ABC News Refuses To Ask Adam Schiff About His Push For Big Tech Censorship

Schiff Avoids Scrutiny: ABC News host Jonathan Karl didn’t ask Schiff a single question about his attempts to censor dissenting voices on Twitter.

journalist would have grilled Adam Schiff on his secret attempts to censor his enemies, but ABC’s Jonathan Karl is not a journalist.

California Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff, who helped spearhead the Russia collusion hoax and the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump, appeared on ABC News’ “This Week” with co-anchor Jonathan Karl on Sunday. When Karl questioned the California congressman on President Joe Biden’s gross incompetence in mishandling classified documents, Schiff predictably used the interview as an opportunity to smear efforts by his Republican colleagues investigating the matter and to take cheap shots at Trump.

While Karl’s teeing Schiff up to regurgitate White House talking points should come as little surprise to anyone familiar with the legacy media’s propagandist tendencies, it’s what the ABC News host didn’t include in his line of questioning that’s even more revealing about the interference media figures run for Democrat politicos.

Over the past several weeks, journalist Matt Taibbi has released a series of “Twitter Files” documenting efforts by Schiff and his staff to pressure Twitter into censoring individuals and content they didn’t approve of — even if said accounts or posts didn’t violate the platform’s guidelines. In a batch of files published on Jan. 3, Taibbi unveiled a Nov. 12, 2020, email detailing how the California Democrat’s office asked the Big Tech company to suspend several accounts, including that of journalist Paul Sperry, which Schiff’s staff claimed “repeatedly promoted false QAnon conspiracies.”

Unfortunately, Karl’s obfuscation of Schiff’s scandal is nothing new when it comes to the loathsome behavior of America’s legacy media. Since the continuing release of the “Twitter Files” began late last year, corporate cable news outlets have overwhelmingly refused to cover the topic.

According to a Fox News report published last month, major media networks “NBC News, CBS News, ABC News, and CNN largely ignored the ‘Twitter files’ on the air, with only MSNBC offering substantial coverage of the company’s internal documents.”

“CNN covered the story for three minutes, only on Dec. 9, while MSNBC spent two minutes on the story the same day, as well as five minutes on Dec. 11 and four minutes on Dec. 12,” the Dec. 13 report reads. “CBS News, ABC News, and NBC News have not discussed the Twitter files in the last week.”

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