Is The Media Covering Terror Attacks?

David Graham, The Atlantic: Trump's Baseless Claim That the Media Covers Up Terror Attacks

The president asserted, without any evidence, that reporters were intentionally refusing to publicize terrorist violence in Europe.

The Donald Trump who arrived at MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa on Monday was subdued and dark, promising to keep the United States against “radical Islamic terror” through a strong defense, and accusing the press of willfully refusing to report on terrorist attacks.

But first, as he is wont to do, Trump let his mind drift back to a happier time, before he was ensconced in the White House with a passel of quarreling advisers, an unrelenting chorus of critics, and a federal judiciary stymieing his agenda.

“We had a wonderful election, didn’t we?” the president said as he began his remarks. “And I saw those numbers, and you liked me, and I like you. That’s the way it worked.”

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WNU Editor: For everyone's info .... the Global Terrorism Database has in its database information  more than 150,000 terrorist attacks since 1970. The link is here. As to the media meltdown on President Trump's accusation that the media ignores terrorism stories .... this blog has been critical of the main stream media's coverage of terrorism (or lack of) for years .... starting

with the horrific situation that millions of Christians have .... and are now facing .... in the Middle East. But in fairness to the media .... there are limited by time and resources, and they have to select stories that they believe their audience would be interested in. But as to the big terror stories in America and the U.S. .... some media outlets may downplay the role that Islam may have played in what motivated a terror attack .... but these stories are eventually covered, and President Trump is wrong on this point.

More News On President Trump's Accusations That The Media is Covering Terror Attacks

Trump: 'Dishonest press' won't report terrorist attacks -- The Hill
Trump Says 'Very Dishonest Press Does Not Want to Report' on Terror -- ABC News
President Trump Says Media 'Doesn't Want to Report' on Terror Attacks -- Time
White House list of 'under-reported' terror attacks is littered with errors -- Sydney Morning herald
Journalists call out White House claims on terror reporting -- CNN
Trump says terror attacks 'under-reported': Is that true? -- BBC
The Terror Attacks Trump Won't Talk About -- Mark Follman, Mother Jones

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