CBS, NBC Fail to Note Arrest of Chicago Student Threatening ‘White Devils’ in Chicago

Curtis Houck | December 1, 2015
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See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.

Late Monday afternoon, my colleague Matthew Balan astutely wondered in a post on this site whether or not any of the major broadcast networks would cover that evening the arrest of an African-American teen for allegedly making threats on social media against white male students at the University of Chicago in retaliation for the shooting death of Laquan McDonald.

Turns out, we got our answer hours later as both the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News omitted this angle from their coverage out of Chicago and the release on bail of the police officer accused of fatally shooting McDonald. Somewhat miraculously, ABC’s World News Tonight and correspondent Alex Perez did find time to allude to this arrest in its report

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