Last March, Republican Congressman Kevin Cramer of North Dakota sent a letter to media executives at “the big three” networks -- ABC, CBS and NBCUniversal -- calling them out for their blatant media bias, particularly regarding Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal, last year's election, and of course, the Trump presidency. The letter included several questions about newsroom standard, according to Newsbusters.

Among the questions included were these:

• Do you believe your coverage of Hillary Clinton's candidacy was as critical as your coverage of Donald Trump's candidacy?

• Do your current efforts to aggressively cover the Trump administration match the approach you took in the early days of the Obama administration?

• Do your news operations have policies in place to analyze impartiality on news reporting?

Cramer believed he had the right to demand fair and objective news coverage going across federal airwaves, Newsbusters noted.

Five months later, not one executive from any of the “big three” networks has responded. 

Cramer says that their non-response says it all: “I've had a response in that I haven't heard back from any of the network executives… I consider their arrogance or indifference to be a message, and I take it as much. No response is a response to me.”

Newsbusters concludes,

This wasn’t his first attempt at getting the mainstream media to respond. Prior to the election, Cramer sought a congressional hearing on the issue, but many claimed he did so only for political gain, which he denied. In lieu of the congressional hearing, Cramer’s letter was sent as a kind of “I’ve got my eye on you” message, “so that these guys are on notice that they're not doing this within a vacuum.”

But the Big 3's refusal to answer Cramer's challenge sends back the clear message that they feel no obligation to be accountable.