Americans have a negative view of the media and believe its bias is getting worse. Coverage of the Congressional hearing over the Biden family’s corruption is a prime example of media bias.
Despite damning testimony fit for prime-time drama, liberal media outlets devoted very little time to the recent House Committee on Oversight and Accountability’s hearing on President Biden and his family’s business dealings based on the President’s influence. As former business associate of Hunter Biden, Tony Bobulinski testified under oath on the First Family’s alleged corrupt practices, CNN’s website still has not published a single story on the hearing.
At least the NBC networks covered the hearings. Unfortunately, the Peacock organizations’ stories ranged from opinion articles declaring the hearing a failure while engaging in ad hominem attacks on the witnesses to reverting back to the classic and easily debunked argument that anything negative about the Biden family is “Russian disinformation.”
Among some of the more explosive details from the hearing is the revelation from star witness Bobulinski that he contacted Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna in 2020 with information alleging Joe Biden’s involvement in shady international business activities with his son and brother. Despite this bombshell, the hearing attracted little to no coverage on major network nightly news broadcasts.
This is hardly the first instance of the media running interference for the Bidens. In a recent rundown of a behind-closed-doors deposition Hunter gave Congressional investigators, the Associated Press listed as “takeaways” important items such as his insistence that the “Biden brand” was not his own but rather something his father built and Democrats on the committee deflecting the intent of the hearing to attacking former President Trump.
The media’s lack of curiosity for an issue in which less than a quarter of Americans believe Biden is innocent of corruption notwithstanding, the Oversight hearing yielded enough for Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donalds to declare “the fact that Hunter Biden and Jim Biden perjured themselves” in previous congressional testimony.
Media bias is nothing new, as Gallup polling in 2022 showed the largest percentage of Americans have no trust in mass media to “report the news fully, accurately and fairly.” Recent polling on the subject has not gotten better: a 2023 Rasmussen survey showed “60% of likely voters believe the problem of bias in the news media is getting worse.”
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