Cenk Uygur
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Obama Criticizes Cable News's ISIS Fixation
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December 26, 2015
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5:50Now PlayingRecently President Obama criticized the networks for covering terrorism too much. This is partly true. They do cover Islamic terrorists wall-to-wall. Cenk Uygur, host of the The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"In an interview with NPR this week, President Obama complained that the media is oversaturated with coverage of terrorism. “If you’ve been watching television for the last month, all you have been seeing, all you have been hearing about is these guys with masks or black flags who are potentially coming to get you,” Obama said...
For example, a search of CNN coverage between November 21 and December 21 of this year yielded 427 hits (instances where an individual show mentioned the word at least once) for the search phrase “terrorism” and 404 hits for “ISIS”; the same search for “poverty” yielded only 34 hits. Here are the terrorism search strings compared to the other topics in chart form (note that the anti-privacy CISA legislation, directly related to terrorism, was not mentioned at all):…”*
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