Networks Fail to Cover WH Spokesman Refusing to Call the Taliban a Terrorist Organization

Curtis Houck | January 28, 2015
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See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.

During the daily White House press briefing on Wednesday, Deputy Spokesman Eric Schultz had an exchange with ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl where he declined to label the Taliban not as a terrorist organization but instead as “an armed insurgency.”

In an admission that surely would be covered if it were uttered by a spokesman for a Republican president, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC all failed to cover this story during their Wednesday evening newscasts. 

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