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The vice presidential debate is tomorrow night — will JD Vance get a fair shake?
According to a recently released report from the Media Research Center, CBS News, host of the vice presidential debate, has expressed heavy bias in its coverage of the 2024 election.
From MRC:
During the two months from July 21 (when President Biden left the race) through September 27, our analysts reviewed all 346 minutes of campaign coverage (161 stories) on the CBS Evening News and its Saturday/Sunday twin, the CBS Weekend News. We found that coverage of Vice President Kamala Harris has been extremely positive (84%), while coverage of former President Donald Trump has been lopsidedly negative (79%). (See Methodology explanation at the end of this post.)
While there was far less discussion of the vice presidential candidates, we found the same wild imbalance: 89% positive coverage for the Democrat Walz, vs. 89% negative coverage for the Republican Vance. Add it all up, and coverage of the Democratic ticket on the CBS Evening News was 85% positive, vs. 81% negative for the Republicans.
🚨 BREAKING STUDY: CBS heavily favors Harris-Walz.
Does anyone expect CBS’s @NorahODonnell and @margbrennan to remain objective in Tuesday’s VP debate? https://t.co/WBQ7IY3HFj
— MRC NewsBusters (@newsbusters) September 30, 2024
While it’s obvious that CBS would rather see a Harris-Walz Administration, there’s a chance the VP debate won’t be as controversial as the one-sided ABC News debate; CBS has pledged not to fact-check.
On Friday, CBS said the onus will be on Vance and Walz to point out misstatements by the other, and that “the moderators will facilitate those opportunities” during rebuttal time.
More over at The New York Post:
CBS News draws a red line after ABC debate fact-checking drama https://t.co/waOEpuuDOT pic.twitter.com/Tc1XNN2J3a
— New York Post (@nypost) September 28, 2024