Like ABC and NBC, CBS’s Friday evening and Saturday morning newscasts ignored the arrest of multiple juveniles in Washington, D.C. for the murder of congressional intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym. Unlike ABC and NBC, CBS Saturday Morning’s omission bias was made worse by the fact that Justice Correspondent Scott MacFarlane chose to hype a magistrate judge’s rebuke of the Trump Administration’s crime crackdown efforts instead.
Co-host Michelle Miler introduced MacFarlane, “The president deployed troops to Washington, D.C. last month, but now there's also new controversy stemming from how the Justice Department is handling a surge of arrests and cases in the capital. CBS News Justice Correspondent Scott Macfarlane explains from Washington.”
After reporting that the D.C. National Guard will be extending its deployment, MacFarlane unintentionally undermined the hysterical idea, prevalent in certain left-wing circles, that D.C. is now under military occupation, “Some of them are armed, but the Guard is not making arrests. That's left to local and federal agents on the street.”
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