ABC, NBC, CBS refuse to air ad
critical of news coverage. There’s nothing to criticize the networks about, people! We’ve got Missing! White! Wimmin! and Shark! Attacks! to cover! And our own culpability in the Iraq fiasco to ignore. Continuing genocide in Darfur is totally unnewsworthy and we are above reproach.
ABC News broadcast just 18 minutes of Darfur coverage in its nightly newscasts in all of 2004 – and that turns out to be a credit to Peter Jennings, – as Nicholas Kristof pointed out. NBC News featured 5 minutes, and CBS only had three, – about a minute of coverage for every 100,000 deaths… Now they won’t allow us to pay for 30 seconds to urge better coverage of the genocide.
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