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MSNBC, CNN ignore bombshell development in Mollie Tibbetts case on day of bad news for Trump

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The body of missing college student Mollie Tibbetts was found 
Tuesday after an illegal immigrant confessed to the brutal 
murder, but media outlets took dramatically different approaches 
to the story.

The bombshell development sure to impact the immigration debate 
came amid a wild news day that also included a pair of major 
stories involving President Trump: Michael Cohen’s plea deal and 
the verdict in the Paul Manafort trial. Fox News, ABC, NBC and 
CBS all covered the gamut, but anyone who relies on MSNBC or CNN 
was left in the dark regarding the Tibbetts story.

Mediaite columnist Joseph Wulfsohn told Fox News that it’s 
“fairly obvious that certain news outlets prefer to cover 
stories that make the president look bad” and the Tibbetts story 
“didn’t fit their narrative,” so it fell by the wayside.

“Hardball with Chris Matthews,” “All In with Chris Hayes,” “The 
Rachel Maddow Show,” “The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell” and 
“The 11th Hour with Brian Williams all completely ignored the 
Tibbetts story during primetime and the network didn’t cover it 
whatsoever from 5 p.m. through midnight.

Earlier in the day, Fordham University Professor Christina Greer 
appeared on MSNBC and casually referred to Tibbetts as “a girl 
in Iowa” that “Fox News is talking about,” essentially 
dismissing the important of her body being found as a non-story. 
Greer’s dismissal went unchallenged by MSNBC host Ali Velshi.

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Mollie Tibbetts was dead found after an intensive search that 
lasted more than a month.

CNN’s “OutFront,” with substitute host Poppy Harlow, covered 
Tibbetts for three minutes and 31 seconds, but the story was 
ignored on “Anderson Cooper 360,” “Cuomo Prime Time” and “CNN 
Tonight.” The news of an arrest in the Tibbetts case broke just 
before 5 p.m. ET when “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” was 
preparing to kick off. Blitzer focused exclusively on Cohen and 
Manafort.

Esteemed media analyst and professor Jeffrey McCall told Fox 
News that “the saturation coverage of the Cohen and Manafort 
legal developments merit thorough coverage” but “the Tibbetts 
story has captivated the nation” and should have been given 
attention.

“The story needs to be brought to closure now and deserves 
suitable coverage, even if not to the degree of the Cohen and 
Manafort developments. News organizations can cover multiple 
breaking stories at one time and one story need not be ignored 
in the process,” McCall said. “It is challenging to cover 
multiple big stories in one day, but it is not impossible to 
keep an appropriate level of coverage and agenda balance.”

“It is challenging to cover multiple big stories in one day, but 
it is not impossible to keep an appropriate level of coverage 
and agenda balance.”

- Media analyst Jeffrey McCall
MSNBC and CNN did not immediately respond when asked for comment.

While liberal cable news stations essentially stuck to Cohen and 
Manafort, the broadcast news networks managed to cover Tibbetts 
during 30-minute newscasts. ABC’s “World News Tonight,” NBC’s 
“Nightly News” and CBS’ “Evening News” all led with Cohen and 
Manafort but covered Tibbetts in the first half of the program. 
In fact, anchors David Muir, Lester Holt and Jeff Glor each 
mentioned Tibbetts’ accused killer was in the country 
“illegally,” as conservative watchdogs were ready to pounce on 
outlets that ignored his illegal status.

“It shouldn't take much for any journalist to describe Mollie's 
alleged killer as an illegal immigrant, but it's always an 
uncertainty because of how the media largely defend this group 
of people. So it was definitely a surprise last night when the 
broadcast network coverage cited [Cristhian] Rivera as an 
illegal immigrant,” NewsBuster’s managing editor Curtis Houck 
told Fox News.

“A broken clock is known to occasionally be right,” Houck 
continued. “This story does matter to people, so it's good news 
that the broadcast networks have done their due diligence while 
MSNBC in particular hasn't. News organizations are perfectly 
capable of multitasking.”

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