The Media Research Center is still angry that the media is calling historic things “historic.”
Tim Graham devoted a lengthy June 8 post to complaining how “One obvious way the TV networks proclaim what is History In The Making is by putting it on live television – canceling their daytime line-ups and eating advertising revenue for ‘public service,'” unsurprisingly asserting that “they have a liberal bias in deciding just which scandals get the daytime or prime-time live coverage.” Of course, Graham says that about everything.
Graham actually complains that the Watergate hearings were broadcast live, because it “was a big moment for the empowerment of PBS.”He went on to whine about broadcasting of the Iran-Contra hearings: “PBS cleared its decks to stick it to the Republicans, with the hope of electing a Democratic president in 1988.”
As befits an organization that’s never forgiven Anita Hill for talking about Clarence Thomas’ alleged sexual harassment, Graham complains the testimony about her “unproven sexual harassment charges” were broadcast, whining: “No one singled out the Democrats as the dirty tricksters — instead, Hill’s unproven leak was praised as part of a trend of leakers doing a ‘public service.'” Gotta love how testimony before Congress is somehow a “leak.”
Graham is particularly incensed that the media didn’t conform to the right-wing political agenda by airing live hearings during the Obama years. He was particularly upset that no Benghazi hearings were covered on live network TV, even though multiple investigations found nothing particularly scandalous and even Republican members of Congress admitted that the so-called scandal was designed to hurt Hillary Clinton’s election chances.
Another post the same day on the same subject came from Scott Whitlock, who complained:
In case you didn’t realize just how excited liberal journalists were about James Comey’s testimony in front of Congress on Thursday, CBS This Morning reporters described it as “historic” or “history” six times. Of course, they even looked back at Watergate for a comparison.
Whitlock later listed the sponsors of the “biased” CBS segments. He doesn’t explain where the supposed “bias” is in calling a historic event “historic” — and he refused to concede that a fired FBI director testifying before Congress about the president who fired him was, in fact, historic.