CBS Reports on Southern Poverty Law Center

CBS News gets noticed for indictment it didn't ignore

Only one of the “Big Three” TV networks reported on the federal indictment announced this week against the Southern Poverty Law Center, but that segment from CBS News is being praised for standing out as a rare example of objective coverage.

The so-called “Big Three” networks are CBS, ABC, and NBC, all pioneers in television entertainment and news coverage. It didn’t go unnoticed this week that only CBS told its audience a federal grand jury handed down an 11-count indictment against the controversial Alabama-based organization.

“The Justice Department charged the organization with fraud for allegedly misleading donors and lying to financial institutions,” Jan Crawford, the news network’s chief legal correspondent, states in the two-minute news segment.

Tim Graham, of the Media Research Center, told AFN the media watchdog was watching when ABC and NBC ignored the news.

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