Saturday’s leftist “Palms Off” protests in opposition to President Trump and Elon Musk had been eagerly promoted on the community information packages – though they didn’t wish to tag them as leftist. It’s fairly a distinction to how these identical networks barely acknowledged or skipped the annual “March for Life” protest on January 24.
Essentially the most dramatic distinction got here on PBS. On Saturday, PBS Information Weekend rolled out seven minutes and 22 seconds of protest protection. Against this, in January, PBS managed 29 seconds in a bigger story.
NPR aired three minutes and 54 seconds on Saturday night time and Sunday morning, in comparison with zero seconds for pro-lifers in January. On All Issues Thought of, Asma Khalid was the exception to the rule, with one ideological discover: “it looks like the Left has been battling the best way to oppose Trump these final couple of months.”
ABC led their newscast with 95 seconds of protest protection on Saturday night time and one other three minutes and 18 seconds on Good Morning America. Take that 4:53 and evaluate it to only 27 seconds for the March for Life.
NBC broadcast 74 promotional seconds on Saturday night time after which folded in 30 seconds on Sunday At present. Like NPR, NBC utterly ignored the pro-life march.
CBS doesn’t actually make the reduce on this rely, since we had no CBS Weekend Information on Saturday night time and there have been 10 seconds on the protests on Sunday Morning. Again in January, many of the nation noticed golf protection in January (on a Friday night time). That they had 21 seconds for the pro-life march on the West Coast.
PBS Information Weekend anchor John Yang led off like a press launch from protest organizers: “Throughout the nation and world wide at this time, tens of hundreds of individuals turned out for what organizers say has been the most important single day of protest in opposition to President Trump and his second time period insurance policies and actions on this nation. Greater than a thousand rallies had been deliberate in small cities and main cities from coast to coast.”
NBC’s night story featured 5 indignant lefty protester soundbites and hyped video clips from fourteen totally different protest places, and there have been no labels.
NBC’s Vaughn Hillyard hyped the Saturday protests on the ‘Nightly Information.’ He started: “Big turnouts, from Washington, D.C. To Chicago, West Virginia, Utah, and past. Protests in almost each state.” They confirmed clips from 14 places. #pepsquad pic.twitter.com/A769CZ3eVP
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ABC weekend anchor Whit Johnson at the very least described the protests as “organized by Democratic activists.”
On Saturday night time, ABC Information led with the Left: “We start tonight with a mass protest from coast to coast, People taking to the streets, voicing their frustrations with the insurance policies of the Trump administration and Elon Musk, the world’s richest man.” #pepsquad pic.twitter.com/oINGDGmPYW
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When the Democrats set up protests to drive some unanimously anti-Trump protection, the networks are arrive on the scene with pom-poms.
