Newsbusters found that mainstream media outlets ABC, CBS, and NBC barely covered the trial of the murder of Laken Riley while they obsessed over the joke by Tony Hinchcliffe during President Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally in which the comedian called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”
Newsbusters measured the air time the networks dedicated to covering the heartbreaking trial of Laken Riley from Friday, November 15 through Tuesday, November 19, finding that they gave it just 20 minutes and 33 seconds across their top morning and evening news shows as well as their Sunday morning talk shows.
“ABC’s newscasts — Good Morning America and World News Tonight — fetched nearly half the total at eight minutes and 19 seconds.
Between CBS’s newscasts CBS Mornings and the CBS Evening News, Riley’s trial drew only six minutes and 34 seconds.
NBC fell even further back with a measly five minutes and 40 seconds over five days on Today and NBC Nightly News.”
The Sunday morning talk shows (ABC’s This Week, CBS’s Face the Nation, and NBC’s Meet the Press) reportedly gave the trial no coverage.
In comparison, Newsbusters found the networks spent nearly 78 minutes discussing Hinchcliffe’s joke between October 27 to November 1. CBS spent the most time on Hinchcliffe’s joke at 31 minutes and 25 seconds, ABC at nearly 24 minutes, and NBC at nearly 23 minutes.
Newsbusters recalled the dramatic reaction of ABC’s Good Morning America to Hinchcliffe’s joke in which they called it “dark,” “incendiary,” “profane,” and “vulgar.”
For additional comparison, Newsbusters pointed out that ABC, CBS, and NBC covered John Kelly’s declaration that Trump is a “fascist” and “Hitler” for nearly 65 minutes.
The coverage of Laken Riley’s murder trial was also found to be conveniently pieced together on these networks when they did cover it as NBC News correspondent Priya Sridhar ignored that Riley’s mother and stepfather attended a Trump rally and that they placed blame for Riley’s death on the open southern border where millions of illegal migrants have crossed into the United States.
And that’s why I don’t watch the MSM
They don’t want to highlight negative consequences for the open border policy! Gotta push the narrative
for the lazy folks who never research beyond msm news. Then we get called “conspiracy theorists” when we talk about it amongst those we’re close to. The blatant disregard for our own US citizens while giving so much to illegals is evil! I for one, am looking forward to mass deportations! Won’t happen soon enough! Laken would be alive & well, but for other countries sending their worst here for us to have to deal with. No vetting of illegals! They are ruining our country & what happened to Laken will become the norm if we don’t send em all back! Go Trump! And hurry!
You’re exactly right. Thats how democrats work. Everything is about them. They could care less about the American people.
Laken Riley will be remembered. The God of PEACE BRING COMFORT AND PEACE AS ONLY HE CAN. BLESS THEM DAILY AS YOU WILL!
And MSM sits and wonders, “What Happened, Where Did our viewers go so fast?” I heard that 25% of the viewers left MSM and headed for Independent News Channels.
MSM took part in a massive attempt to Gaslight a Nation. Think about it, accusations without citing Sources. What The View made Sunny do on Live TV regarding Matt Gaetz could have been actual, but who knows?
Unfortunately, Laken Riley’s life or death does not fit their smear narrative against ‘All things Trump.
We will hold up that Banner ~ Laken and Ashli‼️
They won’t “Say Her Name.” Shame on all of them but, what else would you expect?
Let’s see if this happen to one of theirs if they would be silent. They are a disgrace and have no conscience. This death of this young girl Laken and the other don’t fit their agenda. What a disgusting bunch of liberals they are.
No surprise; they are following orders from the CIA…as usual.