CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS Ignore Bombshell Wuhan Lab Report

House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans have conducted a probe into the origins of the COVID-19 virus, and on Monday, they released a report that makes a compelling case that COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan lab. It's a bombshell. However, the blue-chip TV news outlets haven't deemed it worthy of airtime.

According to Fox News' Brian Flood, CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, NBC News, and CBS News have all chosen to ignore the report.

Meanwhile, the New York Times has gone even further than these TV outlets and actually suppressed evidence of the lab leak theory. Two Times employees confirmed to The Spectator on Monday that a top editor at the Times instructed staffers not to investigate the origins of COVID-19. The New York Times apparently didn't want to know the truth -- or perhaps they already knew the truth, but didn't want it made public.

The mainstream media's continued efforts to cover up China's probable involvement in the development of the virus raises a troubling question: who exactly is issuing these commands to obfuscate or ignore actual reporting?

CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS are supposedly all competitors. Yet they use the same talking points, ignore the same stories, and even copy each other's chyrons, which indicates that one person or group of people is issuing the same directives to each network. So who is doing that?

The obvious answer is Democratic politicians. CNN, NBC, ABC, and CBS refused to question the origins of the coronavirus to avoid giving credence to then-President Donald Trump, who stated last year that he believed COVID originated in a lab. With the election just months away, the media couldn't risk validating Trump in anything.

Still, the New York Times ignoring the origins of COVID likely runs deeper than Trump or D.C.

As The Spectator reported, the Times received millions of dollars from Chinese government-controlled outlets, particularly China Daily, before the pandemic. Have these same Chinese government-controlled outlets gotten to the TV networks? That's another question we are not supposed to ask.

What's troubling, these outlets aren't covering up an inconsequential topic of the culture war, like the deletion of Twitter followers. Instead, they are ignoring the origins of COVID, a once-in-a-century pandemic.

As Joe Concha of The Hill has argued, finding the origins of the pandemic is "the most important investigation we can do of our lifetimes," and that history will repeat itself if we don't learn how the pandemic began.

"When you think about it, coming to that conclusion must have been really hard unless, you know, you're partisan and trying to push a narrative because there were barely any boots on the ground in China," Concha said. "Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times all had journalists expelled from China at the onset, the very beginning of the pandemic, so it was impossible to verify anything or get answers."

Therein lies the reason just 21% of Americans still have confidence in newspapers, and why only 16% trust TV news.

Media members are not just liars. They are pawns. Their networks pick and choose topics based on how well they think they can spin the stories leftward, and their on-air personalities go right along with it. 

Apparently, the networks couldn't spin the House Foreign Affairs Committee's findings well enough. Thus, CNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS viewers remain unaware of the probe.