Posted on 12/28/2018 5:18:19 PM PST by Kaslin
UPDATE, 7:16 p.m. Eastern: All three Friday night network newscasts gave full reports on the arrest of the illegal immigrant who allegedly murdered Singh (along with five others who allegedly assisted the suspect in avoiding law enforcement). This brought the total of coverage to 28 minutes and 21 seconds.
The CBS Evening News again led the newscast with the latest developments from and fill-in anchor/NFL Today host James Brown correspondent CBS’s Mireya Villarreal, totaling two minutes and 49 seconds. ABC’s World News Tonight was next with two minutes and 22 seconds and then NBC Nightly News in third with one minute and 22 seconds.
Below is the original post from Friday afternoon.
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While MSNBC has been out to lunch on the Christmas night murder of Newman Police Cpl. Ronil Singh allegedly by an illegal alien, the broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC have surprisingly given this story heavy coverage to the tune of over 20 minutes over the last three days.
Fortunately, the Sacramento Bee reported that an arrest has been made in Singh’s death, citing law enforcement officials as having told them that a suspect “was arrested in Bakersfield either Thursday night or Friday morning.” The Bee added that there would be a press conference on Friday afternoon.
As for the media coverage, it first started rolling in on the Wednesday evening newscasts and through the Friday morning shows, ABC, CBS, and NBC have given 21 minutes and 48 seconds to the manhunt for Singh’s killer. Further, all stories were full segments and not news briefs.
For a cable breakdown of this story, my colleague Brad Wilmouth has a piece here.
As expected, CBS led the way with the most coverage, giving Singh’s murder and the manhunt 10 minutes and one second. The CBS Evening News started covering it on Wednesday and, along with CBS This Morning, the network has diligently kept viewers updated.
In fact, this disturbing crime by yet another illegal alien led off Thursday’s CBS Evening News and Friday’s CBS This Morning.
Speaking of ABC, their newscasts (Good Morning America and World News Tonight) have dedicated eight minutes and six seconds since Wednesday night. NBC’s Today and NBC Nightly News came in last with three minutes and 41 seconds. On top of that, NBC didn’t acknowledge the manhunt for this armed and dangerous individual until Thursday night.
To give a shoutout to the network correspondents doing admirable work reporting on Singh’s murder and avoided making President Trump’s tweets the center of attention, they include ABC’s Will Carr and Clayton Sandell, CBS’s Mireya Villarreal, and NBC’s Morgan Chesky.
FoxNews.com’s Greg Norman published a piece Friday morning with disturbing claims
The illegal immigrant wanted by California cops for the murder of one of their own may have connections to a Mexican-American street gang, according to an image circulating on social media confirmed as authentic by investigators.
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The photo shows the alleged “cop-killer” posing in a tank-top shirt, with a metal chain necklace draped around his neck and a large flaming skull tattoo visible on his right arm. Underneath the tattoo is the word “$ur3no$,” which, according to police in Washington State, is Spanish for “southerners”.
“Sureños are a group of Mexican-American street gangs with origins in southern California (south of Bakersfield),” reads a profile on the group in a police gang recognition guide. “The gang has allegiance to the [California] prison gang, Mexican Mafia, aka “La Eme”.
Ten alleged members of the Sureños gang were charged in April for their suspected roles in seven murders in the Bay Area dating back to 2006, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The illegal immigrant wanted by California cops for the murder of one of their own may have connections to a Mexican-American street gang, according to an image circulating on social media confirmed as authentic by investigators.
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The photo shows the alleged “cop-killer” posing in a tank-top shirt, with a metal chain necklace draped around his neck and a large flaming skull tattoo visible on his right arm. Underneath the tattoo is the word “$ur3no$,” which, according to police in Washington State, is Spanish for “southerners”.
“Sureños are a group of Mexican-American street gangs with origins in southern California (south of Bakersfield),” reads a profile on the group in a police gang recognition guide. “The gang has allegiance to the [California] prison gang, Mexican Mafia, aka “La Eme”.
Ten alleged members of the Sureños gang were charged in April for their suspected roles in seven murders in the Bay Area dating back to 2006, the Los Angeles Times reported.
I was SHOCKED that our local commie news actually said this piece of sh*t was in the country illegally..but they kept on calling him an “Illegal immigrant” UH NO, he’s NOT an immigrant..he’s an illegal alien murdering SCUM BAG who was allowed in this country so he could get freebies and vote Democrat..a REAL immigrant is like this brave officer who gave his LIFE for our country!
Wonder when they are going to tell us how many of his helpers are illegal. Too bad the Neuman cop shop didn’t take him out before they cuffed him. May be he’ll try to escape. RIP Officer Singh.
Well that’s a ####ing nightmare of which there are few worse.
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5 months old.
I dont have the words.
this is huge. the networks covering an illegal alien murdering an american citizen just doesn’t happen.
trump may get his wall despite the new congress.
'Alleged' has to be one of the most misused words in journalism. The headline should read:
Networks Give Over 28 Minutes to the Murder of Cop allegedly by an Illegal Immigrant
The murder was real; the criminal is given the 'innocent until proven guilty' treatment.
The mainstream media pieces of s*** must be seeing this issue slipping away from the Socialist Democratic party and they want to get on their right side of it. My thoughts in regard to that? Jeff Flake off.
“Surprise: Networks Give Over 28 Minutes to Alleged Murder of Cop by Illegal Immigrant [UPDATED]”
Alleged ?
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True. Any coverage of this story is more votes for the wall.
How long until they label the killer a “white Hispanic”?
Well, the sheriff confirmed that the brother and coworker are here illegally.
And that he will arrest anyone else that aided and abetted.
He also noted that they were agricultural laborers, dairy farms and the like.
I have a suggestion for the Singh family: sue those farms for aiding and abetting this scumbag.
We can only hope the gangs start killing fake news hosts instead of cops.
The story is a bigger story than it’s being credited. Something is up. Perhaps as mentioned, the media want to be on the winning side. Trump holds most of the cards here. The big story is the (media)story in itself. I was dumbstruck.
The dairy farm ALSO needs to be held responsible by the feds for NOT enforcing e-verify laws in their business!!! If these people didn’t have jobs given to them they would not come here!!! These business owners can hire immigrants with work visas that have been vetted if they chose not to the should be held responsible for breaking the law!!!
Reason MSM showed this...
1. The brother was sobbing during presser
2. The pic of victim,wife, son under Christmas tree.
Both very moving for ratings.
Tune in. Same bat time. Same bat channel.
maybe, just maybe these nutworks are trying to signal to the Demon Rats that they could USE this horrible incident as a way to stop losing the battle to President Trump.
I doubt it, but this could be a way for the Demon Rats to save face.
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