Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC spent last week incensed by President Trump’s pardoning of Jan. 6 defendants, heaping over 46 minutes of coverage on the story within just a 48-hour period on their flagship morning and evening newscasts. By contrast, those same newscasts spared a pathetic three and a half minutes for the last-minute pardons former-President Biden issued for his family members.
MRC analysts looked at the 48-hour period following President Trump’s inauguration on ABC, CBS, and NBC, for a total of two evening newscasts and two morning shows per network from the evening of January 20 through the morning of January 22. We found a total of 46 minutes and 32 seconds of coverage were spent on Trump’s pardons — more than 15 times as much airtime as they gave to Biden’s pardoning of his own family members (just 212 seconds).
CBS was the…
