Trump: “Journalists don’t talk about terrorist attacks”. The media reaction: “False”

NEW YORK – Donald Trump’s attack on the American and world press does not stop. Yesterday, visiting the Air Force military base in Tampa, Florida, the new president said: “We have reached the point where even the terrorist attacks taking place in Europe are not reported. In many cases, the press is very, very dishonest, not even want to tell them for own interests. And you understand what I mean “, alluding to an alleged preventive cover-up by journalists. The White House, a few hours later, distributed a list of 78 attacks in support of what was stated by Trump, according to which the media do not report the attacks of an Islamist nature made in Europe. A list that has sparked indignation, and reaction, from the main international media.

The list. In the list of the White House, in which there are also obvious spelling errors, are even included the Paris attacks of 2015, that of last July in Nice , that of the Christmas market in Berlin , as well as those scored in Brussels and Istanbul , to the gay club of Orlando and San Bernardino . But there are also many omissions. Not only is Israel never mentioned, but for Pakistan only one American citizen is wounded in a stab in April 2015, and the massacre of Garissa in Kenya is not even mentioned.(150 children killed on the university campus by Somali extremists al Shaabab on April 2, 2015), nor that in the school of Peshawar where the Taliban killed over 140 children in December 2016. After Trump accused the press of hiding the attacks, his spokesman Sean Spicer attempted to correct the shot. The president, he told reporters, “did not want to say that the attacks are not reported by the media but that they are not enough”.

The media reaction. The sentences of the new president and the White House have obviously sparked the controversy. Suggesting that the media hide terrorist attacks “is very dangerous,” a Washington Post commentary said today, which recalls how almost all the attacks mentioned on the list appeared in the media. BBC , Guardian and Spiegel , among others, have even published the list of all the attacks cited by Trump, linking their articles one by one to show the president how media coverage has always been objective and punctual.

The case of the attack never existed. After the debate on the “fake news”, yet another attack by Trump to the press arrived a few days later after the sensational gaffe of his press strategist, Kellyanne Conway, caught totally inventing a terrorist attack from nothing Islamic in the USA. Interviewed on 2 February to justify the controversial executive order of 27 January with which Trump banned the citizens of 7 Muslim countries (Sudan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Yemen and Somalia) from entering the US, Conway cited “the Bowling Green massacre “in Kentucky,” perpetrated by two Iraqi terrorists “. But in the history of the United States there has never been a massacre at “Bowling Green”. The next day, Conway justified himself by claiming that he was referring to the

07 February 2017