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    ABC, NBC, CBS give Biden a pass on border fentanyl crisis, study shows


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    ABC, NBC, CBS give Biden a pass on border fentanyl crisis, study shows

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    Scott Whitlock analyzed the broadcast network morning and evening newscasts from January 1 through September 15 and found that the fentanyl crisis was covered for nearly 40 combined minutes, but only 30 seconds were devoted to Biden or his role.
    "In eight and a half months of fentanyl stories, ABC, CBS and NBC allowed just two mentions — totaling 30 seconds — of the man in charge of the immigration policy leading to this drug crisis," Whitlock wrote.



    ABC, NBC and CBS have given President Biden a pass when covering the ongoing fentanyl crisis, according to a new study from the Media Research Center. AP Photo/Susan Walsh© (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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    Since the beginning of the year, Whitlock found that CBS covered the crisis for over 29 minutes – a significant advantage over NBC and ABC.
    "NBC came in a distant second at six minutes and 54 seconds and ABC managed a scant two minutes and 57 seconds," Whitlock wrote.



    A bag containing approximately 1 17,500 fentanyl pills. Phoenix PD© Phoenix PD

    The MRC noted that "much like other crises" during the Biden administration, such as the border, gas prices and the baby formula shortage, ABC, CBS and NBC all treated the president "as a bystander to these severe problems" plaguing America.
    Whitlock found a series of examples, such as the May 10 "NBC Nightly News" segment that failed to mention Biden.

    "Today is the first-ever national Fentanyl Awareness Day. It’s an effort by the DEA to spread the word about the synthetic opioid that now accounts for nearly two-thirds of all overdose deaths in the U.S.," NBC’s Lester Holt said without acknowledging Biden.

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    Another example came on May 11 when "CBS Evening News" anchor Norah O’Donnell declined to mention Biden.
    "Today, the CDC shared a truly staggering statistic on drug overdoses.... Overdoses involved fentanyl and other synthetic opioids, topped 71,000, accounting for about two-thirds of all fatal overdoses in 2021," O’Donnell said.
    Whitlock found that "even when the focus of the story was fentanyl and the border, Biden or the administration didn’t come up" despite the two issues occurring during his presidency.
    The 30 seconds when Biden was actually mentioned during fentanyl coverage mostly came on May 10 when O’Donnell interviewed Drug Enforcement Administration Administrator Anne Milgram, according to Whitlock.



    Fentanyl pills intercepted at mailing facilities in Staten Island. DEA© DEA

    "The other example came with a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it three second reference on the June 14 ‘Today,’" Whitlock wrote.
    Fentanyl has become the largest driver of the U.S. opioid epidemic in recent years, with seizures of the drug spiking nearly 200% at the southern border in July, the highest amount seized in at least four fiscal years.

    Congressional candidate Cassy Garcia, R-Texas, running in Texas' 28th District against Rep. Henry Cuellar D-Texas, is the wife of a Border Patrol agent, and she said she wants voters to do what the media won’t and hold Democrats accountable.
    "The record number of illegal crossings are not just statistics for me. It’s hurting communities like mine and creating a humanitarian crisis. Unfortunately, too many in the mainstream media would rather ignore the role that President Biden’s policies have played in fueling this crisis and scandal-ridden Henry Cuellar’s failure to address it," Garcia told Fox News Digital.
    "We need a strong and secure border, and voters will hold them accountable," she said. "Even if the media won’t."
    Conservative radio host Jason Rantz believes Biden’s name should be synonymous with the fentanyl crisis.
    "The Biden administration -- and Democrats as a whole -- play a huge role on our fentanyl crisis. It’s disgraceful that the media gives them a pass," Rantz told Fox News Digital.
    "Biden’s open border allows fentanyl to flood into this country. Drug cartels have used the open border to poison Americans and get them hooked. Concurrently, you have Democrats who have effectively legalized drugs in democrat-run cities, counties, and states," Rantz continued. "Since we stopped charging for personal possession, cops can’t lean on addicts to leverage jail time for information on who is their dealer. It’s made drug dealers much more difficult to catch."
    Fentanyl accounted for nearly 75% of U.S. drug overdose fatalities in 2021, with the drug being linked to around 80,000 overdose deaths last year.
    "You might think journalists would want to investigate what’s causing this exploding fentanyl crisis and the death it is inflicting across the country. But not the reporters at ABC, CBS and NBC. In order to protect Joe Biden, they won’t point fingers," Whitlock wrote. "After all, that might harm Democratic chances in the midterm elections."
    Fox News’ Michael Lee contributed to this report.

