ABC, NBC Punt on Jill Stein’s Recount Failures in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin
By Curtis Houck | December 12, 2016 | 11:44 PM EST
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On Monday, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News saw no reason to keep their viewers abreast of two embarrassing failures in Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s recount efforts to alter the presidential election results as the recount ended in Wisconsin while a judge blocked it in Pennsylvania.
With ABC and NBC missing in action, the CBS Evening News covered the recount news, but barely as anchor Scott Pelley only mustered a 25-second news brief at the conclusion of the newscast’s political coverage that failed to even mention Stein as the major driving force of the recounts.
Overall, the 25 seconds offered by CBS stood in marked contrast to the seven minutes and 26 seconds devoted to the recount over four days of evening newscasts at the onset of Stein’s push and the 36 seconds devoted to her campaign prior to the recount coverage.
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