Networks Refuse to Cover Christian Cities in Iraq Falling to ISIS; CNN’s Cuomo Calls Story “Largely Underreported”

Curtis Houck | August 7, 2014
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More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

On Thursday, the al Qaeda spinoff group ISIS seized numerous towns in northern Iraq that are home to much of the country’s minority Christian population, sending tens of thousands fleeing further into the Kurdish-dominated region to avoid the unforgiving and deadly extremist group. When it came to the major broadcast networks covering this story on their Thursday morning news shows, none of the networks provided their viewers with information on this story.

Cable news outlet CNN and its morning show, New Day, did cover the story with not one but two stories during its three-hour show. It first aired a full, 3-minute-and-1-second report from CNN senior international correspondent Nic Robertson at the top of the 6:30 a.m. half hour and then a 21-second news brief during the 8:00 a.m. hour.

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