ABC, NBC Ignore Obama Photo Opp with Che Guevara Mural; CBS Hails ‘Last Mission of the Cold War’

Curtis Houck | March 21, 2016
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On Monday night amidst the voluminous amount of Cuba coverage, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News made sure to not inform their viewers of an ominous and disturbing backdrop hours earlier when President Obama and a portion of the U.S. delegation stood in Havana’s Revolution Square with a mural of the brutal leftist leader Che Cuevara behind them. 

While the CBS Evening News stepped up and made sure to show this visual, the broadcast started off on a pro-Cuban note when anchor Scott Pelley proclaimed that this week (and not 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union) was when the “Cold War with Russia” ended as “Air Force One flew the last mission.”

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