On Thursday, CBS This Morning offered a scant 26 seconds on a Wall Street Journal story about nearly 1,600 IRS employees having evaded taxes over a ten-year period, with co-host Norah O'Donnell noting: "Workers improperly claimed dependents, repeatedly failed to file timely tax returns, and claimed a tax credit for first-time home buyers when the IRS worker didn't buy a house. Most of the IRS employees were not fired. Some received promotions, raises, and even bonuses."
Neither NBC's Today nor ABC's Good Morning America made any mention of the latest scandal to plague the agency.
The Journal article explained:
The new report found that over a 10-year period starting in 2003, 1,580 IRS employees were found to be willfully noncompliant with tax laws. Of that total, 620 or 39% were terminated, resigned or retired. The remaining 61% got lesser penalties such as suspensions, reprimands or counseling.
All three broadcast networks completely ignored a recent revelation that 6,400 supposedly lost emails from ex-IRS official Lois Lerner were discovered during an investigation into conservative groups being unfairly targeted by the tax agency.
