The Media’s Final Email Flop, A Fitting End To Journalism’s Troubled Campaign Season

[Commentary] In the last two weeks, which include the media's meltdown over FBI Director James Comey’s unprecedented decision to insert the bureau into the election process, ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, and NBC Nightly News set aside a total of 25 minutes to cover the e-mails. That compares to their grand total of three minutes for covering policy during that span. For the entire 2016 year, however, the networks have devoted zero minutes to in-depth policy discussions of climate change, drugs, poverty, guns, infrastructure, social injustice, or the deficit. But they dedicated 125 minutes to Clinton e-mails.

What’s been utterly depressing is the collective decision to relentlessly cover a story that had already been beaten to death nine different times and from every conceivable angle. That and the fact that lazy email mania bumped aside actual, important news that Americans deserve to know about.