With the leftist media only just arriving at the civil uprising in Iran threating to topple the Islamic regime, which has been going on for days, NBC News was downplaying it as just limited protests reacting to poor economic conditions. Meanwhile, their competitors at ABC and CBS were actually keeping their audiences up to date by noting the protests had expanded, not just across the country, but also in scope to include chants of “death to the dictator.”
“Now to those dramatic images from Iran where protesters are taking to the streets, many outraged by the government’s handling of the economy. And tonight, clashes with police have turned deadly,” fill-in anchor Kate Snow announced on Thursday night’s NBC Nightly News.
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