[UPDATE] The Media Have Wasted Almost 10 HOURS on the Reflecting Pool #Political
The news media’s obsession with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting pool has continued apace. Earlier this week, we found that TV news had spent almost seven hours on the story in just the past nine days. As of Friday morning June 25, that total has reached almost ten hours across left-wing cable (CNN and MSNBC) and broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC).
MRC analysts looked at all reflecting pool coverage on major left-wing cable and broadcast networks from June 14 through the morning of June 26, 2026. In just that 12-day period, the story received 579 minutes and 31 seconds of coverage, or an average of over 48 minutes per day.
While our previous totals found that CNN was uniquely obsessed with the condition of the reflecting pool, MS NOW has since overtaken them, with a grand total of 269 minutes and 50 seconds. Incredibly, MS NOW has run an absurd 108 minutes on the reflecting pool in just the last three days.
CNN, meanwhile, is now up to a total of 264 minutes and 41 seconds as of Friday morning, meaning they spent a still-massive 49 minutes on this story over the last three days.
Broadcast networks ran a combined 45 minutes of coverage. CBS was by far the most interested in the story, with a total of 19 minutes and nine seconds spent discussing the reflecting pool renovations. NBC crept into second place with a total of 13 minutes and nine seconds of algae coverage, while ABC’s total coverage climbed to 12 minutes and 32 seconds.
Despite MS NOW’s ratcheted-up fixation on the reflecting pool, the story does appear to be losing steam on both cable and broadcast television. MS NOW is, in fact, the only network to have dedicated a larger percentage of their airtime to the story in the past three days than they had over the previous nine days. CNN and the broadcast networks, meanwhile, have begun to pull back somewhat.
Even the majority of MS NOW’s coverage occurred between June 20 and June 23, and it has since begun to taper. The 108 minutes that the network added to their total were heavily front-loaded; by June 25, the reflecting pool had morphed into more of an anecdotal mention that commentators threw into their analysis, rather than the central focus of full-length reports.
Additionally, the tone on the two cable networks in particular has taken on an increasingly begrudging tone. Anchors and commentators alike have begun to ask, in earnest, why anybody is talking so much about the reflecting pool — even as they continue to cover it.
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