Impeachment Rhetoric
Channel: Sean Anderson
Date: 23/01/2020

I turned on the television a bit before 3pm (Pacific Standard Time) on Day 3 (Thursday, January 23, 2020) of the Senate Impeachment Trial of President Trump to take a gander at what was going on.  I was surprised to see wall to wall streams of the C-SPAN feed from the Senate Floor, save for one major national news outlet. Fox News was only carrying the feed (sand sound or crawl) in the extreme lower right corner of the screen. Rather than carry the trail, Fox was playing a talking head show known as The Five. Rather than discussing the unfolding case for impeachment of the President, commentators were espousing the President's "big" environmental news that he had decided to support an existing effort to plant trees across the globe (and how this showed that he is supposedly no longer a climate change denier).

This is an excellent example of how folks who limit themselves to narrowly-targeted news sources can get a wildly different picture of the world, often distorted.