Source: NewsBusters
Yesterday Jake Tapper said he'd be covering the hearings in depth on today's The Lead. So I turned it on to watch, only to discover that the entire hour was devoted to "breaking news" about the Jodi Arias murder trial (the verdict was due any minute!). The whole hour! I noticed Jake Tapper had tweeted earlier today that they'd be covering the Benghazi hearings today on The Lead. Obviously between the time of his tweet and the announcement that there would be a verdict in the Arias trial, plans changed.
Curious, I replied to his tweet, and to my surprise, he replied! Here's our "conversation":
I'm sure this change of programming wasn't Tapper's first choice--some higher up probably determines what's important. And I'm guessing Tapper isn't a murder trial junkie the way (say) Ashley Banfield apparently is. Nevertheless, the message is loud and clear: mainstream media are not planning on allowing these hearings on Benghazi to get much attention. The Los Angeles Times buried the story, while I read somewhere that The New York Times didn't even write it up. Why?
All I can imagine is if this were about a Republican administration failing to protect its embassy on the anniversary of 9/11 and then lying for weeks about the cause of the attack, you have to bet real dollars that the major news outlets would be all over this story 24/7. But since Obama's their baby...breaking news? Nah. Nothing to see here, folks. Just politics as usual...but about that Jodi Arias trial....
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