OSU & Nazareth Deli Attack on White House ‘Under-Reported’ List
Current White House Press Secretary, Sean Spicer
The two most recent Columbus based attacks were included in a White House list of 78 “terror attacks” that went “under-reported” in western media sources according to a report by NBCNEWS.
In February 2016, there was a machete attack at the Nazareth Deli in Northeast Columbus, while just later in the year there was a widely reported knife attack on OSU’s campus.
According to some journalists — the list is problematic as it underscores hard work in covering often stressful and dangerous stories.
“We have brave colleagues who everyday are taking big risks to cover these stories. Look at the “New York Times” which the president demonizes often. The New York Times this weekend had an outstanding piece of reporting about how ISIS has been reaching out, is more involved in some attacks in Europe and abroad.” Washington Post columnist David Ignatius said on CNN’s The Lead on Monday.
The list focuses heavily on all of the islamic based attacks including attacks in Paris, Nice, Berlin and Brussels — but does not mention other terror based attacks such as the recent mosque attack in Quebec City, or the racially motivated attack by Dylann Roof in a South Carolina church, that left nine black worshippers dead.
According to White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, President Trump “felt as though members of the media don’t always cover some of those events to the extent that other events might get covered; that a protest will get blown out of the water, and yet an attack or a foiled attack doesn’t necessarily get the same coverage.”
“There’s several instances. And the President, again, got a great update today on the fight against ISIS that’s going on throughout the region and what our military is facing throughout this globe, trying to combat ISIS,” Spicer said. “But there’s a lot of instances that have occurred where I don’t think that they’ve gotten the coverage it’s deserved, and I think that’s what the President was clearly referring to there.”
When pressed on which terror attacks were not covered, Press Secretary Spicer said: “We’ll provide a list later. There’s several instances.” According to NBCMONTANA.
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