But what’s interesting about Trump’s commentary about media coverage of terrorism is that there’s ample room to criticize the media. If you spend enough time submerged in media coverage produced after major terrorist attacks, you’ll eventually come face to face with critics of the media’s practices. On average, he calculates that an additional NYT article appears to result in between one and two casualties from another terrorist attack within the next week. On the day of the Paris attack, there were over 21,000.”A “deeper dive” into the available data revealed a disturbing trend. And almost all of these largely unreported major terrorist attacks were in non-Western countries.

Source: Huffington Post February 07, 2017 00:49 UTC