CNSNews.com has more than proven itself to be a lackey for the Trump administration — and that includes refusing to report on Trump scandals until they can either be spun away or no longer ignored.
On Sept. 19 Politico reported that Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price had spent tens of thousands of dollars on private charter flights instead of traveling on regular commercial flights like his predecessors. But a search of CNS’ archive of Washington news showed that it failed to cover the story at the time, or in the following days.
In fact the first story on Price that CNS ran was a Sept. 29 article by Melanie Arter — dated at 4:40 p.m. Eastern time — that was another Trump stenography piece, quoting him saying that he didn’t like the “optics” of Price’s use of private charter planes and that he would be “announcing something in the very near future” regarding Price.
Arter followed up 51 minutes later with an article announcing Price’s resignation. Buried in the article is CNS’ first admission of a related scandal regarding other Trump cabinet members “using private planes on the taxpayer’s dime.”
How convenient that CNS couldn’t find anything newsworthy about a Republican cabinet secretary wasting taxpayers’ money on private flights until just before he was forced to resign over it. That’s what’s called bias by omission — something CNS’ mission statement purports to be opposed to.