Biden gave us the most unsecure border we have had in years, and it was completely intentional. He got rid of the working Trump border policies, without having anything to implement in their stead, and practically invited migrants to come here and cross our border illegally, when he promised amnesty to the illegals living here. Our Border Patrol broke records throughout the year with the number of illegals they caught because of this. But if you ask a moderate Dem or independent about it, they would likely know very little about this crisis, especially if they got their news from the MSM. A study shows that the MSM has been trying to shape public opinion by barely covering the border crisis throughout the year.
“In 2021, the number of migrants apprehended at the southern border was the highest in 20 years, repeatedly shattering records, but the evening newscasts did their very best to drop the story whenever possible. In December, ABC and CBS allowed less than a minute combined: 17 seconds on World News Tonight and 20 seconds on the CBS Evening News.
The NBC Nightly News did slightly better, managing a still unimpressive 3 minutes and 43 seconds. Shockingly, this combination of 260 seconds is better than November. But anything would be superior to November as the three evening newscasts offered zero minutes and zero seconds that month.
Unlike some of the other stories on this list, the border saw spikes in coverage. In March of 2021, there were 173,283 incidents on the border and 113 minutes of coverage. That number dropped to 44 minutes in April and 26 minutes in May. After a brief spike in June, back up to 54 minutes, it dropped to just 4 minutes of coverage in July.
And keep in mind, many of the months the networks abandoned the border were periods of new records. July’s spike to 212,672 apprehensions is quite the contrast to four minutes of coverage.
Here’s the last six months of border crisis coverage (on the ABC, CBS, and NBC evening newscasts). Note the spikes in September and October, but otherwise, the networks buried the ongoing disaster:
July total coverage: 4 minutes and 20 seconds. August total coverage: 6 minutes and 28 seconds. September total coverage: 54 minutes and 10 seconds. October total coverage: 17 minutes and 36 seconds. November total coverage: ZERO. December total coverage: 4 minutes and 20 seconds.”
This is why Fox News and OAN are so important. And this is only one topic. Trump is getting proven more and more right about his claim that the MSM is fake news every day.
