Friday’s CBS Mornings rightfully touted the successful evacuation of Americans trapped in Israel through the efforts of Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL), a headline you would expect would be getting more attention. However, their broadcast network competitors ignored the story entirely. Rather than cover real news, particularly news that would paint a Republican governor in a positive light, channels like ABC and NBC decided instead to cover irrelevant events.
Across all three hours of NBC’s Today, there was not a single mention of America’s evacuation efforts in Israel. In general, Today spent a fair amount of time on the Israeli-Iranian war, with 5 minutes and 41 seconds of programming dedicated to it. They could have inserted the rescues there, but instead NBC wasted their time covering the same pop culture news they had been talking about all week.
Today gave a five minute, five second segment to more coverage of the 50th anniversary of the movie Jaws. Celebrating the shark conservation efforts inspired by the movie in a segment nearly as long as the entirety of their Middle Eastern coverage, NBC ignored a much more significant story, one that revolved around saving human lives.
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