CBS Ignores Weiner Pleading Guilty to Obscenity Charge, ABC Barely Covers

Curtis Houck | May 20, 2017
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On Friday night, the CBS Evening News found itself divorced from the full picture of the day’s news, ignoring disgraced former Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner (N.Y.) pleading guilty to a federal obscenity charge and will register as a sex offender for sexting with an underage girl.

ABC’s World News Tonight couldn’t do much better with only a 17-second news brief (and tease) while NBC Nightly News gave it a full, two-minute-and-one-second segment on the matter and how much jailtime Weiner could face. Of course, neither found the brief moment to mention that Weiner was a Democrat.

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