ABC, NBC Continue to Omit Coverage of Report Alleging WH Role in Prostitution Scandal

Curtis Houck | October 9, 2014
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See more in the cross-post on the Newsbusters blog.

According to a report in The Washington Post, senior White House officials knew that an individual with the White House advance team had a prostitute spend the night with him as part of the 2012 Colombian prostitution scandal despite the White House previously denying any involvement during the official investigation. 

After failing to cover the story on their morning newscasts, ABC and NBC continued that blackout into their Thursday evening newscasts as well. The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley ignored the story as well, despite the network having aired a full report on Thursday’s CBS This Morning.

When it came to the cable news networks covering the story, CNN, Fox News Channel (FNC), and MSNBC all mentioned it in the early evening hours. On FNC’s Special Report with Bret Baier, Fox News chief White House correspondent Ed Henry filed a report on the allegations and host Bret Baier later discussed the topic with the show’s “All-Star Panel,” making for a total of 10 minutes and 3 seconds of coverage.

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