“I was amazed at the way in which the cablers didn’t cover the breaking news of the explosion in the Athens embassy,” an e-mailer says. “It broke about 11:30 Eastern. CNN covered it live with a phoner from a Time Mag stringer until Anderson Cooper passed it off to the rerun of Larry King” at 12:05am ET. FNC and MSNBC didn’t break in.
“Midnight Eastern is 9pm Pacific,” the e-mailer notes. “As I write this, it is unclear if this is a terrorist thing or something relatively minor, but it seems to me that the breaking news aspect should have received a lot more attention.”
FNC had a few short updates after midnight…
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