Indictment elicits extensive coverage, and some gasps, on TV

Posted Friday, March 31, 2023 11:20 am

Katie Robertson | The New York Times

The news of the indictment of former President Trump immediately took over cable news channels and the country’s main broadcast networks on Thursday.

On Fox News, the host Sandra Smith interrupted the network’s roundtable show “The Five” around 5:30 p.m. with the breaking news, eliciting gasps from her fellow co-hosts: “We have just gotten word: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted by a grand jury in New York.”

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