Report: Nightly newscasts have covered Hillary Clinton e-mail story as much as her candidacy

Network news watchdog Andrew Tyndall is out with some numbers on how the big nightly newscasts have covered the presidential race, and the figures are chilling for the campaign of Hillary Clinton. In those marquee programs, ABC News, CBS News and NBC News have spent just as much time -- 83 minutes -- on the candidate’s e-mail scandal as they have on her candidacy -- 82 minutes, according to Tyndall’s number-crunching. The calculations stem from the weekday nightly news broadcasts on campaign 2016 from the start of 2015 through Sept. 18.

Minus the e-mail coverage, Clinton’s exposure on the nightly news falls short of Republican front-runner Donald Trump’s -- which is 145 minutes across the three networks. That accounts for 29 percent of all campaign 2016 coverage on the three networks and 43 percent of the Republican side.