Media kept bias on full display after Trump assassination attempt

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Media kept bias on full display after Trump assassination attempt
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Terrified viewers deserved objective, unbiased coverage, but some outlets failed the test miserably.

Biden insists 'we are not enemies,' calls for unity after Trump assassination attempt in rare Oval Office addressFormer President Donald Trump reacting after getting grazed by a bullet on stage during a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024.that played out live on national television should have resulted in the kind of objective, unbiased coverage the country deserved at such a terrifying moment.

How about Forbes wondering, just hours after the attack, if it would make Trump more appealing to black voters? Margaret Brennan of CBS News, the former home of Walter Cronkite, even managed to victim-blame Trump for nearly getting killed, after reading a statement from the former president thanking the Secret Service and describing what had happened.

Yes: The network that has endlessly attacked Trump as a racist, fascist demagogue seeking to destroy democracy was lecturing him just seconds after he was a millimeter away from being murdered. Their rhetoric has been building for years without any accountability.

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