Looking for a discussion of white nationalist terrorist plot? Largely MIA on Sunday talk shows, MSM

[Va Lefty]

"After the arrest of a white nationalist Coast Guard lieutenant who, according to charging documents, was allegedly planning “to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country," NBC’s Meet the Press was the only one of the five major Sunday political news shows to mention the news. The failure of the other shows to cover the story follows a trend of many mainstream outlets largely ignoring the creeping and real threat of right-wing extremism and domestic terrorism in the United States."

"As right-wing extremism and violence in the United States have surged over the last decade, mainstream media outlets have failed to properly frame and report on the growing threat. From print outlets to network and cable news, the normalization of white nationalist rhetoric and the overall growth of a violent ideology have been, for the most part, treated as backburner issues among mainstream outlets. And while mainstream media play catch-up to what is a real and serious threat -- as the arrest of a self-described white nationalist within the ranks of the U.S. Coast Guard reminds us -- Fox News, the most-watched cable news outlet in the country, continues to unabashedly and irresponsibly pander to such extremists."

https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2019/02/25/sunday-shows-mostly-ignored-arrest-white-nationalist-domestic-terrorist-within-coast-guard-s-ranks/222962

[Sherman A1]

1. Why would you bother looking?

It's pretty much all infotainment on Sunday Talk Shows.

[Va Lefty]

2. Not so much "infotainment" as kgop talking points, but point taken

[gratuitous]

3. No time for that!

We need to spend the full hour or half hour or whatever on the escapades of a freshman member of Congress who's been in office for nearly seven weeks. Wowee!

Besides, nobody's all that interested in some domestic terrorist who's targeting Democratic elected officials and some media nobodies. Now, let's take an in-depth look at the woman who snatched a MAGA hat off some bigot's head, because THAT's real news.