NBC Ignores Mollie Tibbetts' Murderer Found Guilty; ABC Hides Immigration Status

By NewsBusters —— Bio and Archives May 29, 2021

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History repeated itself tonight, as NBC once again blocked out major developments in the 2018 case of murdered Iowa student, Mollie Tibbetts. The other two networks also played partisan politics by trying to hide her killer's illegal immigration status. Cristhian Bahena Rivera confessed to killing the young college student, after her body was found dumped in a cornfield. While the case horrified the nation, the media didn’t want to touch the story for obvious reasons, and evidently, still don’t. This afternoon a jury found Bahena Rivera, guilty of first degree murder. ABC’s evening newscast gave the update just twenty seconds while CBS was the only network to give it a full report. NBC Nightly News chose to completely ignore the verdict. -- More...