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Since the House Intelligence Committee, chaired by Congressman Devin Nunes (R-Cali.), voted on Monday to release a memo detailing alleged misconduct and legal abuses by the FBI, the three major liberal news networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) have been acting like the mouthpiece for the Democratic Party. Between January 29, when the vote was held, and February 1, the networks dedicated roughly three and a half times the coverage to worries about releasing the memo that the allegations against the FBI.
During the time frame of this Media Research Center study, the network evening newscasts dedicated a whopping 17 minutes and 20 seconds of airtime to Democratic Party talking points and FBI pleads not to release the memo. In sharp contrast, they only spent four minutes and 54 seconds on the content of the memo, which included allegations of misconduct during the early days of the Russia investigation and abuse of FISA warrants.
In the run-up to the Intelligence Committee voting to release the memo, the nets were largely silent on it as Democrats were insisting that those on social media calling for the memo to be released were Russian bots. And on the day of the vote, ABC and CBS seemed to be still downplaying the memo since they didn’t report on the vote at all while NBC Nightly News dedicated a solid two minutes to story, with only 36 seconds going to the allegations and the rest going to fears about it being released.
On Tuesday night prior to the State of the Union address, the tide shifted and all three networks were loading up on opposition to releasing the memo. For ABC, it was two minutes, 25 seconds with one minute and 31 seconds. What about NBC? The peacock network spent one minute and 13 seconds on this narrative. And as for the allegations against the FBI, they were largely dismissive and none of them broke a minute of airtime, with ABC at 51 seconds; CBS at 37 seconds, and NBC at 20 seconds.
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