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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2293952" data-attributes="member: 12952">Network newscasts devoted 50 times more air-time to Khizr Khan, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention about his son who was killed in combat while in Iraq, than to Pat Smith, who spoke at the Republican National Convention about her son who died in Benghazi.The Media Research Center <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2016/08/01/khizr-khans-trump-criticisms-receive-50x-more-time-pat-smith" target="_blank">report</a> details the coverage breakdown per network:Coverage of Pat Smith:ABC: 13 secondsCBS: 3 secondsNBC: 54 secondsTOTAL: 1 minute, 10 secondsCoverage of Khizir Khan:ABC: 14 minutes, 21 secondsCBS: 9 minutes, 13 secondsNBC: 31 minutes, 39 secondsTOTAL: 55 minutes, 13 seconds“This is a textbook case of bias-by-agenda: One of these stories (the Khan story) matched the Democratic agenda, and the partisan media couldn’t push it hard enough. The other (the Smith story) reflected poorly on the Democratic nominee, so it was barely mentioned,” writes Media Research Center’s Geoffrey Dickens.<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/01/tv-networks-give-50x-air-time-khizr-khan-pat-smith/" target="_blank">TV Networks Give 50x More Air-Time to Khizr Khan than Pat Smith</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2293952, member: 12952"] [SIZE=5][B]Network newscasts devoted 50 times more air-time to Khizr Khan, who spoke at the Democratic National Convention about his son who was killed in combat while in Iraq, than to Pat Smith, who spoke at the Republican National Convention about her son who died in Benghazi.[/B][/SIZE] The Media Research Center [URL='http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2016/08/01/khizr-khans-trump-criticisms-receive-50x-more-time-pat-smith']report[/URL] details the coverage breakdown per network: Coverage of Pat Smith: ABC: 13 seconds CBS: 3 seconds NBC: 54 seconds TOTAL: 1 minute, 10 seconds Coverage of Khizir Khan: ABC: 14 minutes, 21 seconds CBS: 9 minutes, 13 seconds NBC: 31 minutes, 39 seconds TOTAL: 55 minutes, 13 seconds “This is a textbook case of bias-by-agenda: One of these stories (the Khan story) matched the Democratic agenda, and the partisan media couldn’t push it hard enough. The other (the Smith story) reflected poorly on the Democratic nominee, so it was barely mentioned,” writes Media Research Center’s Geoffrey Dickens. [URL="http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/01/tv-networks-give-50x-air-time-khizr-khan-pat-smith/"]TV Networks Give 50x More Air-Time to Khizr Khan than Pat Smith[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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