with a huge arsenal of weaponry, saying he wanted to murder them to stop their votes on Roe and gun control, that this media data would be the same? Anyone?”
Would anyone like to claim that if a MAGA supporter were arrested outside of Sonia Sotomayor or Elena Kagan’s house with a huge arsenal of weaponry, saying he wanted to murder them to stop their votes on Roe and gun control, that this media data would be the same? Anyone? https://t.co/qeW8fpyrxw
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) June 12, 2022
“Tells you everything you need to know about the corporate media today. Shameful,” Megyn Kelly added.
Tells you everything you need to know about the corporate media today. Shameful. https://t.co/81hAkyu7IA
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) June 12, 2022
“Same networks appalled that Fox didn’t show the Jan 6 hearing,” Ricochet’s Jon Gabriel added.
Same networks appalled that Fox didn’t show the Jan 6 hearing https://t.co/FgfM6hNYFS
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) June 12, 2022
Meanwhile, Omri Ceren, a national security advisor to Cruz, suggested that the blatant omission of anything that did not fit a preordained narrative spoke to a fundamental problem in American media, and one that goes a lot deeper than just left-wing bias.
“This is why it’s not quite right to talk about ‘bias’ in journalism,” he argued. “Bias is when you have a story and you let your own views seep in. This is the granular, institutional grind of uncountable people to make reality into whatever Dems wish it is. Hard to see how it gets fixed.”
This is why it’s not quite right to talk about “bias” in journalism. Bias is when you have a story and you let your own views seep in. This is the granular, institutional grind of uncountable people to make reality into whatever Dems wish it is. Hard to see how it gets fixed. https://t.co/Ya3ei1OMSw
— Omri Ceren (@omriceren) June 12, 2022
