ABC Ignores Start of Nagin's Prison Term; NBC Gives Story Only 15 Seconds

Curtis Houck | September 8, 2014
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More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

Beginning on Monday afternoon, Democrat and former Mayor of New Orleans Ray Nagin began a 10 year prison sentence on corruption charges that were as result of his actions following the landfall of Hurricane Katrina and subsequent flooding of the city in August 2005.

When it came to reporting on the story during either their evening newscasts, ABC refused to cover the story while NBC Nightly News offered only a 15-second news brief. Over on CBS, the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley was preempted due to tennis coverage of the men’s final at the U.S. Open. 

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