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I haven't watched TV news (cable or otherwise) for a long time. But as I recall, the big 3 network news's were pretty conservative. - 1pg

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Yes it is quite apparent you haven't watched in a long time. Sometimes it's more about what they don't report. Just one example.

"A new study found that mainstream news networks have largely avoided the continuing crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border despite new footage revealing the crisis is not losing steam.

A DHS source recently told Fox News that there were 208,887 encounters in August, only a 2% drop over more than 212,000 encounters in July.

But the crisis was noticeably absent from the airwaves on the Big Three networks. Broadcast evening news coverage in August totaled just 6 minutes, 28 seconds on NBC, CBS and ABC during the month of August, according to a NewsBusters study. "

And it's not just Border Crisis that gets scant coverage on the big three

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