Morn­ings Nets Bemoan ‘Dra­mat­ic’ Bor­der Attack, Fret ‘Des­per­a­tion’ by Ille­gal Immi­grants

After show­ing no inter­est on Thursday’s CBS Evening News and NBC Night­ly News, Friday’s CBS Morn­ings and NBC’s Today chose to cov­er the dis­turb­ing, viral video from our friend Jen­nie Taer at the New York Post show­ing a mob of ille­gal immi­grants storm­ing and tear­ing down a fence just over the U.S.-Mexico bor­der in El Paso, Texas.
Hav­ing had time to mar­i­nate on this sto­ry, the net­works all got their ducks in a row with CBS in par­tic­u­lar bemoan­ing Taer’s video as “like­ly to add fuel to the polit­i­cal show­down over immi­gra­tion and bor­der secu­ri­ty” and illus­tra­tive of how ille­gal immi­grants are dri­ven by “a trag­ic com­bi­na­tion of a bro­ken sys­tem and des­per­a­tion” to pour into the U.S.

“A chaot­ic scene in El Paso as migrants storm a fence at the bor­der briefly over­whelm­ing the Natio …