Mainstream Media Blurs Focus on Assassination Attempt

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : In the 72 hours following the attempt, media watchdog group Media Research Center found that 95% of the coverage of Trump by ABC, NBC and CBS was "negative."Speaking hours after the attack, for example, NBC News anchor Lester Holt framed the event in the following way:Today's apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail.
23% : While not a fan of Trump -- indeed, his truck has a Biden-Harris bumper sticker -- there is no evidence he was "incited" to violence by the Springfield controversy.
22% : The latter revelation is particularly noteworthy following reports that Iran had been plotting to kill Trump as retribution for the 2020 killing of Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Iranian military's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
20% : The "incitement" framing of the Florida assassination attempt appears not only erroneous on the merits but lends to the narrative that Trump is receiving unfair treatment from the media.
19% : And in a self-published 2023 book, Routh vented his anger at Trump for pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2018.
13% : Case in point: the dissembling coverage of the second assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, which was cleverly conflated with the migrant controversy in Springfield, Ohio, to avoid casting Trump in a sympathetic light.
12% : In the New York Times, chief White House correspondent Peter Baker pinned the blame for Trump's assassination on -- you guessed it -- Trump himself, also citing the former president's comments about Springfield as the key accelerant to political violence.

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