Broadcast news coverage of Trump document scandal should be just the tip of the iceberg
Broadcast news programming — weekday and weekend morning and evening news, and Sunday morning political talk shows — covered the bombshell reports regarding former President Donald Trump’s potentially criminal mishandling of official government records, including classified materials, for approximately 28 minutes in the week after the story broke on February 7.
ABC, CBS, and NBC, in particular, are the same networks that spent nearly two years turning Hillary Clinton’s email usage into an omnipresent news story during the 2016 presidential campaign.
If the major broadcast news shows would devote so much time to the Clinton story, which turned out to be much ado about nothing, then going forward, we expect them to commit at least as many resources to this very real scandal surrounding Trump. The broadcast networks air more than 60 hours of news programming, combined, each week. Surely, the Trump document scandal ought to become a fixture in the regular viewer’s news diet, just as the pretend scandal that hounded Clinton throughout her presidential campaign did back then.
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Over the coming days, more primary reporting from the Post and secondary reports from The New York Times and other outlets added key details to the story: The Department of Justice was asked to review possible crimes committed by Trump, some of the illegally mishandled documents contained classified and even “top secret” information, and, perhaps most shockingly, then-President Trump had clogged White House toilets attempting to destroy documents while in office.
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