In the six weeks since then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy authorized the impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden for potential influence peddling, the broadcast evening newscasts have shown no interest in adequately covering the investigation. It’s a massive double-standard compared to their ravenous interest into Democrats’ 2019 impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.
From the day the inquiry into Biden was authorized (September 12) through October 23, ABC’s World News Tonight provided a grand total of just under six minutes of airtime (5 minutes, 53 seconds), not even one minute per week. NBC Nightly News was barely better — just six minutes, 26 seconds of coverage s …