◼ Mere hours before President Obama announced Attorney General Eric Holder's resignation, Sharyl Attkisson reported on Thursday that U.S. District Court Judge John Bates ordered the Justice Department to "turn over a list of withheld Fast and Furious documents by Oct. 22 [2014]. - See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2014/09/26/attkisson-reports-latest-fast-furious-abc-nbc-omit-scandal-holder?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=marketing&utm_term=facebook&utm_content=facebook&utm_campaign=attkisson-fast-furious#sthash.dtCnPkNE.dpuf - Newsbusters
Attorney General Eric Holder had sought a delay until the day before the midterm elections....Judicial Watch sued...[DOJ] in September of 2012 over its refusal to turn over...[the] documents."
CBS Evening News mentioned Fast and Furious in their coverage of the Holder announcement that evening, but NBC Nightly News failed to mention the scandal (ABC's World News didn't cover the resignation at all). The following morning, ABC and NBC's morning newscast continued omitting the gunrunning controversy in their coverage of the attorney general. However, correspondent Major Garrett noted the scandal in his report on CBS...
On Thursday, the MRC's Rich Noyes documented the media's consistent disinterest in covering the scandal since Border Patrol agent Brian Terry's murder in December 2010. During 2011, Attkisson, then at CBS, stood out for her pursuit of the story, while ABC and NBC largely ignored it – just as they did on Thursday evening and Friday morning.
