If you expected ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, and NPR would offer a sober and substantive story on James Biden testifying behind closed doors in the House impeachment inquiry on Wednesday night, you’d be deeply disappointed. These networks all aired a story, but the narrative was overwhelmingly focused on indicted FBI confidential informant Alexander Smirnov and his unproven claims that Joe and Hunter Biden were offered $5 million each in bribes.
Overall, the networks offered 920 seconds of coverage focused on Smirnov, and 143 seconds on James Biden. So that’s 86.5 percent for Smirnov, 13.5 percent for Uncle Jimmy.
— ABC offered 44 seconds of James Biden, to 141 seconds on Smirnov. Anchor David Muir opened: “As our Pierre Thomas tonight asks Republicans in the House, how do you move forward if the main informant was lying?”
PIERRE THOMAS: But Republicans,…
