{"id":11550,"date":"2018-10-24T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T13:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/?p=11550"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T13:21:16","slug":"coverage-of-trump-rally-in-texas-varies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/coverage-of-trump-rally-in-texas-varies\/","title":{"rendered":"Coverage of Trump rally in Texas varies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By SARAH BRADDOCK<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, following a somewhat-controversial Trump rally at the Toyota Center in Houston, news outlets varied drastically in the ways in which they covered the event.<\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s coverage focused mainly on Trump dubbing himself as a &#8220;nationalist,&#8221; in its article, &#8220;Donald Trump used a word he&#8217;s &#8216;not supposed to.&#8217; Here&#8217;s why.&#8221; by Chris Cillizza. The piece solely focused on Trump&#8217;s use of such a label, why it was problematic, and the dangers it presents.<\/p>\n<p>While CNN did have other coverage on their website regarding the rally, this piece was undoubtedly front and center.<\/p>\n<p>The antithesis of CNN, Fox News, covered the event quite differently. Instead, they focused on Trump&#8217;s backing of U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, for whom he previously has expressed vehement distaste.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the piece entitled &#8220;Trump, at Texas rally, backs Cruz, slams Democrats for &#8216;assault on the sovereignty&#8217; of US,&#8221; by Nicole Darrah expanded upon Trump&#8217;s extensive aggression towards democrats and his belief that they&#8217;re responsible for the &#8220;caravans&#8221; of migrants at the U.S. border.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>&#8216;s piece, &#8220;Trump, the Republican Beyonce, rocks Texas,&#8221; by Tiana Lowe may have had the least-biased coverage, regardless of the humorous title alluding to the fact Trump filled the same stadium Beyonce once did.<\/p>\n<p>Lowe&#8217;s piece quickly and somewhat neutrally covered the main points of the rally without expansion upon any one component or point of view. She simply covered Trump&#8217;s statements of nationalism and his newfound support for Cruz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By SARAH BRADDOCK Unsurprisingly, following a somewhat-controversial Trump rally at the Toyota Center in Houston, news outlets varied drastically in the ways in which they covered the event. CNN&#8217;s coverage focused mainly on Trump dubbing himself as a &#8220;nationalist,&#8221; in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/coverage-of-trump-rally-in-texas-varies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[756],"tags":[30,99,139],"class_list":["post-11550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sarah-braddock","tag-journalism","tag-political-reporting","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11553,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11550\/revisions\/11553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.com.miami.edu\/reporting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}