Apparently Trump has released a list of under-reported terrorist attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\nI hadn\u2019t heard about it until this morning when I was getting ready. \u00a0I had CBS \u00a0on this time. \u00a0They were not happy. \u00a0I mean, dare I say they were pissed. \u00a0Indignant. \u00a0They might as well have said \u2018How dare him!\u2019.<\/p>\n
They always cover attacks, according to CBS, and they ran a series of clips of CBS\u00a0covering some of the worse attacks of the last few years: San Bernardino and Orlando specifically focused on. \u00a0And yet?<\/p>\n
In no case did the coverage show them focusing on terror, terrorist attacks, Islamic terrorism, terrorism or anything. \u00a0Don\u2019t they get it? \u00a0That\u2019s what Trump is playing on. \u00a0Heck, remember following Orlando how many jumped on Conservative Christians when it was all about homophobia?<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the point. The press can easily cover things without covering them. \u00a0Or cover them in ways that don\u2019t reflect how others see things. \u00a0That\u2019s what Trump is hitting, and the CBS rebuke (for that\u2019s what it was), did nothing but confirm what Trump\u2019s list was trying to say in the first place. Tons of coverage of events, but focusing on terrorism? \u00a0Not so much.<\/p>\n
Sometimes it\u2019s like watching an ongoing spoof.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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