{"id":2017603,"date":"2023-08-31T00:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-is-the-only-traditional-network-to-cover-gold-star-families-hearing-report\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T00:33:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:33:14","slug":"nbc-is-the-only-traditional-network-to-cover-gold-star-families-hearing-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-is-the-only-traditional-network-to-cover-gold-star-families-hearing-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: NBC Sole Traditional Network to Cover Gold Star Families Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnbc-is-the-only-traditional-network-to-cover-gold-star-families-hearing-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2017603&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><h2>Only NBC News Covers Emotional Roundtable with Gold Star Families<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>While the other two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-numbers-are-in-trump-tucker-team-up-to-beat-fox-news-in-viewership-battle\/\" title=\"Trump and Tucker surpass Fox News in viewership battle.\">traditional news networks<\/a> ignored it, NBC News \u2063took the initiative to cover Tuesday&#8217;s powerful roundtable discussion with the Gold Star family members\u2063 who \u200dtragically lost their loved ones during President Joe Biden&#8217;s chaotic withdrawal \u2063from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>These brave\u2062 friends and family members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-another-attack-on-kabul-airport-highly-likely-vows-to-continue-taking-action-against-isis-k\/\" title=\"Biden says another attack on Kabul airport \u2018highly likely,\u2019 vows to continue taking action against ISIS-K\">13 fallen service members<\/a>, who were killed in the devastating suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai \u200bInternational Airport in Kabul on August 26, \u200c2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/joe-biden\/families-service-members-killed-2021-kabul-airport-attack-demand-accou-rcna102436?taid=64ef051914bc100001ab1901&#038;utm_campaign=trueanthem&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gathered on Capitol\u2064 Hill<\/a> to express their frustrations with the lack of accountability and respect they \u200dhave witnessed from military leadership and the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/kevin-tober\/2023\/08\/29\/after-mrc-pressure-nbc-covers-gold-star-hearing-abc-cbs-ignore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from the Media Research Center, only &#8220;NBC Nightly News&#8221; dedicated coverage to the Gold Star \u200dfamilies and their heartfelt comments. ABC&#8217;s &#8220;World News Tonight&#8221; and the\u2062 &#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; chose\u2063 to ignore the issue entirely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This week marks two years since the\u200d deadly attack during\u2062 the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan,&#8221; emphasized\u200b NBC anchor Lester Holt, as he devoted an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nightly-news\/video\/gold-star-families-of-those-killed-in-kabul-airport-attack-call-for-accountability-two-years-later-191848517787?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_nn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">entire segment<\/a> to the roundtable event. &#8220;And\u200b today, Gold Star families who lost loved ones say they\u200b are still demanding answers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition,\u2064 NBC News correspondent Ryan\u200d Nobles\u2064 had the opportunity to interview several Gold Star family members, including \u200dHerman and Alicia \u2064Lopez, whose\u2063 son Hunter Lopez was among the 13 heroes\u200c tragically killed in Kabul that day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two years ago,\u2062 Herman and Alicia Lopez lost their son Hunter,&#8221; shared Nobles.\u2064 &#8220;[He] was one of 13 U.S.\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-least-10-us-service-members-now-reported-killed-in-kabul-bombings-death-toll-likely-to-rise\/\" title=\"At Least 10 US Service Members Now Reported Killed In Kabul Bombings, \u2018Death Toll Likely To Rise\u2019\">service members killed<\/a> during the ISIS bombing near the Abbey Gate at Kabul&#8217;s\u200b airport in Afghanistan. He had plans to join his hometown sheriff&#8217;s office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b data-stringify-type=\"bold\"><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He never got that chance. And all we want is \u200cfor people to give us the truth about what happened and be honest with us,&#8221; expressed Hunter&#8217;s \u2062grieving mother.<\/p>\n<p>During the discussion, many of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbc-is-the-only-traditional-network-to-cover-gold-star-families-hearing-report\/\" title=\"Report: NBC Sole Traditional Network to Cover Gold Star Families Hearing\">attending family members<\/a> were \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/were-knee-deep-in-bulls-gold-star-father-mark-schmitz-unloads-on-biden-admin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">highly \u2063critical<\/a> of the Biden administration, including President\u2063 Biden himself. They highlighted the lack of accountability from military leadership and the repeated failure of\u2064 Biden to even acknowledge their loved ones by name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There \u2062couldn&#8217;t be anything more disgusting and cowardly \u200dthan the way you have treated us. You \u2062are a disgrace\u200c to this nation. You have no business having ultimate command over our military, and\u2063 I \u200dregret not saying that to\u200d your face when I had the opportunity in Dover,&#8221; passionately expressed Mark Schmitz, father of the late\u200c Lance CPL\u2064 Jared Schmitz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, NBC News was the sole traditional news network to report on the roundtable discussion involving Gold Star family members who lost loved ones during President Joe Biden&#8217;s tumultuous Afghanistan withdrawal. The event focused on the 13 fallen service members who tragically lost their lives on August 26, 2021, due to a suicide bombing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":2017604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}