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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3539197" data-attributes="member: 56035">Cable News Largely Ignores Deaths of 4,645 in Puerto Rico to Focus on RoseanneHeadlineMay 31, 2018<img src="https://www.democracynow.org/images/headlines/37/42337/quarter_hd/H6_Puerto-rico-deaths-overlooked.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />In related news, the cable news networks are facing criticism for spending far more time covering the Roseanne story than the stunning new Harvard report that found at least 4,645 people died in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria. That figure is 70 times higher than the official death toll. According to Media Matters, the main cable news networks covered Roseanne for over 10 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. They covered Hurricane Maria’s death toll in Puerto Rico for just over 30 minutes. Fox News spent just 48 seconds covering the Puerto Rico story. On Wednesday San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz posted a message on Twitter reading, “Never forgotten! Never again!” In an attached photo, she was wearing a hat with the number 4,645.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3539197, member: 56035"] [SIZE=6][B]Cable News Largely Ignores Deaths of 4,645 in Puerto Rico to Focus on Roseanne[/B][/SIZE] HeadlineMay 31, 2018 [IMG]https://www.democracynow.org/images/headlines/37/42337/quarter_hd/H6_Puerto-rico-deaths-overlooked.jpg[/IMG] In related news, the cable news networks are facing criticism for spending far more time covering the Roseanne story than the stunning new Harvard report that found at least 4,645 people died in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria. That figure is 70 times higher than the official death toll. According to Media Matters, the main cable news networks covered Roseanne for over 10 hours on Tuesday and Wednesday morning. They covered Hurricane Maria’s death toll in Puerto Rico for just over 30 minutes. Fox News spent just 48 seconds covering the Puerto Rico story. On Wednesday San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz posted a message on Twitter reading, “Never forgotten! Never again!” In an attached photo, she was wearing a hat with the number 4,645. [/QUOTE]

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