Bill D'Agostino

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Yeah, when we look at the broadcast networks, we almost always focus mostly on the evening newscasts because those are the most watched television shows, or news shows at least, in the country.

And remarkably, ABC, which often actually tops the list of those three, has been almost entirely absent from this story.

So there was one mention of it on December 3rd, right around when the story was breaking,

that they buried in the middle of a report about how ICE is sowing fear in the Somali community.

So that was a 25-second mention.

Since then, they've included one more mention of it, not even really discussing any of the details at all, just 10-second mentions.

So their total coverage for the last

I'd say, yeah, last week plus all of December is 35 seconds.

It's just incredible.

NBC primarily ignored the story up until Nick Shirley started reporting on it.

And since then, they've sort of shifted from the bias by omission track to kind of playing defense for it.

So instead, they're trying to go on the offense against Shirley's investigation.

We've seen a decent amount of them...

touting Minnesota officials saying, oh, well, you know, we've investigated and we haven't found anything, which is, it's an entertaining kind of standard of proof for a network that back during the whole Me Too craze investigated itself and also found no evidence of Ron doing.

Yeah, so CBS really was where the lion's share of the coverage was.

And they actually have been pretty reliable about this.

They've been on the story basically since it started.

They were the only network that did multiple full-length reports on it before Nick Shirley's investigation came out.

So full length would be about 90 seconds or more for a broadcast network.