BROADCAST BIAS: Platner’s nomination exposes media double standards … again

Radical leftist Graham Platner easily seized the Democrat nomination for the U.S. Senate in Maine on Tuesday, despite a semi-truckload of scandal baggage. It began last year with the revelation that Platner had a Nazi tattoo on his chest, and it was not a swastika – it was a "Totenkopf," the symbol of the S.S. troops that guarded the death camps in the Holocaust. The broadcast networks avoided the subject of Platner and his tattoo for months. On April 22, a National Public Radio story skipped ov