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Over the weekend, tragic news broke in Texas just miles from the U.S./Mexico border were an apparent attack left one Border Patrol agent dead and another one seriously injured. According to reports as of Monday, it appeared as though the agents may have been beaten with rocks by attackers in an ambush. Coverage of the death varied widely among the Big Three Networks Monday evening. CBS Evening News led with the incident while NBC Nightly News omitted completely.
What made NBC’s lack of coverage on Monday more notable was the fact that they did manage to cover the story earlier that morning on Today. But even there, they didn’t seem too concerned because they only gave the alleged stoning a news brief lasting only 31 seconds. From a news brief to nothing in less than a day. But they did find time to hype Black Friday deals and report how the Turkeys President Trump would pardon were staying in a fancy hotel room.
During ABC’s World News Tonight, sensationalist Anchor David Muir paid little mind to the death of a Border Patrol agent, only giving the story a 27-seconds long brief where he brushed over the details. “The agents were, quote, ‘responding to activity’ when one of them called for help, saying they were injured,” Muir claimed. But that was false.
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