A media watchdog says major news networks focused on British royals, police horses and art museums while social media was on fire with the latest nursing home bombshell related to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Media Research Center came up empty-handed on Cuomo content on Thursday while watching ABC’s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News in the wake of a growing COVID-19 scandal.
Exposés by both The Associated Press and The New York Post spotlighted revelations regarding more than 9,000 recovering coronavirus patients in New York state who were released from hospitals into nursing homes as the contagion exploded in The Big Apple.
The population involved in the Democrat’s scandal has skyrocketed by 15,000 in recent weeks.
Original numbers placed the patient population around 8,500.
“The AP story dropped before the broadcast networks went to air, but none of them covered it. Not even a news brief,” NewsBusters’ Nicholas Fondacaro reported late Thursday. “This meant ABC’s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News chose not to share the politically damaging story with their viewers.
“Instead of covering Cuomo’s deadly incompetence, ABC gawked at police horses that ran down a street. CBS focused on a frivolous story about the British royal family. And over on NBC, they showed off an art museum.”
The Post’s story on hiding accurate numbers to avoid the attention of federal prosecutors was published during ABC and CBS broadcasts, but before NBC’s began. It was still ignored.
“[NBC’s] refusal to report the first bombshell made covering ’[t]he stunning admission of a cover-up’ all that more important and necessary for their Friday morning newscasts,” NewsBusters added.
A bombshell report shows Andrew Cuomo sent 9,000 COVID patients into nursing homes in New York.
— MediaResearchCenter (@theMRC) February 12, 2021
ABC talked about a police horse.
CBS talked about the British royal family.
NBC showed off an art museum.
They are hiding this bombshell from you. https://t.co/k4CWu3febL
• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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