The liberal broadcast networks love to throw around the term “historic” to praise legislative actions by Democrats. But since Wednesday, the network turned a blind eye to Congressional Republicans and Democrats coming together for the first time in 30 years to slap down a local D.C. law that would go soft on crime by reducing sentences for some violent crimes, including ones for guns. But while the private broadcasters ignored it, PBS NewsHour lamented that Congress exercised its constitutional authority.
Instead of reporting on the historic exercise of congressional authority backed by President Biden Wednesday evening, CBS Evening News was busy with the latest drama from the British royal family, NBC Nightly News was looking for UFOs again, and ABC’s World News Tonight hyped the Oscars.
Over on PBS that evening, anchor Amna Nawaz led into the segment by bemoaning how “A U.S. Senate vote today means, for the first time in 30 years, Congress and the President will block a Washington D.C. local law, a bill that would overhaul the city's criminal code.”
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