    ABC, NBC, CBS give Biden a pass on border fentanyl crisis, study shows (msn.com)

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    Media Matters Head ‘Terrified” CNN Will Be Sold To Fox News


    September 24, 2022

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    The head of Media Matters For America is “terrified” that CNN will sell to Fox News, leaving the Murdoch owned business in charge of a major swath of news coverage.
    Many Democrats have been sounding the alarm as CNN has made a noted shift to becoming more centrist in its coverage.
    The Media Matters head, Angelo Carusone spoke to SiriusXM host Dean Obeidallah on Friday to voice his concerns,” Mediaite reported.

    “Thing I really am afraid of is that it is honesty that they sell to Rupert Murdoch. I’m terrified of this. It is super, it is his white whale and I think that it doesn’t fit into Discovery’s portfolio in a meaningful way. I’ve always been afraid of this, and the posture of making the platform more appealing, more attractive, more neutral, I think weakens it enough that they say, ‘Look, it’s just not worth it. We didn’t get the returns on investment. It hasn’t turned the corner yet.’ You know, I don’t think they’re going to get the audience gains that they think they’re going to get, which is part of the strategy. And that’s a real problem, too. So at its core, I’m afraid that in the short term, we see some bad coverage out of them, some spots of bad coverage which actually have bigger harms when it comes from CNN. And then bigger… But longer term, I think that it actually weakens the business model of CNN enough that it makes them more susceptible to just being spun off. And that’s not great either,” he said.

    “That’s interesting, I never thought about that last one…,” the host said.
    “So I don’t think people realize how often Rupert Murdoch tries to buy CNN. It happens all the time. He did it and he made a really aggressive, year-long plus play in 2017 and a run at it in 2014. He’s made runs I did during the early 2000, and that matters because that’s how we got the Wall Street Journal. He tried to buy it half a dozen times before it, before he eventually convinced the Bancrofts, which were the owners of the Wall Street Journal, to sell it. So I don’t think it’s it’s insane or too far gone to say, nah, this guy doesn’t need to finance if he’s sitting on a mountain of cash that was supposed to be used and is earmarked for media acquisitions, they haven’t used it yet. It’s just I mean, there’s a mountain of cash. He doesn’t need the financing. He can pay for the deal in cash. He can overpay, which is what Rupert Murdoch always does. He always overpays, always, because he knows that it’s easier,” he said.

    The interview comes the same week that CNN has made another major change to its network during a series of changes that have seen some of the network’s top talents gone.

    In its most recent earthquake to the network, CNN host Don Lemon has lost his primetime show and will be moved to mornings as part of a host team as the current morning show “New Day” is being canceled, The Wrap reported.
    Don Lemon will lose his primetime CNN show on weeknights to co-anchor the network’s reimagined morning show with Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins, the network announced Thursday.
    The new morning show will debut later in the year with a new name, format, and set — and signals the end of “Don Lemon Tonight” after an eight-year run. CNN did not announce any plans for how it will fill Lemon’s primetime slot, which has long lagged behind Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” in the ratings.
    John Berman and Brianna Keilar, who currently anchor the network’s ratings-challenged “New Day,” will shift to other roles at CNN later in the year.

    It has been a time of change with the new ownership at CNN and it has affected more than Don Lemon.
    Mere hours after he praised President Joe Biden’s anti-MAGA Republican speech, CNN White House Correspondent John Harwood was gone from the news network.
    CNN has been undergoing changes with the idea of getting to a more centrist news style and away from partisan leaning, and that has meant that some CNN personalities have to go.

    Neither the network nor Harwood said if he was fired, quit or it was a mutual decision, but the timing had many wondering if his praise of President Biden’s divisive speech was the cause.
    Harwood said in a tweet, “personal news: today’s my last day at CNN proud of the work thanks to my colleagues i’ve been lucky to serve the best in American media – St. Petersburg Times, WSJ, NYT, the NBC family, CNN look forward to figuring out what’s next.”

    Media Matters Head 'Terrified" CNN Will Be Sold To Fox News (conservativebrief.com)
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