Name The Party: The Jon Corzine Edition

If you didn't know that Jon Corzine was a prominent Democrat, don't expect to be enlightened by ABC or CBS.

As the three broadcast network evening newscasts on Thursday reported former New Jersey Democratic Senator Jon Corzine's testimony before Congress on the billion dollars in investor money that went missing from the financial firm he once headed, only the NBC Nightly News took the time to label him as a Democrat.

After anchor Brian Williams set up the report, correspondent Kelly O'Donnell included Corzine's party affiliation as she began her report:

A fallen Wall Street CEO, personally rich and politically well-connected. New Jersey's former Democratic Governor and U.S. Senator Jon Corzine under oath.

On the CBS Evening News, as he mentioned the hearing while introducing a report on farmers who were hurt by Corzine's company, anchor Scott Pelley failed to identify Corzine's party:

Former New Jersey Senator Jon Corzine returned to the Capitol today, though not voluntarily. He was subpoenaed to testify about the collapse of the Wall Street firm he ran, MF Global. Corzine was asked about the $1.2 billion in customer money that is still missing.

And, as ABC's World News devoted an entire report to the former Democratic Senator's testimony, neither substitute anchor David Muir nor correspondent Linsey Davis mentioned party affiliation.

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