On Thursday, while ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS This Morning spent several minutes covering the new Republican tax plan and talked to top Trump administration officials about the policy, NBC’s Today couldn’t even bother to devote a single full report to the topic. Instead, the morning show devoted three times more coverage to the renewal of NBC sitcom Will & Grace.
At the top of the show, co-host Savannah Guthrie proclaimed: “President Trump unveiled his long-awaited tax overhaul plan, hailing it as revolutionary.” Minutes later, fellow co-host Matt Lauer announced: “...there’s a lot more to get to on this Thursday morning, including that sweeping tax overhaul plan just unveiled by President Trump and congressional Republicans.” Despite such declarations of the policy’s importance, only less than two minutes (1 minute 55 seconds) of coverage could be managed – and it was far from positive.
The local NBC channel here spent a ton of time on their news on...Will and Grace, too. But they devote a lot of so-called news time to promos of NBC shows.
The tax plan? Not a word about it, that I heard, anyway.
NBC’s Today Spends Three Times More on Will & Grace Than GOP Tax Plan
