Article: "
UN: free access to Bradley Manning 'blocked'"
This is from the April 12, 2011 edition of
Channel 4 News. It covers a protest in Washington against the prison treatment of accused WikiLeaker Bradley Manning and summarizes how UN torture investigator Juan Mendez was denied prison access to Manning and reactions from Mendez, the Pentagon, and Kevin Zeese of the Bradley Manning Support Network.
Meanwhile, in America, the network news shows and
PBS NewsHour ignored the story, which the Associated Press
covered in brief on Monday. However,
NBC Nightly News that day had time to cover a
Prince William/Kate Middleton public appearance. Interestingly, NBC posted online as "web-only" content a Channel 4 report about the
(Original channel4.com article). The next day, NBC covered a study about teen multitasking but still no Manning.
Monday's CBS Evening News had a full story about the manhunt for the Long Island serial killer and an "Assignment America" human interest piece about inner-city youth learning polo but not this story; CBSNews.com did publish the AP wire story though (a bit longer than that hosted on NYTimes.com). ABC's World News on Monday also had a full story about the serial killer and
And to be fair let's see what happened on Tuesday. ABC had a story about chocolate milk and childhood obesity and another about a man claiming to have found Jesus crucifixion nails but still not this. Neither on CBS, but that day's newscast led with an investigative story about oil and gas industry spills and lacked anything you could call "soft news". And NBC again covered the multitasking study.
On Thursday's edition of his MSNBC program, Cenk Uygur interviewed former deputy Secy. of State PJ Crowley, who resigned over criticizing the prison treatment of Manning.
American media FAIL.
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