Forty four people were shot over the weekend in a bloody epidemic sweeping Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago. Yet, CBS has, thus far, ignored the ignored the crime wave. In contrast, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS This Morning on Tuesday both briefly covered the violence in the city run by Barack Obama’s former chief of staff. GMA news reader Dan Abrams explained, “Special authorities are creating a special crime-fighting unit in Chicago after a shocking spike in street violence.” [See video
below. MP3 audio here.] He noted that among the victims were “six children and two more teenagers overnight.” On Today, Willie Geist explained that five children were shot in a park on Easter Sunday. Even though CBS allowed no time for tragic news out of Chicago, the network’s morning show devoted four minutes to a possible maple syrup shortage.

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