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.
If Singh’s last name was SMITH you can bet your ass this story would have been ignored.
“the criminal is given the ‘innocent until proven guilty’ treatment.”
IMO, since the cockroach was here illegally, he shouldn’t have any “rights”. Only citizens and those here legally deserve rights. Take him out behind the jail and put a 9mm through his head.
“Caravan of at least 15,000 more unvetted invaders forming in Guatemala”
Time to bomb every road and rail bridge south of mexico city.
This story had me crying. Good on those cops who caught the murderer (s) today.
OUR GOVERNORS WANTED THIS. THEY WANT MORE ILLEGALS KILLING MORE GOOD CITIZENS. Those a-holes, one of them, will show up at this funeral. How dare they!? They caused this.
I dont have the words.
Isn’t it funny that 15 years ago the race boxes to check included White, non-hispanic and Hispanic? So Hispanic used to be considered white. Weird.
About that shutdown...
The murder was real; the criminal is given the ‘innocent until proven guilty’ treatment. All others, that’s American citizens are guilty until proven innocent just ask Brett K
IF I were that Sheriff in Stanislaus County, I would be starting a state wide BLUE FLU among ALL the other counties & their deputies.
At least he had the guts to put the blame where it belongs.
This ‘ILLEGAL has been in the USA for a long & time & had 2 prior DUI charges, but Calif Sheriff’s & Police are forbidden from calling ICE to get the perps picked up & deported.
Every bit of this LEO death is at the feet of Jerry Brown & the Calif Dems
They aired it because the victim was not white, but an immigrant from Fiji. If the cop had been the average white American male, it would probably not have been aired. Just my 2 cents worth.
The press sees illegals as 'future democrat voters'. And the dead cop? They see honest immigrants as future Republicans. It's why they tried to ignore his death.
I'm surprise the MSM covered the death at all.
The story is to big...it instantly went viral.
Kind of like when Trump won the election.
They, scum sucking media, can’t come right out and say what they really think.. “we hate this guy...i hope someone kills this guy.”
They have to report it and then slowly turn it around and make it about “guns” or “trans fats” or something other than progressive policies.
The illegals don't even bother to learn English, but they force us to learn Spanish.
He wasn’t a white Hispanic. He was a Mexican and was trying to flee to Mexico, when the officer caught him.
WHOOPIE, they covered the story.
How many times did they mention that the Murderer was an ILLEGAL INVADER who should have never been here in the first place?
What’s next, the poor “Immigrant” lost his Job at the Vape Shop because he was arrested?
Not one word about the dressing down the sanctuary friends got from the town’s police chief. A little sensitive about that?
lol
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