See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.
On Friday evening, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC all ignored the latest dump of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails from the State Department that included the retroactive classification of 268 e-mails that now makes for one out of every 16 e-mails that have been “released” to the public since her private e-mail server scandal was unearthed in March.
Instead of giving this story even a passing mention, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News had other ideas as they combined to waste 30 seconds hyping viral video of a giant inflatable pumpkin in Arizona that had come loose and tumbled down a road.