Media Blackout

Speech delivered by Chairman Lamar Smith on the House floor on September 14, 2017

Here are the most recent examples of the liberal national media ignoring inconvenient news.

• The economy grew by three percent last quarter, the fastest pace in years. But you might not know this good news because of the media blackout of the story by broadcast networks.
• The media blackout extended to a story by the New York Times on a current Senator’s corruption trial, which failed to mention he was a Democrat in a 1,288 word story.
• The media hyped the claim that climate change was responsible for Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. But the media blacked out that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that hurricanes are not increasing in intensity or frequency. 

This is what the liberal media do: they ignore the facts that contradict to the liberal view they want to promote with their readers and viewers.