NBC's Today show on Friday completely ignored the revelation that the Clinton Foundation failed to report over $26 million dollars in donations. ABC's Good Morning America allowed a scant 20 seconds on the topic. CBS This Morning focused on the unfolding Clinton scandal in general, but didn't specifically report on the latest news.
What did Today cover instead? Although the four-hour program found the Clinton scandal uninteresting, NBC correspondents devoted three minutes and ten seconds to the 35th anniversary of Pac-Man.
The Washington Post on Friday detailed the latest on the Clintons:
The Clinton Foundation reported Thursday that it has received as much as $26.4 million in previously undisclosed payments from major corporations, universities, foreign sources and other groups.
The disclosure came as the foundation faced questions over whether it fully complied with a 2008 ethics agreement to reveal its donors and whether any of its funding sources present conflicts of interest for Hillary Rodham Clinton as she begins her presidential campaign.
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The disclosures underscore how much the Clintons have leveraged their star power to draw more money not just for their personal enrichment but also for the benefit of their philanthropic work.
On GMA, Amy Robach revealed that the Clinton Foundation "received up to $26 million in undisclosed payments. That money came from corporations and other sources, collected as fees from speeches given by Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton."
Although ABC journalists felt this worthy of less than half a minute, the program's hosts offered three minutes to "ageism in Hollywood."
CBS This Morning reporter Margaret Brennan looked at the release of 300 e-mails from the State Department on Mrs. Clinton. Brennan spun, "Well, if Republicans were looking for some kind of Benghazi bombshell, they don't exist in this batch of e-mails obtained by the New York Times, but there are still about 500 pages left to be released."
A transcript of the GMA brief is below:
GMA
5/22/15
7:15AMY ROBACH: And another new revelation from the Clinton Foundation, this time acknowledging that it received up to $26 million in undisclosed payments. That money came from corporations and other sources, collected as fees from speeches given by Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton. The foundation saying the fees had been listed as revenue instead of donations.
