How Media Outlets Covered An Iowa Murder, The Manafort Verdict And Cohen's Plea Deal

Published August 22, 2018 at 12:52 PM CDT

A poster of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts hangs in the window of a local business, Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2018, in Brooklyn, Iowa, the same day authorities found Tibbetts dead. (Charlie Neibergall/AP)

Three stories made major headlines Tuesday: Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty of fraud by a jury; Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen made a plea deal admitting to campaign finance violations; and an undocumented immigrant was arrested for the murder of 20-year-old Mollie Tibbetts in Iowa. How CNN and Fox News covered each story, though, was worlds apart.

NPR’s David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) joins Here & Now’s Robin Young to discuss the three stories and how the media reported them.

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