There was a striking and gloomy uniformity on most major TV channels on Thursday night as broadcasters abandoned their usual comedies and dramas to stand by cable news channels to provide live coverage to the selection committee. on January 6, 2021. Capitol. ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and MSNBC were among the networks that conducted two full hours of auditioning – an event that largely allowed them to unfold on their own, with a few breaks or improvements, waiting until the end for the presenters and their guests. offer formal commentary. “It was horrible,” said CBS Evening News presenter Norah O’Donnell after a Capitol police officer described slipping into the blood of an injured colleague and falling unconscious. “So many big balls,” Jake Tapper told CNN. The House Electoral Committee held its first meeting on June 9, after spending almost a year investigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. (Video: Mahlia Posey / The Washington Post, Photo: Demetrius Freeman / The Washington Post) Fox News, however, remained in the regular block of conservative opinion polls – often showing a lively look at the Capitol proceedings, but officially omitting the accompanying sound, while its hosts and guests vehemently criticized the committee. “The most boring, the most boring, there is absolutely nothing new, long Democratic fundraising disguised as a Jan. 6 hearing,” said Fox presenter Sean Hannity. “They have interrupted their regular schedule to bring you another extended prime-time run by Nancy Pelosi and Liz Cheney for Donald Trump and QAnon,” mocked Fox co-presenter Tucker Carlson. “It’s crazy and we do not play together. “This is the only time on an American news channel that will not broadcast its propaganda live.” A banner on the screen read: “The” BROADCAST TEST “of JANUARY 6 IS IN START”. The live coverage of the audition was broadcast on Fox’s sister channel, the less-watched Fox Business Network, where two Fox News presenters took a break. Brett Bayer meditated on a video collection of the uprising shared by the committee: “It recalls the thoughts and feelings of that day,” he said. “It was disgusting. It was dark.” “I do not think there was much new ground that was really pushed here,” said co-presenter Martha McCallum. He wondered why the hearing did not investigate the death of Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter who was shot and killed by a police officer as he stormed the Capitol. Most networks stuck with a fairly simple presentation, adding a few of the whiz-bang touches that adorn their election nights and other live events. Some offered a few graphic updates, such as a biographical note from committee vice-president Liz Cheney (R-Wyo). There were few attempts at immediate synthesis: Instead of a news, updated chyron, ABC mostly had just a “Capitol Attack: The Survey” banner at the bottom of the screen. The close monitoring of the hearings extended to the occasional outbursts of vulgarity revealed in testimonies and documents: “Thanks to your bulls — we are now under siege,” Cheney read aloud, without blood, in an email written Jan. 6 from a Adviser to Vice President Mike Pence to Legal Adviser to President Donald Trump. At a Jan. 6 hearing on June 9, MP Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) Said President Donald Trump said Vice President Mike Pence “deserved” the hanging. (Video: The Washington Post, Photo: Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post) Only when the panel took a break did the screenshots differ greatly from channel to channel. CBS turned out to be a shocking scene in a corner of the auditorium of two people weeping together: Capitol Officer Harry Dan and Sandra Garza, a longtime friend of Dunn’s late colleague Brian D. Sickwick. January and died the next day. On CNN, viewers listened to Chris Wallace, the veteran Fox presenter who left the network late last year and later said it was partly due to Carlson’s efforts to downgrade Jan. 6 or promote a conspiracy theorist. for her as a “fake flag”. Event. Wallace praised the audition as “a very strong presentation with a good production”, paying close attention to the riot plots: “They do not lose their ability to shock and intimidate you,” he said. “This is a mob that breaks the walls of the citadel.” On NBC, presenter Chuck Todd told presenter Lester Holt that the hearing provided “research we could not do in the second referral.” Compared to most Trump-era hearings, he said, “she really has the evidence. That connects the dots. “ They remained unconvinced, however, on Fox News, where MacCallum and a fellow presenter dealt more directly with the substance of the hearing, after the opinion broadcasts took place at 11 p.m. “Did that shake the needle at all?” asked Shannon Bream, wondering about undecided or hesitant voters. “I doubt it,” MacCallum replied.
