NBC hasn’t covered the ongoing Bob Filner sexual harassment scandal an almost a week, despite a fifteenth woman – a 67-year-old great grandmother – coming forward on Thursday, accusing the former congressman of making lurid comments to her. The last time that NBC’s morning and evening newscasts covered the Filner story was on August 10, 2013. On Friday, ABC and CBS’s morning newscasts aired news briefs on the latest development in the Filner controversy, but both failed to identify him as a Democrat. Mere seconds before reporting on the San Diego mayor, CBS This Morning pointed out the Democratic party affiliation of Filner’s former congressional colleague, Jackie Speier, who blasted the Defense Department on their handling of sexual assaults in the military.
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