CNN's Latest Weird Obsession: 25 Stories on 'Where's Melania?'

Bill D'Agostino | June 6, 2018
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Over the past week, CNN has aired more than two dozen stories inviting speculation and gossip about the supposedly mysterious "disappearance" of First Lady Melania Trump, who has been recuperating from kidney surgery. 

From May 30 to June 5, MRC analysts tallied 25 segments in which CNN's on-air personnel talked about Mrs. Trump's lack of public appearances, as if her well-being were somehow in doubt. From May 30 to June 5, MRC analysts tallied 25 segments in which CNN's on-air personnel talked about Mrs. Trump's lack of public appearances, as if her well-being were somehow in doubt – despite the fact that on May 30, the Washington correspondent for CNBC, Eamon Javers, tweeted that he had personally seen her walking in the West Wing.

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