The network evening news in April rediscovered Joe Biden’s crisis on the southern border, offering more coverage than they had in the previous five months combined. And all it took for this was a record-smashing high for border crossings, the most in Department of Homeland Security history.
In April, there were 234,088 crossings, topping the record high from March of 2022, 221,303. From April 1 to April 30, NBC’s Nightly News devoted 13 minutes and 30 seconds to the border crisis. The CBS Evening News came in second with seven minutes and 30 seconds and ABC’s World News Tonight was last with five minutes and 57 seconds.
That total of 26 minutes and 57 seconds dwarfs the previous five months combined. From November 1, 2021 to March 30, 2022 there was only 14 minutes and one second of coverage to the spiraling situation at the border.
That’s the crossings they KNOW about… times that by 10, and it’s probably more accurate