BROADCAST BIAS: Networks furious that courts ended racial gerrymandering

The Supreme Court’s determination to cull radical gerrymandering brought retired the worst excesses connected the broadcast networks. An ABC newsman stood successful beforehand of the White House connected April 29 and claimed the determination was successful enactment with President Donald Trump’s "eager" efforts to "put further restrictions connected voting writ large" and "taking steps to truly undermine assurance successful the voting strategy up of the midterms."

These networks person a disturbing inclination to equate "democracy" and "civil rights" with immoderate helps Democrats. Both parties this twelvemonth person been aggressively pushing redistricting, but the media hasn’t displayed a nonpartisan reformist approach, urging a little governmental redistricting approach. Instead, they clothe each the Democrat arguments successful favorable terms.

Red states successful the South moving to alteration territory lines earlier the midterms is surely disadvantageous to Democrats, which is countered by their media vantage successful however it’s presented. "PBS News Hour" anchor Amna Nawaz summarized connected Tuesday: "The Supreme Court ruling against drafting legislature maps to support achromatic oregon different number voters has sparked a caller question successful the ongoing redistricting war."

Over the years, some parties person supported majority-minority districts to enactment Democrats unneurotic and guarantee Black Democrats tin triumph perennially without immoderate superior competition. PBS and others telephone that "protecting achromatic voters." They suggest Blacks don’t person voting rights unless they tin elite Black representatives.

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Co-host Whoopi Goldberg connected "The View" connected June 18, 2025. (ABC / Screenshot)

So, what happens erstwhile a majority-Black territory elects a White feline (Tennessee Democrat Rep. Steve Cohen successful Memphis) oregon an Indian-American feline (Michigan Democrat Rep. Shri Thanedar successful Detroit)? Every American national implicit 18 years of property who isn't a felon has voting rights. That was existent yesterday and today. But our media ever slants each contented into the distorted Democrat mentation of reality.

Consider the emblematic labeling bias. "Conservative" judges and politicians are opposed by "civil rights" activists (not leftists).

On "CBS Mornings" connected Thursday, May 7, newsman Ed O’Keefe suggested it was a "Republican powerfulness grab" to redistrict "Montgomery, Alabama, the birthplace of the modern civilian rights movement." Co-host Gayle King acceptable the meal array this way: "Last week's determination makes it overmuch harder for states to make districts favoring number candidates." What CBS should accidental is "districts favoring number Democrats."

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Another TV instrumentality is what we telephone the "covert wide activist," presented arsenic an mean Joe oregon Jane. According to CBS’s chyron successful the O’Keefe story, Rachel Turner was simply an "Alabama Voter," and she was shown lamenting the Supreme Court: "I conscionable felt similar I person been deed by a ton of bricks. So, galore radical gave their existent lives successful bid to workout their cardinal close to vote."

In existent life, Turner is really a subordinate of the Alabama Resistors' section of Indivisible, a progressive activistic radical that organizes the "No Kings" protests against Trump. She was featured nether that rubric connected a section CBS News study successful January protesting ICE enforcement activities: "We person to beryllium persistent if we respond to unit with peace, past yet we volition flooded the troubles that are holding america down today."

On Thursday night, O’Keefe was backmost connected CBS to lament the Republican authorities legislature successful Tennessee "broke up a bulk Black district," but didn’t enactment that the district’s Democrat congressman is white, oregon that a achromatic Republican pistillate has tally against him. O’Keefe relayed: "Tennessee Democrats could bash small much than protestation the move, and they did that lasting successful a line, shouting astatine Republicans arsenic they voted overwhelmingly to driblet the state's 1 Democratic legislature seat."

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On NBC, anchor Tom Llamas concisely noted: "We're backmost present with the aggravated combat implicit the redistricting successful Tennessee. Democratic lawmakers protesting aft Republicans successful the authorities legislature passed a caller legislature representation successful the aftermath of that landmark Supreme Court decision."

Neither CBS nor NBC bothered to see the sordid enactment that authorities Rep. Justin Pearson – a leader connected the broadcast networks successful a erstwhile legislative combat implicit weapon rights – screamed astatine authorities troopers trying to wide retired protesters from the chamber: "Move the f--- back! Boy!" and "What the f--- is incorrect with you? You anserine motherf----r!" Pearson enactment retired a connection claiming the Republicans committed "a governmental lynching."

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On "CBS Mornings" connected Thursday, May 7, newsman Ed O’Keefe suggested it was a "Republican powerfulness grab" to redistrict "Montgomery, Alabama, the birthplace of the modern civilian rights movement."

On Friday, the Virginia Supreme Court struck down a Democrat gerrymandering ballot inaugural that passed with lone 51.7% of the vote, contempt a monolithic spending advantage. On their streaming channels, the networks hyped the "voter-approved" part. NBC’s Zinhle Essamuah said, "they struck down thing that was voter-approved, a Democratic legislature redistricting plan. The Trump medication counting this arsenic a win."

CBS anchor Reed Cowan echoed: "the Virginia Supreme Court conscionable struck down a voter-approved Democratic legislature redistricting program successful that state." Reporter Katrina Kaufman claimed, "this is simply a important determination due to the fact that the Democrats volition suffer 4 seats successful districts successful Virginia." That’s unspeakable math. It means the Republicans won’t suffer 4 seats they presently have.

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On that ridiculous hub of mundane misinformation they telephone "The View," big Whoopi Goldberg claimed perfectly thing has changed successful the South implicit the past 60 years: "We enactment the Voting Rights Act unneurotic due to the fact that determination was an issue, due to the fact that they were keeping radical from voting! They were virtually shooting people! They were moving them down with dogs to support them from voting! OK? Let's commencement with that. So, erstwhile they accidental that occupation is gone, it's not gone, due to the fact that you're inactive doing it! You're inactive doing it!"

It’s this stubborn absorption to facts – that we are nary longer successful an epoch of rigid segregation and systemic racism, that determination tin ne'er beryllium a turning constituent connected contention – that underlines what’s incorrect with the "news" we get from the broadcast networks. 

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