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President Trump ruffled the liberal media’s feathers again on Tuesday after his Justice Department released new guidelines instructing colleges and universities to not use a person’s race as a factor in admissions. It’s a reversal of an Obama-era guideline so, of course, ABC and NBC were against the move and downplayed the plight of Asian-Americans whose race meant affirmative action policies burdened them with a higher standard.
On ABC’s World News Tonight, the new Trump administration guidelines were barely touched and were rolled into a larger report about the President’s search for a new Supreme Court justice. “Bottom line, it's another reversal of Obama administration policy,” suggested correspondent Kyra Phillips. “The White House now suggesting colleges take a race-blind approach for admissions.”
Meanwhile, on NBC Nightly News, they ran a full report on the new admissions guidelines with anchor Lester Host hyping “some higher education groups are vowing to ignore it” as he introduced the segment.
“In a new memo, out tonight, the Department of Justice called that guidance ‘unnecessary, outdated, inconsistent with existing law or otherwise improper.’ For months, top Trump administration officials have targeted affirmative action policies that they argue are unfair,” scoffed chief White House correspondent Hallie Jackson.
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