Tuesday, November 29, 2016

News Networks Sidelined Trump's Conflicts Of Interest Until His Election

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/11/21/news-networks-sidelined-trumps-conflicts-interest-until-his-election/214586
"The broadcast networks’ flagship evening news programs failed to inform their viewers about the inherent conflicts of interest a potential Donald Trump presidency would bring in the months leading up to Election Day, and have not given the subject the urgency it deserves in the wake of his election, according to a Media Matters review. Between September 14 and Election Day, the networks only aired approximately seven minutes of stories about or at least mentioning a conflict of interest. In the week after the election, they aired approximately 14 minutes -- but only half of that explicitly called the issues “conflicts"."