STUDY: TV Paused Its Pandemic Panic to Push Protests
Rich Noyes
June 18th, 2020 9:00 AM
For nearly three months, from early March to late May, the coronavirus pandemic eclipsed all other news stories, consuming nearly all of the airtime on the Big Three (ABC, CBS and NBC) evening newscasts. But for two weeks in late May and early June, those same networks put the virus story on the back burner while they diverted nearly all of their coverage to nationwide protests against police brutality.
And now that the protests have subsided, TV news is once again ramping up its coronavirus coverage. Yet those newscasts’ revived sense of urgency is undermined by their two-week late spring break from the pandemic. (Related: VIDEO: Media Hypocrites Loved Protests, But Declare Trump’s Rallies ‘Dangerous’)
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2020/06/18/study-tv-paused-its-pandemic-panic-push-protests
