By BILL D’AGOSTINO | MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER
Last week, MRC released a study on how the broadcast networks fawned over Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a deported Salvadoran illegal immigrant, with sympathetic coverage.
From April 1 through the morning of April 15, ABC, NBC, and CBS dedicated a staggering 64 minutes, 57 seconds to the case. All the while, the networks ignored — ZERO minutes — the trial of Salvadoran illegal immigrant Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, found guilty of the horrific rape and murder of Rachel Morin.
One key to the networks’ journalistic malfeasance lay in the attorney for the Morin family squarely blaming Biden’s immigration policies for their daughter’s death, noting that Martinez-Hernandez was caught at the border three separate times.
MRC’s latest study on the Kilmar Abrego Garcia coverage fiasco exposes the farm-league leftists at CNN and MSNBC, who, over three weeks, shamelessly peddled Garcia as a “Maryland man” or “Maryland father” 506 times in 318 reports, dwarfing mentions of his Salvadoran origin by nearly fivefold.
All to paint Garcia as a sympathetic figure. The media believe in importing, not deporting, potential Democrat voters.
MRC’s analysis also found that MSNBC, in 161 stories, mustered only 11 mentions of Garcia’s illegal status (6.8%) and noted his Salvadoran roots in just 30% of reports (48 times), peddling the “Maryland man” fraud with gusto. CNN, barely less complicit, cited Garcia’s illegal status in just 21 of 157 segments (13.4%) and his Salvadoran nationality in 34% (54 times).
The cable networks largely ignored new allegations against Garcia, including a 2021 protective order filed by his wife, who accused him of punching and scratching her, leaving her bleeding, and a 2022 detention in Tennessee on suspicion of human trafficking. CNN mentioned the protective order in just 36% of 25 segments (9 times) and trafficking once (4%); MSNBC cited the protective order in 15% of reports (5 times) and trafficking once (3%).
I’m glad he is home. I wonder if he had to kill an American citizen to become a MS 13 Club member. Guess we’ll never know. Hope someone told him to not to drop the Soap.
Democrats are nothing but pure trash
Why do we care about this Garcia man again? Seriously. If any of us ended up in jail or, heaven forbid, detained in a foreign prison because we broke the law some other place, nobody would care. There would be no news coverage, no tears, and no efforts to bring us back. As far as I can tell, this man that got deported, rightly or wrongly, is a lawless thug and isn’t even a US citizen. Therefore, to call him a “Maryland Man” is completely disingenuous. We still have millions of illegal immigrants inside the USA, and Trump has barely even scratched the surface of deporting them, yet our MSM is acting like we are rounding up all the Mexicans and putting them in internment camps or something stupid like that. That’s not even close to what is happening.