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"Last week, the Republican Party’s leading presidential candidate proposed executing suspected shoplifters. ...

Trump’s advocacy of extrajudicial killings was widely covered by newspapers and TV stations in California but generally ignored by the national press. No mainstream TV channels aired or quoted his speech live later that night.”

~ Paul Farhi


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washingtonpost.com/style/media

The Washington Post · Trump’s violent rhetoric is getting muted coverage by the news mediaBy Paul Farhi
William Lindsey :toad:

"CNN and MSNBC talked about it in panel discussions over the next few days. The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, NPR and PBS never reported it. The New York Times wrote about it four days later and played the story on page 14 of its print edition."


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