CNN’s ‘New Day’ Barely Covers Firebombing of NC GOP Office with Two News Briefs

Curtis Houck | October 17, 2016
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Hours after CNN’s Brian Stelter irresponsibly passed blame on the firebombing of a North Carolina Republican headquarters to Donald Trump, the Monday edition of New Day did the bare minimum to acknowledge the subject with a mere two news briefs totaling one minute and 37 seconds for a three-hour show (so 180 minutes) that almost assuredly would be higher if the incident happened at, say, a Democratic headquarters or NAACP office. 

Co-host Chris Cuomo first brought it up around 6:09 a.m. Eastern and informed viewers that “federal authorities are investigating the apparent firebombing of a Republican county headquarters in North Carolina” along with a spray-painted message that read “Nazi Republicans get out of town or else.”