Priorities

Last night NBC Nightly News gave 3:35 to its lead story, the life and death of Hulk Hogan. Later in the broadcast, NBC devoted 1:37 to the threat of starvation in Gaza. (Threat of? Let’s just say starvation.)

And last night the PBS NewsHour devoted 7:55 to its lead story, “Hunger in Gaza.” (But again, let’s just say starvation.) And later in the broadcast, PBS devoted 1:12 to the life and death of Hulk Hogan.

Granted, NBC has a commercial-filled half-hour for its nightly news. But that might suggest that less time be devoted to the life and death of a professional wrestler.

Neither broadcast noted that Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general now interviewing Ghislaine Maxwell, was the current president’s attorney in his 2024 hush-money trial.

But The Late Show did.