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

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. ©2026 FOX News Network, LLC. All rights reserved. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Market data provided by Factset. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Legal Statement. Mutual Fund and ETF data provided by LSEG. Some co-hosts of ‘The View’ called out Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner as the panel remained divided about whether to support him after his primary win. 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 over it. So much for the show being titled "All Things Considered." Steve Mistler of Maine Public Radio reported, "Platner's well-documented controversies — including past offensive social media p