[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
The 12 November 2014 editions of ABC, CBS, and NBC's evening newscasts glossed over the radical left-wing ideology of the Turkish protesters who assaulted three U.S. sailors in Istanbul earlier in the day. ABC's Martha Raddatz reported that the "the attackers [are] members of an ultra-nationalist group called the Turkish Youth Union, angry at what it calls 'American imperialism.'" NBC's Brian Williams underlined that "these were apparently the actions of a fringe group."
Most bizarrely, CBS's David Martin mentioned that "the anti-American student group....pushed and pelted...[the sailors, who] briefly had hoods slipped over their heads. Hoods have become an ugly symbol of the war between the West and Islamic terrorists." In reality, the Turkish Youth Union isn't Islamic, but secular.