In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, major newspapers are giving former President Donald Trump’s federal criminal indictment for alleged crimes related to the January 6 insurrection a fraction of the coverage they gave former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email se...
Report about the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post —
26 Articles in the week following Smith's indictment of Trump for his attempted coup
100 Articles — nearly 4 times as many — that mentioned Clinton’s server in the week after then-FBI Director James Comey’s notorious October 28, 2016, letter on new developments in that probe--
The US media has learned nothing and is doing a disservice to American voters.
Gee, I wonder if that has anything to do with Trump and the GOP giving said oligarchs a trillion dollars in tax breaks.
The country got robbed, they got the profits, and now they want to get in the cookie jar again, and we’re going to be left holding the bag with another trump term.
I can only hope he’s so incompetent that none of project 2025 gets moving beyond more tax breaks for billion dollar corporations. If they gut the government like is planned, the country is going to fall apart like the Soviet Union did.
Well that makes sense. Her emails... Uhm... Might have contributed to an embassy attack that was planned for months and hurt a few spies and mercenaries?
Whereas he just led a violent insurrection against some politicians.
Major papers are giving Trump’s Jan. 6 indictment dramatically less attention than they did Clinton’s server
Let's take two scenarios:
Local gang member robs drug buyer, fires shots at escaping car.
Pope Francis robs drug buyer, fires shots at escaping car.
The headline here is identical other than the person involved and what one might expect of them. Which story do you think is going to draw more reader attention and media attention?
I think people missed your point that we expect that kind of behaviour from Trump.
Still, you'd think that "presidential candidate is a convicted felon and also tried to violently overtake the white house" would get a bit more media attention
He's got so much going on that half the paper would be about him if they kept covering everything between the classified documents, election interference, hush money, Georgia, tax fraud, Carroll defamation...