ABC, CBS Move On from U.C. Berkeley’s Anti-Free Speech Riots

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 27, 2017
Font Size

***To read the full blog, please check out the complete post on NewsBusters***

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter was set to speak at the University of California, Berkeley Thursday night but that plan was foiled by the threat of violence from radical leftists. “Now to Berkeley, California where new protests are breaking out tonight a day after conservative pundit Ann Coulter's plan to speak at U.C. Berkeley was abruptly canceled,” announced Anchor Lester Holt during NBC Nightly News that same evening. Despite the still looming threat of riots, both ABC and CBS decided to move on from the free speech controversy.

CBS may have moved on, but they barely covered the anti-free speech riots, to begin with. The only coverage they granted the issue in the last two days was a meager news brief lasting roughly 20 seconds in the 4 a.m. hour of CBS Morning News on Thursday.

ABC only covered the situation Thursday morning during Good Morning America when it became apparent the event was called off. Correspondent Tom Llamas framed it as sparking a “debate” between “freedom of speech vs the safety of students.” 

...

donate