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As the Media Research Center documented on Monday, the Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) had buried the devastation of the humanitarian crisis in Puerto Rico underneath a mountain of coverage of President Trump’s spat with the NFL. Come Tuesday, they finally got around to giving the crisis the airtime that it deserved as all of them started they evening programs with it. But for ABC, it was just another opportunity to rake President Trump over the coals.
Instead of focusing on the shattered lives and the dangerous living conditions of the millions of Americans living on the island territory, sensationalist Anchor David Muir began World News Tonight by targeting the President.
“And tonight, the President is asked, was he preoccupied with the NFL and his tweets? The president tweeting 24 times about the NFL, but he did not tweet about Puerto Rico over the weekend,” Muir announced as his show was coming on the air. “Tonight, he's defending himself, and the White House releasing this photo of a meeting in the situation room, to signal they are doing all they can.”
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. Curtis Houck
