The mainstream media spent an average of 46 minutes covering Donald Trump‘s January 6 pardons but just three minutes covering Biden’s pardoning of his own family, new analysis has found.
Between January 20 and January 22, ABC, NBC and CBS devoted 15 times as much airtime to Trump’s pardons than they did Biden’s, the analysis by The Media Research Center found.
The anchors who led the coverage included ABC’s George Stephanopoulos and CBS’s Norah O’Donnell.
Biden issued a series of preemptive pardons for family members James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden in the final hours of his administration.
He also pardoned younger brother James’ wife, Sara; his sister, Valerie; her husband, John; and his younger brother, Francis Biden, for ‘nonviolent’ actions dating back 10 years. In December, Biden pardoned son Hunter, despite vowing not to.
But newscasters barely covered it. Instead, they obsessed over the controversy surrounding Trump, the MRC found.
The study comes days as CNN and NBC recover from sweeping layoffs.
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