Outlets Covered ‘Signalgate’ 7x More Than Yemen Airstrikes
The article discusses the disparity in media coverage between the “Signalgate” controversy and U.S. military airstrikes on Yemen. According to a study by the Media Research Center, three major TV networks—ABC, NBC, and CBS—dedicated seven times more airtime to the Signalgate issue compared to the Yemeni airstrikes, with almost 100 minutes spent on Signalgate compared to under 15 minutes for the military actions. The Signalgate incident stemmed from a mistakenly included magazine editor in a group chat involving administration officials, which the media focused on extensively. Critics argue that this reflects the media’s prioritization of stories that may embarrass political figures, specifically Donald Trump, rather than focusing on significant national security issues.The article suggests that this approach undermines the media’s credibility and highlights a disinterest in genuinely relevant public interest stories.
As the dying media continue moaning about losing seat assignment privileges in the White House press briefing room, they might consider: The main three TV network news channels devoted seven times the coverage to the hyped-up “Signalgate” controversy than they did to actual U.S. military airstrikes on Islamic terrorists in Yemen, according to a new study.
Maybe if they’re good little girls and get their priorities in order, they’ll get to sit next to their besties in the front row again.
The Media Research Center gave The Federalist numbers showing that, in five days, ABC, NBC, and CBS collectively produced almost 100 minutes of airtime on “Signalgate,” the fake scandal last week wherein a perversely anti-Trump magazine editor was mistakenly added to a group chat with high-level administration officials. That figure dwarfs the less than 15 minutes over a similar time frame that the networks used to cover military attacks against the Houthis, the launch of which was discussed in that very chat.
The attacks were launched on Saturday, March 15. From that day to March 19, ABC aired just under 10 minutes on strikes against the Houthis, according to the media watchdog’s analysis. From the day that Atlantic magazine broke the “Signalgate” news, March 24, through March 28, the network aired almost 32 minutes on that story, more than triple the coverage.
In those same time periods, CBS aired just over two minutes on the airstrikes vs. 35 minutes on “Signalgate.” NBC ran about two minutes on the airstrikes vs. more than 32 minutes on “Signalgate.”
“The corporate media believe they have a responsibility to prioritize any news story that could potentially embarrass President Trump,” Media Research Center Senior Analyst Bill D’Agostino told me. “That’s why the broadcast networks have been salivating over this Signal chat. If they were seriously interested in the national security angle, as they would have us believe, then they’d have paid a similar amount of attention to the actual airstrikes discussed in the leaked messages.”
That the dying media genuinely find it more compelling to trifle with the very stupid mistake of letting Jeffrey Goldberg view would-be private conversations over literally anything else, let alone a military operation against a global menace that’s been terrorizing commercial ships and interrupting international trade, is telling.
It tells you this is not a media serious about what’s in the public’s interest, but first and foremost in derailing the president they failed to deny reelection.
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