Here’s the list the White House sent of attacks they feel “did not receive adequate attention from Western media sources.”
The White House, in an unprecedented move, has released a spelling error riddled list of terrorist attacks that it claims “have not received the media attention they deserved,” according to The Hill.
An abridged version of the list – which just contains the attacks without further details – is above. See the full list with spelling errors below. The White House released the list of supposedly uncovered terror attacks after President Donald Trump launched into blistering criticism of the news media at a meeting with CENTCOM, accusing reporters of ignoring terrorist attacks, especially those in Europe.
However, some of the attacks that made the White House list received extensive media attention in the United States. For example, the list includes the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando by American-born Omar Mateen; the Brussels airport and subway bombings; the 2015 coordinated attacks in Paris; the 2016 attack in Nice, France; the St. Cloud, Minnesota mall stabbing; and the San Bernardino, California attack. A simple Google search turns up massive numbers of stories for all of the above attacks.
The Associated Press previously released a list of the top news stories of 2016. The Pulse shooting was number 4. Some of the European attacks on Trump’s list also made the AP ranking collectively at number 5, including the Nice and Brussels attacks.
This photo shows the interior of the Pulse Nightclub in the immediate aftermath of the massacre in Orlando.
The list misspells San Bernardino “San Bernadino.” The list doesn’t identify the names of attackers in most listed U.S. based attacks, calling them only “US person.” That’s true anyway except for a few attacks where suspect names are listed, although it’s not clear why. The list repeatedly wrongly spells the word “attacker” as “attaker”:
According to CNN, the White House said “‘most’ of these 78 attacks since 2014 have not received enough attention from media.” However, Reuters quoted a White House official as saying, “Networks are not devoting to each of them the same level of coverage they once did. This cannot be allowed to become the ‘new normal.'”
The Washington Post has reprinted the fuller more detailed version of the list sent out by the White House. A CNN reporter also tweeted out pages from the list in two batches.
A White House official says “most” of these 78 attacks since 2014 have not received enough attention from media.
Here are the last two pages of the WH list. They were cut off the initial tweet.
Some of the terrorist attacks on the list occurred outside the U.S. and did not receive much American news coverage, reported The Hill.
The attacks on the list include:
A French citizen beheaded in Algeria in 2014 by an Algerian attacker.
Two police officers wounded in a 2014 knife attack in New York City by a “US person.”
Two U.S. citizens wounded in a Saudi Arabian shooting in 2015 by a Saudi Arabian ISIL supporter.
A security guard wounded at a shooting at a Prophet Muhammad cartoon event in Garland, Texas in 2015.
An Italian citizen killed in a shooting by an unidentified person in 2015 in Bangladesh.
Four wounded in a knife attack on a college campus by a “US person” in Merced, California in 2015.
Four citizens wounded in a restaurant machete attack in Columbus, Ohio in 2016.
The list was released after Trump made remarks earlier in the day to a group of service members at CENTCOM in Florida, in which the president claimed the media have ignored terrorist attacks that are occurring in Europe. According to the Chicago Tribune, the president said:
All over Europe it’s happening. It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported. And in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that.
According to Newsweek, Trump “at one point cited attacks in the French cities of Paris and Nice, which were widely covered.” Press Secretary Sean Spicer then promised a list, claiming, “There’s a lot of instances that have occurred where I don’t think they’ve gotten the coverage it deserved,” Newsweek reported.
Spicer later told the media Trump didn’t mean that no coverage had happened but rather that the attacks did not get coverage as extensive as that accorded to other news events, CBS reported.
The Tribune reported that the Global Terrorism Database, maintained by the University of Maryland, lists 321 western European terrorism incidents from 2015 alone, but the list also includes attacks on Muslims and by right-wing groups.
The hashtag #uncoveredterrorattacks was trending on Twitter as people made jokes about Trump’s list. Twitter previously mocked Trump’s adviser Kellyanne Conway for referring to the “Bowling Green massacre.” Two Iraqi refugees from Bowling Green, Kentucky were convicted of plotting to kill U.S. soldiers in their home country; one of them allegedly told authorities he had previously been involved in an attack in Iraq that killed U.S. service members.
Trump’s list will be ready soon. #uncoveredterrorattacks
People made up “uncovered terror attacks.”
Lights in sky last night. NASA DENIES it’s an alien ship. Media won’t say where it landed! Something isn’t right… #uncoveredterrorattacks
The Great Wi-Fi Outage of Hoboken #uncoveredterrorattacks
