Monday, July 19, 2021

The Border Disaster

Why the Border Disaster Has Disappeared From The News
george rasley  2 days ago

Our friends at the Media Research Center recently published one of their must-read analyses
of network news coverage – this one about coverage of the record-breaking number of illegal aliens crossing our southern border.

As the MRC reported:

On Friday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported another record number of apprehensions at the Mexican border in June: almost 190,000. This number does not include those who have been able to get away from Border Patrol.

But somehow, this is not an ongoing Biden border crisis. On Friday night’s newscasts, only ABC and NBC mentioned it. CBS and PBS did not.

NBC tossed just 19 seconds on the border.

Lester Holt threw this brief: "Despite scorching summer temperatures, the record migrant surge at the southern border is still growing tonight. Newly released numbers show customs and border patrol agents apprehended nearly 189,000 migrants trying to cross in June. That’s the highest number in 21 years. Over 1 million migrants have been apprehended this year."

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