Giddy ABC, NBC Hype Salacious, Unverified Omarosa Claims; CBS Admirably Stays Away

On Friday, ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News showed zero restraint when it came to salacious, unverified claims in an upcoming book by former White House aide and reality TV firebrand Omarosa Manigault-Newman that President Trump used the n-word. Even though there’s already contradictions emerging, both eagerly led with and reported them anyway. To their credit, the CBS Evening News stayed away from this circus act and didn’t cover the book, instead focusing on stories where anchor Jeff Glor and CBS correspondents could deal in facts. At least on Friday, it seemed like CBS showed they had learned from the media’s blind worship of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury. -- More...