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Which would you say was more important, The Brady Bunch house going up for sale in Los Angeles or San Francisco giving illegal aliens the right to vote? Well, for ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News it was the former.
On Thursday, San Francisco began a campaign to register illegal immigrants so they could vote in school board elections. Instead of reporting on that controversial liberal policy, ABC and NBC chose to focus on frivolous topics like the Brady house. ABC also fawned over Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen playing together at Madison Square Garden, while NBC touted Baltimore banning sugary drinks from kid’s menus and parents fighting at little league games.
CBS Evening News pretended they were going to do a segment on San Francisco’s policy. They actually teased it during their opening intro but they never got around to reporting it. They even used clips from Fox News to tease it:
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