Media members normally shy away from admitting bias in their reporting. Not so for OANN’s Stephanie Hamill. She openly embraced the conservative bias in her show (In Focus) in an interview with Sebastian Gorka Tuesday evening on his program America First. The pair of conservative media members also discussed the differences between liberal and conservative media bias.
“I don’t pretend not to be biased like some people,” Hamill told Gorka. “I admit it. I am biased. I am a conservative. I don’t hide it. I do have a conservative message on my show and I will keep speaking out even though it is unpopular among members of the mainstream media.”
Gorka argued, however, that having an openly conservative spin on the news is not bias.
“Let me just correct you,” Gorka interrupted. “Conservatives are not biased. We are just on the right side of the truth, we are not biased. It’s everybody else who is biased. We don’t have an ideology. They have an ideology. We believe in the truth, that’s the big difference.”
The conservative slant of media members like Gorka and Hamil seems to be growing in popularity with media consumers. Hamill asserted in the same interview with Gorka, that OANN is “Doing really well.” and that “According to Ren Track Data, we are #10 (network) overall and #4 for news”. OANN touted the same information in a press release, but since OANN does not subscribe to traditional methods of tracking viewership numbers, it is difficult to ascertain whether those claims are accurate.
No matter what the viewership numbers are, Gorka and Hamill addressed several issues throughout the rest of the interview designed to appeal to a conservative viewer. Gorka claims that more than 30 percent of Democrats think that President-Elect, Mr. Joe Biden, stole the 2020 election. Gorka called Mr. Biden “Beijing Biden” at one point.
“When you look at the media today, there has been an almost complete blackout of covering the evidence of election fraud,” Hamill agreed. “These people with evidence are risking everything to come forward and present evidence at these hearings and nobody will cover it fully. I think OANN was the only network to air the entire hearings.”
Gorka closes the segment by criticizing California’s Corona Virus restrictions.
“In California, you can go to a strip club and to Wal-Mart, but you can’t go to church,” he said. “It’s a dangerous cocktail of arrogance and ignorance.”