Fundraising story non-existent over the weekend. Even news of another policy payoff to a donor failed to stir the networks.
Headline contrasts on China and the line item veto.
One show discussed an undercovered news story, but it was not the hearings, and another raised conservative concern about the lack of hearings coverage. The last mention of fundraising on the CBS show came on Wednesday, July 9 before the first witness even appeared. Friday's This Morning aired two lengthy and separate segments on baby talk as a universal language employed by mothers around the world. A lot of conservative media watch groups are saying that we, the mainstream media, are not paying as much attention as perhaps we should be to these hearings. The truth is that the witnesses that have come so far have not been names that anyone that in the media would recognize, for the most part.