By: Brian

Brian
Wed, 08 Feb 2017 14:21:03 +0000

I don’t think the president was criticizing the coverage of The Lantern. The problem was that early in the attack the incident was reported nationally as a shooting, which was spread far and wide throughout national and international media. By the time that it was clarified that it was a stabbing, and that a Muslim immigrant was the culprit, the media coverage nationally had waned. By the next day, there was almost no national coverage of the aftermath. It was like the incident never happened.

When it was a campus shooting, everyone was interested, since that fits the anti-gun narrative in the media. Once it was an unhappy immigrant with a knife the mainstream media went silent.

Kudos to The Lantern for it’s continued coverage. As a campus news source, that’s actually what we expect of you. Unfortunately, your readership is very localized to the campus community.