News shows on major television networks have devoted almost six hours of coverage to accusations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, while spending less than one-tenth of that time reporting on Kavanaugh’s unequivocal denials and that the accusers’ accounts of the alleged events have gone uncorroborated, according to a study by the Media Research Center (MRC).
Since Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) announced the existence of a letter on Sept. 13 accusing Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, newscasts on ABC, CBS, and NBC spent 344 minutes repeating the allegations, with only 8 percent of the coverage focused on the fact that the claims haven’t corroborated by witnesses and that Kavanaugh had denied the allegations, under penalty of perjury.
