CBS, NBC Barely Cover Massive Jobs Report; ABC Boasts ‘Jobs Growth Soars’

Curtis Houck | December 6, 2019
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As our sister site CNS News pointed out, Friday morning’s jobs report was a smashing success for both the American economy and the Trump administration with “a whopping 266,000 jobs in November; and for the sixth month in a row, a record number of Americans were counted as employed.” The unemployment rate fell “to 3.5 percent, a 50-year low.”

But when it came time for the Friday broadcast network evening newscasts, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News couldn’t be bothered with spending more than a short news brief (21 seconds each) on the story.