ABC, NBC Censor Largest Native Mobilization In Decades Against Dakota Access Pipeline
Native nations across the continent sign a new treaty opposing oilsands expansion as anthropologists, historians and museums condemn destruction of Sioux sites, but you wouldn’t know it from the mainstream media.
By Joe Catron  @jncatron | September 26, 2016

NEW YORK — As thousands of supporters around the world have joined demonstrations in solidarity with Native land and water defenders blocking the planned Dakota Access pipeline near the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, the largest Native mobilization in decades remains absent from some of the biggest news media in the United States.
Jim Naureckas, editor of the media watchdog site FAIR.org, released a report on Thursday which noted that “to this day, ABC News and NBC News have yet to broadcast a word about the pipeline struggle.”
Among the “Big Three” television networks, CBS first broached the story on Sept. 5, in “a lone report on CBS Morning News (9/5/16), amounting to 48 words read at 4 o’clock in the morning,” although Naureckas found the channel has since “returned to the story repeatedly.”
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Judge urges tribal coordination on complaint in #NoDAPL case
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

A federal judge is urging the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe to coordinate in the closely-watched #NoDAPL lawsuit.
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe filed the lawsuit in July and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe was allowed to intervene as a plaintiff. But Judge James Boasberg said the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe isn't entitled to itsown complaint in the case even though it has raised different concerns about the pipeline.
The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe asked Boasberg to reconsider but he declined to do so in a short order issued on Friday.
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White House Outlines Massive Outreach to Indian Country at Tribal Nations Conference
Vincent Schilling - 9/26/16

As the 8th Annual White House Tribal Nations Conference (WHTNC) kicked off Monday in Washington DC, the White House released a massive plan of continued action, entitled “An All-of-Government Approach to Serving Indian Country.”
The White House Tribal Nations Conference is the result of the promise President Barack Obama made during a visit to the Crow Nation in May 2008 to host an annual summit with tribal leaders to ensure tribal leaders a seat at the proverbial governmental table.
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Trump Repeatedly Cites CBS Poll Saying He Won Debate (Which Doesn’t Even Exist)
by Alex Griswold | 3:03 pm, September 27th, 2016

In the aftermath of Monday’s first presidential debate,Donald Trump cited a poll from CBS showing he won the debate, despite the fact that such a poll does not appear to exist.
“I won Slate,” Trump insisted on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning. “I won Drudge in almost 90% of the vote in the poll, I won Time Magazine. I won CBS. I won every single poll other than CNN.”
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