If you relied on CNN or MSNBC evening shows for your news, you likely would have no idea that the illegal alien who murdered Laken Riley was just tried and convicted. CNN’s prime time programming (between 8:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. ET) featured just a single, two-minute segment on the trial, while MSNBC’s evening shows skipped the story entirely.
Between the morning of Friday, November 15, when the trial started, and Wednesday, November 20 at 2:00 p.m. ET, when Jose Ibarra was ultimately sentenced, CNN and MSNBC’s prime time coverage of the case amounted to a single, 161-second news brief on the Monday night edition of CNN’s Laura Coates Live. By comparison, CNN’s total coverage of the case during that same time period clocked in at 225 minutes and 19 seconds, while MSNBC’s amounted to a less impressive 66 minutes and 16 seconds.
Given the…
