Back When the Media Didn't Care About a President's Criminal Friends
http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2018/08/22/flashback-when-media-didnt-care-about-presidents-criminal
It's always big news when a former associate of a President goes on trial, right? Well actually no.
When Bill Clinton's Whitewater business partners Jim and Susan McDougal and the former Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker were tried (and convicted) for conspiracy and fraud charges the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) evening news programs devoted (on average) just 36 seconds per night (March 3, 1996 - May 29, 1996) to the trial. This despite the fact that the then-sitting President offered video testimony during the court proceedings. ...

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