Apparently there was not enough time in Good Morning America's two hour-long schedule to cover the Senate vote on whether or not to pull funding from Planned Parenthood, what with boy band One Direction on the program. The tabulators over at Newsbusters figured that George Stephanopoulos, and the rest of the crew over at ABC, spent just over 18 minutes of dedicated air time to the UK pop sensation.
Also ignoring the Planned Parenthood debacle was NBC's Today, missing their opportunity despite having four hours to cover the story. Newsbusters determined that CBS' This Morning was the only one to do so, somehow finding 25 seconds to devote to the controversial abortion story, putting them in a dominating position over their competition to say the least.
But as is noted, CBS' Norah O'Donnell couldn't quite bring herself to say Planned Parenthood "sells" fetal tissue to medical researchers, in favor of the gentler verb "gives."
And in a show of fairness to ABC, Newsbusters gave credit to anchor David Muir who on World News Monday night offered his own 25 second blurb in which he at least mentioned that PP discussed "the sale of fetal tissue" in the undercover videos.
