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On Monday, the Iranian government handed down its twisted form of justice when they sentenced an American graduate student to 10-years in prison on spying allegations. “That sentence comes on the day President Trump is supposed to decide on a key matter concerning the nuclear deal with the Islamic republic,” announced Anchor Bret Baier on Fox News Channel’s Special Report. The Big Three Networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) completely ignored the story, but they went gaga for a dog and a baby deer.
In all, the Big Three Networks spent 107 seconds (ABC 62, CBS 23, and NBC 22 respectively) on a golden retriever named Storm rescuing a drowning fawn. While combined, they gave a whopping zero seconds to the American student destined to spend 10 years in an Iranian prison. ABC ran the deer story as a full report during its “America Strong” segment at the end of World News Tonight.
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. melanie.hunter
