[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
The 20 March 2015 edition of ABC World News Tonight touted how the FBI is opening an investigation into departing Congressman Aaron Schock. David Wright devoted a full one minute, 39-second report to Schock allegedly "padding the mileage on his personal car by some 90,000 miles," as well as "misusing campaign funds and...taking improper donations." The same evening, CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News also aired 19-second news briefs on the Schock investigation.
By contrast, the ABC evening newscast set aside just 30 seconds of air time to a congressional committee subpoenaing Hillary Clinton's e-mail server. NBC Nightly News also broadcast a 23-second news brief on this latest development in Mrs. Clinton's e-mail scandal. However, the program apparently didn't think this was as important as Monica Lewinsky's TED talk against cyberbullying and a young boy's reincarnation claims, as the NBC newscast gave each of these stories the full segment treatment.