NY Times Headlines Trump Appeals to ‘Racial Division and Fear,’ 'Racial Taunts'

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NY Times Headlines Trump Appeals to ‘Racial Division and Fear,’ 'Racial Taunts'
By Clay Waters | September 11, 2019 10:37 PM EDT

New York Times political reporter Astead Herndon’s “Political Memo” Wednesday hails from a Trump rally in Fayetteville, N.C., on Monday (in the district that held a special congressional election won by Republican Dan Bishop the next day), under a loaded headline that suggested both Trump and his rallygoers were racist: “To Message of Racial Division and Fear, Crowd Responds With Cheers.”

The online headlines made the same point: “With the Faithful at Trump’s North Carolina Rally: ‘He Speaks Like Me’ -- Two months after his rally there produced “send her back” chants, the president brought identity politics back to the state."

Herndon began with a sketch of a “superfan” who had traveled from California to see Trump, then went on to characterize what he clearly saw as the president’s harmful and racist invective (click “expand”):

 
Source URL: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2019/09/11/ny-times-headlines-trump-appeals-racial-division-and-fear-racial