Big Three Networks Censor Clinton Flacks' Catholic Bashing From 2011

Matthew Balan | October 12, 2016
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

As of the morning of 12 October 2016, the Big Three networks' morning and evening newscasts have yet to cover the Tuesday revelation that the Clinton campaign's communications director — along with a close associate of the campaign's chairman, John Podesta — bashed Catholicism and evangelical Christianity in an e-mail conversation in 2011. The latter, John Halpin of the left-wing Center for American Progress, denounced the "severely backwards gender relations" inside the Catholic Church. The former, Jennifer Palmieri, replied with a negative remark about evangelicals.

Two cable news networks one-upped their broadcast competitors by devoting air time to the Halpin-Palmieri exchange. A panel on the 11 October 2016 edition of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 discussed the e-mails for over two minutes. Fox News Channel's Kelly File actually led their 11 October 2016 newscast with a three minute and 17-second report on how "key Hillary Clinton staffers [are] now taking heat over an e-mail exchange that lashes out at two major faith groups."

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