See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.
On Sunday morning, ABC’s Good Morning America chose to devote only a tease and scant 22-second news brief on the tragic shooting death of a rookie police officer in a Washington D.C. suburb and instead devote over half the hour-long newscast to previewing the Oscars later that day on ABC.
When the opening credits ran, one of the stories previewed was the death of Prince William County, VA police officer Ashley Guindon and, typically, that means that the program will devote a full story and/or make it a main focus of the entire show. Unfortunately, that was not the case.