It was bound to be a nauseating day for anyone who turned on CNN or MSNBC Thursday during their voluminous coverage for the first anniversary of the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and, according to a NewsBusters tallying of their live programming (20 hours on CNN and 19 hours on MSNBC), they didn’t disappoint.
All in all, The two left-leaning channels spent 1,553 minutes demonizing Trump voters and marking the occasion.
Official total is 1,653 seconds and 2 seconds. That’s equivalent to 27 hours and 33 minutes and 22 seconds. MSNBC’s 838 minutes and 33 seconds surprisingly beat out the perpetually degrading and perhaps most insufferable CNN, which had 814 minutes and 29 seconds.
The monstrosity that was this number was compounded by the fact, NewsBusters stated, that major broadcast networks ABC, CBS, and NBC were affected. spentTheir two-hour morning newscasts last almost 90 minutes It’s just overTheir 30-minute evening newscasts last 38 minutes.
CNN’s coverage was centered on a hate of conservatives and Republicans, not only those who were charged with the riot. The 92 minute-long Special entitled “The Hate of All” was the focus of their coverage. Live from the Capitol: January 6th and One Year LaterWhich Was milked for TV productionStatuary Hall, as is frequently the case with Jeff Zucker.
The special will be held from 4-6 p.m. AC360Anderson Cooper, host Claim Fox News and the rest of conservative media “relish the idea of sparking another civil war” and preventing the country from properly coming together.
Hours earlier, retired Capitol Police officer Michael Fanone — who’s Cashing outYou can learn more about his services and anti-Trump rhetoric from becoming a CNN law enforcement analyst ProclamedOn Day of the New that the right’s “still engaging in the same violent rhetoric”Above the level of a year earlier AdditionRepublicans: “insurrectionist” “jackasses.”
Don Lemon concluded coverage. He was joined by Stuart Stevens. The GOP and its millions of members are “an autocratic force” And demanded that former Presidents Bill Clinton & Barack Obama go barnstorming the country in an effort to deride those who vote Republican.
These are just a few of the many examples.
You can read more about it here. MSNBC, it wasn’t any better. On MTP DailyChuck Todd, the host Falsely claimed Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 election “was more accepted” in America than Joe Biden’s 2020 win. This would overlook the fact that 11 states seceded within 6 months.
Douglas Brinkley, long-time presidential historian for liberals was Craig Melvin ReportsTwo hours earlier insistentThe January 6, in the same way as the Holocaust, had video evidence that crimes were committed.
To further show their disconnect from reality, seven of CNN’s 12 shows had full segments or news briefs that talked about something other than January 6, but four of them were in shows that aired before noon Eastern.
OutFront host Erin Burnett was the last CNN host/show to have spent time on something other than January 6 as her 7:00 p.m. Eastern show had a three-minute-and-25-second piece on tennis star Novak Djokovic and then a 39-second news brief on the Chicago Teachers Union choosing to abandon their students.
MSNBC wasn’t any better as only five out of 16 shows featured something other than January 6 coverage.
In the 9:00 p.m. Eastern hour, Rachel Maddow used 68 seconds from her show’s final few minutes to update viewers on the fire at a Tennessee Planned Parenthood facility, which authorities Now, say that is being investigatedAs arson.
Before that show, Craig Melvin was the last to present something new in the 11:00 Eastern time hour.
When CNN and MSNBC tell Fox News or other media outlets that they don’t have the right priorities, make sure you show them such tallies.
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