After showing no interest on Thursday’s CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News, Friday’s CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today chose to cover the disturbing, viral video from our friend Jennie Taer at the New York Post showing a mob of illegal immigrants storming and tearing down a fence just over the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas.
Having had time to marinate on this story, the networks all got their ducks in a row with CBS in particular bemoaning Taer’s video as “likely to add fuel to the political showdown over immigration and border security” and illustrative of how illegal immigrants are driven by “a tragic combination of a broken system and desperation” to pour into the U.S.
“A chaotic scene in El Paso as migrants storm a fence at the border briefly overwhelming the National Guard,” announced co-host Nate Burleson in the…
