On Tuesday, CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s new book, Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, is officially out. Prior to its release, bombshells were dropped about how Biden didn’t recognize longtime associates, even actor George Clooney.
So how much time did the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS) devote to the recitation of Biden’s shortcomings long known by conservatives but suppressed by Tapper and his press colleagues?
MRC analysts looked at ABC, CBS and NBC’s evening and morning news programs, as well as PBS’s News Hour from May 13 through the morning of May 19 and found they spent a grand total of 7 minutes and 16 seconds on the reporting from Tapper and his co-author Alex Thompson.
Most of that coverage (6 minutes, 17 seconds) was aired on NBC. ABC only spent 37 seconds on…
