The four nightly broadcast news shows (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS) on Tuesday presented Attorney General Merrick Garland’s House hearing as a brave moment where he proclaimed he would “not be intimidated” by House Republican demands.
The emphasis of every segment was a pitiable Garland attacked by the Republican bullies, the news seemed more and more like a teenage drama story, exempt from any attempt at nonpartisan journalism.
The House Republicans called the hearing in hopes of obtaining audio and video from President Biden’s meeting with Special Counsel Robert Hur about his handling of classified documents and concerns over links between the Bidens and the Trump Trial from the week prior. Yet in covering the hearing the networks seemed to care more for following their script, leading to a collection of biased stories, like ABC and NBC echoing:
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