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   The body of missing college student Mollie Tibbetts was found   
   Tuesday after an illegal immigrant confessed to the brutal   
   murder, but media outlets took dramatically different approaches   
   to the story.   
      
   The bombshell development sure to impact the immigration debate   
   came amid a wild news day that also included a pair of major   
   stories involving President Trump: Michael Cohen’s plea deal and   
   the verdict in the Paul Manafort trial. Fox News, ABC, NBC and   
   CBS all covered the gamut, but anyone who relies on MSNBC or CNN   
   was left in the dark regarding the Tibbetts story.   
      
   Mediaite columnist Joseph Wulfsohn told Fox News that it’s   
   “fairly obvious that certain news outlets prefer to cover   
   stories that make the president look bad” and the Tibbetts story   
   “didn’t fit their narrative,” so it fell by the wayside.   
      
   “Hardball with Chris Matthews,” “All In with Chris Hayes,” “The   
   Rachel Maddow Show,” “The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell” and   
   “The 11th Hour with Brian Williams all completely ignored the   
   Tibbetts story during primetime and the network didn’t cover it   
   whatsoever from 5 p.m. through midnight.   
      
   Earlier in the day, Fordham University Professor Christina Greer   
   appeared on MSNBC and casually referred to Tibbetts as “a girl   
   in Iowa” that “Fox News is talking about,” essentially   
   dismissing the important of her body being found as a non-story.   
   Greer’s dismissal went unchallenged by MSNBC host Ali Velshi.   
      
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   Mollie Tibbetts was dead found after an intensive search that   
   lasted more than a month.   
      
   CNN’s “OutFront,” with substitute host Poppy Harlow, covered   
   Tibbetts for three minutes and 31 seconds, but the story was   
   ignored on “Anderson Cooper 360,” “Cuomo Prime Time” and “CNN   
   Tonight.” The news of an arrest in the Tibbetts case broke just   
   before 5 p.m. ET when “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” was   
   preparing to kick off. Blitzer focused exclusively on Cohen and   
   Manafort.   
      
   Esteemed media analyst and professor Jeffrey McCall told Fox   
   News that “the saturation coverage of the Cohen and Manafort   
   legal developments merit thorough coverage” but “the Tibbetts   
   story has captivated the nation” and should have been given   
   attention.   
      
   “The story needs to be brought to closure now and deserves   
   suitable coverage, even if not to the degree of the Cohen and   
   Manafort developments. News organizations can cover multiple   
   breaking stories at one time and one story need not be ignored   
   in the process,” McCall said. “It is challenging to cover   
   multiple big stories in one day, but it is not impossible to   
   keep an appropriate level of coverage and agenda balance.”   
      
   “It is challenging to cover multiple big stories in one day, but   
   it is not impossible to keep an appropriate level of coverage   
   and agenda balance.”   
      
   - Media analyst Jeffrey McCall   
   MSNBC and CNN did not immediately respond when asked for comment.   
      
   While liberal cable news stations essentially stuck to Cohen and   
   Manafort, the broadcast news networks managed to cover Tibbetts   
   during 30-minute newscasts. ABC’s “World News Tonight,” NBC’s   
   “Nightly News” and CBS’ “Evening News” all led with Cohen and   
   Manafort but covered Tibbetts in the first half of the program.   
   In fact, anchors David Muir, Lester Holt and Jeff Glor each   
   mentioned Tibbetts’ accused killer was in the country   
   “illegally,” as conservative watchdogs were ready to pounce on   
   outlets that ignored his illegal status.   
      
   “It shouldn't take much for any journalist to describe Mollie's   
   alleged killer as an illegal immigrant, but it's always an   
   uncertainty because of how the media largely defend this group   
   of people. So it was definitely a surprise last night when the   
   broadcast network coverage cited [Cristhian] Rivera as an   
   illegal immigrant,” NewsBuster’s managing editor Curtis Houck   
   told Fox News.   
      
   “A broken clock is known to occasionally be right,” Houck   
   continued. “This story does matter to people, so it's good news   
   that the broadcast networks have done their due diligence while   
   MSNBC in particular hasn't. News organizations are perfectly   
   capable of multitasking.”   
      
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