Big Three Censor 'Liar,' 'Dishonest' Poll Findings on Hillary; CNN Covers

Matthew Balan | August 27, 2015
Font Size

[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

ABC, CBS, and NBC's morning newscasts on 27 August 2015 all covered the latest Quinnipiac University poll showing Hillary Clinton's "lowest numbers so far this campaign," as ABC's Cecilia Vega put it on Good Morning America. However, the Big Three network shows all failed to mention how the poll also found that the first three words that come to mind when Americans think of Mrs. Clinton are "liar," "dishonest," and "untrustworthy."

CNN Newsroom actually covered these words associations later in the morning. The Daily Beast's John Avlon noted that the Democratic presidential candidate is "still is doing twice in this poll as well as Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders," but underlined that "the downward trend is troubling, and those five words...are really troubling for Hillary Clinton." Anchor Carl Costello then listed the words, and asserted that they were "kind of a weird, mixed bag."

donate