Network TV News Reporting Biased in Kavanaugh Coverage, Study Finds

Network TV News Reporting Biased in Kavanaugh Coverage, Study Finds
Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee during the first day of his confirmation hearing to serve as Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court at the Capitol in Washington on Sept. 4, 2018. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
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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.

Ivan Pentchoukov
Ivan Pentchoukov
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Ivan is the national editor of The Epoch Times. He has reported for The Epoch Times on a variety of topics since 2011.
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