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Tuesday was a terrible day for Democratic Michigan Representative John Conyers as yet another former staffer came forward to accuse the longtime Congressman of sexual harassment and he was reportedly in talks with the Congressional Black Caucus to possibly resign. But according to the liberal Big Three Networks, none of that was really newsworthy. Both ABC’s and NBC’s evening broadcasts didn’t have any mention of Conyers period, while CBS buried it at the end of a report on the Senate GOP tax plan.
Not only did ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News fail to mention that Conyers was apparently in talks to resign, but they didn’t run a single report on sexual harassment in general. That’s despite the fact that Hollywood Producer Harvey Weinstein was apparently being sued for sex-trafficking. But they did manage to find time to gush over the months-away royal wedding. ABC fawned for one minute and 41 seconds while NBC rambled for one minute and 55 seconds.
In place of a report on Conyers, NBC kicked off the program by running back-to-back reports stoking fear of the Senate GOP tax plan for a combined four minutes and 54 seconds. And in doing so, they put the news that North Korea launched an ICBM that could reach Washington, DC on the back burner, only getting to it after they were done with taxes. They were the only network not to start their evening newscast with the missile launch.
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