The Media Couldn’t Be Less Interested in Van Attack Against Trumpers

[rangerrebew]

The Media Couldn’t Be Less Interested in Van Attack Against Trumpers
By Nicholas Fondacaro | February 13, 2020 12:02 AM EST

It has been four days since a deranged leftist tried to kill six Trump supporters at a voter registration event in Duval Country, Florida on Saturday with a van. In that time frame, the story had only generated a measly one minute and four seconds of airtime between three brief mentions on liberal news outlets, NBC and CNN. That’s despite the fact that the attacker had admitted to authorities that his actions were motivated by his hatred of President Trump.

As NewsBusters reported on Sunday, between the evening and morning newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC, immediately following the attack, only NBC thought the attack was noteworthy but only gave the story 25 seconds. Since then, NBC has not updated the story nor have their broadcast competitors decide to give it airtime.

The attack was brought up twice on CNN. The first time when CNN analyst Sarah Isgur, a former Trump DOJ spokesperson, brought it up on Sunday’s Reliable Sources while discussing liberal reactions to Rush Limbaugh at the State of the Union. That instance lasted 23 seconds. CNN finally addressed the story in the form of a report on Monday. But they hid it in a news brief toward the end of their 5:00 a.m. show, Early Start. It lasted just 16 seconds.

MSNBC hasn’t touched the story.
 

Source URL: https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2020/02/13/media-couldnt-be-less-interested-van-attack-against-trumpers

[Applewood]

Did a search.  Looks like a number of news outlets covered the story.  Maybe not MSNBC, but the Daily News, Fox, Washington Post and others. 

Good Grief!  Now we are timing how long a report is?  Just what constitutes a sufficient amount of time to spend on a news story like this?

[jmyrlefuller]

Did a search.  Looks like a number of news outlets covered the story.  Maybe not MSNBC, but the Daily News, Fox, Washington Post and others. 

Good Grief!  Now we are timing how long a report is?  Just what constitutes a sufficient amount of time to spend on a news story like this?

Bozell has to find something to complain about. He's been doing this for decades.

[Applewood]

And another thing:  This trashy article references a Politico article, accusing Politico of making the Trump supporters as the violent ones.  Well, I found the Politico article in question which is headlined:

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Republicans vow ‘revenge’ at ballot box after volunteers nearly hit by van

Note the word "revenge" is in quotes and the words "at the ballot box" follow.  Sorry, but I don't see anything that would make the Trump supporters out to be violent.  But even if anyone else does, a read of the Politico article would produce this referencing Dean Black, chairman of the Duval County Republican Party.:

Black called Timm a “coward” but said Republicans should not respond with violence. GOP supporters instead must reelect Trump, he said, and asked for donations to the party.

“The best revenge is victory,” Black said. “Righteous peaceful victory in November for President Trump and all Republican candidates.”

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/02/10/republicans-vow-revenge-at-ballot-box-after-volunteers-nearly-hit-by-van-1259988

So where does Politico make the Republicans into the violent ones?