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A Flawed Tale of Cyberwarfare Is Fanning ‘Russiagate’ Obsession

  1. A Flawed Tale of Cyberwarfare Is Fanning ‘Russiagate’ Obsession  Truthdig
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A huuuuge reason the public is turning online to get its news: TV’s Trump obsession

Media bashing has never been my thing, for obvious reasons, but we’ll make an exception today to note some statistics that illustrate as well as anything why so many people of all political stripes have abandoned television network newscasts in favor of the Internet.

 Eric Boehlert writes at MediaMatters:

Donald Trump didn’t announce his candidacy until mid-June of last year, but still managed to be covered as the second biggest news story for all of 2015 on the network evening newscasts.

Between ABC’s World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News, Trump’s campaign captured 327 minutes of airtime, according to television news analyst Andrew Tyndall (ABC: 121, CBS: 84, NBC: 122 minutes, respectively). That figure doesn’t include the network newscasts’ coverage of the Republican debates, which garnered an additional 123 minutes of airtime.

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