ABC, NBC, CBS spent more time covering border crisis in April than previous five months combined, study
Brian Flood,Nikolas Lanum - Yesterday 4:25 PM
ABC, NBC and CBS spent more evening airtime covering the crisis along the southern border in April than they did during the previous five months combined, according to a new study.
ABC, NBC, CBS covered border crisis in April more than last five months combined
The conservative Media Research Center examined evening newscasts on ABC, NBC and CBS from November through March and the border crisis was only covered for 14 minutes combined over the five-month period. Much of the 14 minutes was about whether President Biden was going to end Title 42, which has been used since March 2020 to expel a majority of migrants at the southern border due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and not the crisis itself, according to NewsBusters managing editor Curtis Houck.
In April, the Department of Homeland Security reported there were 234,088 migrants encountered at the southern border, the highest number in the Department of Homeland Security's history, as Title 42 was set to expire.
From April 1-30, "NBC Nightly News" devoted 13 minutes and 30 seconds to the border crisis, nearly topping the previous six months of coverage from the trio of networks combined. "CBS Evening News" managed to spend seven minutes and 30 seconds on the story, and ABC’s "World News Tonight" spent five minutes and 57 seconds on the surge of migrants.
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