CNN Covers Plight of Marine Held By Iran; ABC, CBS Out to Lunch Since 2013

Matthew Balan | June 3, 2015
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[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]

ABC, CBS, and NBC were too busy giving 48 minutes of coverage to Bruce Jenner's Vanity Fair photo spread to give one second of coverage to the four Americans currently being held prisoner by the oppressive regime in Iran. NBC mentioned two of them – Amir Hekmati and Robert Levinson – back on the April 24, 2015 edition of NBC Nightly News. However, ABC and CBS haven't covered Hekmati's captivity since 2013.

To his credit, Don Lemon brought new attention to the humanitarian issue during a segment on Tuesday's CNN Tonight. Lemon interviewed Hekmati's sister, Sarah; his brother-in-law, Ramy Kurdi; and TV personality Montel Williams about the veteran's many years of suffering (Ms. Hekmati, along with family members of the three other Americans, had testified in front of House Committee on Foreign Affairs earlier in the day).

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