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There were some 2 million people crammed into downtown Toronto on Monday to celebrate the Raptors’ championship victory in the NBA finals, when shots rang out in an area containing roughly 60,000 people. Despite at least four people being shot and luckily no deaths, NBC Nightly News decided they didn’t have time to cover that story. But they did have time to promote Democratic New Jersey Senator and 2020 candidate Cory Booker’s “Big Idea” of baby bonds.
While CBS Evening News led with the Toronto shooting, NBC began with a shooting at a courthouse in Dallas where there were no injuries and the only person killed was the shooter. NBC was quick to point out the shooter’s use of an “assault-style rifle” and lumped him into the “right-wing”. ABC’s World News Tonight relegated the Toronto shooting to a news brief in their “Index of Other News”.
A few minutes later, NBC anchor Lester Holt boasted about how they were approaching the first Democratic debate of the election season and Booker, who spoke with the network “about his vision to benefit America's next generation.”
“We met Booker in a section of Columbia, South Carolina, wrestling with the economic realities of America's racial wealth gap. Booker believes baby bonds will be particularly impactful for minority families,” NBC correspondent Harry Smith told viewers after hyping the Senator’s record.
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