ABC World News, NBC Nightly News Stage Full-Fledged Cuban Tourism Infomercials

‘... a spectacular view very few Americans have ever seen because they haven’t been allowed to until now’

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ABC’s World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News Stage Full-Fledged Cuban Tourism Infomercials (NewsBusters)

In conjunction with the U.S. diplomatic delegation arriving in Cuba on Wednesday for talks with the Communist regime, ABC’s World News Tonight with David Muir and NBC Nightly News went out of their way to all but again ignore the brutal past of the Castro government and instead stage unapologetic promotions of the country that lies 93 miles to America’s south.

All told, NBC Nightly News spent a whopping nine minutes and 19 seconds of its airtime to Cuba over the course of three teases and segments each. For ABC, with three teases and segments of its own (plus another that predominantly discussed Cuba), it devoted a total of eight minutes and 53 seconds of World News Tonight to fawning over the subject.

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