After Sad Death of Cummings, Networks Focus on Impeachment Push

[See NewsBusters for more.] Americans awoke on Thursday to the very sad news of the death of civil rights pioneer Elijah Cummings. But the journalists at the New York Times made it clear what they remember the Democratic Congressman most for: Opposition to Donald Trump. Here’s the actual Times headline for the death of Cummings: “Elijah E. Cummings, Powerful Democrat Who Investigated Trump, Dies at 68.” In obituary that is supposed to be about Cummings, writers Sheryl Gay Stolberg and David Stout mentioned or referred to Trump 9 times in the first 12 paragraphs. As for the networks, they also focused on Cummings’s opposition to Trump. But in a contrast to the Times putting this in a headline, CBS's Gayle King more fittingly paid tribute by noting: “The nation loses a titan of civil rights.”