Joe Concha, The Hill: We are finally beating ISIS, but media won't give Trump credit
ISIS — and particularly its expanding caliphate — used to be a major news story in this country. Defeating the terror army that largely stretched across Syria and Iraq was a major campaign topic in 2016.
So one would think, after the ISIS de facto capital of Raqqa was liberated from the terror group by U.S-backed Syrian and Kurdish forces on Tuesday, that the story would dominate news coverage.
But it didn't. Not even close.
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WNU Editor: I have mentioned it before .... but one of my pet peeves with the U.S. main stream news media is not the stories that they cover, but what they choose to not recover. The capture of the Islamic State's capital is a big story .... something that this blog covered extensively .... and still is. But when it came to finding links and videos on this story .... especially in the past 2 months .... the majority either came Europe, the Middle East, or the wire services. The U.S. media was simply notr there. Is it because the U.S. media does not want to give credit to President Trump .... I do not know. But for someone like myself who always sources from the U.S. news and the international news media for this blog .... this lack of coverage has been surprising.
3 comments:
FFS. Yes, it's all a big librul media conspiracy.
Pres. Trump is the real victim.
Pray for this bone-spur having, draft dodging dips#$t and his band of military enabler dips#$ts in their time of trouble.
FFS. MAGA. FFS. 'Murica.
Seems in fact MEDIA DID COVER THE FALL OF RAQQA
"Seems in fact MEDIA DID COVER THE FALL OF RAQQA" - Fred
Let's talk about market penetration.
Def'n: Market penetration is the percentage of a target market that consumes a product or service.
What do we have?
- NY Post
- Washington Examiner
- CNN
- ABC10
- FOX
1) ABC10 is a local affiliate (Sacramento, CA) . It is no HQ ABC. Higher Headquarters in the MSM (ABC Battalion) did not see it as worthy.
2) CNN covered it from the angle identity politics (i.e. women) It is fair to ask if there had not been that angle would CNN have covered the story at all.
Saying that a handful of news agencies covered a story says nothing about market penetration.
The NY Post and Fox are considered 'conservative'. Probably 1/.2 the nation or more do not know of this story. They may have briefly have heard about it, but know doubt 2 or 3 years form now the will not be able to name if it occurred under Obama or Trump. They will not be able to name any of the particulars. They will not remember that Obama had to be shamed into saving Kobane. They will not remember that Obama leafletted oil truck convoys or that he did not bomb micro-refineries until Putin got involved.
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