[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 136 (Friday, October 4, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H6241]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          NETWORKS' BIAS SHOWS

  (Mr. SMITH of Texas asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SMITH of Texas. Mr. Speaker, in the weeks leading up to the 
government shutdown, ABC, NBC, and CBS tried to make sure that it would 
be the Republicans who were responsible.
  A Media Research Center analysis found that from September 17 through 
September 30, the networks' evening newscasts ran a total of 39 stories 
about a possible government shutdown. Of these stories, over half 
blamed Republicans for the potential shutdown. Not one news report 
placed the blame on the Democrats.
  Yet it is Republicans who have passed such bills as keeping the 
National Institutes of Health open and making sure that veterans get 
their benefits. These bills are opposed by the President and the Senate 
Democrats. Republicans want to reduce the pain of the shutdown for the 
American people, but they are blocked by those who want the entire 
government to remain shut down.
  Americans deserve a national media that gives them the facts rather 
than one that is in the pocket of the Democratic Party.

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