The Media Research Center continued to stick to the approved Trump Regime Media narratives on the government shutdown:
- ABC Harps on Caller to Speaker Johnson, Argues He’s Kept Gov’t Closed, Checks Withheld
- ABC’s Rachel Scott Pitches In, Runs a Democrat-Coded Shutdown Report
- ABCDNC IS AT IT AGAIN: Rachel Scott Delivers More Shutdown Agitprop
- CNN’s Shutdown ‘Town Hall’ Was Mostly an Infomercial for Socialism
- Whoa! CNN’s Dana Bash Presses Jeffries on Government Shutdown and Mamdani
- PBS Whines Trump, GOP Won’t Buckle On Shutdown
- CBS Torches Bernie Sanders Over Government Shutdown, Americans Not Trusting Democrats
- MSNBC Struggles to Find Illegality with Government Stretching Dollars
It wouldn’t be an MRC narrative without a lame “study” to support it, and Joseph Vazquez obliged in an Oct. 14 post:
With all the media banter surrounding the ongoing government shutdown, ABC, CBS and PBS NewsHour seem to have conveniently forgotten that the national debt was even a major issue in this whole mess. Perhaps by emphasizing the multitrillion-dollar debt at all, the networks would be putting the Democrats in the hot seat for continuing to drag their feet on the negotiations.
MRC Business researchers analyzed Nexis transcripts between the start of the shutdown on October 1 to October 10, and found that none of the ABC, CBS, or PBS broadcasts even bothered to mention the national “debt” during that time period. (NBC transcripts weren’t available.)
Reuters pointed out October 12 that the whole shutdown debate is “ignoring” the $37.6 trillion debt, a devastating “risk to U.S. stability.” In fact, reported Reuters, “independent analysts warn that the U.S. finds itself in a deteriorating fiscal position, with debt growing faster than the economy, interest payments on debt crowding out spending for programs and financial weakness threatening social trust funds for the elderly.”
You’d think that if Vazquez was so concerned ab out the national debt, he’d mention that it went by nearly $8 trillion during Trump’s first term. But he didn’t. He also failed to analyze Fox News or any other right-wing channel for their debt-related coverage. Instead, he lectured:
But we shouldn’t be surprised by the media covering up a major turning point of an ongoing national issue because it serves their pathetic, long-running modus operandi of covering for Democratic politicians as much as possible, even when the amount of egg on their face is too obvious to ignore. They only care about the deficit or the national debt when the Democrats want to use the issue.
As if Vazquez isn’t covering for Republican politicians and invoking the debt solely because he thinks it will help that narrative.