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NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN Show Zero Results for Cannon Hinnant

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This is bad, right-biased reporting. CNN at least has a story about the murder of Cannon Hinnant[1].

For context, the implication here is that "liberal media" only reports white-on-Black or police-on-Black crime.

It's true that murders often tend to be local news stories unless they fit a national or historical pattern. Obviously there is no pattern for young Black men murdering white children.

Another counterpoint is the widespread national coverage of the murder of Secoriea Turner, a child shot at a roadblock protest in Atlanta. If there were a narrative they were trying to suppress, you would expect them to suppress that story.

I don't see any reason that this child's murder is of national interest unless someone believes there is an unreported trend of Black-on-white-child violence (which of course there isn't).

1. https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/13/us/north-carolina-boy-killed/...

2. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/05/us/atlanta-shootings-secoriea...

> I don't see any reason that this child's murder is of national interest

I don't see any reason that Mr. Floyds death is of national interest

He was killed by the state during an arrest for counterfeiting $20. The militarization, misbehavior, and accountability of the police has been a national issue for most of the last century and all of this one.

Further, Floyd's death was not a national story until the video spread online, protests began, and national media were forced to cover it.

Breonna Taylor, by contrast, was not a national story until over a month after her death.

I'm based in the UK and we had UK newspaper website stories (Daily Mail, The Sun, The Independent and others which are on both the left and the right sides of politics) about Cannon Hinnant here before there were results on those US websites. In fact the only reason why I'm aware of this zero results issue is because people started posting "Why are UK newspapers reporting this but not our own US media?".

So I checked for myself and sure enough zero results.

I'd suggest that if something has been reported internationally and locally but not nationally that something strange is happening.

Overall, we rate the Washington Examiner Right Biased based on editorial positions that almost exclusively favor the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to several failed fact checks. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/washington-examiner

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