See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.
Each of the network evening newscasts devoted the duration of their air time to the terrorist attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando and, unfortunately, the networks immediately rushed to the issue of gun control and did only the bare minimum to highlight Omar Mateen’s radical Islamic beliefs.
In the first half-hour of the network newscasts, the CBS Evening News notably failed to highlight how Mateen’s father once praised the Taliban and pretended to be the Afghani President but instead touted a study on mass shootings by the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).