ABC, NBC Barely Cover Mike Huckabee’s 2016 Presidential Announcement

Curtis Houck | May 5, 2015
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When it came time to cover the news from Tuesday that Mike Huckabee had announced his entry into the 2016 Republican presidential field, ABC and NBC largely yawned at this story by devoting a combined 48 seconds of airtime to Huckabee on their Tuesday evening newscasts.

NBC Nightly News interim anchor Lester Holt read the following 20-second news brief on Huckabee’s announcement: “The race for 2016 a little more crowded now. Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee announcing he was running. He stunned the Republican field in 2008 with that upset of Iowa. A social conservative, who tonight, is pointing to his track record, taking on the Clintons back in Arkansas in the 1990s.”

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