[QUOTE]The White House released a list of terrorist attacks on the West Monday evening, after President Trump made an unsupported claim earlier in the day that terrorist acts in Europe weren’t being reported by the press.
President Trump says media isn't reporting terror attacks
“All over Europe it’s happening. It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported,” the president said in a speech at Central Command headquarters in Florida. “And in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that.”[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-releases-list-of-terror-attacks-says-most-didnt-receive-media-attention-they-deserved/[/url]
[url]http://usat.ly/2jZgzu8[/url]
[url]https://theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/07/full-list-of-trump-under-reported-terror-attacks-and-how-they-were-reported[/url]
[Media]https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/829063708479520773[/media]
[Media]https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/828771191670214657[/media]
[Media]https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/828773405444894720[/media]
[Media]https://twitter.com/CNN/status/829009437117575168[/media]
[editline]7th February 2017[/editline]
Title meant to say vs
I can't believe someone at the White House actually had to compile an extensive list of terrorist attacks, and people at media outlets had to meticulously comb through all of them to debunk that they weren't covered, just because some idiot wanted to air out a conspiracy idea.
Donald Trump has been [I]the[/I] biggest source of fake news since the election.
BBC slam dunk too for this retarded orangutan. Keep defending him, the world is laughing America.
[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38890090"] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38890090[/URL]
An excerpt from an article on [url=http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/07/media/media-white-house-undercovered-terror-attacks-list/index.html]CNN[/url]
[quote] What the White House ultimately delivered was not an inventory of attacks that were, as Trump put it, "not even being reported." Instead, according to a White House official, it was a compendium of attacks that "have not received the media attention they deserved."
Really, it was a list of practically every terror attack committed by a Muslim in the United States or Europe in roughly the last two years, and it was obviously slapped together. Some facts were wrong; the word "attacker" was misspelled throughout, as was San Bernardino.[/quote]
And then this.
[quote] News outlets are bringing up these attacks to show that they were covered extensively, but they are also reminding their audiences that 49 people were killed at the Pulse nightclub, that 14 people were killed in San Bernardino, that the San Bernardino attack happened only a month after 130 people were killed in Paris.
There is a body of academic work that suggests a "backfire effect" to this kind of debunking. In pointing out that a claim is false, we must first repeat the claim, and we may inadvertently reinforce it. This might not have been the Trump team's strategy initially, but they may benefit from it nonetheless.
The idea Trump was driving at has been circulating in parts of the right-wing media for years. It is not so much that the media doesn't cover attacks, but that it doesn't cover them in an alarmist, or just plain Islamophobic, way. It is similar to the criticism of President Barack Obama's ISIS strategy, which Trump picked up and amplified: You can bomb them if you want, but you can't defeat them unless you accept, and say aloud, the words "radical Islamic terrorism."
In part because this is not a debate settled by objective fact -- how do you determine objectively whether a terror attack has been covered enough? -- the media and the Trump team have two different objectives.
The media is dealing with the truth: We have covered these stories. What the White House is promoting is something else: a feeling, a dark one, and definitely not a fact.[/quote]
[QUOTE=Steel & Iron;51791631]An excerpt from an article on [URL="http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/07/media/media-white-house-undercovered-terror-attacks-list/index.html"]CNN[/URL]
And then this.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/Yf4n0om.png[/t]
The media isn't use to this kind of play. More than once they've fallen into this "holy shit how stupid are you, here's what REALLY happened" without realizing that's likely what the WH wants at this point. The "Bowling Green Massacre" bit is the other time I remember seeing this kind of effect.
If you treat the WH as a playpen of children and Trump as a:
[QUOTE=jamzzster;51791586]retarded orangutan[/QUOTE]
It's easy to walk into this kinda stuff. Even if the prior statements are completely true.
[QUOTE=Doom14;51791678][t]http://i.imgur.com/Yf4n0om.png[/t]
The media isn't use to this kind of play. More than once they've fallen into this "holy shit how stupid are you, here's what REALLY happened" without realizing that's likely what the WH wants at this point. The "Bowling Green Massacre" bit is the other time I remember seeing this kind of effect.[/QUOTE]
I think The New York Times quoted in the OP has the right approach to that:
"Here's all this stuff that happened and how the White House is lying, but before we look more closely at that here's that [I]other[/I] lie (by omission) that when pointed out debunks lots of xenophobia."
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Looks like they actually point out three distinct lies by omission one after the other in the article. Not bad.
[QUOTE=jamzzster;51791586]BBC slam dunk too for this retarded orangutan. Keep defending him, the world is laughing America.
[URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38890090"] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38890090[/URL][/QUOTE]
Just as I opened it:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/SNIV0DY.png[/IMG]
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