On Wednesday, NBC’s Today completely ignored a major development in Hillary Clinton’s e-mail scandal, while CBS This Morning and ABC’s Good Morning America only offered seconds of coverage to the news.
After the story broke on Tuesday that the intelligence community’s inspector general found several e-mails sent through the former Secretary of State’s private server contained some of the nation’s most classified secrets, all three broadcast networks censored the revelation on the evening newscasts.
On Wednesday’s CBS This Morning, co-host Norah O’Donnell managed a 20-second news brief on the bombshell:
Politico reports Hillary Clinton’s private e-mail server contained information classified beyond top secret. The intelligence community inspector general told lawmakers some documents concerned highly sensitive programs. Some related to American drone strikes. The Clinton campaign says the e-mails weren't classified when they were sent or received.
On GMA, news anchor Amy Robach gave a mere 21 seconds to the scandal:
Well, a new poll finds Hillary Clinton's campaign taking some big hits. Clinton is trailing Bernie Sanders by 27 points in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, in Washington, an inspector general now claims some of the e-mails on Clinton's private server had an even higher classification than top secret. The Clinton campaign insists those e-mails were not classified when they were sent.
So far, not a word on NBC about Clinton possibly mishandling classified information.
While only giving seconds to the e-mail scandal, CBS and ABC both did provide full reports on Clinton being in political trouble as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders surged ahead of her by double digits in New Hampshire.
NBC completely avoided any discussion of the Democratic presidential race on Wednesday.
