Bill D'Agostino

Even the full-length stuff that NBC has run on this has basically just been reheated news from other sources.

That's incredibly common.

It's basically, it's a turning point where they go from, we think we can keep the cover on, a lid on this story, to, okay, now our hand is being forced, we have to get out in front of it.

And that's very much the kind of thinking I think that went on at NBC based on the way that they've covered it since his report came out.

Because after his video came out, basically all of their coverage has been centered around the allegations that he makes and some of the conclusions that he jumps to.

Initially, they were fairly, I wouldn't say credulous, but kind of just regurgitating everything that he found.

Since then, anytime they've covered it since when he first put his video up, they've taken a lot more of the fight to him.

And they're essentially running, I would say, interference for the Somalians that he's accusing in that video.

Yes.

I mean, I think the most incredible report of all of 2025 managed to come out on New Year's Eve somehow.

That was – CNN sent a reporter to confront Nick Shirley in person, not confront any of the daycares in person, but confront him, grill him on how he knows what he knows, why he's making these allegations in the first place, basically getting to, well, what's your problem?

Why even dig into this?

Why are you bothering?

And of course the obvious answer is because people like –

the CNN reporter are not looking into it.

But then they cut to the reporter actually calling some of these daycares.

Six of the seven that she called did not pick up.

The one that does, they have an exchange that goes, I mean, I'm paraphrasing here, but something along the lines of, hi, this is CNN.

Are you doing fraud?

No, we're not.