CRIME WAVE: Nets Bury Shooting Outside NY GOP Gov Candidate’s House

Scott Whitlock | October 10, 2022
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[See NewsBusters for more.] This midterm season has seen the mainstream media downplaying outbreaks of crime, and its causes, across the country, an issue that polls badly for Democrats. So it’s not a shock that the networks on Monday morning buried a shooting outside New York Congressman (and GOP gubernatorial candidate) Lee Zeldin’s home. Zeldin’s two teenage daughters were home alone and were just feet away from the shooting. 

Yet ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today avoided the story on Monday morning, despite a combined four hours of available air time. CBS Mornings only allowed a seven second mention in the show’s “eye opener” tease, and that was a local news recap. 

Over on Fox News, America’s Newsroom reporter David Lee Miller offered a full report. Miller explained: “[Congressman Zeldin] says what happened yesterday outside of his Long Island home literally brought the problem to his doorstep. A little after 2:00 in the afternoon, while he and his wife were campaigning, his twin daughters were home alone when gunshots rang out. He says one of the bullets landed 30 feet from where the girls were sitting in the kitchen, doing homework.” 

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