CNN Debunks Trump’s “Absurd” Claim That Terror Attacks Have Been Undercovered
Erin Burnett: “He Put San Bernardino On This List. Frankly, It's Absurd.”
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CNN's Jim Acosta reported that the White House released a list of terrorist attacks that the Trump administration did not believe were adequately covered by the news media, including the 2015 attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, and the 2016 mass shooting in an LGBTQ nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
According to the 2016 Tyndall report, which “monitors the weekday nightly newscasts of the three American broadcast television networks,” the 2016 attacks in Brussels, Belgium, and Orlando, were two of the top 11 stories of the year and collectively made up nearly 300 minutes of coverage on ABC, NBC, and CBS. In 2015, the San Bernardino terrorist attack was the third top story of the year.
In reporting on Trump's list of supposedly underreported attacks, Acosta noted that “CNN and other international news outlets covered these extensively,” calling some of the inclusions a “head-scratcher,” and OutFront host Erin Burnett called the list “absurd.” From the February 6 edition of CNN's OutFront with Erin Burnett: