18 minutes versus 26 months.
Via MRC
The journalists at ABC and NBC on Monday couldn’t manage to cover the revelation that the IRS lost two years-worth of Lois Lerner’s e-mails. Yet, reporters on all three networks mourned the loss of a parking garage connected to the four decade-old Watergate scandal. Sunday CBS Evening News anchor Jeff Glor pronounced, “The world’s most famous parking garage will be destroyed.”
Glor explained that the county board in Arlington, Virginia “voted this weekend to demolish the garage where Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward met secretly with his Watergate source Deep Throat, Mark Felt.” However, he reassured viewers that a “historical marker will remain.” The story was also covered on Sunday’s World News, Monday’s Today show andCBS This Morning.
World News journalist Susan Saulny insisted that the parking garage was “immortalized here in the 1976 film All the President’s Men.” She lamented, “That same garage, holding an iconic place in the history of the fall of the President, soon to be torn down, making way for a new residential tower.”
In contrast, only CBS on Monday covered the revelation that the IRS “lost” ex-head Lerner’s e-mails. Norah O’Donnell wondered, “How did the IRS lose emails in the scandal targeting conservatives after the government spent millions to back up data?”
It’s apparent that journalists would rather discuss a 42-year-old scandal than investigate one involving the current, Democratic, President.