[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 109 (Thursday, July 7, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H4480]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              NETWORKS' COVERAGE OF ORLANDO ATTACK BIASED

  (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, the Media Research Center recently 
issued a report highlighting the three major news networks' slanted 
coverage of the Orlando terrorist attack.
  The Center found that ABC's, NBC's, and CBS' broadcast network 
programs ``flooded their shows with statements favoring gun control 
over gun rights by a ratio of 8 to 1.''
  The Orlando attacker was a radical Islamic extremist who pledged his 
allegiance to ISIS before committing the worst terrorist attack on U.S. 
soil since September 11, 2001. Instead of focusing on gun control, the 
liberal national media should tell the American people the full story 
about the Orlando attacker's radical Islamic views as the cause of 
these killings. Not a single gun control measure in Congress would have 
prevented his actions.

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