CBS Sports broadcast the Army-Navy game on Saturday, but as often happens, when Donald Trump attends and is warmly welcomed, you're not going to see it during the actual game. On Sunday's MediaBuzz on Fox, Clay Travis of Outkick lamented that CBS put Trump on for four seconds.
Travis and others suggested that's not the way CBS or other sportscasters treat Taylor Swift at a Kansas City Chiefs game. They can't stop showing you that she's present.
Now one could argue that the Army-Navy game shouldn't be all about the politicians that show up in a box. But we know there was a similar buzz about TV suppression when Trump went to the Alabama-Georgia game in September.
On Fox's "MediaBuzz," Clay Travis of Outkick lamented the CBS live broadcast of the Army-Navy game only showed Donald Trump for four seconds. Howard Kurtz noted MSNBC was giving it more air time during the game. (Let's guess it wasn't happy news.) pic.twitter.com/snUXhaDqC6
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All the newscasts covered Trump's attendance at the game with the usual negative spin about going with his "embattled" cabinet picks like Pete Hegseth. The networks are the ones doing the embattling alongside the Democrat partisans. When they announce "controversy is growing," they're the ones attempting to grow it. They suppress the information that Trump was greeted with huzzahs and applause.
On Saturday's CBS Weekend News (shown only in the Western states), reporter Nikole Killion mentioned it was "Trump's fifth time attending this historic football rivalry," and "he thanked the cheering crowd." Fox News suggested Joe Biden has not attended an Army-Navy game, but who at CBS thought that was important?
Killion also noted Trump welcomed Daniel Penny, who was "acquitted in the fatal chokehold death of a homeless man, Jordan Neely." That summary is woefully incomplete.
