See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.
On Wednesday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted 10 minutes and 43 seconds over four segments on their evening newscasts to 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s decision to boycott Thursday’s Fox News Channel (FNC) debate and, in that coverage, ABC and NBC hailed Trump as a “renegade” making “a very shrewd move” by “eviscerating” moderator Megyn Kelly and FNC.
ABC’s World News Tonight led with a four-minute-and-19-second report from Republican campaign correspondent Tom Llamas boasting that the billionaire was “in full renegade mode” when he ruled the night before that “without him, no one will watch tomorrow's debate on Fox News.”