By AMANDA PRATS<\/p>\n
In response to the White House\u2019s list of 78 terror attacks that President Trump said were unreported by the news media, journalists have taken a direct approach in shutting down Trump\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n
The list included events that were reported nearly ad nauseam<\/em>, including even the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting and the November 2015 Paris attacks. These events and many of the others listed dominated news coverage for weeks, filling hours of air time and countless articles in print and online.<\/p>\n The list seems to have been primarily released in an attempt to support Trump\u2019s repeated assertion that the media is dishonest and ineffective; the focus on terrorist attacks that were apparently influenced by radical Islam seems to be an effort to validate Trump\u2019s recent policies regarding Muslim-majority countries.<\/p>\n In response to the list, journalists from news organizations across the nation and abroad have chimed in. CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper clarified on air that many of the attacks mentioned in the list he personally reported on, playing clips of him reporting from San Bernadino, Orlando and Paris, among many more.<\/p>\n On screen, the lower third read \u201cWH releases list of undercovered attacks,\u201d and in parenthesis, \u201c(We covered many).\u201d The New York Times<\/em> published the list from the White House along with links to its own articles on nearly each attack.<\/p>\n Business Insider Australia<\/em> reported on the five Australian incidents mentioned on the list, one of which was the fatal stabbing of two Australian backpackers. The incident was never determined by Australian police to be related to terrorism.<\/p>\n The family of one of the deceased reacted to the list with an open letter to Trump on Facebook, in which she shared that she began blogging to dispel what she called the myth that Islamic fundamentalism was the driving factor behind her daughter\u2019s death.<\/p>\n The victim\u2019s mother ended the post by denouncing Trump\u2019s actions and framing of the attacks, writing \u201cThis vilification of whole nation states and their people based on religion is a terrifying reminder of the horror that can ensue when we allow ourselves to be led by ignorant people into darkness and hatred.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By AMANDA PRATS In response to the White House\u2019s list of 78 terror attacks that President Trump said were unreported by the news media, journalists have taken a direct approach in shutting down Trump\u2019s claims. The list included events that … Continue reading