CNN Shrugs at Security Threats to Covington Kids, Defends Embarrassing Press Coverage

Curtis Houck | January 22, 2019
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Tuesday afternoon’s CNN Newsroom dedicated a full segment to the shameful security threats to Covington Catholic High School, its students, and their families. However, it largely brushed off this horrible reality by focusing on a “poignant exchange” between a Native American and Trump supporter outside the Covington Diocese as well as defending the media writ large from their embarrassing behavior since Saturday afternoon.

Host Brooke Baldwin had two teases before the block with correspondent Miguel Marquez, stating in the first tease that there’s “a new twist in the controversy over the viral video of the confrontation between students in Make America Great Again hats and this Native American elder.”