Networks Kept ‘No Collusion’ Senate Investigation Result Off Evening Newscasts, Report Says

Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr arrives for a meeting of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in Washington, on Aug. 16, 2018. Win McNamee/Getty Images

Major broadcast networks excluded from their evening news the results of the Senate Intelligence Committee investigation, which found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Yet, in the past two years, the evening newscasts dedicated over 2,200 minutes, nearly fifth of their Trump-related reporting, to the Russia investigation, according to the right-leaning nonprofit Media Research Center (MRC), which went through coverage on ABC’s “World News Tonight,” the CBS “Evening News,” and the NBC “Nightly News” between Jan. 21, 2017 and Feb. 10, 2019.